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Recession busters!

Last update: 20:45 | 17.12.09 | © Metro Éireann

Lucille Pestre meets young Polish entrepreneur Thomasz Chmielewski, who recently opened a Polish deli with a friend in central Dublin

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Last update: 02:46 | 17.09.09 | © Metro Éireann

With the days getting colder, you’re probably wondering what to do at the weekend. If you exclude the outdoors and have no family to spend teatimes with, very few possibilities remain. ‘Let’s go to the shopping centre, then,’ you might

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Last update: 15:58 | 10.09.09 | © Metro Éireann

I started a new job last week, but I almost missed my first day – preoccupied as I was after remembering it was the 60th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War.

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Last update: 13:32 | 03.09.09 | © Metro Éireann

Unaware visitors to Dun Laoghaire recently may well have thought they were in the middle of some Irish summer course, thanks to the proliferation of bilingual signage around the popular port town.

Polish clinic ‘cures’ addicts in 3 goes

Last update: 13:32 | 03.09.09 | © Metro Éireann

A POLISH health clinic on Dublin’s Parnell Street claims it can eradicate addictions to alcohol and nicotine in just three sessions.

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Last update: 12:55 | 27.08.09 | © Metro Éireann

In just one recent weekend, 19 people were killed on Polish roads. Surely not the kind of holiday-time news we want to hear, but the message is repeated over and over like some terrible mantra.

Polish take up Irish from Dublin to Lublin

Last update: 12:55 | 27.08.09 | © Metro Éireann

Only two Poles showed up for a crash course in Irish organised last week by translation company Tadhall-Kontakt, with the assistance of Polish Express and the Polish Financial Centre. But they were dedicated pupils nonetheless.

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Last update: 01:51 | 13.08.09 | © Metro Éireann

I was born in 1978, which was a very good year. No, I don’t mean that I’m one of the ‘Pope’s Children’ (even though that was a big deal). What I’m really talking about is the summer that Kerry went for the first of three All

Polish stylists are a hit with the locals

Last update: 01:50 | 13.08.09 | © Metro Éireann

At a time when many businesses are downsizing or shutting up shop altogether, Polish beauty and hair salons in Dublin seem to be bucking the trend, even though so many Poles are returning home.

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Last update: 17:31 | 06.08.09 | © Metro Éireann

Back in Dublin – and I’ve hardly felt like I’ve been away. The Irish Times is there on the paper stand every morning at the corner shop, and the city is the same as ever, except maybe the slowly growing roof of Aviva Stadium and the new Samuel

Agata brings light to Dublin’s inner city

Last update: 13:11 | 30.07.09 | © Metro Éireann

Agata Stoinska knew a little of what to expect when she set up her own creative studio in Dublin’s north inner city. Having previously worked in the area, she was familiar with the stereotypes of crime, gang violence and hostility to outsiders.

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Last update: 12:50 | 23.07.09 | © Metro Éireann

Yet another former Polish Prime Minister makes a career for himself abroad! Jerzy Buzek’s decision to contest for the top job in the European Parliament was widely commented on in the media in the same manner that surrounds important sporting events, where

Poles ride out the recession abroad

Last update: 12:49 | 23.07.09 | © Metro Éireann

A significant number of post-accession Polish migrants intend to survive the global crisis abroad – with many wanting to remain for good, says a report published recently by the Centre for International Relations in Poland (CIR).

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Some people don’t belong to any particular place, and I’m one of them. So here in Poland, I’m counting down the hours to my departure back to Dublin – to a new job and accommodation.

Poland’s hidden travel secrets

Would you really like to see Poland? Well forget about close-to-airport attractions, hire a car and get somewhere off the beaten track. If you can’t find yourself a Lonely Planet Guide, here’s some ideas to get you started.

New free legal clinics for Poles in Cork

Access to legal assistance has been an urgent need for Polish communities abroad. In Ireland, the language barrier and costs involved have dissuaded many from seeking legal advice from native solicitors.

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Some friends of mine who are returning to Poland are searching in every nook and cranny for evidence of their previous employment, all in order get a single piece of paper required by our native bureaucrats.

Polish poets set for special Dublin reading

TWO POLISH poets will read their works from a forthcoming anthology in Dublin next week.

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