DUBLIN — In early June 1998, the Good Friday agreement (GFA) was endorsed by huge majorities in parallel referendums on both sides of the border dividing Ireland. One month later elections to a new devolved Northern Ireland
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DUBLIN — On July 15, the British government triggered a gadget (the D'Hondt mechanism) for electing a devolved Stormont government in Belfast — and the Irish "peace process" sank into farce that would not have not been out of
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DUBLIN — The Protestant-chauvinist Orange Order's annual July march down the nationalist Garvaghy Road in Portadown, Northern Ireland, on Sunday, July 4, has been banned by the British government's Parades Commission.
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DUBLIN — The referendum held on both sides of the Irish border on the 1998 Good Friday agreement was carried with massive majorities: by 71% in the Six Counties and 95% in the 26 Counties. Most of the "No" vote in the North was