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Ireland remembers hunger striker Bobby Sands

Irish Republicans on Friday commemorated the 25th anniversary of the death of Bobby Sands, a member of the Irish Republican Army, who died in jail after a 66-day hunger strike.…

‘The toilet is the last taboo’

Participants at the World Toilet Summit, taking place this week in Northern Ireland, are shrugging off the sniggers to insist everyone must pay attention to the ”last taboo” of…

IRA destroys its arsenal

Northern Ireland took a potentially historic step on Monday towards a lasting peace with the formal announcement that the paramilitary Irish Republican Army (IRA) has destroyed…

Protestant group urges calm after N Ireland riots

One of the Protestant paramilitary groups implicated in three nights of rioting in Belfast called on Tuesday for an end to the violence, the worst Northern Ireland has seen in…

US gives Sinn Fein the cold shoulder

Leaders of the Irish Republican Army’s (IRA) political wing head to St Patrick’s Day events in the United States this week battered by a furore over IRA crime, shut out of talks…

50 years on… and still waiting for Godot

In a threadbare Paris theatre, on January 5, 1953, several years after the playwright Samuel Beckett had fled the sharp censors in his native Ireland, the groundbreaking ”Waiting…