Ireland

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Croatia's Nikica Jelavic celebrates after scoring his side's second goal during the Euro 2012 soccer championship Group C match between Ireland and Croatia in Poznan, Poland, Sunday, June 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

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Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny takes a glass of apple juice at the Bord Bia Bloom festival in the Phoenix Park, Dublin, on June 1, 2012. Referendum officials compiling unofficial results say Ireland's voters have decided to ratify the European Union's deficit-fighting treaty with "yes" votes reaching nearly 60 percent. (Associated Press)

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A woman casts her vote at a polling station in North Dublin, Ireland, on Thursday. Irish voters went to the polls to vote on ratification of the European Union's Fiscal Treaty, a deficit-fighting pact designed to bind debt-ridden eurozone members to much tighter spending limits. (Associated Press)

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In Dublin, a huge banner depicting Ireland's being bled dry by austerity calls for a "no" vote in the referendum on the European Union's fiscal treaty. (AP Photo/Shawn Pogatchnik)

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Ireland's Jedward performs during the first semifinal of the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest at the Baku Crystal Hall in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Tuesday. The finals of the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest will be held at the stadium on Saturday. (Associated Press)

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With other photos reflected behind, a February 1979 photo of an 18-year-old Bono posing under a fluorescent light is one of the more striking images from the "U2 1978-1981'" exhibition opening in Dublin, Ireland, on Thursday, May 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Shawn Pogatchnik)

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Some thousands of demonstrators march through the streets of Dublin, Ireland, Saturday March 31, 2012, during protests against Ireland's new property tax. Ireland faces a public revolt as more than 1 million of Ireland's 1.6 million households have failed to pay the new property tax. (AP Photo/Shawn Pogatchnik)

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Anthony McIntyre, a former IRA member is seen in Drogheda, Ireland, last week. Ed Moloney, a former Belfast journalist, and the former IRA member who collected the interviews, Mr. McIntyre, go to court on Tuesday in Boston seeking to persuade Judge William Young to let Boston College keep the audiotapes out of the hands of Belfast police who are probing the Irish Republican Army's 1972 killing of Jean McConville, the Belfast mother 10. (Associated Press)

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Laura Olson holds a ladder for John Barry while he takes down the American flag outside his daughter's store, Irish Traditions, on Main Street as bands of high winds and heavy rain from Hurricane Irene lash Annapolis, Md., Saturday, August 27, 2011. (J.M. Eddins, Jr./The Washington Times)

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Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny in mid-July accused the Vatican of downplaying "the rape and torture of children" by priests and of hiding behind its status as a sovereign state, a severe challenge to the Catholic Church that has long held sway over the country's way of life. (AP Photo)

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U.S. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama during their visit to Moneygall, Ireland, the ancestral homeland of his great-great-great grandfather, Monday, May 23, 2011. President Barack Obama opens a six-day European tour with a quick dash through Ireland, where he will celebrate his own Irish roots and look to give a boost to a nation grappling with the fallout from its financial collapse. (AP Photo, Pool)

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U.S. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama meet local residents in Moneygall, Ireland, the ancestral homeland of his great-great-great grandfather, Monday, May 23, 2011. President Barack Obama opens a six-day European tour with a quick dash through Ireland, where he will celebrate his own Irish roots and look to give a boost to a nation grappling with the fallout from its financial collapse. (AP Photo, Pool)

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U.S. President Barack Obama meets local residents in Moneygall, Ireland, the ancestral homeland of his great-great-great grandfather, Monday, May 23, 2011. President Barack Obama opens a six-day European tour with a quick dash through Ireland, where he will celebrate his own Irish roots and look to give a boost to a nation grappling with the fallout from its financial collapse. (AP Photo, Pool)

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President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama drink Guinness stout as they meet with local residents at Ollie Hayes' pub in Moneygall, Ireland, the ancestral homeland of his great-great-great grandfather, on Monday, May 23, 2011. (AP Photo, Pool)