Ireland

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Jul 2006	Number of “peace walls” that divided Protestant and Catholic communities in Belfast at the time of the 1994 ceasefire: 30	Harper's Index Source: Institute for Conflict Research (Belfast)
Jun 2006	Estimated number of illegal Irish immigrants in the United States: 25,000	Harper's Index Source: Consulate General of Ireland (N.Y.C.)
Dec 2001	Months after the millennium that Dublin plans to complete the erection of its 394-foot Millennium Spike: 20	Harper's Index Source: Dublin Corporation (Ireland)
Jun 2000	Years after the Great Potato Famine began that Britain loosened its land-ownership requirements for Irish voters: 5	Harper's Index Source: K. Theodore Hoppen, Elections, Politics, and Society in Ireland: 1832-1885, Oxford University Press (N.Y.C.)
Mar 2000	Percentage of the residents of Northern Ireland who report being happy: 92	Harper's Index Source: Prof. Ronald Inglehart, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)
Mar 2000	Percentage of the residents of the rest of Ireland who report being happy: 90	Harper's Index Source: Prof. Ronald Inglehart, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)
Feb 2000	Estimated tons of high-performance explosives that the Irish Republican Army must turn in by May: 2.7	Harper's Index Source: Northern Ireland Police Authority (Belfast)
Aug 1999	Pounds of plutonium that a British nuclear plant has dumped into the Irish Sea since 1959: 397	Harper's Index Source: BNFL (Cheshire, England)
Mar 1999	Number by which emigrants from the U.S. to Ireland between 1995 and 1998 exceeded those from Ireland to the U.S.: 4,300	Harper's Index Source: Central Statistics Office, Ireland (Dublin)

February 27, 2009	Thieves stole up to 7 million euros from the Bank of Ireland in Dublin.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: Irish Times
February 25, 2009	Irish protesters demonstrated at the ministry of finance against U2, which has relocated to the Netherlands to avoid taxes on royalties. “I don't need to pay like you/No, I won't pay like you/Because I still haven't learned about democracy,” sang one Bono impersonator to the tune of “I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For.”	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: Irish Times
December 6, 2008	Ireland recalled its pork.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: RTE News
June 24, 2008	Ireland was expecting its first recession since 1983.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: RTE News
June 14, 2008	The Treaty of Lisbon, which reiterates many of the reforms proposed in the discarded European Union Constitution, was rejected by voters in Ireland.	Weekly Review By Christian Lorentzen Source: The Herald
July 5, 2007	One hundred and ten children were swept into the Irish Sea.	Weekly Review By Chantal Clarke Source: BBCnews.com
May 27, 2007	In Bombay, several thousand untouchables converted en masse to Buddhism.	Weekly Review By Miriam Markowitz Source: BBC News
May 3, 2007	An Irish teenager, who has been told by doctors that her baby will not survive more than a few days after birth, appeared in the High Court in Dublin to apply for the right to travel to Britain for an abortion.	Weekly Review By Chantal Clarke Source: BBCnews.com
March 6, 2007	When accused of stealing lingerie from a shop, a Irish man told a court that his elf alter ego may have been to blame.	Weekly Review By Chantal Clarke Source: BBCnews.com
December 7, 2006	A Christmas party in Dublin was canceled after Gus, a camel starring in Santa's Magical Animal Kingdom Show, got drunk on Guinness and ate all the mince pies.	Weekly Review By Claire Gutierrez Source: MSNBC
September 22, 2006	Michael Jackson was considering opening a leprechaun-themed amusement park in Ireland.	Weekly Review By Theodore Ross Source: MSNBC
August 29, 2006	Children in Dublin saw a clown crushed to death.	Weekly Review By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi Source: AP
January 31, 2006	Former Marine Platoon Sergeant Jim Massey said that the United States was funneling depleted uranium to Iraq through Ireland.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: UTV
January 7, 2006	A 2,300-year-old Irish corpse was found to be wearing hair gel imported from France.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: Reuters
September 26, 2005	The Irish Republican Army laid down its arms.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: The Washington Post
September 11, 2005	Thirty-two police officers were injured during riots in Belfast, Northern Ireland.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: CNN.com
June 26, 2005	An Irish man covered himself with 200,000 bees, still 150,000 bees short of the world record.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: BBC News
May 30, 2005	A young colobus monkey escaped from the Belfast Zoo after having an an argument with his dad.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: Reuters
May 21, 2005	The CIA was granted the power to secretly interrogate Irish citizens in Ireland.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: IrishExaminer.com
February 2, 2005	The Irish Republican Army denied that it robbed banks, then said that it was no longer interested in disarming.	Weekly Review By Theodore Ross Source: SFGate.com
July 11, 2004	Ireland was said to be short of priests.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: New York Times
March 18, 2003	The Islamic Cultural Center of Dublin, Ireland, announced that it will oversee the translation of the Koran into Gaelic.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge
October 30, 2001	The Irish Republican Army decided to disarm.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge

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