| |  Ireland mulls taking building society stakes-report
DUBLIN, July 5 (Reuters) - The Irish government is considering taking stakes of up to 25 percent in building societies Irish Nationwide and EBS after they transfer soured property loans to a "bad bank" scheme, ...
Allister may force DUP challenge
| Traditional Unionist Voice leader Jim Allister has indicated his party will force a Ballymoney council by-election. | The TUV took almost 70,000 votes from the DUP at the European election, and Mr Allister ma...
Parents warned over escaped snake
| Police have warned residents in Newtownabbey that a 5ft-long snake has escaped from a house. | The six-year-old Carpet Python, which is not venomous, went missing from the Abbots Gardens area. | Police said t...
Men injured in separate assaults
| Two men have been injured in separate assaults in counties Antrim and Armagh, police have said. | A 29-year-old man sustained head injuries in an assault in Ballymena, County Antrim, police have said. | He wa...
Man dies after Dublin shooting
| A man has died after he was shot last night in west Dublin. | The shooting happened at about 11.30pm last night at Oakview Way, Hartstown, a Garda statement said. | The 32-year-old man was taken to James Conn...
Students rescued after cliff hike
| Six students have had to be rescued from the bottom of a cliff in County Antrim, the Coastguard has said. | The alarm was raised at about 2230 BST on Saturday when the girls, who are aged between 17 and 24, h...
Irish group asks Darfur to release employees
| DUBLIN, Ireland — The head of an Irish humanitarian aid agency appealed Saturday for the release of two of its employees kidnapped in Darfur. John O'Shea, chief executive of GOAL, said the group had not...
Irish charity worker is kidnapped in Darfur
| Fears are growing that an Irish aid worker kidnapped near was seized by an Islamist militia linked to the Sudanese regime, Irish government sources said last night. | Sharon Commins is the fourth western host...
UDA leader: loyalists have a duty to inform if they know racist attackers
| The leader of the largest loyalist terror group in has urged his members and all other loyalists to inform on racists attacking migrant workers. | Jackie McDonald, head of the Ulster Defence Association, said...
Father Ted creators back challenge to the blasphemy bill
| The creators of the Father Ted television series have denounced 's proposed blasphemy laws as "insanity" and pledged to support a campaign to repeal them. | Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan backed moves by a...
Heatwave prompts surge in massive basking sharks off British shores
| Record numbers of basking sharks have been spotted off the coast of Britain and Ireland after the recent hot weather boosted levels of their favourite food: zooplankton. | Last year there were only 26 sightin...
The Ex Files
His story | Banker Jerry Yu, 27, originally from Manila in the Philippines, moved to London from Dublin in 2008. He is currently in a relationship. | I met Vernice in high school back in the Philippines. It was...
The thwack of leather against guitar strings
| The Duckworth Lewis Method is a new album, released tomorrow of cricket-inspired songs put together by Irish musicians Neil Hannon (of the Divine Comedy) and Thomas Walsh (of Pugwash). Here the duo discuss gr...
The haunting of Gerry Fegan
| We may be 15 years into a ceasefire in Northern Ireland, but the country is still in transition, still coming to terms with its history. There is much talk of truth and reconciliation, those who suffered thin...
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