Archive for the Ireland Category
Posted on January 26, 2009 by admin
According to Onet.pl, kids of the former Polish emigrants have problems in school due to the differences in the education policy in Poland and in the UK and Ireland. Kids that left Polish schools couple of years ago, had to get used to the completely different system in UK and Ireland, and now, they have [...]
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Posted on January 25, 2009 by admin
During my stay in Ireland I was the active blogger and my blog Ireland From a Polish Perspective is still quite popular in Ireland, both amont the native Irish and Polish emigrants. Both on that blog and here – on MacKozer.com – I am dealing with the issues of the Polish emigration to Ireland, the [...]
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Posted on January 23, 2009 by admin
Usually Apple products are realtively more expensive in Poland. Last may 2008, on my Polish blog I compared the prices of MacBooks here in Poland and in Ireland. The difirences in prices were clearly visible at that time. At present, due to the waekness of Polish Zloty (PLN) the prices of new unibody MacBooks are [...]
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Posted on January 23, 2009 by admin
Ryanair is going to cut more connections from Poland. According to TVN24.pl 12 connections from 6 Polish cities are to be closed. Ryanair cuts the connections from Gdansk to Bristol and Liverpool, from Szczecin to Bristol, Birmingham, Luton and Liverpool, from Lodz to Liverpool, East Midlands and Shannon, from Poznan to East Midlands, from Wroclaw [...]
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Posted on January 20, 2009 by admin
Today, Gazeta.pl – online service of the leading Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza – mentioned that Ryanair provide tickets for the flights from Lodz to Shannon and Nottingham only for the period till the end of the March 2009. According to Gazeta.pl the connections to LIverpool and Stockholm are in danger as well. At the same [...]
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Posted on January 20, 2009 by admin
Two Poles were attacked by the group of 8 or 10 men in the Bush Manor, a north part of Antrim City, Northern Ireland. According to the site of the Polish newspaper Dziennik – dziennik.pl, the attackers were armed with knives and the hammer. One of the Poles were stabbed and wounded. Policemen suspect that [...]
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Posted on January 19, 2009 by admin
The decision of Dell to close down the plant in Limerick and move the almost entire production and assembly lines to factory in Lodz (in Poland) that was built just 2 years ago, was widely discussed in Ireland. This is the real disaster to the city of Limerick. I guess that about 4 thousands of [...]
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Posted on January 17, 2009 by admin
Couple of days ago I got a email from one of my friends, an Irish blogger (PrimalSneeze), who asked me if the rumour that has been recently picked up by the Irish press is a true or not. The rumor is that in Poland in the building sites appeared “No Irish workers” banners. I have [...]
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Posted on October 7, 2008 by admin
This year, so far 118 Polish immigrants (of a entire number of 511 citizens of EU) decided to come back home to Poland with the financial help of Irish government. The program, conducted by The Reception and Integration Agency is dedicated to the immigrants fro the other EU states, who are homeless, unemployed and without [...]
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Posted on September 30, 2008 by admin
According to “Polska The Times” the number of Polish immigrant pathological families in UK and Ireland is growing rapidly. Over 100 Polish kids were taken from bad parents by the Social Services. Polska The Times claims that the scenario is usually the same – kids are are leaving Poland with their parents and when the [...]
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