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Northern Ireland hopes to tear down 'peace lines'

Thu, 09 May 2013 16:06:02 -0400

DUBLIN - Northern Ireland hopes to tear down the so-called "peace lines" of Belfast - dozens of walls of brick, steel and barbed wire that divide Irish Catholic and British Protestant neighborhoods - within a decade, officials said Thursday. But in setting a deadline of 2023, it's a sign of how difficult the task will be.

Maine Green Independent Party convenes in Belfast

Sun, 05 May 2013 07:58:24 -0400

PORTLAND, Maine - The Maine Green Independent Party is holding its annual convention in Belfast.

Maine man sentenced in killing of Fla. firefighter

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:45:38 -0400

BELFAST, Maine - A Maine man who pleaded guilty to killing a Florida firefighter in a dispute over drug money is going to prison for 16 years.

Sinn Fein chief testifies vs. brother in rape case

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:53:13 -0400

DUBLIN - The leader of the Irish nationalist party Sinn Fein testified Monday in a Belfast court against his own brother, who faces criminal charges of raping his daughter - an alleged crime that Adams himself admitted he'd kept secret within the family.