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The Friendship Four is an NCAA hockey tournament that is hosted by The Belfast Giants. The tournament is held during Thanksgiving Weekend at the SSE Arena Belfast in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The winner for the tournament fights for the Belpot Trophy.

The Friendship Four invites, Boston University, Harvard, Merrimack College and Notre Dame to fight for the Bellpot this 2024 Thanksgiving Weekend.

The history behind the tournament:

The Belfast Giants was formed in 2000. They are the only professional hockey team in Ireland and compete in UK’s Elite Ice Hockey League.

May of 2014 the cities of Boston and Belfast signed an agreement to become sister cities. This was to help boost and develop tourism, economic growth, and cultural ties.

2015 the first Friendship Four was held. The Friendship Four was inspired by the Beanpot tournament in Boston. The Beanpot is an annual tournament with four teams from the Boston Area; Boston College, Boston University, Harvard and North Eastern.

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The Friendship Four is an NCAA hockey tournament that is hosted by The Belfast Giants. The tournament is held during Thanksgiving Weekend at the SSE Arena Belfast in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The winner for the tournament fights for the Belpot Trophy.

The Friendship Four invites, Boston University, Harvard, Merrimack College and Notre Dame to fight for the Bellpot this 2024 Thanksgiving Weekend.

The history behind the tournament:

The Belfast Giants was formed in 2000. They are the only professional hockey team in Ireland and compete in UK’s Elite Ice Hockey League.

May of 2014 the cities of Boston and Belfast signed an agreement to become sister cities. This was to help boost and develop tourism, economic growth, and cultural ties.

2015 the first Friendship Four was held. The Friendship Four was inspired by the Beanpot tournament in Boston. The Beanpot is an annual tournament with four teams from the Boston Area; Boston College, Boston University, Harvard and North Eastern.

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One of our favorite days of the year is here! Happy St. Patrick’s day! Hope all is well and you’re celebrating the day with Irish spirit and craic!

Here are some ways our team like to celebrate St. Patricks Day!

Adam: Visiting with my grandmother at Lake Ontario
Andrea: Dressing up as a cardboard car in a St Patrick’s Parade
Kay: Going to the parade in South Boston
Sara: Celebrating with the Dropkick Murphys and their Fans in Dublin March 2015
Danny: Having pints at Pogue Mahones in Liverpool
Kiernan: Relaxing with Guinness and a hearty corn beef meal

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One of our favorite days of the year is here! Happy St. Patrick’s day! Hope all is well and you’re celebrating the day with Irish spirit and craic!

Here are some ways our team like to celebrate St. Patricks Day!

Adam: Visiting with my grandmother at Lake Ontario
Andrea: Dressing up as a cardboard car in a St Patrick’s Parade
Kay: Going to the parade in South Boston
Sara: Celebrating with the Dropkick Murphys and their Fans in Dublin March 2015
Danny: Having pints at Pogue Mahones in Liverpool
Kiernan: Relaxing with Guinness and a hearty corn beef meal

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Lindsay Lohan’s latest movie, Irish Wish, takes her character and the viewer to some of Ireland’s most beautiful locations.

A new romcom from Netflix, described as a “story of luck and love and confidence”, mixes Irish whimsy, Hollywood star power and the gorgeous backdrop of scenic Ireland.

Irish Wish tells the story of a bridesmaid who, a few days before her friend’s wedding, wishes she were the bride, only to wake up next day as the bride-to-be. But she then realises who her real soulmate is.

The movie was shot in several locations across Ireland including Dublin, where the vibrant Temple Bar area stood in for New York.

The beautiful landscape of County Wicklow in Ireland’s Ancient East also featured and the imposing Killruddery House makes an appearance. The magnificent manor has a 400-year history and has been used as a filming location for many movies and TV series including Excalibur, The Tudors, Angela’s Ashes, Camelot, Becoming Jane, Ella Enchanted and The Count of Monte Cristo.

Another super scenic spot that makes it into the movie is Lough Tay, also known as the Guinness Lake. The lake is located on land owned by the Guinness family in the Wicklow Mountains and is edged on one side with white sand to resemble a pint of the ‘black stuff’. It can be clearly seen on a drive through the Sally Gap, widely regarded as one of the most scenic drives on the island of Ireland.

Irish Wish also includes scenes shot on the other side of the island on the Wild Atlantic Way, including at the stunning Cliffs of Moher, one of Ireland’s top visitor attractions.

Lohan stars alongside Ed Speleers, Alexander Vlahos, Ayesha Curry, Elizabeth Tan, Jacinta Mulcahy, and Jane Seymour in the movie.

Irish Wish will be released on Netflix on 15 March, just in time for St Patrick’s Day.

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A new world-class digital exhibition at Trinity College Dublin transports visitors into the illuminated pages of the ninth-century Book of Kells.

The Book of Kells is one of Ireland’s great cultural treasures and one of Ireland’s top visitor attractions. Thought to have been created around AD 800, it contains the four gospels of the Bible transcribed by monks on lavishly decorated pages full of intricate and elaborate artistry. It contains the earliest known surviving image of the Virgin and Child in Western manuscript art.

They then embark on a 360° immersive journey in the pavilion filled with stories, sights, and sounds inspired by the ancient manuscript and the Old Library’s precious collections. This includes a spectacularly innovative digital reconstruction of the Long Room.

Visitors to the Experience will follow the Book of Kells on its extraordinary journey from Iona in Scotland over the Irish Sea to Kells, and onwards to Dublin in the present day, as 1,200 years of history and stories unfold before their eyes.

The Book of Kells Experience also explores and showcases several of the books and manuscripts from the Old Library’s historically significant collections. Visitors will travel to 1916 to hear the Proclamation of the Irish Republic; interact with spirited sculptures including Ada Lovelace, Jonathan Swift, Rosalind Franklin and William Shakespeare; and witness the architectural evolution of the Long Room reimagined from 1732 to modern day.

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We can’t wait to see Merrimack play in the Friendship Four Hockey Tournament in Belfast.

The Friendship Four invites, Boston University, Harvard, Merrimack College and Notre Dame to fight for the Bellpot this 2024 Thanksgiving Weekend.

If you want to be the ultimate fan, join us this Thanksgiving week for the chance to see Merrimack win the Belpot!

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2024 will be a stellar year for Northern Lights activity and the island of Ireland has many amazing places to view them.

With the sun heading for solar maximum, 2024 is shaping up to be a great year for seeing the Northern Lights.

The island of Ireland has three dark sky parks, Om Dark Sky Park and Observatory in County Tyrone, Mayo Dark Sky Park, and Kerry International Dark Sky Reserve. These offer the darkest of skies and therefore the chance to see the lights. Even if you don’t get to see the aurora you will be star struck by the clarity of the night sky and the constellations and planets you will be able to see, even with the naked eye.

The Northern Lights can be viewed in Ireland until March, which is actually one of the best months to see them due to the earth’s axial tilt and the way the atmosphere encounters solar wind.

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What will you do with the extra day available in 2024? In the Ireland of bygone days, 29 February had a special significance for unmarried women as it was their opportunity to propose to a man rather than have to wait for the man’s proposal.

It’s said that the tradition began in the fifth century when  St Brigid complained to St Patrick that women had to wait far too long for men to propose. St Patrick then decreed that women could propose once every four years on 29 February.

The ‘decree’ became part of Irish folklore and even into the early twentieth century it was taken seriously by some people who were anxious to be betrothed by the time Lent came round. In the southwest of Ireland, in particular, those who remained single in February could find their names on the Skellig Lists. These printed ballads were named after Skellig Michael, a tiny island off the coast of County Kerry, which was regarded by some as a last chance saloon for the unattached.

Ironically, a leap year was also seen as an unlucky year to get married, so even those who managed to snag a fiancé had to wait for the walk up the aisle.

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