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39th G8 summit held in Northern Ireland

The 39th G8 summit was held on June 17-18, 2013 at Lough Erne, Northern Ireland of United Kingdom. The summit was presided over by the U.K. The official theme of the summit was tax...

June 18, 2013

UK’s Northern Ireland gears up for G-8 summit

The 39th G8 summit will be held in the United Kingdom’s Northern Ireland on June 17-18, 2013. G-8 The Group of Eight (G8) is a group made up of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States. Initially the group...

June 7, 2013

Ireland introduces new bill on limited abortions

The government of Ireland has unveiled a long-awaited bill that envisages new rules governing when life-saving abortions can be performed, a point of potentially deadly confusion for women...

May 3, 2013

Ireland honors Malala with Peace Prize

Social activist Malala Yousafzai from Pakistan who was shot at by a Taliban gunman in 2012, will be awarded with  Ireland’s esteemedTipperary International Peace Prize for 2012 in...

January 8, 2013

Ireland to legalize abortion

Following the pressure from the European court of human rights, which ruled that abortions should be allowed in the republic in cases where a woman’s life was at...

December 23, 2012

Ireland will order statutory inquiry into Savita Halappanavar's death

Besides medical inquiry, Ireland will also order a statutory inquiry into the death of Indian dentist Savita Halappanavar due to pregnancy-related complications after being denied abortion, in a...

November 27, 2012

Savita Halappanavar: Persons in News

Savita Halappanavar’s death has led to a widespread protests in Ireland and a call to re-look at the abortion laws. She was 31 year old dentist originally from...

November 17, 2012