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U.S. fashion retailer Gap announces that it will be closing all of its 81 stores in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The company will continue to provide an online store for British and Irish customers.
2021-06-30

Starting from December 21, Panama will reimpose nationwide restrictions by require men and women to carry out holiday shopping on different days. On Christmas and New Year's Day there will be total lockdown for all genders.
2020-12-18

The first case of COVID-19 is confirmed in Ireland, Qatar and Luxembourg.
2020-02-29

Apple Inc. and Ireland agree on an interim deal to put €13 billion in an escrow fund for the repayment of back taxes, starting early 2018. Still, both parties refute that the alleged "sweetheart" corporate tax deals were illegal. In 2016, the European Commission found that an unfair advantage of €13 billion is to be reimbursed.
2017-12-4

Irish low-cost airline Ryanair cancels 82 Sunday flights as the first step in a six-week program that will eliminate 40 to 50 flights daily to wipe out its crew vacation backlog in order to meet Irish Aviation Authority requirements by the end of this year.
2017-09-16

Voters in Ireland go to the polls to vote on constitutional referendums, including one that would allow same-sex marriage.
2015-05-22

Ireland becomes the first European nation to be allowed to export beef to the United States since the mad cow disease scare 15 years ago.
2015-01-5

A car bomb explodes near a church as Christian worshippers were leaving a Christmas service in the capital, Baghdad, killing at least 14 people and wounding 28 others.
2013-12-25

Counting begins in elections for the 24th Seanad in Ireland.
2011-04-26

Irish authorities release three of the seven Muslims they detained over an alleged plot to murder Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks. Vilks says he has not been put off the idea of visiting Ireland by the threat.
2010-03-12