Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron says G8 leaders should be inspired by Northern Ireland when the summit delivers its own economic breakthrough.
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/ 22 November 2010
Ireland has agreed to minimise, merge or sell its banks as part of a European Union-International Monetary Fund bail out.
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/ 21 November 2010
New Zealand overwhelmed a battling Ireland side 38-18 on Saturday to stay on course for its third Grand Slam of the home rugby unions in five years.
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/ 13 September 2007
Prime Minister Bertie Ahern, who admits receiving a string of cash payments from businessmen, denied doing anything wrong when he began testifying on Thursday to an anti-corruption judge probing his foggy financial past. At stake are the reputation and legacy of Ahern, Ireland’s popular leader since 1997.
Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern’s long-dominant Fianna Fail party marched toward its sixth straight election victory on Friday as voters opted to stick with a popular leader who has presided over unprecedented economic success. ”It’s a great night for Fianna Fail, and it’s a great night for the party machine,” said Ahern.
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/ 9 February 2007
For nearly a century, Ireland’s patriotic guardians of homegrown Gaelic games observed an inflexible rule: No British sports permitted on the hallowed ground of Croke Park. That era ends on Sunday when Ireland and France take to the field of the sold-out, 82 300-capacity stadium for a Six Nations rugby clash.
Intel unveiled a plant on Thursday that manufactures the semiconductor company’s newest 65-nanometer chips, an industry-leading technology that allows computers to work faster using less energy. The plant, which began production three months ago, joins similar facilities in the United States in making Intel’s most efficient microprocessor.
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/ 19 December 2005
The United Kingdom’s first gay couple to win legal recognition under a new British civil-partnership law drove past anti-homosexual protesters on Monday to make their marriage-style vows inside Belfast City Hall. Three homosexual couples were scheduled to sign the civil partnership register on Monday in Belfast City Hall.
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/ 3 December 2005
George Best was to be buried on Saturday following a grandiose funeral expected to bring his native Belfast to a unified, bittersweet standstill. Best’s body was kept overnight in Protestant east Belfast at his family home, where after a private religious service it will be transported to the Stormont Parliamentary Building.
Five Belfast sisters campaigning against the Irish Republican Army’s killing of their brother traveled on Tuesday to Brussels to lobby European Union leaders for help. The McCartney sisters say the IRA and its allied Sinn Fein party are covering up their members’ involvement in the January 30 attack on their brother, Robert.