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El señor Gerry Corr, padre de la banda celebró su 75 cumpleaños!!


--- Citar ---75 years is Corrs for celebration

By Barry Egan
Sunday March 23 2008

The Corrs celebrated their dad's 75th birthday in Dundalk on Friday night. I bet that having his songbird family sing Happy Birthday was pressie enough for their beloved father, Gerry.

Andrea, Sharon (with husband Gavin), Caroline and brother Jim helped their dad blow out the candles off his birthday cake at a party for family and close friends in Blackrock, just outside Dundalk. I've met Gerry many times over the years and he is one of the nicest men on the planet.

Well, he is responsible for giving us one of the world's most beautiful women, Andrea Corr (boyfriend Brett Desmond didn't know what he was missing by not being at the party).


- Barry Egan
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Serena:
Andrea y Sharon actuarán en el concierto homenaje a Nelson Mandela el 27 de junio!!

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--- Citar ---Sharon Corr will join Zuchero as special guest for a song when he performs at the National Stadium this Friday 16th May. Tickets at €44.20 including booking fee are on sale now Ticketmaster and usual outlets nationwide.

Perhaps no other recording artist in the world has recorded as many successful - and diverse - collaborations as Zucchero. His current greatest hits collection “All The Best" features Zucchero's first such collaboration with jazz legend Miles Davis. In 1988, Davis came to Italy on a world tour and was very impressed when he heard Zucchero's song Dune Mosse, which was a radio hit at that time. The obvious blues influences that Zucchero mixed unabashedly with romantic, Italian melodies appealed to Davis so much that he proposed that they record Dune Mosse together in New York. Ali D'oro, recorded in 2001, also features another great American musician, John Lee Hooker, in the last recording of his career.

Several tracks on All The Best contain stellar guest performances from artists such as Luciano Pavarotti, John Lee Hooker and Vanessa Carlton.

In a recent interview Zucchero confided that he was proud of the close bonds he's formed with English-speaking artists such as Eric Clapton, Bono, Ray Charles and Miles Davis. “It's not easy," he says, “for a continental European artist to get the respect from an English or American artist. I think it's different for me because my music is a little bit different. I have a lot of influences coming from the blues, soul, gospel and Italian melodies. It's a mixture of things they find interesting."

“All The Best" includes a 1995 version of Senza Una Donna, the song that brought Zucchero international fame when he recorded it with Paul Young in 1990.

Please note: Zucchero will perform for 2.5 hours on the night with no support act.


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--- Citar ---El Guitarrista de los Corrs: “el 11-S fue un trabajo desde dentro”

El guitarrista de The Corrs, Jim Corr, ha afirmado que hubo pruebas irrefutables de que los ataques del 11-S en Amíérica se llevaron a cabo a manos de "traidores" del "gobierno neo-con" del presidente de los EEUU George Bush.

En una rara intervención acerca de polí­tica, el miembro masculino del grupo The Corrs tambiíén atacó el tratado de Lisboa argumentando que es "totalitarismo occidental de puntillas".

En una entrevista con Matt Cooper en el programa "Last Word" de la cadena irlandesa Today FM, Jim planteó la situación para votar "no" al tratado de Lisboa, argumentando que podrí­a introducir la pena de muerte en Irlanda y contribuir a un "nuevo orden mundial".

La oposición de Jim Corr se basa en sus tres años “estudiando el Nuevo Orden Mundial del cual la Unión Europea forma parte”.
Dijo que “La U.E. es un escalón hacia un gobierno mundial, se unirá con la Unión Asiático-Pací­fica, la Unión Africana y la Unión Norteamericana”. El Tratado de Lisboa en sí­ mismo introducirá “una tecnocracia cientí­fica” a Europa que desgastará la soberaní­a nacional.

Jim Corr afirmó que La Carta de Derechos Fundamentales permite la introducción de la pena de muerte.
"Previene la introducción de la ley para la pena de muerte en tiempos de guerra o de inminente amenaza de la misma”.
“Lo que estamos viendo es la introducción silenciosa del totalitarismo en Occidente con el 11-S como la llave para entender esto.”
“Cuando estudias el 11-S se vuelve muy evidente... Era un ataque terrorista representado, lo que se dice una operación de bandera falsa”.


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--- Citar ---10th Anniversary Belfast Event Reunites Northern Ireland Peace Negotiators

More than 300 guests gathered in Belfast yesterday to hear the negotiators of the Belfast Agreement discuss the historic negotiations, which brought about an end to the decades-long conflict and ushered in an era of peace, which culminated in the restoration of the Northern Ireland Assembly last year. The US-Ireland Alliance hosted this event, which, for the first time, brought together on the same stage, fourteen of the negotiators of the 10th anniversary of the Agreement.

The world’s press descended on the even which included Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern, former US Senator George Mitchell, General John de Chastelain, John Hume, Gerry Adams, Mark Durkan, Sir Reg Empey, David Andrews, Liz O’Donnell, Secretary of State for Wales Paul Murphy, Monica McWilliams, Lord Alderdice, Dawn Purvis, and David Adams. Video tributes of former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Mo Mowlam and David Ervine were shown.

Commenting on the event, Trina Vargo, President of US- Ireland Alliance said, “ People who had acrimonious debates 10 years ago were genuinely happy to be together. There was a warmth and respect that might give hope to others in the seeming intractable conflicts around the world.”

It was generally agreed by the panel that ‘trust’ might not have been achieved but ‘understanding’ was and that that was crucial to a positive outcome. It was also noted that the process is still a work in progress. The event was moderated by BBC presenter, Noel Thompson. The majority of audience consisted of the nearly 100 alumni of the US-Ireland Alliance’s George J. Mitchell Scholarship program and their peers (young leaders between the ages of 22 and 35) from Northern Ireland and Ireland. Other guests included former US Ambassador to Ireland, Jean Kennedy Smith, Academy Award winner Jim Sheridan and Academy Award nominee Terry George, Baroness May Blood, Merchant Hotel owner Bill Woolsey, Geraldine Hughes, Sharon Corr and Gavin Bonnar, Sir George and Lady Quigley, US Consul General to Belfast, Susan Elliot, Sir Hugh Orde, and several of the island’s university presidents.

A dinner at the Europa followed and included performances by Duke Special and Maura O’Connell, as well as a reading by poet Michael Longley. Mitchell Scholarship program Director Mary Lou Hartman introduced the graduating class of Mitchell Scholars. Senator Mitchell presented them with their class rings, a gift from Cross Atlantic Capital Partners.

Trina Vargo, President of the US-Ireland Alliance, talked about the long-term value of the Mitchell Scholarship program which is only beginning to be felt. She told the story of Winnie Li, a 2001 graduate of the program who is now a London-based filmmaker. Ms. Li is about to shoot her second film in Northern Ireland, which is expected to pump more than one million pounds sterling into the local economy.

Dublin-based Tyrone Productions recorded the symposium and the event will be broadcast on the US-Ireland Alliance website within a week.

Major supporters of the event were Alburn, the US Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, The Atlantic Philanthropies, and Quinlan Private.


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