Europe: NIreland leader retreats from anti-Muslim remarks
DUBLIN (AP) — Northern Ireland’s Protestant leader retreated Thursday from anti-Muslim comments he made when defending a Belfast evangelist’s right to denounce Islam, but government...
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Midnight bonfires ignite Northern Ireland holiday loved by Protestants, loathed by Catholics
BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — Shouting “No surrender!” and singing anti-Catholic songs, Protestant hardliners across Northern Ireland burned midnight bonfires topped with Irish flags and...