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Made Popular Oct 12 2009
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The Irish question — the 21st century version of it, not the one that so vexed Victorian statesmen — has been settled. Ireland’s Oct. 2 referendum vote in favor of the Lisbon Treaty and a new constitutional settlement for the European Union was...

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A judge in the Republic of Ireland was accidentally shot in the face by a solicitor who was trying to demonstrate that an air pistol was harmless. Judge John Neilan...
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The mayor of an Irish town where boxing legend Muhammad Ali’s great-grandfather hailed from has warned about housing policies that could lead to a ‘glut of...
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The Irish government faces a tough battle to get the EU’s Lisbon Treaty ratified in a referendum next month, the country’s foreign minister says. Micheal...
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A key gauge of Ireland’s economic health isn’t found in the island nation’s business districts or trading floors, but on the football fields of the...
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I recently wrote about how fmr. Irish President Mary Robinson will be awarded the highest civilian honor in the United States: the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Such...
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Several rioters and at least nine officers were injured, none seriously, when Irish nationalists in Ardoyne, a militant Catholic enclave of north Belfast, tried to...
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He came to the United States in 1996 to paint houses and work in construction. Like many of his fellow Irishmen, he returned home soon after to ride the Celtic Tiger,...
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A man has died and more than 150 people have taken ill on board a cruise liner berthed in Invergordon, Easter Ross. The vomiting bug, norovirus, is thought to have...
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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...
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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
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Apr 30 2009 by AP0 Comments

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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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 Northern Ireland’s peace process for years.

 
 
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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.

 
 
Apr 20 2009 by AP0 Comments

The leader of Ireland’s 4 million Roman Catholics, Cardinal Sean Brady, and representatives of Northern Ireland’s major anti-Catholic paramilitary group announced Monday they will meet soon to discuss the outlaws’ potential disarmament.

 
 
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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 himself in battle.

 
 
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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 annually turn certain districts of Dublin and Belfast into a St. Patrick’s nightmare.

 
 
Mar 17 2009 by AP0 Comments

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 holiday that has been darkened this year by recession and violence.

 
 
Mar 17 2009 by AP0 Comments

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 any country on earth.”

 
 
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