Ireland

25 Jun 2012

Expatriate investors tend to monitor property prices in their home countries carefully. Anna Healy Fenton looks for signs of a recovery in the battered Irish housing market.

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Ireland publishes bill on life-saving abortions

1 May 2013

Ireland’s government has published a long-awaited bill explaining the law on when life-saving abortions can be performed in a country that officially bans the practice.

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Ireland may spend spare budget cash rather than ease austerity

1 May 2013

Ireland may spend any spare cash from future budgets rather than ease austerity measures, Finance Minister Michael Noonan said, after it left its plans to cut spending by 5.1 billion euro (HK51.9...

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Mystery Hong Kong woman gives Irish church 100,000 euros

14 Apr 2013

You could call it manna from heaven, a parish priest in Ireland got the shock of his life last week when a mystery woman from Hong Kong appeared on the doorstep of his church and handed him a €100...

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Scotland comeback against Ireland pleases coach

26 Feb 2013

Ireland had more than 70 per cent territory and possession in Sunday's match and led 8-0 early in the second half after wing Craig Gilroy scored the only try of the game.

4:57AM

Irish PM sorry for suffering of 'fallen women' at church-run laundries

7 Feb 2013

More than 10,000 women were sent to the Magdalene laundries between 1922 and 1996 where they worked for no pay while the religious orders ran the laundries as commercial bodies.

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Opinion

Ferry companies shouldn't be subsidised while they burn dirty fuel

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Shirley Yam

What were our top officials doing to let HKMEx fail?

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Ireland's home prices in November rise at fastest pace in six years

Ireland's home values rose at the fastest pace in more than six years in November as the country recovered from Europe's worst real-estate crash.

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Ex-IRA man's road to ruin likely to be repeated across Ireland

Few people represent the extremes of Ireland's recent history more than Thomas McFeely.

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Clinton fails to silence talk husband Bill craves job of envoy to Ireland

Is Ireland big enough for Bill Clinton?

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RUGBY UNION

Ireland face Argentina ‘Cup Final’

Ireland are banking on the players that narrowly lost to South Africa to do the business against Argentina in Dublin on Saturday, in a Test match the hosts are labelling a ‘Cup Final’.

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IRELAND

113 held in biggest-ever crackdown on triad drug gangs

Ireland's police force said officers arrested 113 suspected drug dealers and seized five marijuana growing facilities in the nation's biggest crackdown on triad drug-trafficking gangs, including...

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IRELAND

Abortion in Ireland returned to spotlight by death

About 10,000 people marched through Dublin and observed a minute's silence in memory of an Indian dentist who died of blood poisoning in an Irish hospital after being denied an abortion.

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