NetQuantum :: Sports :: Fencing :: Clubs :: Ireland ::

• Booker means cash, kudos for authors
Whatever the winner of the 40th Booker Prize says, victory at the awards ceremony in London on Tuesday is as much about cash as literary kudos. The annual award for the best novel in English by a writer from Britain, Ireland and the Commonwealth ...
• 51 reported killed in Pakistan fighting
Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, the country's most powerful opposition leader, called Sunday for dialogue with militants, citing the example of the Northern Ireland peace process. The government says it will negotiate only with groups who renounce ...
• IMF chief warns of global financial meltdown
But Ireland recently moved to guarantee all bank deposits, triggering similar actions in Germany and other countries concerned that nervous depositors would move their bank accounts to Ireland. The president barely referenced a significant new step ...
• EU reaches agreement on tackling bank crisis
Ireland started the ball rolling last week, promising a euro400-billion guarantee for all deposits in six Irish banks in an effort to stave off the collapse — and expensive government rescue — of lenders that overstretched themselves on property ...
• A wide and varied career
Those talks, based on the format of peacemaking efforts in South Africa and Northern Ireland, included 16 delegates from the feuding groups. They "agreed to consult further" and begin reconciliation talks. "He managed to get 36 senior Iraqis to ...