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‘Racist mindsets’: Africans in Ireland feel fear in wake of Yves Sakila’s death

After an incident on a Dublin street with echoes of George Floyd, people of colour sense rising hostilityWhen Kembetia Bissa fled the Democratic Republic of the Congo and moved to Ireland in 2003 he found not only sanctuary but beauty, friendship and a home. The asylum seeker settled in Bandon, west Cork, and found work as a landscaper. He opened an African dance school with Congolese drumming and taught local people the rhythms of his homeland.

The Guardian UK 3d ago

O’Sullivans break Guinness World Record for gathering most people with same surname in one place

Participants with the family name of O'Sullivan and Sullivan broke the world record this weekend for the largest gathering of people with the same surname, in County Cork, Ireland. The world record for most people with the same surname gathered in the same place has been broken. Previously held by the Gallaghers, wrote themselves into the Guinness World Records on 9 September 2007 - when 1,488 Gallaghers gathered in Letterkenny, Co Donegal, Ireland – the record has been smashed by the...

Euronews 9d ago

Ireland-Qatar friendly stopped twice as fans throw tennis balls to protest Nations League games with Israel

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Fox News 12d ago

So You Want a Coat of Arms

The first thing you notice upon entering the College of Arms, in London, is a small and incongruously blue statue of a kiwi, clutching a gold axe in its right claw. Sorry, let me try that again: In the odd historic language of heraldry, this is “a kiwi Azure grasping in the dexter foot an ice axe bendwise Or. ”The bird belongs to the coat of arms of Sir Edmund Hillary, a New Zealander, who was part of the first team to conquer Mount Everest.

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