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Ireland (; ; Ulster Scots: Airlann or Airlan) is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth.
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The Olympic torch has arrived in Northern Ireland for a five-day tour that includes a visit to the Republic of Ireland capital, Dublin, and heightened security to ensure Irish Republican Army factions don't spoil the celebrations.
The Protestant and Catholic leaders of Northern Ireland's unity government welcomed Olympic officials as the flame landed Saturday at Belfast City Airport via the Isle of Man. The flame spent the past two weeks traveling through England and Wales.A senior Belfast police officer says security will be heightened throughout the torch's stay in Northern Ireland. The torch run through 60 towns and villages coincides with Queen Elizabeth's 60th anniversary on the British throne, an event celebrated by the Protestant majority. The officer says IRA splinter groups would like to disrupt both events....Saying yes could mean dooming Ireland to more long, hard years of austerity. But saying no could mean national bankruptcy next year.Ireland's debt-burdened voters co...
Residents of a Londonderry street voiced their anger Tuesday at Irish Republican Army die-hards after police seized at least two bombs in an apartment in the Norther...
DUBLIN -- A trans-Atlantic legal showdown could determine whether Gerry Adams, the Irish republican chieftain long at the center of Belfast war and peace, faces tria...
BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — Northern Ireland police say they have arrested two suspected Irish Republican Army dissidents on suspicion of possessing pipe bombs....
British army experts defused a 600-pound (275-kilogram) van bomb Saturday on the Northern Ireland border, the largest such bomb in more than a year linked to Irish R...
BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — Northern Ireland's Catholic and Protestant leaders elected a new justice minister Monday, reaching a new peacemaking milestone despi...
DUBLIN -- Police arrested two of the suspects near the scene of Friday's bomb discovery in a residential area near Queen's University of Belfast. The bomb was abando...
A 500-pound (225-kilogram) van bomb defused Saturday near the Irish border probably was destined to strike a town center or landmark building in a bid to undermine N...
BELFAST, Northern Ireland -- Belfast riot police braced for a second night of conflict with Irish nationalists Monday as Protestants from the conservative Orange Ord...
DUBLIN (AP) — An investigation into the 1997 killing of Billy "King Rat" Wright — a charismatic Northern Ireland extremist who terrorized the Catholic minority — con...
Northern Ireland police arrested two suspected Irish Republican Army dissidents Tuesday over a botched Belfast ambush that involved hiding a bomb on a small child's ...
The outlawed Irish Republican Army apologized Friday for its 1973 killing of a 9-year-old Northern Ireland boy who stumbled across an IRA bomb while playing in his b...
The widow of a Northern Ireland policeman killed by Irish Republican Army die-hards condemned the length of prison sentences imposed Monday on his murderers, saying ...
DUBLIN (AP) — A panel of terrorism experts ruled Wednesday that a Protestant militant group in Northern Ireland, the Ulster Volunteer Force, killed a Belfast man in ...
DUBLIN (AP) — Northern Ireland police said Friday they have arrested a Basque separatist accused by Spain of involvement in a string of car bombings.The arrest provi...
DUBLIN (AP) — Northern Ireland police warned Friday that Irish Republican Army dissidents hope to overshadow the British election in the province with violence.North...
Police firing plastic bullets and powerful water cannons forced Catholic militants away from a key Belfast road Tuesday as Northern Ireland's annual day of Protestan...
Seven Irish republicans, including three relatives of a senior reputed Real IRA member and four others allegedly operating a forest rifle range, were arraigned Satur...
DUBLIN (AP) — British Army experts defused a 300-pound (135-kilogram) bomb left by Irish Republican Army dissidents in a van outside the police station in a Northern...
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