With nothing to mark the point where one country ends and another begins, there is little sign of the border between the United Kingdom and Ireland, a frontier that was once controlled by military checkpoints.
St. Patrick’s Day, celebrated every year on March 17, has become synonymous with shamrocks, the color green, pinching, (if perchance you’ve forgotten to wear the color green), and plenty of guilt-free alcohol imbibing. But the holiday, commemorated in today’s green and shamrock-inflected Google Doodle, has a long, rich religious history.
Ireland's GDP growth for 2015 as a whole was 7.8 percent in real terms, up from 5.2 percent in the previous year, according to official figures on Friday.
British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday congratulated the appointment of Northern Ireland's first female leader.
Ireland in May became the first country to adopt gay marriage via a popular vote.
Irish police said on Wednesday they had arrested 60 people in Dublin, Cork and Wexford cities as part of a probe into drug dealing.
U.S. tech giant Apple announced on Monday it will build an 850-million-euro (about 969 million U.S. dollars) European data center in Athenry, west Ireland's County Galway.
Ireland's 12.5 percent corporate tax rate remains and will remain a cornerstone of the country's industrial policy, Prime Minister Enda Kenny said on Thursday.
Ireland's economic growth is expected to be strong in 2014 and 2015, with its gross national product (GNP) forecast to grow by about 5 percent in each year, according to the latest analysis on Wednesday.
Irish Finance Minister Michael Noonan has laid out plans to repay the country's bailout loans from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), according to Bloomberg news agency on Monday.
The credit ratings agency Fitch on Saturday upgraded Ireland's long-term foreign and local currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDA) to A- from BBB+.
Irish president Michael D Higgins will become the first Irish head of state to make a state visit to Britain in April next year, a British government statement said Monday.
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