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DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ireland’s government rushed through emergency legislation early on Thursday to liquidate the failed Anglo Irish Bank as it tries to secure a deal with the European Central Bank to ease the country’s debt burden. Prime Minister Enda Kenny has staked his administration’s reputation on cutting the cost of bailing out Anglo Irish, [...]
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Petrol bombs fly again as Northern Irish flag protests continue
Posted by admin on January 26th, 2013
BELFAST (Reuters) – Northern Irish police were pelted by petrol bombs for the first time in almost two weeks on Friday after more protests at the removal of the British flag from Belfast City Hall. Masked youths clashed with police on the streets of east Belfast on an almost nightly basis for six weeks after [...]
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No Comments »Irish cellphone entrepreneur banks on a smarter Haiti
Posted by admin on January 16th, 2013
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – When Irish billionaire Denis O'Brien set about building a cellphone company in the western hemisphere's poorest country, there was no shortage of skeptics. Six years later O'Brien's company Digicel is the largest private investor in Haiti and has 4.8 million users, about half the population. It is a rare beacon of entrepreneurship [...]
Northern Irish police fire plastic bullets at rioters
Posted by admin on January 12th, 2013
BELFAST (Reuters) – Police in Northern Ireland fired plastic bullets and water cannon at rioters who wounded four officers with missiles and petrol bombs in the latest outbreak of anger at the removal of the British flag from Belfast City Hall. Hundreds of other protesters brought large areas of Belfast to a standstill, shutting at [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: bullets, Fire, Irish, Northern, Plastic, Police, Rioters No Comments »Keys To The Matchup: Notre Dame Fighting Irish vs. Alabama Crimson Tide
Posted by admin on January 7th, 2013
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Northern Irish militants seen hijacking flag protests
Posted by admin on January 6th, 2013
BELFAST (Reuters) – Pro-British militant groups are instigating riots that have rocked the Northern Irish capital Belfast in the past month, a police officers' representative said on Sunday as officers came under attack again. The violence stems from protests over the removal of the British flag over Belfast City Hall. It has been among the [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: Flag, hijacking, Irish, militants, Northern, protests, Seen No Comments »Man arrested after shots fired at Northern Irish police in flag riots
Posted by admin on January 5th, 2013
BELFAST (Reuters) – Northern Irish police arrested a 38-year-old man on Saturday on suspicion of attempted murder after shots were fired at police officers during protests over the removal of the British flag from Belfast City Hall. Police used water cannon against more than 100 protesters hurling fireworks, smoke bombs and bricks in the eastern [...]
Northern Irish fighting rages on as rioters branded “a disgrace”
Posted by admin on January 5th, 2013
BELFAST (Reuters) – Northern Irish police came under attack by pro-British loyalists on Friday as the province's first minister branded rioters "a disgrace" and said they were playing into the hands of rival militant nationalists. Rioting began a month ago after a vote by mostly nationalist pro-Irish councilors to end the century-old tradition of flying [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: branded, disgrace, Fighting, Irish, Northern, rages, Rioters No Comments »Catholic Church urges Irish to oppose abortion law
Posted by admin on December 25th, 2012
DUBLIN (Reuters) – The head of Ireland's Catholic Church urged followers in his Christmas Day message to lobby against government plans to legalize abortion. Ireland, the only EU member state that currently outlaws the procedure, is preparing legislation that would allow limited access to abortion after the European Court of Human Rights criticized the current [...]
Dissident group says killed Northern Irish prison officer
Posted by admin on November 12th, 2012
BELFAST (Reuters) – A group of militant Irish nationalists said it shot dead a Northern Irish prison officer as he drove to work earlier this month, and linked the attack to a dispute over prison conditions. Belfast-based newspaper The Irish News on Monday said it had received a statement claiming responsibility for the shooting from [...]
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