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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.
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.
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.
Biden wraps up Ireland trip at Catholic shrine
AFP, Published on 14/04/2023
» DUBLIN: US President Joe Biden was winding down an emotive visit to Ireland with a visit Friday to the Roman Catholic pilgrimage site in Knock, before delving deeper into his Irish family history.
Sunak, Biden to mark 25 years since N.Irish peace deal
AFP, Published on 10/04/2023
» LONDON - Northern Ireland on Monday marks the 25th anniversary of its landmark 1998 peace accords, with the UK province mired in political dysfunction and security concerns which threaten to overshadow the historic milestone.
UK and EU eye deal over post-Brexit trade in N.Ireland
AFP, Published on 27/02/2023
» LONDON - Britain and the European Union were on Monday poised to agree a crucial overhaul of trade rules in Northern Ireland, in a breakthrough aimed at resetting strained relations since Brexit.