BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) – Northern Ireland faced a hopeful new era Tuesday as long-warring Protestant and Catholic chieftains prepared to forge a joint government designed to consign to history ...

Martin McGuinness, the Irish Republican Army commander who led his underground paramilitary movement toward reconciliation with Britain, died Tuesday, his Sinn Fein party announced. He was 66. Turning ...

DUBLIN The Rev. Ian Paisley, the Protestant firebrand who devoted his life to thwarting compromise with Catholics in Northern Ireland only to become a pivotal peacemaker in his twilight years, died ...