Ireland Receives Kosovo Refugees, and Hillary Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit source -jdooling@worldnet.att.net News from the Wire Services Re: Ireland & the Irish PA 05/09/99 21:56 First Lady To Lecture On Peace In Galway PA 05/09/99 21:55 Irish Welcome Kosovo Refugees ****************************** First Lady To Lecture On Peace In Galway PA 05/09/99 21:56 Copyright 1999 PA News By Ruth O'Reilly, Dublin Hillary Clinton returns to Ireland later this week to deliver a lecture on peace - amid heightened security prompted by the Nato attacks on Yugoslavia. The American First Lady will spend Wednesday morning in Galway but will only be seen by the 1,000 people invited to the National University of Ireland campus in the city for two ceremonies honouring her. She is to be conferred with an Honorary Doctorate of Law and afterwards will become the first woman to receive the Freedom of Galway city. White House security personnel have been in the city since last week to prepare for the visit to Ireland. The entire college site is to be closed to the public but at least one anti-war demonstration is expected to be held outside while Mrs Clinton is taken to and from the grounds by helicopter. It will be Mrs Clinton's fourth visit to Ireland and her first since last September when she accompanied her husband on a three- day cross-border trip which included a visit to Omagh, where 29 people died in a dissident republican bombing the previous month. This week the First Lady will launch a series of millennium lectures with a speech entitled: "Our obligations to each other - continuing the quest for peace." Other guests lecturers lined up over coming months include Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and current United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights. Senator George Mitchell, who chaired the talks which led to the Good Friday Agreement, and Nobel Literature laureate, Seamus Heaney, are also to deliver addresses at the university. ****************************** Irish Welcome Kosovo Refugees PA 05/09/99 21:55 Copyright 1999 PA News By Ruth O'Reilly, PA News Irish government officials and medical staff are today set to accompany the country's first intake of Kosovar refugees since the start of the current conflict on a flight to Co Kerry. The 150 ethnic Albanians, expelled from their homeland by Serbian security forces, will be greeted by Irish junior foreign minister Liz O'Donnell and justice minister John O'Donoghue when they land at Farranfore Airport tonight. Accommodation has been arranged for the families at Atlas House, a hostel in Killarney near the airport, and Drishane Castle, in Millstreet, north Co Cork. The Irish government has also appealed for the public to receive the new arrivals generously by donating toys or other gifts to help them settle in. The Anti-Racism Campaign said it believed the national effort to help the Kosovars may help end the hostility felt by some Irish people towards asylum-seekers in their country. Mr O'Donoghue's department, which is currently processing applications for asylum from 6,500 people, deported a record number last year. Another 200 Kosovar Albanians who fled to Ireland before the Nato strikes started had virtually all been refused the right to stay in the country, campaign group spokesman Pat Guerin disclosed. But he added: "I think there's a groundswell of sympathy for the Kosovars, as demonstrated by the amount of money given to aid agencies out there. "I think the war is starting to make people aware of what it means to be a refugee and I hope it's beginning to turn around the negative aura that has surrounded asylum-seekers." Jay Dooling (jdooling@worldnet.att.net) Irish Aires - 90.1FM KPFT in Houston http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Irish_Aires/homepage.htm Dooling & Mabe, CPA http://www.doolingmabe-cpa.com/ ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: nyt@blythe.org ================================================================= nytire-05.12.99-09:43:34-22672