Football in Ireland: How the Croke Park Classic came to be
DUBLIN — Immediately upon disembarking from their plane, football fans see signs advertising Penn State’s world campus offerings online. T-shirts are on sale just outside baggage claim, promoting the Nittany Lions’ matchup against their first ...
Penn State in Ireland: Croke Park Classic sends Gaelic football teams on unwanted trip to Limerick
DUBLIN — Players and coaches from Penn State and Central Florida haven't even stepped on their planes to head to Dublin, yet they find themselves inadvertently caught up in a scheduling controversy at historic Croke Park. In Gaelic football, a ...
Unique Issues Shaping Scottish Politics
By Colette Foreman Scotland has been part of the United Kingdom since 1707. This means that Westminster has administered Edinburgh until recent years when devolution gave way to partial self governance. Other countries that have been under the United Kingdom are Wales and North Ireland. Scottish pol ...
My Gaelic Storm: Having Some Crack
The world is a strangely huge and small place all at once. I had to pay hundreds of dollars and plan for months to visit somewhere on the other side of the world, yet the people I met there were strangely similar to me in both looks and mannerisms. To be clear, these are not perfect strangers, but m ...
In Ireland! Day Four, Galway Edition
Another rainy day in Eire, but mostly of the misty variety. Although our base for the next couple of days will be Limerick, we spent the bulk of today in Galway (73) and will do another day trip excursion tomorrow (stay tuned…). Galway has a lot going on and a lot of variety. To start, there is a qu ...
Now we have scientific proof that bikeshare makes your city cleaner
Now we have scientific proof that bikeshare makes your city cleaner Researchers from Utrecht University in the Netherlands and Queensland University in Australia studied bikeshare data from five cities: Washington, D.C., Minneapolis, MN, Melbourne and Brisbane, Australia, and London. By crunching th ...
Scotland’s referendum
For the last 300 years Scotland has been a part of Great Britain. A union they share with England, Wales and North Ireland. However this could soon change as the people of Scotland will vote either for or against leaving the union the 18. of September this year. There are good arguments both for and ...
