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Filed under: News, Weird, Health If you’ve ever participated in the tourist tradition of bending over backward and making out with the Blarney Stone in Ireland,...
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Two boys, aged 15 and 16, were arrested today in raids on two houses in south Belfast in connection with racist attacks against Romanians.
More than 100 Romanians fled...
made popular Jun 20 2009
EU talks on the Lisbon Treaty have been marred by a rift over demands made by the Republic of Ireland - which rejected the treaty in a 2008 vote.
Irish PM Brian Cowen...
made popular Jun 19 2009
More than 100 Romanians evacuated from their homes in Belfast following a sustained campaign of racist intimidation and violence were last night in emergency...
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More than 100 Romanians fleeing racist attacks in Belfast have been moved to a council-run leisure centre after taking refuge overnight in a church.
The 115 Romanians...
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Their performance defied their fears. A severely injury hit New Zealand managed to turn up red hot on the field against the hapless Ireland in the first Super Eights...
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Ireland’s consumer-price index fell 4.7% in May from a year ago, by far the sharpest of price drops across Europe and the worst here since 1933.
Inflation has...
made popular Jun 12 2009
Filed under: News, Happy Hour Hero, Health Our happy hour fact to amaze the drunks in the pub. Most of the world’s population is optimistic, with Ireland leading...
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Thousands of children were physically and sexually abused by priests and nuns in orphanages and reform schools in Ireland from 1930 to 1990, a government commission...
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Connecticut officials say a deal has been sealed to bring taping of the “Deal or No Deal” syndicated daily game show to their state starting this summer.
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Ryan Air has decided to levy fat tax to passengers who will not be able to fit into the seat without removing separators and are not able to fit into the seat belt....
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A private financier received a 10-year prison sentence Friday for handling millions stolen from Northern Bank in Belfast, a record-setting robbery that overshadowed...
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Ireland’s police force says 15 masked men armed with steel pipes, chains and nail-studded clubs have ransacked a Shell pipeline project.
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The leader of Ireland’s 4 million Roman Catholics, Cardinal Sean Brady, and representatives of Northern Ireland’s major anti-Catholic paramilitary group...
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To Seamus Blake’s immigrant parents from Ireland, the language of prosperity was English.
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Nearly 70 years after Belfast was bombed in World War II, the city has its first memorial to nearly a thousand people who died in the Blitz.
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The family of an unarmed British soldier ambushed outside a Northern Ireland army base said at his funeral Wednesday that IRA dissidents stole his chance to prove...
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Cars torched, firefighters attacked, police bombarded and neighbors terrified: It’s been another fine St. Patrick’s Day in Ireland, where inebriated mobs...
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An estimated 500,000 Irish people, immigrants and tourists jammed into Dublin’s city center Tuesday to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, a boisterous national...
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Boasting about a bit of his own Irish ancestry, President Barack Obama hailed Ireland on Tuesday for having as much influence on U.S. culture and tradition “as...
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