Ireland pays 15,000 soldiers for eardrum damage from weapons training
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DUBLIN, Ireland  - Ireland has paid the equivalent of &#36;442 million to more than 15,000 soldiers who claim they suffered hearing damage from weapons training, the government announced Friday.
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UK soldiers fighting in Afghanistan had to borrow rounds from allied forces, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed.
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The IRA withdraws its offer to put its weapons beyond use and blames the British and Irish governments.
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Ireland's biggest bank, Allied Irish Bank, has paid back millions of euros to customers who were levied with incorrect foreign exchange charges, chairman Dermot Gleeson said.
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Former Prime Minister Charles Haughey received more than $15 million in secret payments and lied about his knowledge of the funds, according to an official report released Tuesday into Ireland's biggest political scandal.
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The Irish Government is sending an immediate technical team to the Asian tsunami region to decide if Irish troops are needed.
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The Met offers a Â£15,000 reward and issues an e-fit in the case of a BBC employee who was stabbed to death in the street.
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The Inland Revenue pays out nearly Â£1m compensation to people who have suffered because of tax credit errors or delays.
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The government has earmarked 15 million pounds as an initial amount while organisations associated with South Asian communities in Britain have launched respective drives to raise funds and aid material for the affected.
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The effects of drinking alcohol cost Ireland more than $3bn last year, a new report says.
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A mobile phone is stolen on average every 15 minutes in Ireland, according to Garda sources and gardai have expressed serious concern over the increasing violence in phone thefts.
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The Ministry of Defence is to offer compensation and an apology to the Porton Down victims of secret chemical testing, it was reported today
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Nine dead after AA gun goes haywire South Africa authorities are investigating how nine soldiers were killed and 15 injured during a training exercise when an anti-aircraft gun went haywire.â¦
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The U.S. military has agreed to give about $650,000 to three British soldiers and a Kuwaiti interpreter who were injured when an American military truck slammed into their vehicle in Iraq, a lawyer said Monday.
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MINGORA, Pakistan  - Fifteen Pakistani soldiers were killed and 25 wounded when their convoy was hit by a suspected militant roadside blast in the northern district of Swat on Thursday, police said.
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Fifteen British troops under the age of 18 have been "inadvertently" sent to fight in Iraq, contravening a U.N. protocol on children's rights, the government said Sunday.
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Northern Ireland&#39;s separatist leader Gerry Adams was reported incensed Wednesday over an electronic listening device found in his group&#39;s headquarters.