Police in Northern Ireland have arrested 11 Protestant men after the slaying Sunday evening of a 49-year-old Catholic man, a brutal reminder of how religion-based violence and tension are still an everyday reality in the province.
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Researchers found evidence of microbreweries across Ireland, which predates the 1759 foundation of the Guinness brewery by several thousand years. picked by misswinkle 2 years ago

Ireland is putting forth a proposed law that would severely penalize any expression that might be offensive to any religion. 'Blasphemy' is prohibited by the Irish constitution, this law would define 'blasphemy'. There are some voices trying to stop such a law as well as those asking why would such a law be proposed. picked by 2manyusernames 7 months ago

Good example of being humble - New Miss Ireland Laura Patterson has already returned to her day job — stacking shelves in her local Tesco. picked by ruthstark 2 months ago

Dave Tosh, from the School of Biological Sciences at Queens University, found the greater white-toothed shrew in Tipperary and Limerick while working with University College Cork and BirdWatch Ireland. Its natural range is in parts of Africa, France and Germany and before now the closest it has been spotted to Ireland is in the Channel Islands. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

The discovery of a major prehistoric site where experts believe an open-air royal temple once stood has stalled construction of a controversial four-lane highway in Ireland.

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The European Commission has ditched its attempt to impose the metric system on Ireland and Britain, where a grocer was once convicted of selling bananas by the pound rather than by the kilo. picked by DrNothing 2 years ago

Father McGreer buys an ice cold beer
And a short for Father Loyola
Father Joe’s got the clap again
He’s drinking Coca-Cola picked by bornbad 5 months ago

DUBLIN, Ireland - Josef Stalin, Adolf Hitler and Franklin D. Roosevelt got stripped naked, and Fred Flintstone and the Teletubbies are missing after a raid on wax figures owned by Ireland’s National Wax Museum. picked by myspacetoob 2 years ago

Results from a new referendum saw 67% of Irish voters approve the Lisbon treaty. picked by ruthstark 2 months ago

The mother forced her son to have sex with her. But a 101 year old law states that she can only be imprisoned for 7 years, where a man would get life.
Not mentioned in the article is the fact that the children first came to Social workers attention in 1996, but nothing was done until 2000. Even then, they failed to get the children into care More Info (image is of Roscommon court house) picked by Marz 10 months ago

*And by "severe" I mean, well, not very severe at all. picked by pocksucket 2 years ago

Irish Army and Police mounted a security operation to dispose of a home-made explosive device found near the village of Forkhill, set to be detonated remotely from within the Irish Republic. picked by pocksucket 3 months ago

The find, along the construction site of a new highway route to Dublin, Ireland in the area of the "Hill of Tara" may have been part of the ceremonial nature of the Hill of Tara, which has been described as Ireland's equivalent of Stonehenge or Egypt's Pyramids. picked by suebe 3 years ago

The Geograph British Isles project aims to collect geographically representative photographs and information for every square kilometre of Great Britain and Ireland, and you can be part of it. picked by 2manyusernames 1 year ago

The breakthrough followed the first face-to-face negotiations in history between the Protestants of Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionist Party and the Catholics of Gerry Adams' Sinn Fein. picked by Bornbad 3 years ago

As before, a statue of Mary is appearing to move and weep, according to devout witnesses. Crosses are appearing in the sky to people praying at the statue. The last occurrence of this was 25 years ago during a similar period of national angst.


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A judge in Ireland reduced a violation because 180 kilometers per hour looks a lot better when you convert it to 112 miles per hour.

So does that mean you aren't going as fast now? picked by Proverb 2 years ago

The leprechaun fairy watch webcam is in a hidden location in the field in Tipperary, Ireland. This is an enchanted area, well known for magical associations. There is fairy ring close-by and you may see leprechauns and other Irish fairies such as pookas, banshees and merrows. Because the Leprechaun Watch is in the countryside in a remote part of Ireland there is only natural light and there will b... read full post picked by DaftGretel 8 months ago

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark, I mean in Ireland, well, actually it is more like the EU... picked by SkandarGraun 1 year ago