Taste for Guinness wanes in changing Ireland
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DUBLIN, March 14  - How about a glass of wine to celebrate Saint Patrick's Day in Dublin?
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Watered-down whiskey doesn't go down smoothly.
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Ireland elected its first black mayor Thursday, the latest sign of how rapid immigration is changing this once all-white nation.
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The victors in Thursday's election will face formidable challenges as Ireland's economy begins to slow.
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It's been around for thousands of years. It has been worshiped, reviled, banned, and made the cornerstone of economies. It has helped us celebrate, weep, relax, and get laid. And now we're going to make some. A pint, a glass, an ale, a lager, a beer.
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Ireland's average temperature has been rising at twice the global rate since the early 1980s and parts of the country are becoming wetter and more prone to flooding due to climate change, a government-funded report said Wednesday.
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Science & environment: Northern Ireland's biggest tourist attraction could fall victim to global warming, National Trust warns
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Maybe the long overseas flight will take something out of him. Perhaps the bland food will leave him feeling less than his best. There&#39;s always the chance that a leprechaun could emerge from the Irish woods to distract him.
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The pint lives on: The European Commission has ditched its attempt to impose the metric system on Ireland and Britain, where a grocer was once convicted of selling bananas by the pound rather than by the kilo.
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The long-standing tradition of licences - bought per seat and for a given period of time and version - is wearing out its welcome.
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Ireland dumped miles for kilometers on Thursday with little mourning but plenty of ridicule as new speed signs popped up everywhere from motorways to mud tracks.
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Rumours of the demise of Ireland as a hotbed of pharmaceutical manufacturing may be premature.
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The licensing shake-up a year ago has not encouraged most people to go to pubs more, a survey suggests.
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The brewery, struggling with domestic weakness, falls short of its earnings target.
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Gas is proving unfulfilling at Casey's, but check out its long-term prospects.
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School's out at Bracken School in Balbriggan, Ireland  BALBRIGGAN, Ireland (Washington Post Foreign Service) - The opening of Ireland's first predominantly black school, in this suburban town just north of Dublin, illustrates the pressures facing once-sleepy Ireland as its population and economy boom. Once almost entirely white and Catholic, the country is struggling to integrate hundreds of thousands of new immigrants and to provide them with education, health, welfare and transportation services as fast as they arrive. After 150 years of population decline as native Irish fled dire economic conditions, Ireland is now one of Europe's fastest-growing and most prosperous nations. The white-hot "Celtic Tiger" economy of recent years has leveled off, but Ireland continues to be a magnet for immigrants. "Ireland has been subject to something that no other country in history has ever been subject to: sudden-onset migration," said Conor Lenihan, the Irish integration minister, whose post was created this year. "We have seen our non-Irish population go from zero to about 15 percent in 10 years."
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Workers at Apple&#39;s Irish operations in Cork remain gloomy this morning over one European country that remains outside the reach of iTunes Europe - Ireland.