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Irish Affairs

CBHagman

(17,142 posts) Wed Jun 5, 2013, 10:44 PM Jun 2013

Obama taps Irish immigrant for United Nations ambassador.

Samantha Power, founder of a human rights center and award-winning author of a book on the problem of genocide, has been announced as the president's nominee to succeed Susan Rice as U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations.

It so happens that she's also Irish-born. Read on:

[url]http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Irish-woman-Samantha-Power-to-be-named-as-US-Ambassador-to-UN-by-President-Obama--210225621.html[/url]

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Obama taps Irish immigrant for United Nations ambassador. (Original Post) CBHagman Jun 2013 OP

Excellent choice. IrishAyes Jul 2013 #1

IrishAyes

(6,151 posts)

1. Excellent choice.

Reply to CBHagman (Original post)

Mon Jul 29, 2013, 07:42 PM

Jul 2013

For so long this thread was quiet, and I haven't been checking for new stuff often enough. Maybe someday we can get notifications of new threads and posts in our email.

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