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President




Michael Daniel Higgins (Irish: Mícheál D. Ó hUiginn; born 18 April 1941) is the incoming President of Ireland and will become the ninth president after winning the 2011 Irish presidential election held on 27 October 2011. Higgins is an Irish politician, poet, sociologist,author and broadcaster. Higgins was President of the Labour Party of Ireland until his resignation from the party following the presidential election.He was formerly a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Galway West constituency,and was the Minister for Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht from 1993 to 1997.

Primeminister



Enda Kenny (born 24 April 1951) is an Irish Fine Gael politician, and is the Taoiseach (head of government in the Republic of Ireland). He has led Fine Gael since 2002. He served as Minister for Tourism and Trade from 1994 to 1997. He is also a two-term Vice President of the European People's Party. Kenny has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for Mayo since 1975, having succeeded his father Henry Kenny.He is the longest-serving TD currently in Dáil Éireann

 Singer





Paul David Hewson (born 10 May 1960), most commonly known by his stage name Bono, is an Irish singer
 and musician, best known for being the main vocalist of the Dublin-based rock band U2. Bono was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, and attended Mount Temple Comprehensive School where he met his future wife, Ali Hewson, and the future members of U2.Bono writes almost all U2 lyrics, often using political, social, and religious themes.

Bus service.



Dublin Bus  is a public transport operator in Ireland.It operates an extensive bus network of 172 radial, cross-city and peripheral routes and 24 night routesin the city of Dublin and the Greater Dublin Area.
Dublin Airport , is operated by the Dublin Airport Authority.Located in Collinstown, in the Fingal part of County Dublin, 20.5 million passengers passed through the airport in 2009.

Airport.



 Dublin Airport is the busiest airport in the Republic of Ireland, followed by Cork and Shannon.
It is the busiest on the island of Ireland followed by Belfast, Cork and Shannon.

Private airline.



Ryanair  is an Irish low-cost airline with its head office at Dublin Airport, Ireland,
 and with primary operational bases at Dublin Airport and London Stansted Airport.
Ryanair operates 254 Boeing 737-800 aircraft on over 1,100 routes across Europe and Morocco from over 43 bases.The airline has been characterised by rapid expansion, a result of the deregulation of the air industry in Europe in 1997 and the success of its low cost business model. Ryanair is Europe's largest low-cost carrier, the 2nd-largest airline in Europe in terms of passenger numbers and the largest in the world in terms of international passenger numbers.

Famous Drinks



Irish whiskey (Irish: Fuisce or Uisce beatha) is a whiskey made in Ireland. There are several types of whiskey common to Ireland: Single Malt, Single Grain, Pure Pot Still and Blended Whiskey.
The word whiskey is an Anglicisation of the ancient Gaelic term "uisce beatha" which translates as "water of life".

Place for a drink



Public houses in Ireland, usually known as pubs, are establishments licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for
 consumption on the premises. Irish pubs are known for their atmosphere or "craic". Irish pubs are known
worldwide to the extent that there is scarcely a city in Europe and North America that does not have one.

Paramilitary



The Irish Republican Army (IRA)was an Irish republican revolutionary military organisation.
It was descended from the Irish Volunteers, an organisation established on 25 November 1913
that staged the Easter Rising in April 1916.The Official Irish Republican Army or Official IRA
(informally "the Officials" or "the Stickies") is an Irish republican paramilitary group whose
 goal was to create a "32-county workers' republic" in Ireland. It emerged from a split in the
Irish Republican Army in December 1969, shortly after the beginning of "The Troubles".