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In September 2022, Northern Ireland shadow secretary Peter Kyle (of the Labour party) said that he would set out border poll criteria. [101] In the May 2023 Northern Ireland local elections, the three largest unionist parties received over 38 per cent of the vote and the parties in favour of a united Ireland received 41 per cent of the vote ...
A 2023 state of the union poll asking if Ireland should unite showed that respondents from Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England all had net positive views on the unification. On a scale between −10 to definitely remain in the UK to +10 to definitely unite Ireland; the people of Scotland had a net score of +1.9, England at +0.9, Wales ...
13–15 January, 2020 (various remains) Known for. Murder victim. Keane Mulready-Woods of Drogheda, County Louth, was an Irish teenager and criminal who disappeared on 12 January 2020, and whose dismembered body was then found in Coolock, County Dublin. More of his remains were found in Drumcondra in a burnt out car the following week.
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 ...
Life imprisonment. Ashling Murphy (6 July 1998 – 12 January 2022) was an Irish primary school teacher, traditional Irish musician and camogie player who was murdered in January 2022 while walking on the towpath of the Grand Canal at Cappincur, outside Tullamore, County Offaly. Her death gave rise to widespread public grief, as well as outrage ...
The Creeslough explosion occurred on 7 October 2022 at an apartment above Applegreen petrol station in Creeslough, a village in north County Donegal, Ireland. It killed ten people and left eight hospitalised; the highest number of civilian casualties in the county in decades. [1] [2] Investigators suspected an accidental gas leak. [3] [4]
The Provisional IRA emerged from a split in the Irish Republican Army in 1969, partly as a result of that organisation's perceived failure to defend Catholic neighbourhoods from attack in the 1969 Northern Ireland riots. The Provisionals gained credibility from their efforts to physically defend such areas in 1970 and 1971.
Irish Rebellion of 1798. Guerrilla activity in counties Antrim until 1800, Wicklow until 1803 and Wexford until 1804. The Irish Rebellion of 1798 ( Irish: Éirí Amach 1798; Ulster-Scots: The Hurries, [ 6] 1798 Rebellion [ 7]) was a popular insurrection against the British Crown in what was then the separate, but subordinate, Kingdom of Ireland.