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HOLYWOOD, Northern Ireland – "Catch yourself on!" That's the melodious phrase people in Rory McIlroy's homeland of Northern Ireland direct at those they suspect have let their egos get the better of them. It means "Get real!" or "Come back to Earth!" That phrase, and the peer pressure it...

Moneygall, Ireland "You discover a lot about yourself when you're running for president," Barack Obama said on the campaign trail in 2008. "It was brought to my attention last year that my great-great-great-grandfather on my mother's side hailed from a small village in County Offaly." Two years...

Belfast, Northern Ireland (CNN) -- Masked men, allegedly shouting they were members of the Irish Republican Army, abandoned a small bomb and fled a commercial area in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, the mayor said Saturday. Londonderry Mayor Colum Eastwood, a member of the Social Democratic...

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John Stillwell-PA Britain's Queen Elizabeth II inspects an Irish Guard of Honour after arriving at Aras an Uachtarain (The Irish President's official residence) in Phoenix Park, Dublin. More photos » Britain's Queen Elizabeth II shakes hands with Irish President Mary McAleese after...

(CNN) -- Irish military defused a bomb Tuesday on a bus headed to Dublin, ahead of a historic visit by Britain's Queen Elizabeth II to the city. The military stopped a private bus in Maynooth, evacuated the passengers and found a "viable device" in the luggage compartment of the bus early...

(CNN) -- It is a state visit that many in Ireland believed would never happen. But when the UK's Queen Elizabeth II lands in Dublin on Tuesday it will mark the reconciliation between two neighboring countries that once viewed each with suspicion and hostility. Ireland's fight to free itself...

Saint Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, probably ate fare similar to today's pricey health foods such as cereal, fish and seaweed, according to a researcher who has studied the country's 5th century diet. Food historian Regina Sexton said records kept by monks showed that Patrick, who is...

-- Final preparations are being made for the funeral Monday of slain Irish newlywed Michaela Harte-McAreavey. The 27-year-old was found strangled in her hotel room on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius last Monday. She was killed less than two weeks after her wedding. Her funeral will take...

A week after the crisis began, thousands of people in Northern Ireland still do not have running water in their homes. - Northern Ireland's water supply is in a "precarious position" after several major water pipes burst, allowing 10 million liters of water to drain from Belfast reservoirs...

Belfast, Northern Ireland -- A funeral takes place Friday for one of Northern Ireland's so-called Disappeared, whose remains were found last month after nearly four decades. Peter Wilson was a 21-year-old Catholic with special needs who went missing from his home in August 1973. His remains...

Spain's President Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, left, at the North Atlantic Council meeting on November 19. Spanish and Portuguese leaders, with reinforcements from Brussels, are fighting a rearguard action to convince investors that there is no need for further eurozone bail-outs after the...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/business/2010/11/22/boulden.ireland.bailout.explainer.cnn Dublin, Ireland -- Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen on Monday said he will delay any decision on whether to go ahead with national elections until the 2011 budget is passed and negotiations on the details...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/business/2010/11/21/quest.ireland.bailout.cnn Europe and the International Monetary Fund began to hammer out final details of an Irish rescue package worth tens of billions Monday, after the government in Dublin admitted the country needed financial help. Ireland...

Irish Finance Minister Brian Lenihan faces journalists after a meeting of EU finance ministers in Brussels. Dublin, Ireland -- The International Monetary Fund and European Central Bank were in Ireland on Thursday for a meeting on the country's debt crisis -- talks that could result in a...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/business/2010/11/15/qmb.boulden.ireland.cnn European ministers began talks Tuesday on how to resolve the financial troubles of Ireland, even as the republic denied it was facing default and had asked for help. Ministers from the Eurogroup -- the group of 16...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/business/2010/11/15/qmb.boulden.ireland.cnn European ministers were expected to put pressure on Ireland to accept a bailout Tuesday as a way to get the country out of its financial troubles. Ministers from the Eurogroup -- the group of 16 European Union countries...

Police in Northern Ireland said Saturday they were looking for a person on a bicycle who threw a bomb at police officers, wounding three of them. The cyclist threw the bomb Friday night as police were investigating a robbery at a betting agent in Belfast, police said. The bomb exploded on a...

Are You From Ireland? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Two men were sitting next to each other at a bar. After a while, one guy looks at the other and says, "I can't help but think, from listening to you, that you're from Ireland." The other...