Word: pas
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...terms this year are all perennials: "iPod" in the top spot, along with the video game console du jour - this season, the Nintendo "Wii" - and, for the third year in a row, "Ugg boots," a piece of Australian footwear some (okay, I) might consider the ultimate sheepskin fashion faux pas...
When Anna Pas graduated from college last year, she figured her employment options were limited. "There weren't that many offers for someone in Poland with a philosophy degree," she explains. So Pas moved to Ireland and within a few months found herself launching, editing and co-owning Polski Express, a Polish-language fortnightly glossy magazine published in Ireland. It has been a whirlwind year. "I can't imagine this would be happening in Poland," gushes Pas...
Publishers are exploiting that natural market. The weekly Polska Gazeta began publishing in 2005. This year the Evening Herald, one of Ireland's oldest newspapers, began publishing on Fridays an eight-page pullout supplement called Polski Herald. In July, Pas and her partners launched a tabloid, Zycie w Irlandii...
...Ireland's information-hungry immigrants, the publications serve a vital need, with advice on applying for government benefits, employment law and finances. Readership is not huge; Polska Gazeta claims 7,000, and Polski Express gives away its 5,000 copies in places like supermarkets and Polish pubs. But Pas is proud of some of her paper's scoops, including an exposé on the exaggeration of figures for Dublin's homeless Polish population by some authorities and media. "Our readers want to know about what is going on in the Polish community here," says Pas. "The Irish papers are all about...
...don’t have our choreography down yet,” she said. “Our pas de deux might not be well practiced...