Ian Paisley, the evangelist who made peace in Northern Ireland after leading Protestants against compromise with Roman Catholics for years, has been hospitalized for an unreported condition, his wife said in a statement Monday.
Martin McGuinness, the Sinn Fein candidate for president of Ireland, refused Monday to answer questions about his past as a local commander of the Provisional IRA.
Martin McGuinness, the Sinn Fein candidate for president of Ireland, refused Monday to answer questions about his past as a local commander of the Provisional IRA.
Northern Ireland's Martin McGuinness will be the Sinn Fein candidate for president of the Republic of Ireland when elections are held next month, the party's executive committee voted unanimously Sunday.
Former IRA leader Martin McGuinness is set to stand as a candidate in the Republic of Ireland's presidential election next month, Sinn Fein announced Friday.
Dissident republicans were responsible for the shooting of a newspaper photographer during riots in Belfast Tuesday night, police said Wednesday.
Police clashed with hundreds of rioters in eastern Belfast on Tuesday in the second straight night of sectarian violence there.
CNN's Peter Taggart reports on riots breaking out in Northern Ireland where at least two people have been injured.
Sectarian rioting broke out in eastern Belfast late Monday, with leaders from both Catholic and Protestant communities reporting attacks on homes overnight.
Masked men, allegedly shouting they were members of the Irish Republican Army, abandoned a small bomb and fled a commercial area in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, the mayor said Saturday.
The main opposition party in Ireland, Fine Gael, is claiming victory in the country's first general election since it accepted a multibillion-dollar financial bailout last year.
Thousands of people are expected to march in Northern Ireland on Sunday to commemorate the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre of local people by British troops.
Longtime Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams announced Sunday that he's leaving Northern Ireland politics to run for parliament in the Irish Republic, blasting what he called the current Irish government's "deeply damaging" economic policy.
Police in Northern Ireland on Tuesday were investigating two pipe bombs left at a housing estate in Belfast.
Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams explains why ETA's cease-fire signifies a political change.
The basque separatist group ETA, blamed for hundreds of deaths in Spain and France, is declaring a new cease-fire.
The summer marching season has long been an annual flashpoint between Northern Ireland's Protestant and Catholic communities, despite the peace process which has brought stability to the province in recent years.
The Northern Ireland legislature ratified an agreement to "devolve," or bring under local control, the province's police forces.
CNN's Nic Robertson discusses the possible message behind a car bomb planted outside a courthouse in Northern Ireland.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton congratulates Northern Ireland on steps its taken towards a "full and lasting peace."
Leaders from Britain, Ireland and Northern Ireland appeared together Friday to hail an agreement that saves the province's power-sharing government.
A bitter political standoff between the two largest political parties in Northern Ireland has been resolved, one of the parties, Sinn Fein, said.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown gave Northern Ireland's two leading political parties until Friday morning to reach an agreement that would save the province's self-rule, he announced Wednesday.
Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson will step down for six weeks in favor of a party colleague following a sex scandal involving his wife and amid allegations of irregular financial dealings.
Some former members of the Irish Republican Army -- "small in number" but "ruthless" -- are trying to undermine the agreement that ended 30 years of deadly violence in Northern Ireland, a former deputy director of the CIA said.
Police in Northern Ireland were investigating Wednesday after "reckless criminal terrorists" planted a 600-pound bomb along a country road.
Two teenagers were arrested in connection with the alleged attacks last week on Romanians in Belfast, Northern Ireland, police said.
More than 100 Romanians fled their homes Tuesday night in Belfast, Northern Ireland, following what politicians called "racist attacks and intimidation."
Prayers in Northern Ireland after rioting between police and protesters. ITN's Keme Nzerem reports
Police arrested two more men in connection with the killing of policeman Stephen Carroll in Northern Ireland last week, bringing the total number of people in custody to seven, the Police Service of Northern Ireland announced Monday.
Authorities hunting the killer of a police officer in Northern Ireland last week say they have seized a gun and ammunition.
Rioting has flared near Belfast on Saturday after the arrests of three men in the killings of two soldiers in Northern Ireland last week, police said.
Thousands of people in Northern Ireland protested Wednesday against the killing of two soldiers and a policeman, reportedly by paramilitaries who want the province to leave the United Kingdom and become part of the Republic of Ireland.
Two men have been arrested in connection with the killing in Northern Ireland of a police officer, police announced Tuesday.
The execution-style killing of two British soldiers and wounding of four other people in Northern Ireland was "an attempt at mass murder," police said Sunday.
CNN's Becky Anderson looks at how to resolve disputes without hostility in her quest for the spirit of diplomacy.
Commentators who have watched the conflict in Northern Ireland play out for decades call the peace process a miracle.
Ian Paisley says he will step down as Northern Ireland's first minister. ITN' s Tom Bradby reports.
Huge strides towards peace in Iraq were made during discussions between Middle Eastern power-brokers at the weekend, Northern Ireland's Deputy First Minister said.
Votes are being counted in Ireland. Bertie Ahern's ahead by a nose, but will he be the winner?
Northern Ireland's major Protestant and Catholic parties joined together Tuesday to form a power-sharing government, marking a "new era of politics" and an end to three decades of sectarian conflict in the province.
Northern Ireland's major Protestant and Catholic parties have hailed a deal to form a power-sharing government as a "new era of politics" to end three decades of sectarian conflict in the British province.
Hard-line Catholic and Protestant parties have been urged to work together after winning the bulk of seats in the election for a new legislative assembly in Northern Ireland.
Hard-line Catholic and Protestant parties have won the bulk of seats decided so far in the election for a new legislative assembly in Northern Ireland, a vote designed to clear the way for creation of a new power-sharing local executive that can pull support from across the sectarian divide.
Vote counting is under way in Northern Ireland following Wednesday's elections for a legislative assembly amid hopes of a new accord between politicians from either side of the troubled community's bitter sectarian divide.
The people of Northern Ireland went to the polls Wednesday in a fresh effort to elect a new parliamentary assembly that could help to heal the troubled region's sectarian divide.
Convicted loyalist killer Michael Stone has been charged with attempting to murder five people including Sinn Fein leaders Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness at the Northern Ireland Assembly on Friday.
The prime ministers of Britain and Ireland have issued a final deadline for Northern Ireland's deeply divided politicians to revive a stalled power-sharing assembly seen as key to lasting peace in the province.
The murder and mutilation of a former official with Northern Ireland's Sinn Fein party, who was recently exposed as a spy, has cast a shadow over renewed efforts to bring lasting peace to the troubled region.
The Irish Republican Army has scrapped its weapons after more than three decades of armed struggle against British rule, the chief disarmament monitor for Northern Ireland is expected to announce Monday.
An estimated 3,600 people have died in Northern Ireland's 30 years of troubles. Now, with the IRA's declaration that it is ending the armed struggle, politicians hope there'll never be another victim.
The Irish Republican Army says it will resume disarmament and has ordered its members to halt its armed campaign to end British rule.
Sinn Fein is auctioning on the Internet what it says is a bugging device planted by Britain's secret service in the Northern Irish republican party's offices.
UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has been meeting Northern Ireland's hard-line Protestant and Catholic leaders in the hope of reviving power-sharing in the province.
Northern Irish Nobel laureate David Trimble resigned Saturday as head of the Ulster Unionist Party after losing his seat in this week's parliamentary elections.
Northern Irish Nobel laureate David Trimble has lost his seat in the British parliament as his Ulster Unionist party, seen as one of the architects of the landmark 1998 Good Friday peace deal, was drubbed at the polls by hardline rivals.
Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has appealed to the Irish Republican Army to make a "historic" decision to use "purely political and democratic activity" to achieve its goals.
Band of sistersupdated: Tue Mar 22 2005 15:32:00
The five Northern Irish sisters who landed at Baltimore/Washington International Airport last Tuesday hardly looked like dignitaries, which is why U.S. agents reacted skeptically when the McCartney women revealed the purpose of their visit to the U.S.: they had come to meet George W. Bush.
The family of a Belfast man allegedly killed by IRA members said U.S. President George W. Bush is "100 percent" behind their campaign for justice.
President Bush welcomed Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern to the White House on Thursday as part of the traditional St. Patrick's Day celebrations.
The sisters of a Belfast man allegedly killed by IRA members met with the U.S. president at a St. Patrick's Day event.
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators condemned the killing of a Northern Ireland man after meeting Wednesday with his sisters and fiancee.
The sisters of a man killed by the IRA have shrugged off a warning by a Sinn Fein leader to stay out of party politics in Northern Ireland.
U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy has called off talks with Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams set for St. Patrick's Day.
Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has condemned the killing of a Northern Ireland man and blasted the "rogue" members of the Irish Republican Army blamed for the man's death.
A man has been arrested in Northern Ireland the day after the outlawed IRA sparked outrage by announcing it had offered to shoot four people involved in the murder of a Belfast Catholic man.
Britain has announced it will impose new financial penalties on Sinn Fein as punishment for the IRA's alleged involvement in the robbery of a Belfast bank.
Top Irish officials have accused three Sinn Fein members of being high-ranking leaders of the Irish Republican Army.
Northern Ireland is facing the likelihood of months of political stalemate after the Irish Republican Army said it was withdrawing any offer to disarm.
The Irish Republican Army has said it is withdrawing any offer to disarm, putting another obstacle in the way of setting up a power-sharing government in troubled Northern Ireland.
Northern Ireland's police chief has blamed the Irish Republican Army for a $50 million bank robbery last month, a verdict that could unsettle the peace process.
All sides in Northern Ireland need to use their "intellect" to find a way through the deadlock over IRA disarmament, the UK minister with responsibility for the province says.
British and Irish leaders have unveiled a plan to resolve the conflict in Northern Ireland but a standoff over IRA arms decomissioning looks set to dash hopes of a deal.
The leader of the Democratic Unionist Party has warned the IRA that it is "now or never" to do a deal on power sharing with his party in Northern Ireland.
Northern Ireland peace talks were on a knife-edge on Monday after a dramatic Downing Street meeting between Northern Ireland's police chief and Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams.
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