Britain’s air traffic control body said on Monday it had agreed the creation of a new flying zone to limit disruption caused by volcanic ash.
Ireland is hoping to reclaim the leprechaun from Hollywood with a new museum that places the fabled little figures back in their mythological context.
Pope Benedict XVI’s pastoral letter to Ireland’s Catholics has failed to arrest the scandal engulfing the church.
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/ 23 February 2010
Ireland and Britain are checking reports that more fake passports were used by Israeli suspects in the killing of a Hamas commander in Dubai.
Jean de Villiers will quit Munster at the end of the season and return home in an attempt to win a place in South Africa’s 2011 World Cup squad
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/ 17 December 2009
Bishop of Limerick Donal Murray apologised on Thursday to victims of sex abuse by Irish Catholic priests.
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/ 11 December 2009
Pope Benedict XVI ”shares the outrage” of Irish Catholics over revelations of decades of child sex abuse by priests, the Vatican said on Friday.
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/ 2 December 2009
Any hopes Ireland had of competing at the 2010 World Cup were snuffed on Tuesday with Fifa saying there was no way they would add them as a 33rd team.
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/ 30 November 2009
Ireland has asked Fifa to be allowed into the World Cup as a 33rd team after Thierry Henry’s handball helped France eliminate the Irish in a playoff.
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/ 28 November 2009
Six Nations champions Ireland beat World and Tri-Nations champions South Africa 15-10 in a battle of the hemispheres on Saturday.
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/ 26 November 2009
Experienced back-row forward Denis Leamy has been ruled out of Ireland’s squad for Saturday’s meeting with South Africa because of an ankle injury.
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/ 25 November 2009
Declan Kidney’s desire to see Jonathan Sexton play against top opposition led him to omit veteran Ronan O’Gara for Saturday’s Springbok Test.
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/ 2 November 2009
The eyes of the rugby union world will be on Europe this month with South Africa leading a raft of southern hemisphere touring teams.
Ireland has voted decisively in favour of the Lisbon treaty just 16 months after it first rejected the European Union reform plan.
Irish voters appear to have backed the European Union’s Lisbon reform treaty, government and opposition officials said on Saturday.
Ireland coach Declan Kidney said on Friday he is wary of the wounded Wallabies ahead of their grand slam tour of the United Kingdom and Ireland.
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/ 22 September 2009
Independent News & Media is close to a debt-for-equity deal that would end uncertainty over its finances after months of talks with lenders.
Rights group Amnesty pressed Ireland on Tuesday over suspected CIA rendition flights through airports including transatlantic stopoff Shannon.
Jonathan Powell explains why the world should not overreact to the assassination of two British soldiers in Northern Ireland.
Gunmen struck at a British army base in one of Northern Ireland’s worst attacks since a 1998 peace deal on Saturday, killing two soldiers.
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/ 19 February 2009
Irish police have solved the mystery of a Polish recidivist who clocked up 50 traffic offences on different addresses and who was never caught.
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/ 8 February 2009
Ireland made a flying start to the Six Nations championship on Saturday by defeating France 30-21 at Croke Park in Dublin.
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/ 26 January 2009
Northern Ireland is an instructive example that even the most implacable of enemies can make peace, writes Jonathan Freedland.
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/ 10 November 2008
The US said on Sunday it has begun transferring more than -million in Libyan money to the families of American victims of the Lockerbie bombing.
A mountain goat was crowned king of Ireland on Sunday at an ancient festival.
The South African women’s hockey team finished off their visit to Ireland in style with a comprehensive 4-0 Test victory over Ireland.
Ireland paid tribute on Wednesday to a group of Irish shop workers who staged a landmark two-and-a-half-year long anti-apartheid strike in the 1980s.
A landmark international convention banning cluster munitions was formally adopted by 111 countries in Dublin, Ireland, on Friday in a move supporters hope will stigmatise the lethal weapons as much as landmines. There were no objections to its adoption, which came after 12 days of robust negotiations.
Dublin Zoo appealed to the public on Thursday not to be taken in by hoax SMSs that have led to its switchboard being jammed by an estimated 100 000 calls in two weeks. People are receiving SMSs to their cellphones asking them to ring the zoo’s number for an ”urgent message”. The texts are signed with names like G Raffe and C Lion.
Bertie Ahern will step down as Ireland’s Prime Minister on May 6, bowing to pressure for him to go early following a series of embarrassing appearances in the witness stand at an anti-corruption tribunal. Ahern, flanked by his Cabinet colleagues, announced his intention to resign to reporters in Dublin.
Eddie O’Sullivan has resigned as Ireland coach following a disappointing Six Nations campaign and the side’s early exit from last year’s World Cup. Ireland finished fourth in the Six Nations, winning two matches out of five. They were knocked out of the World Cup in the group stages.
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/ 21 February 2008
The owner of the Irish castle containing the famed Blarney Stone has dismissed claims that thousands of tourists are kissing the wrong stone every year, the Irish Examiner newspaper reported on Thursday. A new book questions the authenticity of the stone.