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Irish institutions in Slovakia
Embassy of IrelandAmbassador: Anne-Marie Callanwww.embassyofireland.sk
Belgian recipes: Pancakes Mikado
Ingredients and preparation.
Marking St Patrick’s Day in Slovakia
SLOVAKIA will celebrate the patron saint of Ireland, Saint Patrick, with a host of events. This year a building in Slovakia will participate in a major global Greening Initiative for the first time, while Slovaks will get the chance to taste Irish cuisine, listen to Irish music and read Irish literature.
CC judge nominees approved
THE PARLIAMENTARY constitutional committee has approved all 13 judges who will compete for three seats in the Constitutional Court (CC) that will open up after the 12-year tenure of justices Ján Auxt, Juraj Horváth and Ján Luby expires on July 4. The applicants include a barrister who has defended people suspected of having links to organised crime and a judge suspected of cronyism, the Sme daily reported in its March 4 issue.
Quote of the week
“I should rest for three weeks but I would rather hop around Slovakia like a stork.”
Group seeks gay marriage referendum
SPURRED by a strong turnout at a pro-life rally last year, social conservatives are launching a petition to instil a definition of marriage as exclusive to one man and one woman into the constitution.
Some Irish firms and firms with Irish links active in Slovakia
-Ballymore Group, www.ballymoregroup.com-CPL Jobs, www.cpljobs.sk-CRH, www.crh.com-Easi UpLifts, www.easiuplifts.com-Grafton Recruitment, www.grafton.sk-Hi-Spec Engineering, www.hispec.net-Kingspan, www.kingspan.sk-Maurice Ward & Co., www.mauriceward.com/sk-PM Group, www.pmgroup-global.com-PPI Adhesive Products, www.ppiadhesiveproducts.com/sk-RealTime Technologies, www.realtimetec.cz/sk-Silcotec Europe, www.silcoteceurope.com-Trend Technologies, www.trendtechnologies.com/slovakia
From an island to the heart of Europe
Pope John Paul II met the leaders of many international Catholic religious congregations in the early 1990s in Rome and encouraged the leaders of these organisations to consider sending sisters to countries in Eastern Europe following the fall of communism. The Presentation Sisters were one of the congregations represented at that meeting. Their leader at the time, Elizabeth Starken, encouraged the Presentation Sisters in Ireland to hear this call and so gradually members began coming to Slovakia in 1992. She herself spent some time on the mission. Since then, more than 15 Irish sisters have come to work in Slovakia for either a short time or a longer stretch of time. Currently there are six Irish sisters living in Slovakia, three in Bratislava and three in Spišské Podhradie.
Embracing Irish dance
IN ADDITION to their oft-cited shared Celtic roots, Ireland and Slovakia also have much in common in terms of religion, culture and traditions. These similarities are celebrated throughout the whole year, especially on St Patrick’s Day, on March 17.
Ireland: General facts
Political system: parliamentary democracyCapital: DublinTotal area: 70,273 square kilometresPopulation: 4.8 millionOfficial languages: Irish and EnglishCurrency: euro
Belgian recipes: Belgian endive salad with herring
Ingredients and preparation.
VOTE: Criminal prosecution launched for video with instructions for election fraud
THE POLICE are dealing with the case of a voter who attempted to encourage others to fraudulently vote several times. The man published a video on the internet instructing citizens how to vote three times in the elections.
Fico and Kiska reach runoff
“THIS is a referendum about Smer,” said Prime Minister Robert Fico shortly after the official presidential candidate of the ruling party learned he will face philanthropist Andrej Kiska in the second round run-off scheduled for March 29. Though Fico won the first round of the election with 28 percent of the vote with 531,919 people backing him, Kiska finished just 4 percent behind at 24 percent, backed by 455,996 voters.
Fico to face Kiska in presidential run-off (updated)
THE RESULTS of the first round of the presidential elections did not bring many surprises. Robert Fico, prime minister and official candidate of Smer, will face independent candidate Andrej Kiska in the run-off of the election, scheduled two weeks from now, on March 29, according to the official results announced by the Central Elections Commission on March 16. Whoever gets the most votes in that run-off wins and will replace Ivan Gašparovič, whose term expires on June 15.
PRESIDENTIAL VOTE: Fico wins first round to face Kiska in the run-off, official results confirm
THE RESULTS of the first round of the presidential elections did not bring any surprises. Robert Fico, prime minister and official candidate of Smer, will face independent candidate Andrej Kiska in the run-off of the election, scheduled two weeks from now, on March 29.
PRESIDENTIAL VOTE: Fico to face Kiska in the run-off, unofficial results show
ROBERT Fico, prime minister and official candidate of Smer, will face independent candidate Andrej Kiska in the run-off of the election based on the unofficial preliminary results released by the Statistics’ Office after the votes in 58 percent of the election precincts were counted.
The winds of change?
ROBERT Fico, Slovakia’s prime minister burning with presidential ambitions, was quieter than usual on March 15. Though Fico won the first round, there was no jolly crowd to hoist the Smer leader on their shoulders as they did at party headquarters in 2012 – when Fico returned as prime minister after a landslide general election victory.
PRESIDENTIAL VOTE: Fico takes the lead to face Kiska in run-off, according to preliminary results
ROBERT Fico, prime minister and official candidate of Smer, will face independent candidate Andrej Kiska in the run-off of the election based on the unofficial preliminary results released by the Statistics’ Office after the votes in 36 percent of the election precincts were counted.
PRESIDENTIAL VOTE: Polling stations closed
VOTERS in Slovakia elected the president for the next five years on March 15. The polls closed at 22:00. The first preliminary results will be published on the website of the Statistics Office (www.statistics.sk) or at www.volbysr.sk shortly after 23:00.
PRESIDENTIAL VOTE: Slovaks vote their president
VOTERS in Slovakia will elect the person who will serve as president for the next five years. The polls open at 7:00 and will close at 22:00.
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