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Residents of Taiwan head to the polls for a constitutional referendum on the issues of lowering the voting age from 20 to 18 and lowering the age of candidacy from 23 to 18.
2022-11-26

Intel pledges €33 billion in investments in the European Union factories and research facilities, including €17 billion for building a chip-making plant in Magdeburg, Germany and €12 billion for upgrading the Irish plant; the company promises €80 billion over the next decade for the EU.
2022-03-15

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

Ireland reports a record 1,546 new cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 88,439.
2020-12-29

National Public Health Emergency Team reports 1,012 new cases in Ireland in 24 hours. It is the highest number of reported cases in Ireland since April, when 1,068 cases were reported.
2020-10-10

Leo Varadkar becomes the new party leader of Fine Gael, after winning 51 of 73 votes in the parliamentary party, and is expected to become Taoiseach (Prime Minister) of Ireland, which would make him the youngest and first openly gay man to be Taoiseach, as well as being the first of half-Indian descent.
2017-06-2

The Italian Coast Guard states that at least 17 people have died and 4,200 have been rescued in the Mediterranean Sea attempting to travel to Europe in the past 24 hours. Ships from nations including Italy, Republic of Ireland, Germany, Belgium and the United Kingdom have been involved in rescue efforts.
2015-05-30

The analogue television service in the Republic of Ireland is switched off at 10.00am.
2012-10-24

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

Seven people are arrested in Ireland — five in Waterford and two in Cork — over an alleged plot to assassinate Swedish artist Lars Vilks.
2010-03-9