• His efforts are known to have taken a toll on his health and Mr Hume stood aside to let fellow SDLP member Seamus Mallon assume the Deputy First Minister's role in the new Northern Ireland Assembly.

    BBC: John Hume: Midwife to the peace process

  • The SDLP and Sinn Fein have, so far, refused to take part in the new policing structures of the new Police Service of Northern Ireland, which was due to start recruiting in April, because they do not think the reforms go far enough.

    BBC: 'Progress' in NI negotiations

  • The responsibility for Northern Ireland policy in the new US administration is expected to rest with the State Department headed by General Colin Powell.

    BBC: Trimble welcomes Bush Presidency

  • Daithi McKay of Sinn Fein wanted to see more GAA tourism, noting that the North currently had some of the best hurling teams in the world, including the new all-Ireland club champions, Loughgiel Shamrocks.

    BBC: Question Time

  • So a team at the University of Limerick in Ireland evolved new signal-timing patterns that minimise the build-up of the disabling charge.

    ECONOMIST: Monitor

  • "In the last quarter Northern Ireland created around 2, 000 new employee jobs, mostly in the private sector, as the public sector declined by 620 but the private grew by 2, 710, " he said.

    BBC: Northern Ireland unemployment figures stand at 8.2%

  • Online retailer Amazon announced 100 news jobs at its Dublin development centre in May, and the body representing technology firms in Ireland said some 4, 000 new posts had been created in the sector in the first half of the year.

    BBC: Electronic Arts creates 300 jobs in Galway

  • However, the increase in annual new diagnoses in Northern Ireland between 2000 and 2011 at 332% is the highest of the UK countries .

    BBC: Number living with HIV in Northern Ireland rises 10%

  • The new law in Northern Ireland follows the death of two teenagers also in 2010.

    BBC: Husband welcomes carbon monoxide decision

  • So is there a gap in the market for the New Northern Ireland Party?

    BBC: It's a love 'n hate thing for the new gang of two

  • There are fears about bank runs in Ireland and the New York Times has reported that Allied Irish Bank and Anglo Irish Bank have seen billions of euros get sucked out in recent months.

    FORBES: Is Ireland Europe's AIG?

  • In addition to the launch of the new channel, the agreement gives Sky Movies the first subscription pay TV movie rights in the UK and Ireland to other titles distributed by Disney, including new movies from Lucasfilm, and also Marvel Studios features such as Iron Man 3 and Avengers Assemble, which will be broadcast across the Sky Movies portfolio of channels.

    ENGADGET: Sky cuts a deal with Disney for exclusive access, launches Sky Movies Disney

  • Ojo made his international debut in June on the New Zealand tour, while Hodgson was called into the England side against Ireland in the Six Nations.

    BBC: England trio to stay with Irish

  • They were written before the events in New York which may well contribute to the endgame in Ireland.

    ECONOMIST: Irish history: Love one another | The

  • Andrzej Slawinski, a member of the Polish central bank's monetary-policy council, believes there is less of a risk that the new member states will follow in the footsteps of Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain.

    ECONOMIST: The financial crisis has made the euro look more alluring

  • The new political settlement in Northern Ireland would not be allowed to degenerate into the crude ascendancy of the Protestant majority that prevailed before the Troubles.

    ECONOMIST: Down to the wire

  • Promising "a new beginning for policing" in Northern Ireland, Mr Mandelson strengthened the powers of the new policing board and said he had "an open mind" about further changes to the bill.

    BBC: Tories fail to block RUC Bill

  • Despite great hardship, deprivation and physical hurt he never lost sight of his vision for a new Ireland, an Ireland in which our revenge will be the laughter of our children.

    BBC: Speech by Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams

  • One former Patten commission member, Dr Gerald Lynch, a New York academic, said he was "very worried" about the Bill, saying that it would be a "very big mistake for the future of policing in Northern Ireland" if the legislation fails to create a "new beginning".

    BBC: Q&A: RUC reforms

  • Mr Trimble was elected as First Minister designate of the new Northern Ireland assembly in July 1998, with the nationalist Seamus Mallon as his deputy.

    BBC: David Trimble: More enemies than friends

  • In Brussels the Irish government had tried to water down the new pact in the hope it would escape needing a national vote, but Ireland's top legal official judged that "on balance" it was significant enough to be put to the people.

    BBC: Ireland gets to vote on EU fiscal treaty

  • The human rights organisations based in Belfast, London, Geneva and New York have said that the Northern Ireland Office's response to the threats and her allegations of harassment should be investigated in the light of widespread concern about her safety before her death.

    BBC: Government 'failed to protect lawyer'

  • On Wednesday, Mr Haass will meet members of the Policing Board which came into being in November when the Royal Ulster Constabulary became the new Police Service of Northern Ireland.

    BBC: Haass to hold NI talks

  • Carter is one of 17 players in the current squad who also featured on the last grand slam tour in 2005, only the second time a New Zealand party had beaten England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales on the same tour, following the successful 1978 All Blacks.

    BBC: Carter eyes 'grand slam' send-off

  • To take advantage of favorable corporate tax laws, the new company will be based in Ireland.

    FORBES: Actavis Uses Surging Stock To Snap Up Warner-Chilcott For $5B Plus Debt

  • He said officers had already got samples from men in New Zealand, Australia, the USA and Ireland.

    BBC: News | UK | Murder hunt heads for Canada

  • The new power-sharing executive in Northern Ireland is a coalition of organisations all from the same island but with vastly different cultural backgrounds.

    ECONOMIST: Letters

  • On his return to the UK, he was appointed by the new Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair to head the independent commission on policing in Northern Ireland.

    BBC: Profile: Chris Patten

  • However, Mr Nesbitt, who helped form the Unionist Party of Northern Ireland with the former Prime Minister Brian Faulkner in 1974, warned that new parties don't always work "because people don't always follow".

    BBC: Northern Ireland

  • He said completing devolution would send a message to the world the politicians in Northern Ireland "have truly broken away from the past and are intent on building a new and better future".

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