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Russia has condemned Ireland’s decision to send home a Russian diplomat from its Dublin embassy over alleged involvement in passport forgery as an...
made popular Feb 3 2011
Gaza isn’t the only place suffering from a humanitarian crisis. Ireland is about to file for bankruptcy with the EU.
Now that the shoe is on the other foot,...
made popular Nov 29 2010
Britain is set to commit about £7bn to help stabilise Ireland, as George Osborne, chancellor, confirmed that the UK was preparing to make a bilateral loan to its...
made popular Nov 22 2010
Eurozone ministers are set to meet in Brussels later as the debt crisis again threatens the bloc’s economic stability.
The spotlight has fallen on weaker member...
made popular Nov 16 2010
The European Union stands ready to offer a financial lifeline to Ireland, an official said on Thursday, as bond investors apply pressure that threatens to derail...
made popular Nov 12 2010
Why on earth would a young girl need to wear a full face veil (niqab) in secondary school? Why would anyone need to wear one anywhere, is beyond me, but apparently...
made popular Sep 27 2010
The Irish Prime Minister is battling for his political survival following a radio interview in which he was widely judged to be the worse for wear after late-night...
made popular Sep 22 2010
A total of 12 animals discovered on the shores of Co Down suffered an unnatural death.
Declan Looney, senior wildlife inspector from the Northern Ireland Environment...
made popular Sep 8 2010
Protesters hurled shoes and eggs Saturday at Tony Blair who held the first public signing of his memoir amid high security in Ireland’s capital. Hundreds more...
made popular Sep 6 2010
Months after the revelation that he helped cover up for one of Ireland’s most notoriously abusive priests, the country’s top Catholic churchman, Cardinal...
made popular Sep 2 2010
A friendly kiss goodnight probably made David Garnon a marked man.
As he left his buddy outside a bar and crossed the street to go home, three youths who’d seen...
made popular Aug 28 2010
A British Cabinet Minister and a Cardinal were certain that a Roman Catholic priest was responsible for one of the worst IRA atrocities of the Northern Ireland...
made popular Aug 27 2010
A Catholic priest directed devastating IRA car bomb attacks in the Northern Irish village of Claudy in 1972 and his role was covered up by senior police officers,...
made popular Aug 24 2010
A small bomb has exploded in a rubbish bin in the Northern Ireland town of Lurgan, causing minor injuries to three children, police said.
The explosion took place on a...
made popular Aug 17 2010
Irish homeowners can now legally use guns to defend themselves if their homes are attacked under new legislation.
The new home defense bill has moved the balance of...
made popular Jul 21 2010
At least 27 police officers were injured in clashes overnight in Belfast, Northern Ireland, including three hit by shotgun pellets, police said Monday.
About 200...
made popular Jul 12 2010
Speaking at the event, Mr Mottaki denounced Wednesday’s United Nations Security Council vote which imposes new sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme.
made popular Jun 11 2010
A founder of the Irish Republic, Eamon de Valera, famously idealized Ireland 70 years ago as an innocent land of saints and scholars, whose villages were joyous with...
made popular May 29 2010
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Two people have been injured in a car bomb explosion outside a police station in Newtownhamilton, County Armagh.
The explosion happened at about 2325 BST. Police were...
made popular Apr 23 2010
Irish Foreign Minister Michael Martin visited the Israeli-Egyptian blockaded Gaza Strip on Thursday after crossing in through the Egyptian-controlled Rafah border....
made popular Feb 27 2010
Northern Ireland’s police commander denounced Irish Republican Army dissidents Tuesday for giving his officers just 17 minutes to evacuate the center of a border...
made popular Feb 24 2010
Ireland’s defense minister resigned from his post Thursday after falsely accusing a political rival of running a brothel – and then denying in court that he...
made popular Feb 19 2010
A deal between NI’s biggest parties, the DUP and Sinn Fein, could see policing and justice powers devolved to Northern Ireland on 12 April.
A cross-community...
made popular Feb 5 2010
Irish police have released a man held over an explosives find, after Slovak authorities admitted planting them in his luggage as part of a security test.
made popular Jan 6 2010
Like other heavily indebted nations around the world, Ireland is borrowing vast sums from foreign investors to plug its budget deficit. Fearing that the country will...
made popular Dec 22 2009
Three women filed a lawsuit in a European court against Ireland’s abortion ban Wednesday, claiming the government violates the human rights of pregnant women by...
made popular Dec 10 2009
The number of new cases of HIV in Northern Ireland rose by more than 50% in 2008, compared to the previous year.
Latest figures from the Communicable Disease...
made popular Dec 2 2009
Four Archbishops, including Cardinal Desmond Connell, will be named over their mishandling of hundreds of allegations, including not reporting crimes to the...
made popular Nov 26 2009
Sexual abuse by religious figures is the most heinous of all sexual crimes, and though every religion has its deviants, the Catholic Church has probably had the most....
made popular Nov 27 2009
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...
made popular Oct 12 2009
Walk through Gort in western Ireland any weekday morning and you see them standing around in twos and threes.
As many as 20 men will be waiting in the town square...
made popular Oct 8 2009
Pupils in a Irish school are being asked to bring their own toilet paper to school to help offset funding cutbacks.
The principal of St John’s Girls National...
made popular Oct 6 2009
Only 16 months after rejecting it the first time, voters in Ireland have overwhelmingly approved a wide-ranging treaty to overhaul how the European Union is run and to...
made popular Oct 5 2009
It’s been a long time since passengers have been allowed to smoke on an airliner in the United States. It’s the same story in Europe. But now the smoking crowd...
made popular Sep 29 2009
‘Yes’ camp’s funding under fire as second Irish vote on Lisbon treaty looms Irish ‘yes’ camp funding attacked as vote looms Ryanair, Intel and lobbyists under...
made popular Sep 23 2009
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...
made popular Sep 19 2009
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...
made popular Sep 11 2009
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...
made popular Sep 5 2009
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...
made popular Aug 28 2009
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Police Service of Northern Ireland officers outside Lisburn Court, Northern Ireland, Tuesday March, 24, 2009. A Northern Ireland teen-ager charged with the dissident IRA killing of a policeman had an assault rifle and 26 rounds of ammo — and refused to...
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