Convincing win for Iceland Eurovision entry

Edit Iceland Monitor 28 Feb 2016
After the first round of voting, just two songs remained in the competition – ‘Hear Them Calling’ and ‘Now’ by Alda Dís Arnardóttir ... ....

Moltar an leabhar

Edit The Irish Times 22 May 2015
Tháinig traidisiún nua ar an bhfód i mbliana ar a dtugtar “Leabhra Feabhra”. Baineann sé le leabhair agus lenár bpobal féin agus leis an mian an dís sin a thabhairt le chéile. Is éard atá ann ná go mbronnann muintir na Gaeilge leabhair ar a chéile Lá Fhéile Bríde. An rud is annamh is iontach. ní eagraíocht Stáit nó scéim mhaoinithe fé ndear an smaoineamh seo ach dornán léitheoirí a bhfuil dúil a n-anamacha acu i gcúrsaí leabhar ... ....

Three decades on, Irish exam felt far more user-friendly

Edit The Irish Times 11 Jun 2014
After almost three decades I try to remember how the Leaving Cert me would have found Gaeilge Ardleibhéal Paipéar II. What words and phrases would I have stumbled over? What seemed unfamiliar in the paper I looked at yesterday compared to the one I did in the 1980s?. Paper 2 has all the prescribed literature ... The gearrscéal that came up, Dís was wholly unfamiliar to me, although I remember passages from the poem An Spailpín Fánach....

Leaving Cert Irish 2: tougher challenge

Edit The Irish Times 10 Jun 2014
After a delightful paper one, it was perhaps expected that Irish paper two would present higher level students with more of a challenge. “It was much tougher than paper one,” said Oisin Mac Eoin, head of Irish in St Benildus College, Dublin. “The texts they chose to examine were the most difficult ones.” ... The prose question asked about the text Dís - not a student favourite according to teachers ... “It asked about meter ... TRY THIS ... ....

The best duty-free store in Europe in 2013 (Keflavik International Airport Ltd)

Edit noodls 10 Dec 2013
(Source. Keflavik International Airport Ltd). 10.12.2013. The Duty-Free Store at Keflavik Airport has been chosen the "Best Airport Tax Free Shopping Service Provider" by the magazine Business Destinations. "The Business Destinations Travel Awards", now in their fifth year, are respected in the international travel and tourism industry ... Ásta Dís Óladóttir, Managing Director of the Duty-Free Store, says ... distributed by ... (noodl. 21292193) ....
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