... match, due to be held at the Belfry, near Birmingham, later this month, was in doubt last night after terrorist attacks in the United States caused the cancellation of the American Express championship in St Louis. Instead of re-scheduling the event in Missouri ...

... of time. That's not to say there weren't the usual mani.?;s(ations of an international day. At 10am, gaggles of pub-shaped Irishmen were rendezvousing for the hike to the Mitre and Deacon Brodie’s. But around the New Town and the West End the bars were ...

... imbalance in the world today is the massive economic, political and, above all, military hegemony of the United States. Can anyone doubt that a strong and united Elgeoge, with a proper common nce policy, would not constitute a much-needed and powerful counterbalance ...

... sackful to the Irish. Occasionally ?n?on a team takes such heart and inspiration from the moment itself thatas a collective unit it more than equals the sum of its parts. And Ireland did just this on Saturday. Nor should anyone forget that Ireland ended ...

... IRA units. He met them with Mr McGuinness, Sinn Fein’s education minister at Stormont, who is thought to have mo:‘? become the IRAs chief-of- A In interviews afterwards, Mr wonld‘hat le: o; sioning require a leap it o Trodi i i want to see a united Ireland ...

... fans’ pressure group Shareholders United. A spokeswoman for Shareholders United said that McManus and Magnier had previously assured them that they were not trying to take control of the club. No-one from Manchester United was available for comment. Ferguson ...

... for freedom of Colombia Three JOHN INNES GERRY Adams, the Sinn Fein president, last night called for the release of three Irishmen imprisoned by Colombian authorities after a meeting with senior Cuban government officials. The West Belfast MP, who met ...

... there and expect a Ministry of Defence phone call asking for information and advice to boost Britain's role in a possible United States action against al-Qaeda’s terrorist network in Somalia, a country that the Arabs claim was made from left-over pieces ...

... impossible for any progress to be made,” Mr Pastrana said in a televised address to the nation. “It takes two to negotiate.” The United States said it would back Mr Pastrana’s next move against the rebels. “We are watching the situation in Colombia very closely ...

... narrow streets are heaving with packs of young, fashionably undressed Irishwomen out on the pull, and gangs of young affluent Irishmen only too happy to oblige them. Nodoubt about it: sexhappens. ‘Butabortionsdonot. To visit Ireland is to engage disorientingly ...

... between the Roman Catholic Defenders and the Protestants of the area. Within a year the first mm.punduhadbnn In 1798, the United Irishmen rose against the Crown in lreland. The Orangemen sided with the Crown and had much to do with quashing the rebellion. ...

... when Finnerty was placed in the pillory in Green Street, with the intention of humiliating Edward Fitzgerald, of the United , Irishmen, stood on each side and a large crowd cheered him throughout the hour.” . Significantly, despite the author’s patent ...