The rest of the story. Ireland is one of the few remaining countries where it’s a major news item that Catholics make up less than 90 percent of the population. According to reports last spring, the ...

The service to commemorate the Kingsmill massacre was held in Bessbrook last Sunday, but the actual anniversary was marked at ...

LONDON -- Northern Ireland achieved another important milestone in peacemaking Saturday as the territory's two major Protestant paramilitary groups announced their first acts of disarmament -- and ...

BELFAST, Northern Ireland — The leaders of Northern Ireland’s major Protestant and Catholic parties, sitting side by side for the first time in history, announced a stunning deal yesterday to forge a ...

Republicans were trying to create “no go” areas for Protestants in rural parts of Northern Ireland, taoiseach Bertie Ahern was told when he brought leading loyalist figures to Dublin in 2003. The ...

Petrol bombs on the streets of Belfast this month reveal anger and frustration among pro-British Protestants at a loss of dominance in Northern Ireland but do not – yet – pose a serious threat to a 15 ...

(AP) Shouting “No surrender!” and singing anti-Catholic songs, Protestant hardliners across Northern Ireland burned midnight bonfires topped with Irish flags and prepared to parade past Catholic areas ...

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Protestant bishops met publicly with Sinn Fein leaders for the first time on Monday and called on Northern Ireland's feuding politicians to tackle the two main obstacles to ...