“Northern Ireland” on The Daily Caller

Nike put a $90 foot in its mouth, so to speak. (more)

From the Independent, March 20th, 2000: (more)

NEWPORT, Wales — There is nothing like a little extra motivation for Tiger Woods — perceived or otherwise — heading into a big event. (more)

By most calculations, Michael Bloomberg has been one of America’s decent mayors.   From reducing crime to improving public education, he has done a solid job as Rudy Giuliani’s successor in New York. (more)

The over-50s infection rate in England, Wales and Northern Ireland more than doubled in under a decade – from 299 new cases in 2000 to 710 in 2007. (more)

‘Twas a strange and fascinating Thursday, this opening round of the 150th anniversary British Open. The past and future trumped the present. (more)

LONDON — Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain offered an extraordinary apology on Tuesday for the 1972 killings of unarmed demonstrators by British troops in Northern Ireland, saying that a long-awaited investigation had left no doubt that the “Bloody Sunday” shootings were “both unjustified and unjustifiable.” (more)

NEW YORK – After the violent deaths of his brothers, the youngest Kennedy, Teddy, lived under constant threat that he too would meet an assassin’s bullet. As he put it bluntly, “They’re going to shoot my ass off the way they shot off Bobby’s.” (more)

Another ship full of humanitarian aid — this one named after an American activist killed by an Israeli bulldozer — is sailing toward the Gaza Strip even as the furor over a deadly confrontation between Israeli soldiers and another group of activists has yet to subside. (more)

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected international criticism of a deadly raid against a flotilla carrying aid to Gaza earlier this week, saying the blockade of the Palestinian territory is needed to prevent missile attacks against Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. (more)

Planes across northern Europe remained grounded Friday as ash from an Icelandic volcano continued to waft through the atmosphere, with no firm predictions of when the eruptions — and the travel delays — would end. (more)

Whether he’s speaking about Afghanistan, health care, or the economy, President Obama begins each engagement by reminding America that the previous administration was an utter, abject failure. Time and time again, he tells us how he inherited a set of problems worse than any president since FDR. Everything that happened from 2000 to 2008 falls under attack, from the handling of 9/11, to the missing WMD’s and our failure to capture Bin Laden. Whatever the issue, wherever he appears, more than a year into his administration, the wisest, most intelligent president of them all, Barack Obama, is still attacking George W. Bush in nearly every speech he gives. (more)

The former US president George Bush has made a direct plea to David Cameron to support the Northern Ireland peace process, amid widespread concern in the US about the Tories’ new electoral pact with the Ulster Unionists. (more)

The Herzliya Conference has become Israel’s foremost policy conference, where the country’s political and security elites meet
with academics and media experts to discuss the balance of Israel’s national security. The prime minister’s speech which concludes the conference has become somewhat of a “state of the union” address where previous prime ministers have announced major policy initiatives. Foreign participants include heads of state, senior diplomats and Nobel laureates. (more)

Northern Ireland’s political parties are under increasing pressure today to agree a deal to save the power-sharing government. (more)

Gordon Brown, the British Prime Minister, and Brian Cowen, his Irish counterpart, led negotiations with the Democratic Unionists and Sinn Fein at Hillsborough Castle, Co Down, on the devolution of policing and justice powers into the early hours of Tuesday morning. (more)

The sex scandal that has transfixed Northern Ireland in recent days has a cinematic echo: a 60-year-old Mrs. Robinson who was caught in an affair with a man who was 19 at the time, and is now at the center of a scandal that threatens to bring down the power-sharing government that has steered the province out of 30 years of sectarian bloodshed. (more)