There are more than five times as many Americans with at least partial Irish ancestry as there are people who live in Ireland.
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These last 12 months have seen their fair share of events that had a direct impact on Ireland's LGBT community, speeding up progress to a pace that was barely imaginable 10 years ago.
Ireland's general election on Friday, February 25th may be about to return the kind of verdict that was so unlikely a few days ago that bookmakers were offering 25/1 on it.
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A Slovak man unwittingly carried hidden explosives on board a weekend flight to Dublin after a Slovakian airport-security test went awry, Irish o...
Irish voters yesterday delivered a resounding endorsement of the Lisbon Treaty, causing waves of relief and celebration in Brussels and Dublin about ...
Voting ends to decide whether Dublin should ratify the EU's Lisbon treaty....
Ireland was the first nation to tax plastic bags as a way to stop them littering the countryside. Now the Emerald Isle plans to double its levy to a punitive 44 euro cents (59 U.S. cents) per bag.
The 7-year-old policy has already generated more than euro120 million ($175 million). It also has sharply reduced Irish reliance on throwaway bags – once running at 1.2 billion per year, or more than 300 for every man, woman and child.
The Department of the Environment announced Thursday that the charge will be doubled to ensure a "sufficient deterrent" to shoppers who arrive at checkout counters with no shopping bags of their own.
The tax will be doubled from 22 euro cents as part of an environmental bill being published next month.
A judge in the Republic of Ireland was accidentally shot in the face by a solicitor who was trying to demonstrate that an air pistol was harmless. J...
By Conor O'Clery | GlobalPost DUBLIN -- Irish newspapers struggled on Thursday to convey the enormity of the horrors inflicted for decades by reli...
DUBLIN — Child-abuse activists warned Thursday that Ireland failed to learn the lessons from decades of unchecked brutality inside Catholic Chur...
DUBLIN — After a nine-year investigation, a commission published a damning report Wednesday on decades of rapes, humiliation and beatings at Cat...
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Mazda says it has developed Japan's first urea treatment system for clean diesels, to be used in Japanese and European diesel models of the 2010 Mazda...
