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Ex-Irish republican leader Gerry Adams wins BBC libel case
AFP, Published on 30/05/2025
» DUBLIN - Former Irish republican leader Gerry Adams won a libel case against the BBC on Friday, and was awarded 100,000 euros ($113,000) in damages over a report containing allegations he was involved in killing a British spy.
Message to despots
Oped, Postbag, Published on 02/04/2024
» Re: "Pita 'most favoured' to be next PM: poll", (BP, March 25).
First Irish nationalist chosen to lead Northern Ireland
Published on 03/02/2024
» BELFAST - Lawmakers in Northern Ireland elected an Irish nationalist as First Minister for the first time on Saturday, a historic milestone in a province established a century ago to ensure the dominance of pro-British unionists.
Northern Ireland political impasse to drag into 2024
AFP, Published on 20/12/2023
» CRAIGAVON, Northern Ireland - A lengthy boycott of devolved government in Northern Ireland will stretch into 2024 after talks to end the impasse stalled Tuesday, with frustration mounting over political dysfunction and crumbling public services.
Dublin crowds bid farewell to Shane MacGowan
AFP, Published on 08/12/2023
» DUBLIN - Crowds lined the streets of Dublin on Friday to their pay respects to the Irish songwriter Shane MacGowan, who died last month at the age of 65.
Shane MacGowan, folk-punk Pogues frontman, dies aged 65
AFP, Published on 01/12/2023
» DUBLIN - Shane MacGowan, songwriter and lead singer of Celtic folk-punk band The Pogues, died early on Thursday at the age of 65 after a long illness, his widow announced, prompting a flood of tributes.
Shane MacGowan, folk-punk Pogues frontman, dies aged 65
AFP, Published on 30/11/2023
» DUBLIN - Shane MacGowan, songwriter and lead singer of Celtic folk-punk band The Pogues, has died aged 65 after a long illness, his wife announced Thursday.
Clashes in Dublin after children injured in suspected stabbing
AFP, Published on 24/11/2023
» DUBLIN - Protesters in Dublin on Thursday torched a car and fought police, an AFP journalist reported, after three children were injured in a suspected school stabbing that social media rumours attributed to a foreign national.
Flags and murals as N.Irish pick sides in Israel-Hamas war
AFP, Published on 31/10/2023
» BELFAST - Northern Ireland may be thousands of miles from the Middle East but signs of the current heightened conflict can be seen on the streets of the British province.
US peace envoy tells N.Ireland leaders: 'Don't let it slip away'
AFP, Published on 17/04/2023
» BELFAST - The US senator who brokered peace in Northern Ireland in 1998 on Monday urged today's feuding political leaders to forge a new compromise as a lesson to the world.