Tag: Ireland

• Thursday, March 9th 2023 - 10:14 UTC

  Ireland to hold referendum to rephrase Constitutional mandates for woman

  

  Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said Wednesday that his country was “an unfinished republic” soo long as there is still some inequality between men and women and in order to solve that a referendum will be held in November to remove sexist content from Constitution.

• Monday, May 9th 2022 - 09:58 UTC

  Pro Ireland unity Sinn Fein wants to form a government this week; UK, US, Ireland call for caution

  

  Sinn Fein, the Irish nationalist party that wants Northern Ireland out of British rule to create a united Ireland, has won for the first time the largest number of seats in the Belfast legislature, (27 out of 90) and announced that on Monday will be going to Stormont seat of the region's assembly to form a government. Meantime the governments of UK, US and Ireland have called on all parties to agree on a new administration.

• Thursday, October 28th 2021 - 09:17 UTC

  China approves meat imports from Italy; Brazil and Ireland still out in the cold

  

  China’s customs administration said this week that it had approved beef imports from Italy as of October 26th. China relies heavily on imports to meet the growing demand for meat from an increasingly affluent middle class.

• Friday, February 12th 2021 - 09:33 UTC

  UK/EU talks to overcome post Brexit frictions in Northern Ireland; Dublin pleads for calm

  

  Britain and the EU vowed on Thursday to resolve post-Brexit trade frictions over the Northern Ireland border in the wake of the UK's departure from the bloc. Northern Ireland was barely mentioned in the parliamentary debates prior to the 2016 Brexit referendum.

• Wednesday, January 13th 2021 - 09:08 UTC

  Brexit fallout: Ireland expects to receive Euros 1,05bn from EU

  

  Ireland is set to receive 1.05 billion Euros (US$ 1.28 billion) this year from a European Union fund for countries worst affected by Britain's exit from the European Union, Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said on Tuesday.

• Wednesday, December 30th 2020 - 08:00 UTC

  Ireland's most liberal Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Dublin, retires

  

  Ireland's most liberal Roman Catholic prelate, the Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin, is to step aside having reached the normal retirement age for bishops of 75, the Vatican said on Tuesday.

• Friday, December 18th 2020 - 08:05 UTC

  Ireland expects a “serious increase” in Covid-19 cases following relaxation of restrictions

  

  Ireland, which has the second-lowest COVID-19 infection rate in Western Europe, is set for a “serious increase” in cases following the relaxation of restrictions, its health minister said on Thursday, as officials called for new curbs.

• Wednesday, November 25th 2020 - 09:15 UTC

  Biden does not want an Ireland/UK guarded border; insists on Good Friday peace deal

  

  U.S. President-elect Joe Biden said on Tuesday he did not want to see a guarded border between Ireland and the United Kingdom, adding that he had previously discussed the matter with the British and Irish prime ministers and other European leaders.

• Friday, August 28th 2020 - 08:24 UTC

  Rockhopper Exploration sells Ireland's United Oil stake for €3.4m

  

  Rockhopper Exploration has sold its 18.3% stake in Ireland-based United Oil & Gas for US$ 4m (€3.4m). The deal announced tonight concludes United’s reverse takeover earlier this year of Rockhopper’s Egyptian subsidiary and its operations in the Abu Sennan oil field for US$ 15.5m (€13m).

• Tuesday, March 10th 2020 - 06:55 UTC

  Ireland has decided to cancel St Patrick's Day on March 17

  

  The Irish government will cancel this year's St Patrick's Day Parade because of the coronavirus outbreak, state broadcaster RTE and other media said on Monday. The annual parade celebrating the country's patron saint regularly attracts hundreds of thousands of people to the Irish capital and was to have been held on Mar 17.