Ireland POPULATION 3,883,159 ROMAN CATHOLIC 90 percent ANGLICAN (CHURCH OF IRELAND) 2.7 percent PRESBYTERIAN 0.75 percent METHODIST 0.13 percent JEWISH, MUSLIM, AND OTHER 6.42 percent Country Overview Introduction The Republic of Ireland, located off...

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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 for the year ending Dec. 31 rose 63 percent to 2.19 billion euros ($2.87 billion)...

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 Ian Blair said al-Qaida represented the gravest threat to Britain since World War II and was...

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 Ian Blair said al-Qaida represented the gravest threat to Britain since World War II and was...

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 announced Tuesday it will create a new parliamentary committee that gives places to...