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Twice failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton faced crowds of hecklers outside the Queen's University in Belfast on Friday as she attended a ceremony to install her as the first female chancellor of the college. In the 40 second clip, Clinton can be seen dressed in robes as she is followed by a small child carrying the gown.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Using apocalyptic images, three presidents and seven foreign ministers warned Thursday that a warmer world is also a more violent one. At a ministerial meeting of the Security Council, the officials urged the U.N.’s most powerful body to do more to address the security implications of climate change and make global warming a key part of all U.N. peacekeeping operations. The leaders and ministers pushing for more U.N. action said warming is making the world less safe, pointing to Africa’s conflict-plagued Sahel region and Syria and Iraq as examples.. Micheal Martin, Ireland’s president, who chaired the...

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The Irish president has signed two abortion bills into effect in Ireland, as well as laws allowing same-sex 'marriage' and easier access to divorce.VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) – Pope Francis said Friday he thanks God “that Ireland has such a wise man as its Head (of State)”, despite Irish President Michael D. Higgins’ support for a range of anti-life and anti-family laws that run contrary to the Catholic faith. The Roman Pontiff was meeting with Higgins in the Vatican this morning when, during their formal photocall, he told those gathered that “today, I did not just meet a man, a president;...

Nancy Pelosi, America's third most powerful politician, warned today that a breakdown in the talks over the Northern Ireland Protocol would be 'problematic' for a post-Brexit UK-US trade deal. The Speaker of the US House of Representatives, who is currently visiting Britain, has been critical of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's approach to Northern Ireland following the UK's exit from the European Union. The pair discussed the issue in Downing Street yesterday and Mrs Pelosi today expanded on her views about the talks underway between the UK and Brussels to resolve issues ... ....Mrs Pelosi, 81, said she felt it would...

I have been talking to my Mother, Thanks Blam, about getting a DNA test to deturmine heritige. AB Negitive is a rare blood type in Ireland, less than 1%. I have been wondering about the distribution of this Blood Type among people descended from those who emmigrated from Northern Ireland. My Mother is Black Irish, Not Protestant, Black Hair, Dark Brown Eyes, Olive Skin, not your normal Harp. My Nana said it was the milk man, not likely!

Lord Trimble has urged Joe Biden to drop his support for the Northern Ireland Protocol, warning the post-Brexit border rules “risk a return to sectarian strife”. The architect of the Good Friday Agreement accused the White House of “contributing to the damage being caused” to the peace treaty by siding with the European Union on the issue. He said in a letter to the US President that the “political promises of the Belfast Agreement have been flippantly dismissed” because of the protocol. The protocol, agreed as part of the Brexit deal, requires checks on goods traveling from GB to Northern...

BLIN – Boeing faces a standoff with one of its biggest customers after Ireland’s Ryanair said it had ended talks over a purchase of 737 MAX 10 jets worth tens of billions of dollars due to differences over price. The rare decision to go public over big-ticket airplane negotiations comes after months of wrangling that had already delayed a deal for the largest version of the 737 MAX when Ryanair re-ordered a smaller model in December. A large new Ryanair order would provide a boost to the U.S. plane maker as it rebuilds confidence in the MAX, grounded for 20...

Colonial Williamsburg will be bringing a showcase of gay and transgender historical reenactments to life this fall. At the start of October, a new musical called Ladies of Llangollen will be on display. The musical will be based on the diaries and writings of two women who fled Ireland and eloped in Wales during the 18th century. In 2019, the Colonial Williamsburg foundation created a Gender and Sexuality Diversity Committee to research gay and transgender issues during the Colonial era. According to the committee's findings, they uncovered multiple instances of transgender and gay issues. ... Researchers, reportedly, had to decode...

More than 50,000 children in the Republic of Ireland aged between 12 and 15 have signed up to get a Covid-19 vaccine. Registrations opened for the age group on Thursday. The Irish Health Service Executive (HSE) said more than 42,000 children had been signed up by mid-morning, Irish broadcaster RTÉ reported. Around 280,000 children will be eligible for immunisation with a Pfizer or Moderna vaccine. Children need consent from a parent or guardian, either when registering online, or at the vaccination centre. Those eligible can get the jab at vaccination centres and some pharmacies or GPs. HSE chief executive Paul...

Irish archaeologists have unearthed a 1,600-year-old wooden pagan idol... from a bog in Gortnacrannagh, around six kilometres from the prehistoric royal site of Rathcroghan.The idol was made during the Iron Age from a split trunk of an oak tree, with a small human-shaped head at one end and several horizontal notches carved along its body.Only a dozen such idols have been found in Ireland and at more than two and a half metres, the Gortnacrannagh Idol is the largest to date.The wooden carving was discovered by a team from the Archaeological Management Solutions (AMS), working in advance of the N5...

The AOH is calling upon NYC Mayor de Blasio to "publicly condemn the increasing acts of violence against the Catholic Church in New York City."A statement issued on August 11 by James Russell, the Catholic Action Chairman of the AOH, reads: "The New York State Ancient Order of Hibernians (AOH) calls upon both Mayor de Blasio to publicly condemn the increasing acts of violence against the Catholic Church in New York City as exemplified by the vandalism this past weekend at Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Mary Church in The Bronx. Clothes were put in front of the statue of...

A report on a survey of 214 religious education teachers in Ireland is raising alarm that students who practice a religion, particularly Catholicism, are being bullied for their beliefs. In Ireland, religious education is a compulsory subject for all pupils. The survey studied teachers in post-primary schools, which are typically schools for children over the age of 12. The report, “Inclusive Religious Education: The Voices of Religious Education Teachers in Post Primary Schools in Ireland, Identity, bullying and inclusion” was authored by Dr. Amalee Meehan and Derek A. Laffan, MSc. The National Anti-Bullying Research and Resource Centre and Dublin City...

On this date in 1916, Roger Casement was hanged for treason by the British crown that had knighted him only a few years before. Casement died for his part in the Easter Rising, but this Irish nationalist hero’s layered story has long made him a very different sort of cultural marker than, say, James Connolly. Casement came to public prominence for his damning report on Belgium’s atrocious treatment of natives in its Congo colony, e.g.: [T]he great decrease in population, the dirty and ill-kept towns, and the complete absence of goats, sheep, or fowls — once very plentiful in this...

Trawler owners, their families and fishing representative organizations from across the country have taken part in a protest in Dublin city over quota cuts, the impact of Brexit and the European Union Common Fisheries Policy. A flotilla of 55 trawlers from all around the coast gathered at the entrance to Dublin Port before dawn and traveled up the River Liffey in convoy through the East Link Toll Bridge to Sir John Rodgerson’s Quay. It is the second such protest in recent weeks. In May, a flotilla of trawlers from the south, southwest and southeast of the country traveled to Cork...

Since the beginning of the new administration, President Biden has not missed an opportunity to tell global leaders that “America is back” on the world stage. This trend was amplified at the most recent G-7 summit. However, despite repeated assertions to the contrary, the agenda Biden pursued at this summit has great potential to harm the global economy and alienate the United States from its allies. This is most particularly true when it comes to the administration’s plans for a global corporate minimum tax (GCMT). The proposal from the administration seeks to get as many countries as possible to agree...

Irish priests revive “Mass Rocks” from days of anti-Catholic persecutionThese altars made of boulders were once the secret worship places of Catholics, when the practice of their faith was prohibited.As part of a campaign organized by Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), Catholic priests are celebrating Mass at a “Mass Rock,” where the Irish faithful once secretly practiced their faith when it was illegal to do so.Mass Rocks, the clandestine churches of an age of persecutionIn the 16th-18th centuries, during the period of the “Penal Laws” enforced by England, any public expression of the Catholic faith in Ireland was...

The Republic of Ireland players were booed as they took the knee as their game against Hungary kicked off. Stephen Kenny’s men played out a 0-0 draw against the Hungarians in Budapest on Tuesday night. As the referee blew the whistle to get things under way, the Ireland players took the knee in support of the anti-racism movement in football. However, the Hungarians stayed standing, pointing the UEFA’s “Respect” badge on their sleeves, while the home fans booed. …

Ireland has become the first EU country to formally designate Israeli settlement expansion as “annexation” of Palestinian land. The Irish parliament, the Dáil, said so in a motion passed unanimously on Wednesday (26 May). “The scale, pace, and strategic nature of Israel’s actions on settlement expansion and the intent behind it have brought us to a point where we need to be honest about what is actually happening on the ground … it is de facto annexation,” Irish foreign minister Simon Coveney also told MPs in a debate on Tuesday prior to voting. “This is not something that I, or...

The incident occurred on April 1 at the Howth Junction Dublin Area Rapid Transit (DART) Station, but CCTV footage of the assault has only begun to circulate online. The CCTV footage shows a group of teenage boys on bikes attempting to physically intimidate a group of teen girls, who make for the shelter of the stationary train. One youth aims a kick as a girl runs past him, while another youth lunges at a second girl running toward the train. Footage also shows a youth on a bicycle move his wheel toward a third girl as she runs past him...