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Oct 19, 2024 |
thetimes.com | Kieran McDaid
The Hutch-Kinahan gangland feud resulted in 18 deaths in the bloodiest period in Ireland since the end of the Troubles. Simmering tensions between the rivals exploded in February 2016 when men disguised as gardai and armed with automatic weapons burst into the Regency hotel in Dublin and killed David Byrne, a member of the Kinahan cartel. In the thirst for revenge, ten people were killed that year, including two innocent men who died as a result of mistaken identity.
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Mar 20, 2024 |
thetimes.co.uk | Kieran McDaid
Evoking Jurgen Klopp’s farewell speech, an emotional Leo Varadkar stood outside Government Buildings in Dublin and insisted politicians were human beings with limitations, adding: “We give it everything until we can’t anymore.”In a shock announcement, Varadkar said that serving as taoiseach had been the honour of his life and that part of leadership was knowing when to pass on the baton.
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Mar 9, 2024 |
thetimes.co.uk | Kieran McDaid
The Irish government’s long-term survival was called into question after Leo Varadkar, the taoiseach, admitted it had suffered “two wallops” in embarrassing double referendum defeats. Voters rejected proposals to extend the meaning of family beyond one defined by marriage and to include those based on “durable” relationships.
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Feb 10, 2024 |
thetimes.co.uk | Kieran McDaid
Just a generation ago, it would have been hard to imagine Sinn Fein’s Michelle O’Neill and the DUP’s Emma Little-Pengelly working together as Northern Ireland’s two most powerful politicians. Their fathers took up arms on opposing sides of an armed conflict that claimed more than 3,500 lives, during three bloody decades of the Troubles, but over the past week these two women have vowed to build a brighter future, side by side.
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Feb 3, 2024 |
thetimes.co.uk | Kieran McDaid
Michelle O’Neill, the Sinn Fein vice president, has made history as the first nationalist elected to the position of first minister of Northern Ireland. Members of the legislative assembly (MLAs) gathered at Stormont on Saturday for a sitting where ministers were appointed to a power-sharing executive, bringing an end to a two-year impasse.
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