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The world goes green for St Paddy’s Day

The world goes green for St Paddy’s Day

Festivals have been held across Ireland for St Patrick’s Day while the global diaspora joined the party in honour of the Emerald Isle’s patron saint.

PM faces tough task selling bailout to angry Irish

PM faces tough task selling bailout to angry Irish

Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen faced a backlash on Monday for agreeing the EU-IMF bailout for his debt-laden nation.

U2’s Bono made honorary British knight

Irish rock star and anti-poverty campaigner Bono was made an honorary British knight at a ceremony in Dublin on Thursday, the British embassy said. Presenting the insignia on…

Irish revellers celebrate St Patrick’s Day around world

Hundreds of thousands of revellers throughout Ireland and across the world celebrated St Patrick’s Day on Saturday with colourful parades and other festivities. The feast day of…

Ireland trumpets annual party on world stage

Irish leaders will jet off around the world this week to promote the Emerald Isle ahead of this weekend’s annual St Patrick’s Day celebrations, an increasingly global excuse for…

Former Irish leader’s death ‘a very sad occasion’

Charles Haughey, who served three terms as Ireland’s prime minister, died on Tuesday at his home in Dublin after a long battle with cancer, the government said. He was 80. ”It is…

Probe reveals Irish cops planted hoax IRA arms

A judicial inquiry reported on Thursday that members of the Garda — Ireland’s police force — planted hoax Irish Republican Army weapons and bomb-making equipment in county…

The tomb is right for lucky solstice watchers

The first group of 100 lucky people chosen to witness Ireland’s oldest calendar ”clock” in operation were allowed into the chamber of a giant burial mound this week, an…