Irish Republican Army dissidents left a 400-pound (180-kilogram) car bomb outside police reform headquarters in Belfast but the homemade device failed to detonate, Northern Ireland's police commander said Sunday.By: Shawn Pogatchnik|Date: Nov 22, 2009

Ireland appealed to France and FIFA on Thursday to replay their World Cup playoff after an obvious hand ball by Thierry Henry set up the deciding goal.By: Shawn Pogatchnik|Date: Nov 19, 2009

Ireland reveals plan to combat child abuse Ireland unveiled a plan yesterday to better protect children from abuse after investigators documented decades of chronic molestation and brutality in Catholic-run facilities for children.By: Shawn Pogatchnik|Date: Jul 29, 2009

Among 228 lost aboard, a doctor-dancer and a boarding school pupil DUBLIN - Three young Irish doctors - one a "Riverdance" performer - returning from a vacation to Brazil. An American geologist and his wife, headed to Europe for work and some R&R. An 11-year-old boy traveling alone on his way back to an English boarding school.By: Shawn Pogatchnik|Date: Jun 3, 2009

BELFAST - Northern Ireland's major Protestant party announced yesterday it will shut down the joint Catholic-Protestant government - the central achievement of the 1998 peace agreement here - if the Irish Republican Army doesn't demonstrate it has renounced violence within four months.

First Minister David Trimble, resisting pressure from Ulster Unionist Party hard-liners to immediately end a coalition that includes the IRA-linked Sinn Fein party, said he was obliged to set a Jan. 18 deadline and "provide an ultimatum" because his Protestant supporters "are fed up."

By: Shawn Pogatchnik, Associated Press|Date: Sep 22, 2002

BELFAST, Northern Ireland - Catholic and Protestant politicians yesterday reflected on how much has changed, and how many tensions and dangers remain, since they achieved Northern Ireland's Good Friday peace accord four years ago.

"As we see the turmoil and despair today in the Middle East in particular, we should all the more value and protect what we so painstakingly created in the Good Friday agreement," said Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern, who helped negotiate the landmark pact.

By: Shawn Pogatchnik, Associated Press|Date: Mar 30, 2002

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