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SHENZHEN, China (AP) -- Graeme McDowell and Rory McIlroy held onto Ireland's three-stroke lead in the World Cup of Golf on Friday, shooting a four-under par 68 in the second round.
LONDON -- England's Alison Nicholas has been given a second chance to win back the Solheim Cup.
Shaun Woodward , 52, is a former journalist, and it shows. He once worked for the BBC , a long way from his role nowadays as British secretary for Northern Ireland , but he knows how to spin a story, tell a yarn and keep a conversation moving.
You'll often hear people in Ireland complain about the American influence on the culture here. I don't always disagree. American television, music and movies seem to be everywhere and a lot of it is just garbage. Any time I see or hear Britney Spears I know they have a point.
Ireland team to play South Africa at Croke Park, Dublin on Saturday (1430 GMT).
Father Sean McKenna , who earlier this month announced his decision to leave the priesthood after 24 years, broke his silence say that the woman he is in a relationship with is not pregnant.
Three apartment blocks have been evacuated after the roof tore off the building at about 8.30 a.m. Irish time. Witnesses said the roof came "clean off" the building and flipped over into a nearby field.
College have shut down, roads are closed, plane-landings are being diverted, and even rats are fleeing their burrows as Ireland struggles to cope with what the Minister for the Environment has called the worst flooding in 800 years.
“With that in mind I decided to extend the trip and do a series of meetings with community leaders and government leaders to convey the message that Irish America’s perspective was that the time for devolution of power around policing and justice was now.
Irish Republican Army dissidents left a 400-pound car bomb outside police reform headquarters in Belfast but the device failed to detonate, Northern Ireland's police commander says.
Two suspected Irish Republican Army dissidents have been charged with attempting to kill an off-duty police officer near the province's border with the Republic of Ireland last week, police said Tuesday.
The U.S. State Department announced Tuesday that it is now offering a reward of up to $5 million for a Palestinian bomb-maker suspected of once targeting commercial airliners and of aiding the Iraq insurgency.
Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Ireland’s Christian Brothers will pay 161 million euros ($242 million) in compensation to child abuse victims in the wake of a report that led to a public outcry about abuse by religious orders in church and state-run institutions.
( Queen's University Belfast ) Queen's University Belfast has helped the global wave energy industry take a major stride forward with the launch of the world's largest working hydro-electric wave energy device by Aquamarine Power.
A $22 million tranist project will put new buses on a brand new, speedier route
BNY Mellon was named the top fund administrator and custodian in Ireland, according to Lipper's 2009 Ireland Fund Encyclopedia.
