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BritBox Launches in Canada
Grab your cozy spot on the couch and watch the Telly!! New Streaming Service BritBox Offers Canadians Access to Largest Collection of British Content Exclusive Canada Premieres Include Compelling Dramas Five By Five, Produced by and Starring Idris Elba, and Little Boy Blue, Featuring Stephen Graham Exclusive SVOD Premieres Include Maigret, Starring Rowan Atkinson “Now”…
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The Holiday Shopping Season Starts Now!
Amazon.ca today announced the opening of its Black Friday Deals Store, officially marking the start of the holiday shopping season. The Black Friday Deals Store, available at amazon.ca/blackfriday, offers deals across every category starting now through Black Friday. Customers can find deals on everything from toys and electronics to holiday entertaining essentials and wardrobe must…
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AN IRISH COUNTRY PRACTICE Patrick Taylor
“Patrick Taylor has become probably the most popular Irish-Canadian writer of all time.” —The Globe and Mail “Taylor masterfully charts the small victories and defeats of Irish village life.” —Irish American Magazine “Gentle humor, deeply emotional stories drawn from everyday life—Taylor’s books are what Garrison Keillor might have produced if he’d been born in County…
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Irish book retailer Kennys enters Canadian market
Since the Canadian dollar has dropped sharply in the last week, independent Irish retailer Kennys Bookshop (www.kennys.ie) have become one of the cheapest options online for buying books in the Canadian market. Booko (the international price comparison site for buying books online) currently shows Kennys.ie as the lowest-price option online in Canada for thousands of…
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Canadian travel professionals check out Winterfell and Northern Ireland
A group of top Canadian tour operators and travel agents – all specialists in group tours and responsible for making the travel arrangements for a diverse range of large groups – has been visiting Co Down and Northern Ireland. They were here as guests of Tourism Ireland and Tourism NI. The Canadians attended a ‘Canadian…
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Mattamy Homes Announces New Board Member
Mattamy Homes is pleased to announce the appointment of Margaret Whelan to its Board of Directors. Ms. Whelan is a seasoned executive and real estate industry expert with a deep knowledge of industry drivers, players, valuation and financing. “We’re very excited to have an individual with Margaret’s background, expertise and network joining Mattamy’s Board of Directors and…
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Air Canada Deepens Embrace of the Emerald Isle with Expanded Non-Stop Services to Ireland from Toronto and Montreal
First routes for Air Canada’s new Boeing 737-Max include Shannon, Dublin Non-stop, seasonal Toronto–Shannon, Montreal–Dublin routes begin June 2018 The existing Toronto–Dublin service will transfer to Air Canada mainline from Air Canada Rouge beginning October 29, 2017, with increased frequencies this winter, daily next summer Seasonal Vancouver–Dublin service resumes next summer with an increase in weekly frequencies to five from three MONTREAL, Sept. 13, 2017 /CNW Telbec/ – Air…
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Fáilte Ireland Launches ‘Get Brexit Ready’ Programme to Enable Tourism Sector to Sustain Growth
1,000 Tourism Businesses to receive direct support throughout rest of year with further interventions planned for 2018 Fáilte Ireland, the National Tourism Development Authority, today unveiled ‘Get Brexit Ready’, a suite of industry supports designed to help businesses at risk or already struggling with the loss of trade created by Brexit. The programme allows individual…
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United Ireland Still On The Cards -McWilliams
David McWilliams Irish Independent County Down is one of the most beautiful counties in Ireland. It’s a pity so few of us head up the M1 to witness the hauntingly empty beauty just a few miles to the north. Sitting in the Slieve Donard Hotel, Newcastle as the sun is going down behind the vertiginous…
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DUP have not moved on basic rights – Kearney
Sinn Fein MLA and National Chairperson Declan Kearney said today that the DUP have not yet moved on the basic rights, which collapsed the Executive. Declan Kearney said: Discussions are continuing today and time is running short but the DUP have not yet moved on the basic rights issues which caused the collapse of…