They openly talk about the Irish background, return home frequently, bring visitors to Ireland, hire Irish interns, keep their headquarters in Ireland, prod government ministers to change such-and-such a policy.
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If the venture goes ahead it will be the second largest cement supplier in Ireland behind Irish Cement, which is owned by the multinational CRH.
In 2010, both Irish banks tested, Bank of Ireland and Allied Irish Bank, were given a clean bill of health.
Earlier on Friday, campaigners and politicians from Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic gathered at Stormont to oppose any change to abortion laws on the island of Ireland.
The British flag has long been a flashpoint between British loyalists and Irish nationalists, who want Northern Ireland to join the Irish republic.
The UK Northern Ireland secretary and Irish premier Bertie Ahern will join the politicians in Washington on Thursday.
Ulster Bank has 1.9m customers in Northern Ireland, the Irish Republic and other parts of the United Kingdom.
From a sovereignty perspective, if income is earned in Ireland, the Irish government should decide how and when that income is taxed.
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Well, she thought that the President embodied all the things that she thought made Ireland and the Irish special, particularly his courage.
The British Army will be flying hundreds of shamrock out of Northern Ireland to Royal Irish Regiment soldiers serving around the world.
On Thursday morning the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and the Irish Foreign Minister will exchange papers to establish the North-South Institutions.
Ten public meetings will be held at venues across Northern Ireland, the Irish border counties and Scotland, which benefits from the inter regional programme.
The Rovers team was in essence an All-Ireland XI and the Northern Ireland governing body Irish Football Association had opposed the staging of the game.
The British security forces had no desire to see the reopening of the Aghalane Bridge, a major link between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic, according to newly-released documents from the Public Record Office in Belfast.
Mr. GERRY MORIARTY (Northern Ireland Editor, The Irish Times): He goes back a long way.
The rally was organised by the Northern Ireland Committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU).
But to assume that someone in Ireland had not put irish whiskey coffee and a little sugar in a mug before 1952 is flat-out preposterous.
Her survey is seeking views from New Yorkers aged 55 and over, who were either born on the island of Ireland or who have Irish parents or grandparents.
At the Belfast rally, organised by the Northern Ireland Committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (Ictu), assistant general secretary Peter Bunting said Stormont must not "slavishly" cut back on the say-so of the government in London.
The Scandinavian warriors featured in Irish life from about 800 to 1169, but failed to conquer much of Ireland because they were drawn into Irish dynastic disputes.
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I'm Irish I don't need a United Ireland to prove it, I'm Irish cause I feel it, and nothing can take that away from me.
Hundreds of thousands of people are expected for the All-Ireland fleadh - a traditional Irish music festival.
This kind of policing is not a trivial matter in Ireland given the reach of Irish libel law.
Those loans had originally been advanced to Kennedy Group companies by Bank of Ireland, AIB and Anglo Irish.
The school would be based in Maghera, but run by Northern Ireland's only completely Irish medium secondary, Colaiste Feirste, 40 miles away.
Northern Ireland Secretary John Reid met Irish Foreign Minister Brian Cowen at an Anglo-Irish Inter-governmental conference at Hillsborough Castle, County Down on Tuesday.
Excluding costs associated with the bailout of Irish banks, Ireland's 2011 budget deficit was estimated at 9.4% of GDP, according to the International Monetary Fund.
Speaking after meeting Northern Ireland Secretary Paul Murphy and Irish Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern, he said negotiations had been "in the context of complete verifiable and transparent decommissioning".
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When details of the horsemeat contamination scandal first broke in the Republic of Ireland on 16 January, Irish food processors claimed the contaminated meat products had been supplied by companies in Poland.
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