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Why are so many Irish moving to the ‘new Berlin on the Med’? https://t.co/bRGHomXJkt via @ITabroad
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The newcomers see this once beleaguered city as a place of creative possibility
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We left for Australia with little money and no friends. It became our forever home https://t.co/sopgZEyTfi via @ITabroad
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Emigrating in 1983: ‘Paul Hogan was the only person in Australia we would have recognised’
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An Irish therapist in Trump’s America: As my clients grow more anxious, I prepare to leave https://t.co/OWYeFAlX8S via @ITabroad
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I tell my gay and immigrant clients: we suffer more in imagination than reality. Words often can’t stop the inevitable
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Irish in South Africa: Scattering seeds with my granny felt like magic. What would she make of my exotic garden? https://t.co/Ie8RqCVxQY via @ITabroad
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Irish in South Africa: Monkeys raid my garden, but snails were the only pests back home
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The pause: a portal to freedom, grief and joy https://t.co/brTQc5FXgO via @ITabroad
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New Year’s Eve brings the biggest pause of all, binding the past and present together
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‘There’s definitely a difference in the spuds’: The Irish spending Christmas in ‘County Coogee’ https://t.co/Hmf9F12QPy via @ITabroad
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Coogee’s seafront filled with those missing home and family, waiting for morning to arrive in Ireland to call home
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Patrick McKenna: I was ready to leave Canada’s for Ireland, then came my best ever Christmas present https://t.co/XmqwwTVGG5 via @ITabroad
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Christmas 1979 changed my life, when in the darkest part of the year I learned something important
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An Irish emigrant’s letter to Fairytale of New York https://t.co/QroViAXOUw via @ITabroad
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Dubai resident says Pogues song brings her feelings of hope and second chances
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Ireland has Newgrange’s light show, Mexico has a sky dance – both welcome brighter days https://t.co/LySYTojgfS via @ITabroad
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La Danza de los Voladores takes place atop poles on shores of Lake Chapala, a testimony to tenacity of indigenous people
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Life on a remote Danish island: When I was a child in Cork I longed to be indoors, huddled over the fire with a book. Now I can’t get enough of the outdoors and the crisp cold Scandinavian air that sparkles its power into my lungs and all through my being https://t.co/8niUOHpvkv
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Life on a remote Danish island: It is the same as west Cork in many ways https://t.co/fVyzVE1PtC via @ITabroad
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I can’t get enough of the outdoors and the crisp cold Scandinavian air that sparkles its power into my lungs
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Letters home: ‘I’ve become 20 times more patriotic since moving to Amsterdam’ https://t.co/EYWzAefJk0 via @ITabroad
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Dubliner Max Deane: The Dutch are ‘very direct, they’re very blunt. I feel like we, as Irish people, will faff about’ over things
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Letters home for Christmas: ‘There’s more to your 20s than living in Ireland’ https://t.co/btnCWsrBkC via @ITabroad
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Dubai is amazing, but there’s something so special about Ireland, says Sinéad McCann
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Irish-born mayor of a German town: ‘I like the bureaucracy here. Things are planned’ https://t.co/QFAOFbaSxU via @ITabroad
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‘There is a melodic tone to the way I pronounce words which can give away that I’m not German,’ says Michelle Wittler
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Laura McDonagh: It’s complicated being second-generation Irish in Britain. Who are we - raised in homes with Irish accents, culture, framed aerial photos of bungalows - if not Irish-ish? We’re not saying we’re Irish full-stop. We’re also not not Irish. https://t.co/hOuZf7sp1K
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Irish-born mayor of a German town: ‘People are a lot stiffer here. I’m a bit starchy after all this time’ https://t.co/KSDtP4VBvw via @ITabroad
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‘There is a melodic tone to the way I pronounce words which can give away that I’m not German,’ says Michelle Wittler
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Molly Muldoon: Few things compare to the feeling of returning. For me, it’s when the plane’s wheels screech down on the tarmac I exhale a deep sigh of relief. It’s the familiar drive home, buoyed up by adrenaline in my sleep-deprived state. https://t.co/YLS9xVTBhi
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“Home is not Ireland, home is here for me; I go back as a tourist and I love the scenery, but I’m not a displaced Irish woman,” Patricia Lyons says from her apartment in Santo Domingo. Read here story https://t.co/HoirwVUxxT
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Social media ban: Irish parents in Australia - what is your experience? https://t.co/sSkHo1Vefc via @ITabroad
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Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, X, YouTube, Reddit will need to deactivate all accounts for under 16s from December 10th
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Will Keena on the surge in popularity of Guinness in UK online and real-life culture. Is it, especially in an Anglo-Irish context, a more palatable brand of Irishness for the wax-jacket set? https://t.co/WLT0jpJMwo
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