Trump election elicits fears, some cheers around the globe
By JIM HEINTZ and GREGORY KATZ World leaders struggled Wednesday to come to grips with a new reality — Donald Trump will be the next U.S. president — and an…
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Obama deeply dismayed by vulgarity, violence of campaign
By KEVIN FREKING President Barack Obama said Tuesday he was deeply disturbed by “vulgar and divisive rhetoric” directed at women and minorities as well as the violence that has occurred…
Irish gays wake up to whole new world: When’s the wedding?
By SHAWN POGATCHNIK Ireland’s gay citizens woke up Sunday in what felt like a nation reborn — some with dreams of wedding plans dancing in their heads. Many weren’t rising…
SUSPECT IN IRISH SOLDIERS’ DEATHS ARRESTED IN US
In this June 16, 2014 photo, Mahmoud Bazzi, who the Irish government calls a suspect in the abduction, torture and killing of two Irish soldiers serving as United Nations…
EU officials praise Ireland, haggle over banks
By DAVID McHUGH and JOHN-THOR DAHLBURG Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem speaks with the media as he arrives for a meeting of the eurogroup at the EU Council building in…
IRISH ANTI-AUSTERITY PROTESTERS CLASH WITH POLICE
By SHAWN POGATCHNIK Police hold a line of barriers as protestors gather outside the government in Dublin, as politicians return after the summer recess, Wednesday Sept. 18, 2013. Some hundreds…
IRISH POET NOBEL WINNER SEAMUS HEANEY DIES AT 74
By SHAWN POGATCHNIK FILE – A Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2004 photo from files showing former Nobel Prize winning poet Seamus Heaney speaking during a rehearsal for the Northern Irish national…
OBAMA HOSTS IRISH LEADER AT THE WHITE HO– USE
By JOSH LEDERMAN President Barack Obama speaks at a Women’s History Month reception in the East Room at the White House in Washington, Monday, March 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)…