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Lech Walesa’s anti-gay comments met with opposition
Liam Nolan in Warsaw RTÉ WORLD REPORT, 17 March 2013 – To listen to the full show, listen here: http://www.rte.ie/news/player/world-report/2013/0317/ . Full transcript below. There is never a dull moment in Poland when Lech Walesa is concerned. Recent comments by the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and the former iconic leader of Poland’s 1980s Solidarity movement, angered...
RTÉ Prime Time report: a Polish perspective on the horse meat scandal
This week I worked as the location producer on a RTÉ Prime Time report entitled ‘Poles Apart’, which detailed Polish reactions to accusations from Irish authorities that beef burgers containing equine DNA, and which were sold in Irish supermarkets, had been supplied by two Polish meat factories. For the special report, RTÉ Europe Correspondent Paul...
Exports cooking up a storm to meet rising European demand
THE IRISH EXAMINER, 11 February 2013 By Liam Nolan A recent showcase event in Poland saw Irish food and drink products take centre stage. But Irish companies are not resting on their laurels, writes Liam Nolan At the tail end of January, a very snowy Warsaw played host to a ‘Flavours of Ireland’ dinner in...
Poland name top squad for Dublin friendly
IRISH EXAMINER, 23 JANUARY 2012 Poland name top squad for Dublin friendly Liam Nolan in Warsaw Polish assistant football manager Marek Wlecialowski yesterday Tuesday announced an initial 17-man squad for the Republic of Ireland and Poland friendly international match on 6 February in Dublin’s Aviva Stadium. Wlecialowski was speaking in Warsaw in place of manager...
World Report for RTÉ – Smolensk continued
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My report for RTÉ Radio One’s World Report programme on the continued political fallout in Poland from Smolensk air disaster of April 2010. Listen to the full programme, including reports from South Africa and Cuba here: http://soundcloud.com/liamnolanmedia/rt-world-report-smolensk
The Continuing Nightmare of Poland’s 2010 Smolensk Plane Crash
THE ATLANTIC (US) Liam Nolan, 1 November 2012 The disaster, which killed the country’s former president and his entourage, is still a source of major political tension. Just when Poles thought the ghost of Smolensk had disappeared, up it popped again. Last week, Polish military authorities exhumed the body of another wrongly identified victim of...
Medical care: Private equity seizes a healthy opportunity
THE FINANCIAL TIMES, 31 OCTOBER 2012 By Liam Nolan in Warsaw An unscheduled trip to a private healthcare clinic in Poland can be a bit of a lottery. Some are ultra-modern, clean and spacious. Others can be musty places, run by a co-operative of local doctors where patients’ files are still handwritten and tucked away...
Polish archbishop condemns “dangers of pagan Halloween”
THE JOURNAL.IE – 31 October, 2012 By Liam Nolan WHETHER YOU ARE a school child that loves dressing up like Dracula and scaring neighbours with the threat of a ‘trick or treat’, or an adult that gleefully grabs the chance to dress up as a well-known personality, Halloween is generally perceived as a lot of...
Ireland close to being the success story EU needs it to be: Creighton
THE IRISH EXAMINER, Saturday, October 27, 2012 By Liam Nolan, Warsaw European Affairs Minister Lucinda Creighton says Ireland is “close to being a success story that the EU needs it to be” and that it would attempt to lay the groundwork for a free trade agreement between Europe and the US when it takes over...
‘Because You Can’t Smell Someone on Skype’: Gold Radio Award winner at New York Festivals 2012
A radio documentary I made for RTÉ’s Radio One’s Curious Ear series, ‘Because You Can’t Smell Someone on Skype’ recently won a Gold Radio Award (Human Relations category) at the New York Festivals 2012 – one of the world’s premier radio broadcast awards. I am absolutely delighted with this accolade and, last week, I picked...
Fast and Furious
Fast and furious By Liam Nolan, THE IRISH EXAMINER Tuesday, September 11, 2012 Fast, technical and played with sheer determination. That’s probably an accurate description of amputee football. First established in the United States in 1980, the sport — now played by 30 nations worldwide — is being tipped to become a Paralympics sport at...
Roads to Nowhere
ROADS TO NOWHERE CNBC Magazine, July/August 2012 Poland let competitive tendering rip in the run-up to Euro 2012 – with catastrophic results By Liam Nolan Driving through Poland can be a bumpy ride. The country’s former communist leaders never regarded road modernisation as a priority, leaving large chunks of the nation’s highways a patchwork of uneven...