Henry McDonald

Irish govt says sorry for ‘slavery’ at laundries

DUBLIN: The Irish State has finally said sorry to 10,000 women and girls incarcerated in Catholic Church-run laundries where they were treated as virtual slaves. Taoiseach Enda Kenny was forced into issuing a fulsome Published 20 Feb, 2013 09:05pm

Belfast’s flag protests spreading

LONDON: After a month of violent protests that left more than 40 police officers injured, dozens of rioters arrested, live rounds being fired on the streets of Belfast, politicians’ offices torched and now the prospect of Published 08 Jan, 2013 02:51am

Behind the flag row

AS Ulster loyalists torched offices belonging to the non-sectarian Alliance party, bombarded police with missiles and bottles and threatened to turn Belfast City Hall into a slaughterhouse this week they were Published 07 Dec, 2012 09:01pm

Irish musical satirises bank collapse

WHILE the Greeks trash their banks in rage against austerity, the Irish, it seems, are happier to laugh off their troubles by writing musicals about their busted financial institutions. Published 11 Nov, 2012 08:01pm

N. Ireland crisis

THE news that dissident republican terrorists seriously injured a police officer in Northern Ireland on Friday... Published 11 Jan, 2010 12:00am

`Peace walls`

THE number of so-called “peace walls” separating Catholic and Protestant communities in Greater Belfast has trebled... Published 30 Jul, 2009 12:00am

IRA is dissolving

THE IRA`s ruling body, the army council, no longer has an army to command and control. British Northern Ireland... Published 06 Sep, 2008 12:00am