Guides, stories and insights for internationals building a new life abroad.
Current Italy manager will join London club at end of Euro 2016. Antonio Conte has signed a three-year contract worth £15m to become the new Chelsea manager and will join the club after helming Italy’s Euro 2016 campaign. The Italian had already announced his decision to step down as his national team’s manager after the […]
Peadar Kearney, an IRB member and the author of many popular political songs and verses, produced the text of ‘The Soldier’s Song’, working in collaboration with Patrick Heeney, who was mainly responsible for the melody. The original text was in English and consisted of three stanzas and a chorus. The words and music may well […]
VfL Wolfsburg – Real Madrid The VfL Wolfsburg recently made more headlines beside the pitch rather than on it, after Max Kruse was publicly criticized for his extravagant lifestyle and Nicklas Bendtner was suspended from the club. They form has been very bad in the past games, playing a draw against Darmstadt and losing 3:0 […]
Positive employment numbers here contrast with lacklustre data for euro area as a whole. Ireland’s jobless rate hit a new eight-year low of 8.6 per cent last month as conditions in the wider economy continue to improve. However, the pick-up in employment here constrasted with lacklustre growth numbers from the euro area as a […]
Two men from Skegness, Lincolnshire, who took photographs of themselves stealing thousands of pounds from gambling machines, have been sentenced by a judge at Bradford Crown Court. Benjamin Robinson, 30, was jailed for 32 months, while Daniel Hutchinson was given a six-month suspended sentence after they admitted taking the cash. Armed robber Andrew Hennells […]
In these five lucky places, the sun can shine more than 90% of the time. Ranked by the World Meteorological Organization, the sunniest places on Earth are concentrated heavily in the southwestern United States, northern and western Australia, South Africa, northern Africa and the Middle East. Many of these desert regions are sparsely inhabited. Phoenix, Arizona, […]
From early times to the end of the 19th Century Ireland is unique in having a musical instrument, the harp, as its national emblem. From antiquity to its decline in the early nineteenth century the harp was at the social centre of Ireland. Up to at least the seventeenth century harpists enjoyed a high status […]
FC Barcelona – Atletico Madrid: Only barely winning over PSV Eindhoven in the previous game of The Champions League in the penalty shootout, Atletico lost the following game against Gijon only to score an easy 5:1 victory over Betis Sevilla at the weekend. Atletico had very bad luck, recently losing their whole central defense due […]
According to Eurostat, these are Scandinavian countries and Switzerland. You don’t want to go there if you have a salary from your own country. All Scandinavian countries are in the top ten. These stats were published by Finnish Central Statistical Office. The prices of 2500 products were compared. Switzerland is the first and Norway is […]
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