Irish Echo Australia

11/10/2022

The Republic of Ireland women’s soccer team has qualified for next year’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. ☘️🇮🇪💚

The Republic of Ireland qualified or the World Cup on an emotional, historic night at Hampden Park after Amber Barrett rose from the bench to settle a nerve-jangling clash in Glasgow.

03/05/2022

https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/irish-grandparents-deported-after-landing-in-perth-without-jab-exemption-20220503-p5ai0e.html
Unvaxxed Irish grandparents deported from Perth.

Anne and Audie Ryan-Murphy were greeted at the airport after a 19-hour flight, not by family as they had hoped, but by border force officials.

27/04/2022

Trailfinders have teamed up with Qatar Airways and South Australia to offer Irish nationals €10 flights to Australia. Too good to be true? Keen to hear from anyone who has decided to take up the offer.

The pandemic has significantly reduced numbers travelling to South Australia

16/03/2022

Happy St Patrick's Day Australia! 🇮🇪🇦🇺

11/11/2021

Another Irish Cat. Mayo star Oisin Mullin signed by Geelong Cats joining Zach Tuohy and Mark O'Connor.

Geelong has added young Irish star Oisin Mullin to its line-up, signing him as a category B rookie

03/11/2021

The High Court has ruled in favour of a British backpacker who was taxed at a different rate to Australian workers. The decision may also have implications for Irish citizens.

An English backpacker who worked as a waitress in Sydney said Australia's 'backpacker tax' discriminated against her based on her nationality. Today, she won her High Court battle.

12/10/2021

Sad day for Irish music. A regular visitor to Australia. RIP Paddy Moloney of The Chieftains 🎻💔

Moloney created group alongside original lineup of Seán Potts, Martin Fay, David Fallon and Mick Tubridy

07/10/2021

For anyone planning to send parcels to Ireland for Christmas, please note that Australia Post has temporarily suspended delivery to Ireland due to limited flight capacity and availability. https://auspost.com.au/service-updates/current-updates/deliveries-suspended-multiple-asian-countries-ireland

28/09/2021

International airlines are saying that they will not sell additional tickets into Australia until the rules become clearer. Have you tried to book flights to and from Ireland? What's been your experience around trying to return to Oz? ✈

International airlines are not selling tickets to Australians desperate to return home this summer because they do not know if strict arrival limits will be in place, nor what testing, quarantine and vaccination rules will apply.

22/09/2021

Great win for Ireland over the Commonwealth Bank Matildas.

Ireland snap a seven game losing streak in front of 3,341 mostly young girls in Tallaght

01/09/2021

Returning emigrants have contributed to a sharp increase in Ireland's population.

Combination of natural increase and positive net migration gives rise to growth – CSO

18/08/2021

An Australian in Dublin writes from the heart about the pain of pandemic separation at a time of loss. Great piece by Brianna Parkins. ✈

Dublin-based journalist Brianna Parkins wanted to come home to see her dying grandfather. But getting back has become a luxury only available to those who can afford it.

08/08/2021

Congratulations Kellie Harrington, Ireland's newest Olympic gold medallist. Humble and gracious in victory, Kellie's done Ireland proud.💪🇮🇪🥊🥇

Kellie Harrington won gold in the lightweight boxing final in Tokyo after delivering an exhibition of the sweet science in her unanimous decision victory over reigning world champion Beatriz Ferreira of Brazil.

07/08/2021

A great Irish-Australian story. Congratulations Sinead Diver, from Belmullet to Melbourne to top 10 in the Olympic marathon, at 44.🇮🇪🇦🇺💪

A “speechless” Sinead Diver fought back tears as she sent a heartfelt message home to her husband and two children.

29/07/2021

Congratulations to Paul O'Donovan and Fintan McCarthy. Ireland's first gold medal at Tokyo 2020.🚣‍♂️🥇😀
Olympic Council of Ireland🇮🇪

Paul O'Donovan and Fintan McCarthy wrote their names into the history books with a stirring victory in the men's lightweight double sculls final.

21/07/2021

Great moment for Anton Tohill, who will make his AFL debut for Collingwood Football Club this weekend. ☘️🇮🇪

Anton Tohill fought tears as he was called up by Magpies coach Robert Harvey, who later recalled playing against Tohill’s legendary father in Croke Park.

21/07/2021

The 'Fortress Australia ' approach is beginning to feel more like a prison for expats unable to reunite family back home. ☘😞🇮🇪✈️

Irish people missing family members and funerals as Australia tightly controls borders

16/07/2021

How does a young Australian deal with Ireland’s rather different beach culture? Admirably, as it happens.

Fumbling under towels to get dressed, knickers stuck to wet legs. I’ve found my people

29/06/2021

Interesting development as Celtic Club Melbourne buys an Irish pub but what happens next?

The purchase of the Limerick Arms Hotel in South Melbourne pub gives the 134-year-old club a solid base after an uncertain few years, but debate over the organisation’s future is set to rumble on.

17/06/2021

Interesting piece in The Conversation about Irish Australian poet Eliza Dunlop, who was one of our Top 100 Irish Australians of all time.

Dunlop’s 1838 poem, The Aboriginal Mother, about the suffering inflicted at the Myall Creek massacre, made the new immigrant from Ireland locally notorious., made

14/06/2021

Bloomsday is on Wednesday, June 16 and fans of James Joyce in Melbourne have a range of events to celebrate the works of the great writer. It's the 28th year Bloomsday In Melbourne has been organised. The centrepiece will be a new immersive theatrical event, Love’s Bitter Mystery, performed at Villa Alba, written by Steve Carey, and directed by Melbourne Shakespeare Company’s precociously talented Jennifer Sarah Dean. The subtitle of the piece is The Year that Made James Joyce, and that year is 1903-4. It’s a bold biographical play that is augmented by Joyce’s fiction, and it’s being staged in the spectacular main rooms of an atmospheric boom era mansion. 📚📖

James Joyce in Melbourne, Bloomsday, Irish literature

12/06/2021

The Sydney St Patrick’s Day Parade & Festival is hosting a Christmas In July fundraiser on Saturday, July 10. Proceeds will go towards next year's festivities. ☘🇮🇪️🎻

4 weeks to go! We all need to feel closer to home right now 🇮🇪 Celebrate Christmas in July with your Irish friends & family here in Sydney. We can’t promise you cars as big as bars or rivers of gold but can bet you’ll feel the Irish festive spirit that we long for 🇮🇪
💚 Traditional 3 course meal 🎄4 hour drinks package 💚 Dance floor with band & DJ playing our favourite classic hits 🎄Raffle & silent auction

Tickets are selling fast for the Sydney St Patrick's Day Christmas in July Gathering 🎅🏻

Saturday July 10th at The Four Seasons Hotel. $149. Tables of 10 also available.

https://www.sydneystpatricksday.com/christmas-ball #

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09/06/2021

Irish citizens in Australia can now apply for their passports online.

‘Timely expansion’ of service part of ongoing reform of entire processing passport system

06/06/2021

Come From Away Australia has just opened in Sydney. Check out our review of this rollicking musical set in the Newfoundland town of Gander in the aftermath of 9/11. 🇨🇦🇮🇪🎻🦌

Come From Away is a story about authentic generosity, not virtue signalling.

03/06/2021

The fabulous Once written by Enda Walsh and with music by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, returns to the Sydney stage on June 4 for a limited season at the Darlinghurst Theatre Company. There's a 20% discount off A-reserve tickets when booking a group of 8+ people and the good people at the Eternity Playhouse are also happy to discuss packages to host a function for your group before or after the performance. Also, there will be live traditional Irish music playing in the foyer after each Friday, Saturday and Sunday evening performance. Audience members will be invited to hang around, enjoy the music and the whiskey cocktail menu. Not to be missed.

Limited season 4 June - 18 July book now at darlinghursttheatre.com/once

20/05/2021

Finding You is a new romcom set in Ireland. The movie, directed by Brian Baugh and starring Katherine McNamara, Rose Reid and Jedidiah Goodacre, is currently screening at cinemas nationally. Thanks to Rialto Distribution AU we have ten double passes to give away. To be in with a chance to win a double pass, please "LIKE" & "SHARE" this post and ensure you "EMAIL" full name your mobile with subject line "FINDING YOU" to [email protected] to be eligible.

FINDING YOU Trailer (2021) Katherine McNamara, Vanessa Redgrave, Romance Movie© 2021 - RoadsideFlix

18/04/2021

Congratulations Orla O’Dwyer. A great achievement. AFLW Brisbane Lions

What an achievement!

Orla O’Dwyer has become the second Irish Player ever to win an Premiership 🏅

Orla was sensational in the 2021 Grand Final (as she was all season) and was amongst the Best on Ground.

CONGRATULATIONS

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17/03/2021

Great to see the recently re-elected WA Premier Mark McGowan at the Irish Club Western Australia with legend of Irish rugby Rob Kearney - Athlete on St Patrick’s Day.

16/03/2021

Happy St Patrick's Day everyone! ☘🇮🇪️☘🇮🇪️

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13/03/2021

Sydney Opera House will again go green on Wednesday night. Great recognition of Irish Australia. ☘️

We are partnering with The Sydney St Patrick's Day Festival to turn the Sydney Opera House green as part of the 'Global Greening' initiative on Wednesday 17 March 2021.

The St Patrick’s Day Festival will be returning in a COVID-safe way to First Fleet Park on Sunday 21 March 2021. The area will be transformed into an Irish Village for the day. This free, family-friendly event kicks off at 11am. Sydney St Patrick’s Day Parade & Festival