BELFAST (Reuters) - A notorious Belfast prison that held Irish Republican Army inmates during the worst of the city's sectarian strife is to be transformed into a Whiskey distillery as Northern Ireland tries to reinvent itself and its struggling economy.Read full article
Peter Hain will be breathing a sigh of relief today after the Northern Ireland attorney-general has dropped a legal action against the former Labour cabinet minister. This had involved a controversial chapter criticising a judge in a forthcoming ...Read full article
''A hUachtarain agus a chairde (President and friends). Madam President, Prince Philip and I are delighted to be here, and to experience at first hand Irelands world-famous hospitality. Together we have much to celebrate: the ties between our people ...Read full article
Controversial comments in Labour MP Peter Hain's autobiography were never intended to undermine the administration of justice in Northern Ireland, the High Court in Belfast heard. The former Northern Ireland secretary is the subject of a contempt of court ...Read full article
The families of six men shot dead in a sectarian massacre have praised football chiefs after they agreed to let the Republic of Ireland mark the atrocity at Euro 2012. The team will wear black armbands wile playing Italy on June 18 - exactly 18 years since ...Read full article
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Capital: Dublin
Population: 3.8 million
Language: Irish/English
Currency: Euro
Largest Metropolitan Area: Dublin
UN Membership: 1955
