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As of 2024, 34 women have served as Ministers of State in Ireland. Six of the twenty Ministers of State appointed by the government of Leo Varadkar in December 2022 were women, with two regularly attending cabinet. Some Ministers of State, including the Government Chief Whip, [1] attend cabinet meetings in a non-voting capacity, but are not ...
Over a quarter of people in the six counties say they have changed their mind since the Brexit vote and now support a united Ireland – bringing polling for a referendum to 45 per cent staying in the UK and 42 per cent leaving it, with 13 per cent undecided. ^ "LT NI Tracker Poll (October 2017) – Results Report".
The Irish Times interviewed loyalist Shankill Road residents that month and found significant anger at the DUP, and accusations that the community had been "sold short" on the protocol. [73] Foster was replaced by Paul Givan later that year, though he too resigned in February 2022 over the continued existence of the protocol. [74]
The Provisional Irish Republican Army ( Provisional IRA ), officially known as the Irish Republican Army ( IRA; Irish: Óglaigh na hÉireann) and informally known as the Provos, was an Irish republican paramilitary force that sought to end British rule in Northern Ireland, facilitate Irish reunification and bring about an independent republic ...
The question of a referendum on Irish unity is not a priority and does not “arise currently”, Simon Harris has said. Ireland’s premier said it was more important for the new UK Government to ...
The Evening News – opened in May 1996 and closed in September of the same year. The Evening Press – closed in 1995. The Evening Telegraph – closed 1924. The Freeman's Journal – merged with the Irish Independent in 1924. Irish Bulletin – official Irish Republic gazette; closed 1922. The Irish Press – closed in 1995.
Sinn Fein has emerged for the first time as the party in Northern Ireland with the largest representation at Westminster.
An Irish funeral experience. Longtime Iowa funeral director Alan Ritchie of Lenox was featured on the cover of the Iowa Funeral Directors Association magazine in December.