Two dead, four injured in first IRA military assault in N Ireland since 1997
GenevaLunch News Two British soldiers were killed late Saturday in Antrim some 15km north of Belfast, Northern Ireland and two others were injured, and two pizza deliverymen were also injured. in the...
View ArticlePoliceman killed in N Ireland
GenevaLunch News Two days after the deaths of two soldiers, with four people injured, a police officer in County Armagh in Northern Ireland was shot and killed as he and a colleague answered a call for...
View ArticleIreland’s Mrs Robinson tale leads to minister resigning
GenevaLunch News Peter Robinson, Northern Ireland’s first minister, is taking a six-week break from his duties, six days after the astonishing details emerged of his 59-year-old wife’s affair with a...
View ArticleFoot of snow on way to N of England, Scotland (update)
GenevaLunch News Northern England and Scotland are expecting to have a foot of snow dumped on them in the pre-Easter holidays period. Northern Ireland was hit Tuesday night and the Met Office in the UK...
View ArticleAirports in UK, Ireland closed due to ash cloud
GenevaLunch News Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Flights from Switzerland to western and northern parts of the UK, as well as Dublin in Ireland, risk being delayed or canceled, with many of the...
View ArticleUK prime minister apologizes for Bloody Sunday shootings
GenevaLunch News [Video] David Cameron, Britain’s new prime minister, apologized to Northern Ireland Tuesday 15 June for the deaths of 14 unarmed civilians in Londonderry, called Derry in Ireland, in...
View Article55 police officers injured in Northern Ireland violence
GenevaLunch News Violence flared once again in the Ardoyne area in Belfast, Northern Ireland for the traditional but controversial “Twelfth” parade that commemorates the 1689 ouster of King James II, a...
View ArticleSwiss gov’t to start German, UK tax talks in 2011 (update)
GenevaLunch News Gov’t opens for consultation proposed changes to law for “too big to fail banks” Geneva lawyer, professor to head board of Swiss financial regulator Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) -...
View ArticleBloody Sunday march reaches the end
GenevaLunch News Northern Ireland had what many say will be its final march to remember Bloody Sunday, one of the darkest days in the long history of religious and social strife in the region, when 14...
View ArticlePolice injured in 2nd day of Belfast riots
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Fifteen policemen were injured in a second night of violent riots between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland’s capital, Belfast. Firebombs, bricks and...
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