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Mary Harney T.D., Minister for Health and Children met with representatives of Dignity 4 Patients.

A 23-year-old Irish man who was critically injured during an assault in Australia over the weekend has died in hospital overnight.

Musician Elton John arrives at the 17th Annual Elton John AIDS Foundation's Academy Award Viewing Party held at the Pacific Design Center on February 22, 2009 in Hollywood, California.

Thank you. Dead man's mum: it's not murder Gearoid Walsh's mother appeals for information to find the man involved in a fatal fight with her son last Sunday.

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Revenue officials and gardai in Dublin are to begin unloading a cargo of 120m illegal cigarettes which were seized on a ship off the County Louth coast.

Gardai are hunting for a gang of six masked men who raided a hotel in Co Louth overnight.

Early on in "Live at the Olympia," R.E.M.'s latest live release, frontman Michael Stipe warns the eager audience that the Dublin, Ireland gig is just a rehearsal.

Nicola Lenehan, who recently immigrated to the United Staes from Ireland, is now having trouble finding work.

Two female aid workers released after more than 100 days of captivity in Darfur arrived in Khartoum on Monday, exhausted but delighted to be free and eager to get back home.

Oh Cork, Ireland...where the grass is emerald green and the Irish-American family ties run rampant.

Representatives of some of the parties - the Alliance, the DUP, the Ulster Unionists and the SDLP - a sort of 'gang of four' met in Stormont this week to find what they describe as a 'solution to the current educational chaos'. Translated this simply means how to reverse the decision by the Minister for Education, Caitrona Ruane, to abolish ...

If you want to feel like a true local and enjoy the best pint of Guinness in Ireland - venture to P.J. Guerin's : located in the beautiful quaint village of Castleconnell, County Limerick.

Rev. Msgr. Andrew L. Murray, vicar general for the Catholic Diocese of Biloxi, has died during a trip to Ireland.

Waterford Stores Mulligans Pharmacy and Ardkeen Quality Food Store make shortlist for FBD Retail Excellence Ireland Awards 2009 Two retail stores in Waterford have been shortlisted for a national award at the 2009 FBD Retail Excellence Ireland Awards to be held at the Lyrath Hotel in Kilkenny in November.

Translink is set to lose up to A 2m in revenue after a railway bridge collapsed into the sea in the outskirst of Dublin in August.

RIVER FALLS, Wisconsin - Sajan, a Wisconsin - based on-demand translation technology and services, has announced the formation of Sajan Software, Ltd., a new wholly-owned subsidiary dedicated to advancing cloud-based translation technologies.

Monday, October 19 11:49:01 Vattenfall, one of Europe's biggest power companies, has chosen Ireland as the location where it will invest heavily in wave power technology research with the ambition of turning the oceans in to a source of clean, viable energy.

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At this year's Annual Meeting of the International Society for Cell & Gene Therapy of Cancer , the best poster prize was awarded to an intriguing study in which chicken antibodies were developed for applications in the repair of tissue damage and for potential use in the therapy of cancer metastasis.

Members of Irish band Boyzone, Ronan Keating, foreground left, Mikey Graham foreground centre, and Shane Lynch background right, carry the coffin of fellow band member Stephen Gately from St.

A freed Irish aid worker held captive for three months in Darfur said Monday that her captors terrorized her and a Ugandan friend by repeatedly staging their mock executions using live gunfire.

An inquest into the death of Michael Dwyer , who was shot dead by security forces in Bolivia in April, took place in Dublin during the week.

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The Irish star was busy working on The Tree Of Seasons before his tragic death last week .

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The Showgrounds shopping centre facility, which was opened by Mr Cowen in Clonmel yesterday, includes 32 retail units ranging from book stores to fashion outlets and jewellers.

Gately, 33, enjoyed success with boy band Boyzone and made headlines when he came out as gay a decade ago.

Swedish rockers OPETH were caught up in a tragic suicide bid earlier this week when their tour bus crashed into a driver aiming to take his own life.

THE Government has raised the spectre of the International Monetary Fund coming in to run the country if people dona TMt accept the savage a 4 billion of cuts to be imposed in the December budget.

Lung, the rescued cat who was adopted by a Clonmel woman, has won the competition to be named Ireland's Best Loved Cat! The siamese cat, who was injured in an accident and then adopted by Michelle Walsh, won the popular vote on an internet site in conjunction with World Animal Week.

A female garda who made a false complaint to colleagues that she had been attacked in a taxi by the driver and two other men has been ordered to perform 240 hours community service in lieu of an prison sentence.

THE grief-stricken members of Boyzone will sing at Stephen Gately's funeral, it was revealed last night.

Autumn Scene on Griffith Avenue, Dublin, Ireland. Autumn is here, so it is time to reflect on the passing of the seasons.

The US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has pledged her support to Ireland, saying our countries are "bound together by both historic and ancestral ties". Ms Clinton took part in a two-day visit to Dublin, Belfast and London, where she met with political leaders in Northern Ireland in an attempt to resolve the ongoing dispute over policing.

I'm sitting outside the packed Dock Bar in the Ferrycarrig Hotel near the seaside town of Wexford, on the south-east tip of Ireland, nursing a pint of Guinness as the October sunset casts a burnt orange glow over the River Slaney.

WHY should Ireland be united? For more than a century, nobody has stopped to ask this fundamental question.

By Tamara O'Connell A DUNDALK woman is furious that rapists and paedophiles are being allowed to live in Ireland but her daughter's Jordanian boyfriend has been refused permission to move here.

Caption: Boyzone performing live at the O2 Arena Dublin, Ireland .... The mourning members of BOYZONE were forced to return to their native Ireland without STEPHEN GATELY's body.

John O'Donoghue, July 2006. DUBLIN a ' The speaker of Ireland's parliament resigned Tuesday after his years of lavish expenses and foreign travel were exposed.

Security worker Michael Dwyer went to Bolivia with two colleagues to better his career prospects, his inquest heard today.

Householders were today urged to carry out radon tests after record levels of the cancer-causing gas were discovered.

Rebels claim they want peace Splinter group from IRA responsible for notorious killings renounces violence By SHAWN POGATCHNIK The Associated Press Mon.

Two Air Corps members are feared dead after their plane crashed in County Galway, Ireland.

Alongside bandmates Keith Duffy, Mikey Graham, Shane Lynch and Ronan Keating, his star would quickly rise under the influential guidance of pop mogul Louis Walsh, now best known for his role as an X Factor judge.

FARMERS WILL drive thousands of tractors through 29 towns and cities later today, to protest at Government cuts.

GAA:Carlow representatives were delighted with the news that they will be included in next yearA s All-Ireland hurling championship after winning a unanimous vote at Special Congress in the Citywest Hotel in Dublin today.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton threw America's weight Sunday behind efforts to stop Northern Ireland slipping back towards conflict, as a paramilitary group ended its decades-old armed struggle.

PORT D'ANDRATX, Balearic Islands - Stephen Gately, a singer with the Irish boy band Boyzone who made headlines when he came out as gay a decade ago, has died while on vacation in Spain, the group said on its Web site Sunday.

Boyzone singer Stephen Gately has died suddenly at the age of just 33. The pop star and actor was holidaying in Majorca when he died suddenly yesterday, the banda s website has confirmed.

A 39-year-old man has appeared in court charged in connection with the death of a man stabbed on Arranmore Island, County Donegal.

This Ireland native has a knack for making traditional R&B fresh and exciting. Laura Izibor brings a spunky and sincere voice to music.

"I'm here because I have a vote and, basically, I've been told what to do with it," one Irishman told a reporter .

Dublin , the Irish capital, is the favorite destination for all backpackers, worldwide.

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The authorities in New Zealand are treating the disappearance of an Irishman's baby daughter as an abduction.

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In this Sunday, Feb. 17, 2008 file picture, actor Mel Gibson arrives at the Gaiety Theatre for the 5th Annual Irish Film and Television Academy Awards, Dublin, Ireland where he received the Outstanding Contribution to World Cinema Award.

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17, 2008 file picture, actor Mel Gibson arrives at the Gaiety Theatre for the 5th Annual Irish Film and Television Academy Awards, Dublin, Ireland where he received the Outstanding Contribution to World Cinema Award.

Labour Party leader Eamon Gilmore has reiterated his view that a Labour-led government is possible in this country for the first time ever.

While they are enjoying unprecedented popularity in Northern Ireland, the party's fortunes in the Republic are in sharp decline If anyone is seeking a single statistic to explain why Ireland changed its mind and endorsed the EU Lisbon treaty this time around, they should look no further than the current unemployment figures.

DUBLIN, Ireland, OCT. 4, 2009 .- The Irish bishops are sending a message to those who struggle with thoughts of suicide: You are precious in God's sight.

Asset-servicing company Equinoxe AIS is to expand its Irish operation with a new operation in Sligo.

Tropical Storm Grace is rushing across the northeastern Atlantic Ocean but should be absorbed within a day by a front.

A planned campaign of resistance to pay reductions and government cutbacks is expected to dominate the agenda at a SIPTU conference in Tralee this week.

"I'LL be voting No," said the man in O'Connell Street, "because if I don't, they'll never ask me about anything again." Fred Casey, a white-haired, 60-year-old builder, was sitting on a bar stool in The Fiddlers pub in O'Connell Street, not in the centre of Dublin but in Athlone, the centre of Ireland.

A preliminary national exit poll in Ireland suggests the "Yes" side has clinched victory with about 60 percent in the second Lisbon Treaty referendum.

It's a case of deja vu for Irish voters as they prepare to go to the polls in a second referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.

An image of Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen along with other slogans urging voters to reject the Lisbon Treaty in Dublin, Ireland Photo: AFP A Yes Poster urging voters to vote Yes on the Lisbon Treaty in Dublin, Ireland Photo: AP For the second time in almost 18 months, around three million Irish citizens will be asked to determine the fate of ...

IT'S BEEN 30 YEARS SINCE POPE JOHN PAUL II MADE HIS MOMENTOUS VISIT TO IRELAND. SOME LOCALS RECALL MEMORIES OF THAT INCREDIBLE OCCASION.

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