Ireland
POPULATION 3,883,159ROMAN CATHOLIC 90 percentANGLICAN (CHURCH OF IRELAND) 2.7 percentPRESBYTERIAN 0.75 percentMETHODIST 0.13 percentJEWISH, MUSLIM, AND OTHER 6.42 percent
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Allied Irish Banks PLC, Ireland's largest company, said Tuesday its full-year 2006 profit surged on strong gains in loans, deposits and investment activity across all its units.AIB said net profit ...
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London's police chief said Friday the threat of a terror attack in Britain is growing and warned that the Christmas holidays were an especially dangerous period.Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir...
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London's police chief said Friday the threat of a terror attack in Britain is growing and warned that the Christmas holidays were an especially dangerous period.Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir...
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Northern Ireland lawmakers are gaining a role in the parliament of the Republic of Ireland for the first time since the island's partition 86 years ago.The government of Prime Minister Bertie Ahern...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press:
SCOTTISH NATIONALISTS AREN'T ALL SEPRATISTS (Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles)
THE FIRST-PLACE FINISH of a pro-independence party in electi...
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Key events for the British army in Northern Ireland:___1969Aug. 14-15: Troops deployed as peacekeepers after Roman Catholic rioters in Londonderry rout province's mostly Protestant police force and...
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Dan Keating, an IRA member and the last surviving veteran of Ireland's 1919-21 war of independence from Britain, has died, his nursing home and fringe political party said. He was 105.Keating joine...
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An Irish Republican Army member who killed a police officer walked free on parole from prison Monday, rekindling memories of one of the IRA's most bitterly disputed slayings.Jeremiah Sheehy, 54, wa...
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A Canada-set thriller written by an agoraphobic British novelist who had never visited the country was named winner Wednesday of the lucrative Costa Book of the Year Award.Stef Penney won the $49,0...
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Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams said Thursday he wants to meet the commanders of three anti-British paramilitary groups and persuade them to abandon violence and disarm, the path already taken by most...
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Ireland
Allied Irish Banks profit surges 63 pct
