All 27 countries of the EU must ratify each new treaty and Ireland is the only one which must still hold a vote to approve Lisbon.

欧盟每一个新的条约都必须获得所有27个成员国的批准，而爱尔兰是现在唯一一个还必须举行投票以批准里斯本条约的欧盟成员。

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Indeed, in 2006 an Indian call-centre operator opened a new centre in Northern Ireland.

事实上，在2006年一个印度呼叫运营机构就在北爱尔兰开了一个新的中心。

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His attitude shocked many, who saw it as a new low even for Northern Ireland extremism.

这种态度震惊了许多人，他们认为当前的形势——即使对北爱尔兰极端分子来说——都是一个新的低潮期。

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Frank McCourt left Ireland at the age of nineteen to return to New York City where he was born.

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And,in May 2007 a new power-sharing government took over administration of Northern Ireland with bitter foes agreeing to sit together.

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Health officials in New York say the maternal mortality rate in the United States itself rivals that of poorer developed countries like Singapore and Ireland.

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Kelly, who played under Kidney for seven years at Munster, added that the new Ireland coach makes "huge efforts" to ensure high morale in his teams.

BBC: Kidney 'right' for Ireland role

Conall McDevitt said the commemorations could "lay the foundations for a new Ireland or it can entrench the prejudice and ignorance which has grown up in the past century".

BBC: Decade of Centenaries continued

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