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The 1994 Irish government crisis was a political event in the Republic of Ireland that occurred between November and December 1994. It saw the fracturing and eventual collapse of Taoiseach Albert Reynolds ' governing coalition between Fianna Fáil and the Labour Party .
A political crisis evolved in 2015 in Northern Ireland around the possible continuation of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA).. In August 2015, the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) Chief Constable stated that the IRA no longer exists as a paramilitary organization.
Ireland was the first state in the eurozone to enter recession, as declared by the Central Statistics Office (CSO). [8] By January 2009, the number of people living on unemployment benefits had risen to 326,000—the highest monthly level since records began in 1967—and the unemployment rate rose from 6.5% in July 2008 to 14.8% in July 2012 ...
Since the mid-2010s, Ireland has been experiencing a housing and accommodation crisis; [1] the simultaneous overlap of both crises exacerbated each other; the failure to provide housing meant that refugees could not expect to find much accommodation in Ireland, and the arrival of thousands of refugees in Ireland meant further strains on housing ...
In October 1973, mainstream nationalist and unionist parties, along with the British and Irish governments, negotiated the Sunningdale Agreement, which was intended to produce a political settlement within Northern Ireland, but with a so-called "Irish dimension" involving the Republic. The agreement provided for "power-sharing" – the creation ...
Since at least the 1970s, many Irish political scandals relating to miscarriage of justice, dereliction of duty and corruption by public officials have resulted in the establishment of extra-judicial Tribunals of Enquiry, which are typically chaired by retired High-Court judges and cannot make judgements against any of the parties.
DUBLIN (Reuters) -An EU court order that Apple pay Ireland 13 billion euros ($14.4 billion) in back taxes triggered mixed feelings in Dublin on Tuesday as the government assessed possible ...
2017 Luhansk People's Republic political crisis; Spanish General Council of the Judiciary blockade; 2019 Karnataka political crisis; 2019 Maharashtra political crisis; 2020 Madhya Pradesh political crisis; 2022 Estonian government crisis; 2022 Northern Ireland political crisis; 2023 Sabah political crisis; 2023–2024 French government crisis