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 ...

BELFAST, Northern Ireland -- Bitter enemies from Northern Ireland's bloody past joined forces Tuesday atop a new Northern Ireland government, a once-unimaginable achievement that both sides pledged ...

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 -- Voters in Northern Ireland handed power to hard-line Protestants in a stunning setback for hopes of reviving a Catholic-Protestant government, the central objective of the ...

BALLYMENA, Northern Ireland -- David Graham, 31, a sharply dressed sales representative, wasn't born when the Rev. Ian Paisley won his first election in Northern Ireland in 1970, yet he strongly backs ...

Thousands of Protestants marched peacefully through the heart of Northern Ireland's capital Saturday amid a heavy security presence. It was one of Belfast's biggest parades in years, and police were ...

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 ...

(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 ...

PORTADOWN, Northern Ireland (AP) _ Protestant hard-liners battled riot police Sunday after being barred from parading through the main Catholic section of Portadown, an annual confrontation that often ...