Sheen enrolls at university in Ireland
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Martin Sheen, star of TV's "The West Wing" and numerous Hollywood films, began his new career Friday &#151; as a college student.
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IRELAND is proud to share its expertise with Bahrain in establishing an international centre for medical education and training, Irish Premier Bertie Ahern said yesterday.
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Apparently, Charlie Sheen takes career advice from   Friends.
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School's out at Bracken School in Balbriggan, Ireland  BALBRIGGAN, Ireland (Washington Post Foreign Service) - The opening of Ireland's first predominantly black school, in this suburban town just north of Dublin, illustrates the pressures facing once-sleepy Ireland as its population and economy boom. Once almost entirely white and Catholic, the country is struggling to integrate hundreds of thousands of new immigrants and to provide them with education, health, welfare and transportation services as fast as they arrive. After 150 years of population decline as native Irish fled dire economic conditions, Ireland is now one of Europe's fastest-growing and most prosperous nations. The white-hot "Celtic Tiger" economy of recent years has leveled off, but Ireland continues to be a magnet for immigrants. "Ireland has been subject to something that no other country in history has ever been subject to: sudden-onset migration," said Conor Lenihan, the Irish integration minister, whose post was created this year. "We have seen our non-Irish population go from zero to about 15 percent in 10 years."
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Leading universities are taking students from more areas of the UK, a champion of wider access says.
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Play Xbox, get Masters Video game fans may now have a legitimate excuse to spend all day hooked up to their PlayStations and Xboxes - thanks to a new video game masters degree at Trinity College Dublin.â¦
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A wild golden eagle chick is hatched in Ireland for the first time in nearly a century.
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Charlie Weis told a story yesterday about a Notre Dame recruit he was talking to in the past few weeks, something he has been doing a lot of since agreeing to become head coach of the Fighting Irish.
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A university in Bath has become the first in the country to offer a degree for funeral directors.
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(InfoWorld) - Cisco Systems Inc. will open a research center in Ireland to develop unified communications products. The office, announced on Tuesday and to be located in the western city of Galway, will initially employ 50 researchers but is expected to grow to 200 positions in the next three years. The researchers will build new unified communications applications and services, which allow workers to have a single point of access where they can be contacted via a variety of methods such as e-mail, voice mail, VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol), instant messaging and video. Cisco also plans to consider opportunities for collaborative research with industry and academic organizations in Ireland. Cisco currently employs 66 people in local sales and support in Ireland. The networking giant said it is expanding its investment in development around the world in order to be responsive to customer needs. Ireland's available talent pool and positive business climate attracted the company. Ireland's corporate tax rate, the lowest in Europe and among the lowest in the world, began attracting significant numbers of overseas companies about 20 years ago. Since then, other costs, such as energy and salaries, have risen dramatically in Ireland. As a result, the government has begun pursuing research and development investments, like Cisco's, which tend to be less reliant on extremely low operational costs and more focused on available talent than other types of operations, such as manufacturing. Ireland's Industrial Development Agency (IDA), a government body tasked with recruiting overseas companies to Ireland, said it has been courting Cisco for some time. The IDA often offers multimillion euro incentives to companies that choose to open up operations in the country. The agency said it supported the opening of the new center but it did not reveal how much it may have offered Cisco as incentive. The trend toward unified communications is growing as an increasing number of networks support IP. Earlier this year, Cisco began bundling a variety of its products related to voice, e-mail, text, videoconferencing and collaboration under a new Unified Communications System brand. Cisco also recently bought Metreos Corp. and Audium Corp. to make it easier for enterprise developers to integrate applications in the Unified Communications System. Cisco has competition in the space. Microsoft Corp. and Nortel Networks Corp. recently formed an alliance to develop unified communications technologies to enterprise customers.
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Ireland elected its first black mayor Thursday, the latest sign of how rapid immigration is changing this once all-white nation.
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A campaign to encourage more people to study languages at university is being launched in England.
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A former university head is chosen to look after widening student access to higher education in England.
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By Mark Spencer, The Hartford Courant, Conn.  Feb. 13--Like many high school seniors in the state, Isaac Montiel went to see his counselor for advice about college.
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The first case to originate in the Irish Republic of the human form of mad cow disease is confirmed.
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A world-renowned Belfast-based music promoter has been honoured by the Irish music industry.
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NEWRY, Northern Ireland -- William Bennett, a 20-something engineering student, was rushing to get home after an afternoon of shopping when he was asked who he thought would win.