Full Coverage: Ireland

04/08/2007 Since the famine of the 1840s Ireland has been a net exporter of economic migrants, who have settled round the world in search of a better life. Now immigrants from the world have arrived to do the same in booming Ireland, writes Colin Murphy.

01/08/2007 The Irish town of Kinsale has taken up a plan -- devised by Rob Hopkins and his students -- to wean itself off fossil fuels.

12/19/2006 Joseph Williams is working to help reduce criminal recidivism in the United States while Caroline Casey is helping promote the contributions people with disabilities make to business in Ireland. Wayan Patut is helping conserve coral reefs in Indonesia, Abdellah Aboulharjan is fostering entrepreneurship in France's immigrant communities...the list goes on and on and on...

10/26/2006 from World Changing:
Kinsale, Ireland, is en route for for weaning itself off fossil fuels, thanks to a timetabled strategy. Totnes, UK, could be next.

09/07/2006 from The Watt blog:
The Sorne Hill Windfarm will be one of the largest wind farms in Ireland when it's complete. What's new is that the power it generates can be stored in special batteries.

01/24/2006 The Prime Minister of Ireland, Bertie Ahern, on Tuesday launched the operations in India of the Global e-School and Communities Initiative, a multilaterally funded organisation that supports enhancing the reach and quality of education by deploying Information and Communication technologies.

01/11/2006 from Triple Pundit:
The Irish government plans to build what will become the world’s largest offshore wind farm. With a price tag of $630 million, it will dwarf all previous marine wind farms with its 200 turbines.

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This popular proposal will reduce Ireland's greenhouse gas emissions by 13 million tonnes per year and generate around 10% of its electricity.

08/02/2005 The Irish Republican Army has declared a commitment to “exclusively peaceful means” in its campaign against the British state. Paul Arthur explains how long-term political strategy and short-term crisis has produced an uncertain peace.

08/02/2005 The "long war" is over but the tasks ahead are unenviable - Paul Arthur analyses the IRA’s historic decision to end armed resistance in Northern Ireland.

07/28/2005 The IRA said today that it will end its armed campaign and resume disarmament, but would not disband.

07/28/2005 The Irish Republican Army is expected to release a statement today announcing an end to the armed struggle in Northern Ireland, according to newspaper reports.

07/19/2005 It is a scene usually reserved for Nigeria: thousands are rallying in support of impoverished villagers who refuse to let the oil multinational Shell onto their land to construct what they believe to be a dangerous pipeline. Now Shell has had the villagers jailed, but the protests in northwest Ireland are only intensifying.

06/16/2005 There is little sign of "best practice" in the proposed construction of a gas pipeline in North Mayo by a consortium led by Shell. Campaigners have drawn up a long list of grievances.

05/21/2005 Ireland contributes a higher percentage of its budget to international aid than the UK but has recently backtracked on a commitment to reach the UN target of 0.7%. Time for the Irish people to let Bertie Ahern know what they think.

05/17/2005 Ireland contributes a higher percentage of its budget to international aid than the UK. But Irish development NGOs are unhappy that there is no clear commitment to reach the UN target of 0.7%.

03/17/2005 St.Patrick's Day takes on a dramatic new complexion in the US as Sinn Fein's fortunes take a spectacular nosedive. How could five sisters from a poor Belfast community achieve in a few weeks what the British government and military have pursued unsuccessfully for nearly 40 years?

10/22/2003 El Ejército Republicano Irlandés (IRA) confirmó hoy, martes, en un segundo comunicado, que ya ha aplicado un nuevo desarme de la organización. El IRA precisó que el acto se hizo "de acuerdo con el esquema acordado" con el general canadiense John de Chastelain, presidente de la Comisión Internacional Independiente del Desarme.

08/22/2003 The Irish government is launching a pilot program to deploy broadband Internet via electric power lines. The initiative, part of a EUR50 million project funded by the Communications Ministry, will connect schools, homes and businesses in Tuam, County Galway.

08/02/2003 "No somos del ERI y no hemos llegado a Colombia para instruir a la guerrilla colombiana en explosivos. Somos víctimas de una conspiración organizada por los enemigos de los procesos de paz, tanto en Irlanda como en Colombia", declararon los 3 irlandeses detenidos desde agosto del 2001 en Colombia.

04/10/2003 Much of the talk of "lessons learned" since Prime Minister Tony Blair met United States President George W Bush in Belfast earlier this week is self-serving hypocrisy dealt out by those with short memories, argues Jonathan Power.