Ireland

DUBLIN, Sept 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Ireland’s population topped five million for the first time in 170 years, to reach an estimated 5.01 million in Apr, 2021, according to an annual population survey, released by the country’s Central Statistics Office (CSO) yesterday.

The survey showed that Ireland’s population increased by 34,000 persons, in the twelve months to Apr, 2021, up 0.68 percent, when compared with the population in Apr, 2020, which stood above 4.97 million.

DUBLIN, Jul 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Europe’s largest budget airline, Ryanair, announced yesterday that, it would recruit 2,000 new pilots over the next three years.

The pilots to be recruited will be trained to fly the Boeing 737-8200 aircraft, that have been ordered by Ryanair from the U.S. plane manufacturer, according to a statement released by the airlines.

Ryanair earlier said that, it had ordered 210 Boeing 737-8200 aircraft, and the first of them had been delivered in the first half of this year, with 60 of them to be received before the peak summer of next year.

BELFAST, June 30 (Reuters) - Northern Ireland's High Court on Wednesday rejected a challenge by the region's largest pro-British parties to part of Britain's divorce deal with the European Union, saying the Northern Ireland Protocol was consistent with British and EU law.

The court said Britain's EU withdrawal agreement, which effectively left Northern Ireland in the bloc's trading orbit, overrode earlier precedents due to the sovereignty of the British parliament and its status as constitutional legislation.

(Reuters) --- Britain and the European Union failed on Wednesday to agree any solutions to ease post-Brexit trade with Northern Ireland and exchanged threats in a standoff that could cloud a weekend international summit.

Since Britain completed a tortuous exit from the EU late last year, its relations with Brussels have soured further, with each side accusing the other of bad faith over a part of their Brexit deal that covers goods movements to Northern Ireland.

03 June 2021; MEMO: Belfast City Council passed a motion on Tuesday supporting the expulsion of the Israeli ambassadors from both Ireland and the United Kingdom. The local authority will write to the governments in Dublin and London urging them to expel the ambassadors "with immediate effect".

DUBLIN, May 5 (Xinhua) -- A member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Ireland on Wednesday called on the European Union (EU) to cooperate with China instead of being "led along by the nose by the Americans" into confrontation with China.

Mick Wallace, an incumbent MEP from the south constituency of Ireland, made the calls by tweeting a video speech he made at an April meeting of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the European Parliament, a legislative body of the EU.

03 May 2021; MEMO: Ireland and its parliament have called on Israel to respect its obligation to international law in accordance with the Fourth Geneva Convention regarding the treatment of civilians, Al Watan Voice reported on Sunday.

DUBLIN, Apr 16 (NNN-AGENCIES) – The United States replaced Britain, to be the largest source of Ireland’s imported goods, in the first two months of this year, according to the figures released by Ireland’s Central Statistics Office (CSO) yesterday.

During the period, Ireland imported a total of 2.3 billion euros (about 2.75 billion U.S. dollars) worth of goods from the United States, up 4.4 percent over a year ago, while its goods imports from Britain tumbled by over 46 percent, year-on-year, to 1.67 billion euros.

BELFAST (Reuters) -Pro-British loyalist militants in Northern Ireland said on Friday there had been a “spectacular collective failure” to understand their fears and anger over Brexit and other issues as police braced for more street clashes following a week of riots.

New border arrangements with EU-member Ireland must be negotiated, the Loyalist Communities Council (LCC) said in a statement.

BELFAST (Reuters) -Northern Ireland’s power-sharing government put aside factional differences on Thursday to appeal for calm after more than a week of nightly violence partly fuelled by frustration among pro-British unionists over post-Brexit trade barriers.

Hundreds of youths in the British province’s capital Belfast set a hijacked bus on fire and attacked police with stones on Wednesday in scenes reviving memories of decades of sectarian strife that claimed some 3,600 lives prior to a 1998 peace deal.