President Donald Trump announced Saturday that the U.S. will add Britain and Ireland to its travel ban, adding that the administration is looking into possible restrictions of domestic travel also.
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Sinn Féin, long a political pariah due to its affiliation with the IRA, has shaken up Irish politics by winning the most votes in Weekend elections, breaking the century-long dominance of Ireland’s political duopoly.
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Irish voters go to the polls Saturday with the possibility of a major upset by Sinn Féin, a center-left nationalist party affiliated with the Irish Republican Army during the Troubles and now campaigning to unify Ireland in the wake of Brexit.
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A court ruled Wednesday that a convicted member of the Irish Republican Army is liable for a nail-bomb attack that killed four mounted British soldiers in a London park.
Read moreOne of the world’s best-selling detective novelists, Jack Reacher creator Lee Child, said he is becoming Irish so he can continue to travel in the European Union after Brexit.
Read moreIrish airline Ryanair said Wednesday that three of its Boeing 737NG planes were taken out of service due to cracks, a problem that has grounded dozens of the jets globally.
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The head of the police service in Northern Ireland has warned that any Brexit deal seen to threaten the United Kingdom could lead to disorder.
Read moreA group of Dubliners are campaigning to bring home the remains of celebrated author James Joyce, whose grave in Zurich is far from the Irish capital chronicled in his modernist masterpieces.
Read moreHis first memory finds him walking for the first time beyond the walls of the big gray building where he’d been locked up since birth. He’s 4½ years old. He had never seen an automobile. He had never seen a dog.
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The ground underfoot seems to emit an eerie cry. It’s here where the bones of potentially hundreds of children lie in a mass grave inside a sewage tank on the former site of an institution for children of unwed mothers once run by nuns.
Read moreBritish Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the European Union frantically sought to hammer out a deal Wednesday to allow the United Kingdom to cut ties with its European neighbors on amicable terms.
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Irish republicans are expressing renewed hopes of reunifying their island in the wake of the U.K.’s recent Brexit proposals, seeing that as a solution to the problems that Britain’s departure from the European Union is bringing.
Read moreAn Irish national who smuggled a cup made of rhinoceros horn out of the United States was sentenced Tuesday to 14 months in prison by a federal judge in Miami.
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British and European Union negotiators were meeting Friday in search of an elusive Brexit deal, as Ireland’s deputy leader warned that the two sides remain far apart despite an improvement in the “mood music.”
Read moreTech giant Apple continued its fight Wednesday against a demand for $14 billion in back taxes from the European Union, arguing alongside Ireland in the European General Court that EU regulations on corporate tax are “untethered from reality.”
Read moreTech giant Apple and Ireland took their fight over a $14 billion tax bill from the European Union to the European General Court on Tuesday, the first volley in the EU’s war on sweetheart tax deals for multinational corporations.
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Kate Nash is a small, bustling woman – the kind of woman who might be a favorite aunt, the kind of woman who tells you family secrets and family lies. In her case, as an outspoken campaigner in this city still scarred by decades of sectarian violence, Nash talks about secrets and lies involving Bloody Sunday, the 1972 massacre that defined the conflict in Northern Ireland.
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, facing growing opposition at home, told Ireland’s leader on Monday that a new Brexit deal can be reached so Britain can leave the European Union by the Oct. 31 deadline.
Read moreExpanding their investigation into President Donald Trump’s business dealings and potential violations of anti-corruption rules, House Democrats have demanded travel expenditure records from Vice President Mike Pence’s trip to Ireland this week that included a stay at a Trump resort.
Read moreThe EU on Tuesday rejected British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s demand to scrap the Irish border backstop plan to achieve a Brexit deal, saying he had offered no workable alternative.
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