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Illegal US immigrants welcome reprieve bid IRISH Minister
for Foreign Affairs Dermot Ahern has welcomed a new US Senate agreement
on overhauling the country’s immigration policy.
The proposals which have yet to be passed into law would allow millions
of illegal immigrants in the US to seek a green card after they have spent
four years in the States.
They have been drawn up following intensive lobbying by groups representing
undocumented immigrants in the US, including an estimated 50,000 Irish
people.
Senator Ted Kennedy has described the agreement as the best possible chance
to bring millions of people out of the shadows and into the light of America.
Mr Ahern also said the proposals are good news for Irish immigrants, who
will now have a path to permanent US residency.
soprano wins prize
DUBLIN soprano Anna Devin was awarded the ?10,000 RDS Music Bursary.
Devin who is currently studying at the Royal Irish Academy of Music with
Colette McGahon-Tosh was one of six senior prize winners at this year’s
Feis Ceoil that were competing for the award.
Also in the running were Jacqui Connolly, Tara Erraught, Robert Farhat
and Alice Nolan, all from Dublin, along with Conor Palliser from Enniskeane,
Co. Cork. The RDS Music Bursary is one of the largest single bursaries
on offer to a young musician in Ireland and is intended to assist a young
professional musician develop their career. Devin plans to use the Bursary
to cover course fees for her Postgraduate Diploma in Opera Studies at
the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.
record attempt
AN Irishman has climbed Mount Everest as part of his bid to conquer the
world’s seven highest peaks within just six months.
Ian McKeever arrived at the summit of the world’s highest mountain
last week after a six-day trek from Base Camp.
He has two more mountains to climb in order to break the world record
for scaling the seven highest peaks in 187 days.
Funding raised will go to osteoporosis charities. |
