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Tour clarifies World Cup role for Northern Ireland

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:15:43 -0400

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Florida - It turns out Northern Ireland won't have its own team for the World Cup.

Hall of Fame election, induction to get a review

Tue, 14 May 2013 13:25:44 -0400

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Florida - On a night of celebration, one of the embarrassing moments at the World Golf Hall of Fame induction ceremony was early in the program, when Hall of Fame members in attendance were recognized. The introductions didn't take very long.

Northern Ireland reserves jail space for G-8 riots

Fri, 10 May 2013 08:29:05 -0400

DUBLIN - Northern Ireland security chiefs say arrested troublemakers at the G-8 summit next month may be housed in a prison wing and in an abandoned British Army base.

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.

Philippine police: ex-Marine, murder weapon linked

Thu, 09 May 2013 15:50:54 -0400

ALBANY, New York - More than 20 months after the bodies of a retired Northern Ireland police officer and his girlfriend were found in a Philippines bedroom littered with bullet casings, authorities seeking the extradition of a former U.S. Marine say they have linked him to guns used in the killings and recovered blood-splattered jeans he tried to have burned.

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.

Man acquitted of Real IRA murder of 2 UK soldiers

Fri, 03 May 2013 09:50:12 -0400

DUBLIN - A man suspected of involvement in the Real IRA faction's killing of two British soldiers in Northern Ireland in 2009 has been acquitted of murder charges after a judge dismissed the forensic evidence and ruled he was too feeble to have played a role.

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.