Northern Ireland

Tour clarifies World Cup role for Northern Ireland

3 days ago

When told last week that Northern Ireland would have its own teams, McIlroy said, "That might change things a little bit.

Northern Ireland hopes to tear down 'peace lines'

11 days ago

Northern Ireland's leaders say they want to tear down the so-called "peace lines" of Belfast - dozens of walls that divide Irish Catholic and British Protestant neighborhoods - by 2023.

Man acquitted of Real IRA murder of 2 UK soldiers

17 days ago

They were the first military personnel killed in Northern Ireland since 1997, when most Irish Republican Army members declared a cease-fire.

2 charged with foiled mortar attack in N. Ireland

75 days ago

Two men have been charged with trying to drive van-mounted mortars into the Northern Ireland city of Londonderry for an Irish Republican Army attack on a police base.

N Ireland police seize van with mortars, arrest 3

77 days ago

Northern Ireland police say they have seized a van containing four mortars and arrested three men in a security operation that stopped an attack on a police station in the city of Londonderry.

Woods gets Howell in 1st round of Match Play

92 days ago

McIlroy, the 23-year-old from Northern Ireland, is the No. 1 seed at Dove Mountain north of Tucson, Ariz.

Sinn Fein chief asks IRA die-hards to end violence

101 days ago

Adams this year has launched a campaign seeking a referendum in Northern Ireland on Irish unity, a possibility contained in the Good Friday peace accord of 1998.

Letter bomb sent to Northern Ireland policeman

122 days ago

A senior policeman in a Northern Ireland border town says someone tried to kill him using a letter bomb, and he suspects an Irish Republican Army splinter group is responsible.

Man convicted of murdering UK troops wins appeal

125 days ago

A man who was convicted of the Real IRA killing of two British soldiers in 2009 has had his murder convictions overturned by Northern Ireland's highest appeals court.

29 Belfast cops hurt in Catholic-Protestant clash

128 days ago

The clashes have cost Northern Ireland an estimated 25 million pounds ($40 million) in lost trade and tourism and in police overtime bills.

9 police hurt, 18 rioters arrested in N. Ireland

135 days ago

Northern Ireland police say nine police officers were injured and 18 rioters arrested in the second straight night of violent protests over flying the British flag.

N.Ireland police open Bloody Sunday criminal probe

151 days ago

Northern Ireland police say they have opened a criminal probe into the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre, when British soldiers shot to death 13 unarmed Irish Catholic protesters.

2 men charged over slain Northern Ireland guard

151 days ago

Police say a 36-year-old suspect from Northern Ireland was spotted in surveillance TV footage crossing the Irish border to collect the car used by the attackers.

5 Northern Ireland lawmakers sent bullets in mail

152 days ago

Protestants agreed two years later to form a coalition with Sinn Fein, fulfilling the key power-sharing aim of Northern Ireland's Good Friday peace accord of 1998.

Pipe bomb left at N.Ireland photographer's home

157 days ago

He says he can't identify any recent photo he's taken that might have spurred one of Northern Ireland's outlawed paramilitary groups to target him - but won't stop working because of "some thug."

Man charged over death threat to N. Ireland leader

159 days ago

Police say a 34-year-old man has been charged with threatening to kill the British Protestant leader of Northern Ireland's unity government, First Minister Peter Robinson.

Belfast leaders decry petrol-bomb attack on police

160 days ago

Leaders from across Northern Ireland appealed Tuesday for a week of angry, illegal Protestant street protests to end after a gang surrounded a policewoman's car and hurled a Molotov cocktail inside.

Clinton says Northern Ireland requires vigilance

164 days ago

Clinton's first port of call was to meet the Protestant and Catholic leaders of Northern Ireland's 5-year-old unity government, the central achievement of the U.S.-brokered Good Friday peace accord.

4 IRA suspects arrested over Northern Ireland bomb

164 days ago

Clinton was expected to meet the Protestant and Catholic leaders of Northern Ireland's five-year-old unity government, the central achievement of the U.S.-brokered Good Friday peace accord of 1998.

Protestant militants target Northern Ireland party

165 days ago

Ironically the building where Northern Ireland's lawmakers meet, the Stormont Parliamentary Building, already has greatly reduced its flying of the British flag without any violence.