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.

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.

Ireland’s police force says 15 masked men armed with steel pipes, chains and nail-studded clubs have ransacked a Shell pipeline project.

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.

To Seamus Blake’s immigrant parents from Ireland, the language of prosperity was English.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”