Dublin: When Patch hopped aboard the train to Dublin, it took the power of Twitter to reunite the dog with his owner. Irish Rail sent a "Lost dog!" tweet with a photo attachment after the Jack Russell terrier arrived with Wednesday morning commuters on a train from rural Kilcock, County Kildare, an hour's ride away. After more than 500 retweets in just 32 minutes, the photo found Patch's owner, Deirdre...
07:37 AM, Jul 05, 2012
The duo was named in a 15-man squad for the tour of Ireland and the Netherlands. ...
11:57 PM, Jul 02, 2012
New York: 30 Rock star Alec Baldwin has tied the knot with fiancee Hilaria Thomas. Baldwin, 54, wed the 28-year-old yoga instructor at the historic St Patrick's Old Cathedral in New York on June 30, reported People magazine. "Hilaria Thomas and Alec Baldwin were married this evening at St Patrick's Old Cathedral in New York City with family and friends sharing in the joy of the occasion," a source said....
08:30 PM, Jul 01, 2012
Belfast: Britain's Queen Elizabeth shook the hand of former IRA guerrilla commander Martin McGuinness for the first time on Wednesday, drawing a line under a conflict that cost the lives of thousands of soldiers and civilians, including that of her cousin. The meeting with McGuinness, who is now the deputy first minister of Northern Ireland, comes 14 years after the Irish Republican Army ended its war against British rule in...
11:30 PM, Jun 27, 2012
Cummins bowled the fastest ball - clocked at 93.5mph - of Saturday's rain-ruined ODI against Ireland. ...
10:13 AM, Jun 24, 2012
Heavy rain ruined Australia's warm-up match against Ireland on Saturday, when the one-day international was abandoned with the hosts struggling on 36 for 3 off 10.4 overs. ...
05:14 PM, Jun 23, 2012
The ODI will be the first international of Australia's UK tour that also includes five ODIs against England. ...
09:30 AM, Jun 23, 2012
Donetsk: From the moment Poland's Robert Lewandowski scored the opening goal of the tournament with a brilliant header against Greece, Euro 2012 has served up one great moment after another during a thrilling group stage. Superb goals have followed, including Mario Balotelli's volley against Ireland, German Mario Gomez's first strike against the Netherlands and Jakub Blaszczykowski's stunning equaliser for Poland against Russia. The quality remained until the end with Zlatan...
10:12 AM, Jun 20, 2012
CNN-IBN's football experts rank Spain far from their best despite having reached the quarter-finals. ...
10:59 AM, Jun 19, 2012
Poznan, Poland: Mario Balotelli finally broke his scoring drought at the European Championship, and he apparently has team-mate Leonardo Bonucci to thank for preventing his breakthrough moment from turning sour. Balotelli came off the bench and scored a spectacular second goal for Italy in the 90th minute of a 2-0 win over Ireland on Monday that put the Azzurri into the quarter-finals. Immediately after he scored, Bonucci rushed over and...
10:11 AM, Jun 19, 2012
Warka (Poland): Even with Ivica Olic out injured, Croatia got off to a striking start at the European Championship. The Croats got two goals from Mario Mandzukic and one from Nikica Jelavic in their 3-1 win over Ireland in Group C. That's more than Spain and Italy combined after their 1-1 draw in the other group match. "If you don't have a striker who can score a goal, you have...
08:41 PM, Jun 11, 2012
Dublin: Shane Long gave Ireland a morale-boosting 1-0 victory over Bosnia-Herzegovina ahead of the European Championship on Saturday but midfielder Keith Fahey was ruled out of the tournament through injury. Fahey has been struggling with a groin problem since he joined the squad and he pulled up in the friendly on Saturday. After scans, coach Giovanni Trapattoni decided to replace Fahey with Paul Green, who is without a club since...
10:56 AM, May 27, 2012
Dublin: Ireland coach Giovanni Trapattoni picked his 23-man squad for the European Championships on Monday, leaving out James McCarthy so the midfielder can stay home with his seriously ill father. The Scottish-born McCarthy was likely to be included in the squad for the June 8-July 1 tournament in Poland and Ukraine but asked to be withdrawn from contention. "I have made the very difficult decision to withdraw my name from...
10:42 AM, May 08, 2012
On Board MS Balmoral: At the shrill sound of a ship's whistle in the North Atlantic, relatives of some of the more than 1,500 people who died when the Titanic sank after hitting an iceberg remembered their ancestors in a poignant ceremony a century later. On a still, starry night and with little glare from the moon, the memorial cruise ship MS Balmoral floated above the wreckage of the famous...
11:47 PM, Apr 15, 2012
Davos: The ice appeared to be melting over tackling euro crisis at the Swiss alpine resort with the leaders of several European nations agreeing to press for tighter rules and greater fiscal prudence to keep the common currency afloat. The urgency to introduce fiscal discipline and hope that the euro crisis would be resolved sooner than later was expressed by leaders of various smaller European countries at the meeting of...
05:24 PM, Jan 27, 2012
New York: Fitch Ratings on Friday warned it may downgrade Belgium, Italy, and four other euro zone countries in the absence of a "comprehensive solution" to the region's debt crisis. The ratings agency placed the ratings of Belgium, Spain, Slovenia, Italy, Ireland and Cyprus in credit watch negative, which means a downgrade is possible within three months. ...
09:37 AM, Dec 17, 2011
Brussels: The euro zone's debt crisis struck again at the heart of Europe on Monday despite a clear-cut election victory in Spain for conservatives committed to tougher austerity. Spain's Socialists became the fifth government in the 17-nation single currency area to be toppled by the debt crisis this year. Portugal, Ireland, Italy and Greece went before. But an absolute parliamentary majority for Mariano Rajoy's center-right Popular Party brought no respite...
06:23 PM, Nov 21, 2011
Toronto: Toronto-based Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd, which has assets worth about $ 32 billion and is controlled by Hyderabad-born Prem Watsa, is buying a big stake in the troubled Bank of Ireland to avoid its nationalisation. Reports quoted sources close to the property and insurance management company as saying that Prem Watsa's company has roped in Fidelity, Capital Research, Cardinal Capital Group and US billionaire Wilbur Ross to pump $...
11:13 AM, Jul 28, 2011
London: Indians visiting Britain on tourist visas will now be able to visit neighbouring Ireland without a visa, under a visa waiver programme announced in Dublin. The waiver programme will run from July 1 until October 2012, a period that includes the London 2012 Olympics, when a large number of Indian and other tourists are expected to visit Britain. Currently, Indian citizens need a visa to enter Ireland. Under Ireland's...
06:00 PM, Jul 02, 2011
Sao Paulo: The International Monetary Fund cut its forecast for US economic growth on Friday and warned Washington and debt-ridden European countries that they are "playing with fire" unless they take immediate steps to reduce their budget deficits. The IMF, in its regular assessment of global economic prospects, said bigger threats to growth had emerged since its previous report in April, citing the euro zone debt crisis and signs of...
12:48 AM, Jun 18, 2011
