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  • Healy follows Cisse in joining Sunderland
    Sunderland have followed up the loan signing of French striker Djibril Cisse with the capture of Fulham's Northern Irish international striker David Healy for an undisclosed fee.


  • Immigrants shun Ireland
    DUBLIN, Aug 20: The number of immigrants coming into Ireland has dropped sharply, with arrivals from EU newcomer states falling by 37 per cent in the last year as the economy slows, official data showed on Wednesday. With Ireland's so-called Celtic Tiger
  • Ireland to take in Tanzanian refugees
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  • Code of practice for Northern Ireland updated
    The Food Law Code of Practice for Northern Ireland has been updated. The new version of the code is now available. The Code of Practice sets out instructions and criteria that district councils should have regard to when engaged in the enforcement of
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A failed 1916 Easter Monday Rebellion touched off several years of guerrilla warfare that in 1921 resulted in independence from the UK for the 26 southern counties; the six northern counties (Ulster) remained part of Great Britain. In 1948 Ireland withdrew from the British Commonwealth; it joined the European Community in 1973. Irish governments have sought the peaceful unification of Ireland and have cooperated with Britain against terrorist groups. A peace settlement for Northern Ireland, approved in 1998, has not yet been implemented.

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