Dog fighting in Ireland exposed
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A star of Ireland's Gaelic soccer league was exposed Thursday as a director of an illegal dog-fighting club, an underground gambling activity that has wrecked the reputation and career of Atlanta Falcons football player Michael Vick.
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Many residents in an area of west Belfast badly hit by violence say life has worsened since the end of the Troubles.
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Dozens of young seals on a remote island off Ireland&#39;s south-west coast have been shot, stabbed and bludgeoned to death in an incident that has been condemned as cruel and barbaric.
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A fire in County Tyrone which led to the evacuation of properties is being treated as arson.
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RICHMOND, Va. -- People have told investigators that Michael Vick was involved in a dogfighting operation at a house he owns in Surry County, the sheriff said Wednesday, and Vick will be charged if investigators can find evidence backing those claims.
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A 39-year-old woman was savaged to death by her pet bull mastiff dog yesterday. Terrified elderly neighbours could only look on as the fatal attack, which started inside Carol Leeanne Taylor&#39;s home in the Dunedin suburb of Caversham, spilled on to the ...
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Police are investigating a number of overnight security alerts at GAA grounds across Northern Ireland.
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It's a disturbing narrative, the 19-page indictment of football star Michael Vick and three of his friends. Perhaps the details shocked people unfamiliar with the secretive world of illegal dogfighting: the breeding and training of pit bulls for savage, high-stakes combat and the brutal execution...
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BELFAST/DUBLIN  - Anglo-Irish attempts to seal a  lasting political settlement in Northern Ireland hung  precariously Tuesday on whether IRA guerrillas would allow  pictures to be taken of their weapons being destroyed.
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There are fears that a loyalist feud in Carrickfergus is spreading up the County Antrim coast to Larne.
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A house in Ballymena, County Antrim comes under attack twice within a five-hour period.
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Ten men were found guilty Thursday over a brutal dog fight that cost the lives of two pit bull terriers and prompted fears that the illegal sport was drawing more fans in Britain.
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Sport: Rugby World Cup: Ireland fly-half responds to French newspaper reports of gambling and marital problems.
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While nine-metre (30ft) steel &quot;peace walls&quot; divide Protestant and Catholic working-class streets and residents lock themselves behind metal &quot;safety&quot; grills, a grim picture is emerging of post-ceasefire Northern Ireland, where hundreds of families are
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Seven homes are attacked in Dungannon, County Tyrone, in what police believe were racist incidents.
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TORONTO (CP) - The problem of pit bull attacks in Ontario is more widespread and "more urgent than we imagined in the first place," Attorney General Michael Bryant said Thursday as he vowed action to protect the public from the dogs.
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Michael Vick's indictment on dogfighting charges has brought the cruel activity into the headlines this week. But animal-rights activists say the practice is nothing new, and is, in fact, growing in popularity.