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Ireland tests progressive shift with blasphemy vote
Irish voters will decide Friday whether to remove the offense of blasphemy from their constitution, in a referendum that will again test how far the country has moved from its traditional Catholic...
View ArticleExit poll shows Higgins winning re-election as Ireland’s president
An exit poll indicates that Michael D. Higgins has been re-elected president of the Republic of Ireland. According to the BBC, the poll showed Higgins received 58 percent of first preference votes. The...
View ArticleTheresa May attends Belfast funeral of slain journalist
U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May attended the funeral of journalist Lyra McKee in Belfast Wednesday afternoon. The New IRA, a dissident Republican group, this week admitted responsibility for fatally...
View ArticleMicheál Martin elected as Ireland’s new prime minister
DUBLIN — Micheál Martin has been named Ireland’s new prime minister nearly five months after an inconclusive election that shattered the twin pillars of Irish politics and forced them to finally govern...
View ArticleIrish president won’t mark Northern Ireland’s 100th birthday
DUBLIN — Irish President Michael D. Higgins says he won’t attend a religious ceremony alongside Queen Elizabeth II commemorating the foundation of Northern Ireland a century ago. His decision has...
View ArticleChristians unite in sorrow over century of Irish divisions
The Christian leaders of Ireland offered U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the island’s bickering politicians a tough sermon Thursday – that they all had fostered needless divisions and must heal...
View ArticleIrish president’s wife wins Kremlin kudos for Ukraine peace letter
DUBLIN — The wife of Ireland’s president is facing accusations of pro-Kremlin bias and pushing a bogus sense of moral equivalence after calling on Ukraine “to agree to a ceasefire and negotiations”...
View ArticleWorld reacts to death of Queen Elizabeth II
U.S. President Joe Biden led tributes to the “incomparable” Queen Elizabeth II, who died Thursday aged 96. The British monarch died peacefully at Balmoral Castle in Scotland Thursday, Buckingham...
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The tragedy of King Charles III
The tragedy of King Charles III A life of public service is forcing the newly anointed monarch to end a lifetime of private activism. That may be easier said than done. By Esther Webber and Annabelle...
View ArticleNorthern Ireland’s political leaders condemn shooting of Detective Chief...
DUBLIN — The shooting Wednesday of a high-profile detective was denounced by Northern Ireland’s political leaders, who came together to condemn “the enemies of our peace.” The normally bickering...
View ArticleBiden to Ireland’s parliament: ‘I only wish I could stay longer’
DUBLIN — President Joe Biden on Thursday hailed America’s close alliance with his ancestral home of Ireland, touting a “partnership for the ages” focused on forging peace in the face of rising global...
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