Irish senators to be housed with ancient fossils
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Ireland's senators will have to share a museum building with the remains of prehistoric woolly mammoths and spotted hyenas during repairs to the Georgian mansion that normally houses parliament's upper chamber.
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The political parties and the British and Irish Governments are to meet at Stormont in an effort to conclude a deal which would see the restoration of the assembly.
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The ancient Hill of Tara in Meath - once the seat of Ireland's high kings- has been named one of the world's 100 most endangered heritage sites.
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The IRA should provide photographs of  disarmament if needed to secure a  deal, an SDLP politician says.
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What is billed as one of the world's largest free-standing stalactites is set to become a major tourist attraction in Ireland after authorities finally gave the go-ahead to develop the cave where it hangs.
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Archeologists found a small container with a whitish medicinal or cosmetic cream made up of animal fat, starch and tin oxide. Researchers writing in the November edition of the British magazine Nature say
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Western governors gathered last week to plan with the Bush administration and Congress how to change the Endangered Species Act, the 31-year-old law they say
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Photographs of IRA decommissioning remain part of the British and Irish governments' plan for restoring Stormont, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern told the Dail today.
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The man behind a plan to build a visitor's centre at the Giants Causeway is a member of the DUP.
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Northern Ireland lawmakers are gaining a role in the parliament of the Republic of Ireland for the first time since the island's partition 86 years ago.The government of Prime Minister Bertie Ahern announced Tuesday it will create a new parliamentary committee that gives places to Northern Ireland lawmakers elected to seats in the British Parliament.The 18 lawmakers from the British territory will be permitted to take part in debates in a newly formed joint committee on the implementation of the Good Friday peace agreement. But they will not be permitted to vote or offer any amendments on legislative bills. Read more
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LONDON - The earliest known relative of the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex had primitive feathers, probably to help it keep warm. Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing found the remains of the
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Northern Ireland&#39;s politicians are expected to work late into the night as intensive talks aimed at restoring devolved government continue.
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Fossils of ancient marine reptiles that lived 230 million years ago show the prehistoric creatures gave birth to live young, scientists said on Wednesday.
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A senatorâs proposal to tackle the problem of âiPod oblivionâ is seen by some as a bit nanny-minded and intrusive.
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House and Senate conferees have agreed to let the Energy Department leave some radioactive waste in tanks in South Carolina and Idaho, instead of pumping it out for deep burial.
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More details emerge on British-Irish proposals to deal with the demand for visible decommissioning.
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Senate Republicans are preparing to bring out the heavy weapons against the filibuster, a Senate tradition that has its linguistic origins in the pirates who once captured ships and held their crews for ransom.