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Ireland stories: 62 news summaries

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(Newser) - Guinness may be synonymous with Ireland, but Nigerians down more of the stuff than the Emerald Isle, GlobalPost reports. Nigerians also out-Guinness the US—their country is second only to the UK in its consumption of the beer and is home to the first Guinness brewery outside the British Isles.... More »

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Africa • advertising • Nigeria • beer • sex • sexuality • Ireland • Guinness • potency

10 Seriously Unlucky Irish Accents in Film

Sean Connery and Julia Roberts make
the list—twice

Mar 17, 09 5:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - In honor of St. Patrick's Day, Irish Central ranks the worst Irish accents to hit the big screen.
  • Sean Connery, "the gold standard to judge against all other bad Irish accents," takes the No. 1 and 2 spots, for Darby O'Gill and the Little People in 1959
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film • Julia Roberts • Ireland • Sean Connery • St. Patrick's Day • movies • Irish accent

(AP) - President Barack Obama has tapped Dan Rooney, the owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers, to be US ambassador to Ireland. Rooney, 76, is a lifelong Republican who endorsed Obama during Pennsylvania's contentious Democratic primary and campaigned for him ahead of the general election. A good year continues for Rooney, whose team... More »

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diplomacy • Pittsburgh Steelers • Pennsylvania • Ireland • ambassador • Obama administration • President Obama • Dan Rooney


 Nervous 
 N. Ireland 
 Cancels 
 St. Paddy's 
 Parade 

Festivities called off in town where policeman was killed

Mar 17, 09 9:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - A St. Patrick’s Day parade set for today in Northern Ireland was canceled amid growing tensions, reports the Times of London. Loyalist leaders have been nervous about reprisals in Lurgan, where a police officer was shot dead by an Irish republican paramilitary last week. Graffiti in a loyalist area... More »

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Northern Ireland • United Kingdom • police • Ireland • St. Patrick's Day • Real IRA • Continuity IRA • Irish Republican Army

Hard Times Again Push Irish Youth Abroad

Flatlining economy makes US, Britain, Canada attractive

Mar 16, 09 9:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - After two decades of boom, Ireland’s economy has faltered and Irish youth are once again looking to distant shores for opportunity, the Los Angeles Times reports. Experts predict up to a 7% contraction this year for an economy that posted double-digit gains not too long ago, and, like their... More »

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United Kingdom • Europe • Ireland • housing bubble • economy • job • students • financial crisis • Potato Famine

(Newser) - Moneygall, Ireland, has two pubs, 298 people, and happens to be the birthplace of Barack Obama’s great-great-great-grandfather, the Los Angeles Times reports. The fact is not lost on the quaint hamlet, where one pub flies an American flag and the plumbing supply company uses the president’s face in... More »

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Barack Obama • Moneygall • Ireland • ancestry • President Obama • family tree

 Frantic Cops Hunt IRA Bomb 

Police from both sides of border team to find 300-lb. device

Mar 12, 09 9:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - Security forces from both sides of the Irish border are scrambling to find a 300-pound bomb that the Real IRA may have smuggled from the Republic into Northern Ireland. A telephone call alerted authorities that the device was intended for an army barracks. Belfast was also on alert after a... More »

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terrorism • Northern Ireland • United Kingdom • Ireland • IRA • Real IRA • Continuity IRA

 Irish Angry at U2's Tax Evasion   

Group criticized as hypocritical in light of history of activism

Mar 3, 09 3:02 PM CST
(Newser) - U2 is under fire for possible tax evasion as the Irish government pushes for a bigger slice of the band’s earnings, the Christian Science Monitor reports. U2 moved its publishing company to Amsterdam in 2006 after a tax bill limited artists’ tax-free earnings to $315,000. With Irish deficits... More »

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music • Bono • U2 • tax evasion • Ireland • tax code • tax dodge • the Edge • financial crisis

(Newser) - As many as 120,000 marched through Dublin today, enraged over a government plan to repair the economy by freezing worker pay and taxing pensions, the Irish Times reports. Calling the strategy "economic treason" in a speech to the crowd, union leader David Begg blamed "a business... More »

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Europe • unions • protests • recession • Ireland • economic plans

 Crisis Pounds Ireland— 
 and Its Beer 

Deteriorating economy drives away foreign investors

Feb 8, 09 9:02 AM CST
(Newser) - If there's a sure sign that Ireland's vaunted Celtic Tiger economy has been reduced to a mewling kitten, it's Guinness' sudden cold feet on its planned $1 billion "superbrewery," reports the Wall Street Journal. Once the black-gold proof of Ireland's boom, the premium beer brand has been hit... More »

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Ireland • Dublin • credit crisis • property values • Guinness

Novel Tactics Target Piracy

Tax would give Isle of Man citizens unlimited downloads; Ireland will cut off miscreants

Feb 5, 09 11:42 AM CST
(Newser) - Two European islands are taking opposite approaches to music piracy, the results of which could influence internet policy worldwide. The Isle of Man, between England and Ireland, will charge a $1.45 weekly tax on behalf of record labels to let citizens download music without penalty. Meanwhile, Ireland’s main... More »

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Internet • music industry • piracy • Ireland • digital music • record label • Isle of Man

 Waterford  Enters Bankruptcy 

Struggling icon of British Isles couldn't find a buyer

Jan 5, 09 11:00 AM CST
(Newser) - After failing to find a buyer, five years of losses have driven Waterford Wedgwood into receivership, Bloomberg reports. Deloitte Ireland has been named receiver for the iconic  crystal- and china-maker that built Times Square’s New Year’s Eve ball. If no new financing emerges, 1,900 Irish and British... More »

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bankruptcy • Ireland • Britain • Waterford crystal • receivership

Ireland Buys 75% of Troubled Lender in Banks Bailout

Anglo Irish goes into taxpayers' hands after scandal

Dec 22, 08 4:33 AM CST
(Newser) - Ireland became the latest nation to partially nationalize struggling banks last night, buying 75% of the deeply troubled Anglo Irish Bank and bailing out others, reports the Financial Times. The bank, whose shares had already dropped 95% from bad mortgage debts, suffered a further blow last week when its CEO ... More »

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Ireland • mortgage debt • banking • Irish economy • rescue package • recapitalization • Anglo Irish

Irish Minister Held at Gunpoint in Hotel Heist

Pol among hostages taken, released in
$26K resort robbery

Dec 15, 08 7:51 AM CST
(Newser) - A minister in the Irish government was among those taken hostage this morning during a robbery at a resort hotel outside Dublin. Three attackers approached Dick Roche, the European affairs minister, from behind as he was leaving the hotel's pool and shoved a sawed-off shotgun into his back. Roche was... More »

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crime • robbery • Ireland • armed robbery

Ireland Recalls Tainted Pork, Warns 25 Countries

Contaminated meat may have been exported to 25 countries

Dec 7, 08 6:12 PM CST
(Newser) - Ireland has issued a massive pork recall after sending contaminated meat to about two dozen countries, Reuters reports. France, the Netherlands, and Belgium have all complained of dioxin-contaminated products, and Britain has told people to lay off pork for now. However, a British government body said it did "not... More »

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France • food contamination • Netherlands • food safety • recall • Ireland • Britain • pork

 Sorry, Bono: 
 Economy 
 Shelves 
 U2 Tower 

Tallest building in Ireland would house band's studio

Nov 1, 08 2:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Not even Bono is immune to the gloomy economy. Plans for a record-breaking Dublin skyscraper partly financed by the band U2 are on hold thanks to the global crisis, AFP reports. The U2 Tower, designed by architect Norman Foster, would be the tallest in Ireland and house a studio for... More »

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architecture • Bono • Ireland • Dublin • credit crisis • Norman Foster

 Europe 
 Scrambles 
 to Save Banks 

Governments rescue troubled institutions, pledge to back deposits

Oct 6, 08 6:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barely a day after rejecting the need for a massive unified rescue plan, European leaders are wading into two substantial bailouts and vowing to save banks, Bloomberg reports. France’s BNP Paribas will take over Fortis in Belgium and Luxembourg, while Germany’s government and banks bail out Hypo Real... More »

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Germany • Europe • France • Italy • Ireland • Asian markets • credit crisis • Britain • financial crisis

Oops! Palin 
Didn't Visit 
Iraq After All 

And her 'trip'
to Ireland was
a refueling stop

Sep 14, 08 11:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - Contrary to earlier claims by campaign aides, Sarah Palin has never visited Iraq, a spokesman has conceded. The Alaska governor visited state troops in Kuwait and Germany and also stopped in Ireland last year. But she did not cross the Kuwait border into Iraq as previously claimed—and Ireland was... More »

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Iraq • Ireland • foreign policy • Kuwait • campaign issues • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin

 Guinness Sales
 Flat in ... Ireland? 

As international sales flourish, production will be cut back at home

Jul 12, 08 4:46 PM CDT
(Newser) - Ireland still drinks a lot of beer—only the Czechs down more—and continues to chug a lot of Guinness. But in a cultural shift in the newly vibrant nation, sales of the national drink have steadily declined in recent years, as harried white-collar workers skip the pub on the... More »

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beer • Ireland • Dublin • brewing • Guinness • international sales

France Takes EU Reins
With Call for Change

Sarkozy concerned by Ireland's rejection of central treaty

Jul 1, 08 6:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy said yesterday that “profound” changes are needed in Europe's strategy for growth as his nation takes over the helm of the EU, reports AFP. “There have been errors in the way that Europe has been built,” Sarkozy noted in the wake of Ireland’... More »

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European Union • Nicolas Sarkozy • France • Ireland • Lisbon Treaty

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