N.Ireland's troubled past is now a must-see for tourists
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&quot;Over there is the Protestant area. And there, behind the wall in the middle of the road are the Catholics,&quot; says Alan Hoy with a smile as he tells tales of Belfast's hardest working-class areas.
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Environmentalists are thinking ahead to the effect of tourists and investors on a landscape of crucial habitats.
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A new free travel deal for tens of thousands of pensioners throughout Ireland has been hailed by Prime Minister Bertie Ahern as &quot;truly historic&quot;.
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Services to remember the dead of two world wars and other conflicts are held across Northern Ireland.
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JONESBOROUGH, Northern Ireland -- British military security cameras captured the white van at dusk, cutting through fog over the hills of South Armagh, the rugged terrain along the border with the Republic of Ireland.
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A published account of Italyâs malaise has become Topic A in a country that cares a lot about how it is seen abroad.
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It is a tantalising glimpse into a world where Idi Amin brokered peace in Northern Ireland, Concorde never flew and Britain invaded Cyprus: in a slew of freshly-released British government archives, history can be viewed as it might have been.
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It's a hot tourist destination. But the trial of a man accused of murdering dozens of prostitutes is exposing the picturesque city's dark side
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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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The IRA has changed radically and some of its important structures dismantled, a report is expected to say.
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DUBLIN - The people of Ireland have never been healthier, wealthier, or better educated - but their families are breaking down as never before, according to a survey of statistical trends published yesterday.
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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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Ireland, a mostly Roman Catholic country where divorce was legalized just seven years ago, is contemplating another leap away from its conservative past &#151; and toward greater rights for homosexual couples.
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Despite occasional detours into sentimentality, this Irish film is better than the usual three-stage journey of courage, heartbreak and redemption.
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The fear that gripped Northern Ireland during the so-called "Troubles" between Protestants and Roman Catholics has been replaced by optimism, despite the latest failure to finally end a bloody 30-year chapter in the province's history.
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Europe is reeling from the waves, not just because of the ever-rising death toll but because of the growing realization that among the dead could likely be several thousand tourists who had traveled to southern Asia for the holidays.
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By SHAWN POGATCHNIK BELFAST, Northern Ireland - In Ireland, they bury people quickly - and now they're harnessing the speed of the Internet to help families grieve across the globe.