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Prospect of Irish unification referendum remains remote despite Sinn Féin gains

Party’s advances in Northern Ireland contrast with slump in Ireland, while new Labour government is keen to bury issue

The Guardian - UK

UK Tories committing "electoral suicide"

Scholar Brendan O'Leary on the British Conservative Party's date with oblivion this week — and what happens next

Salon

‘The hope we had is gone’: how 20 months of stasis has paralysed Northern Ireland

While the DUP conference may put a brave face on the crisis, public services and even the state’s legitimacy are hollowing

The Guardian - UK

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Jury takes 5 hours to convict Madigan’s ex-top aide of perjury, attempted obstruction of justice: ‘This should stand as a clear message’

Tim Mapes, the former chief of staff to onetime Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, is the seventh person to be convicted by a federal jury in Chicago this year as a result of public corruption investigations.

Chicago Sun-Times

Feds nearly done laying out perjury case against ex-top aide to Michael Madigan

Jurors hear additional recordings that seemed to show the close relationship between Tim Mapes and Michael McClain.

Chicago Sun-Times

In Ireland, Biden is on a diplomatic and deeply personal mission

President Biden's trip marking the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement is part diplomacy and part homecoming.

WEKU

Man, 24, kicks neighbour in the head after he was confronted over launching fireworks at people's homes on New Year's Eve

Niall Fisher, 24, was handed a suspended sentence

Manchester Evening News

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Brothers punched woman in the face after petty row about kids 'leaving football marks on neighbour's car'

Brothers Shahid Alam and Tuhidul Alam flew into a rage

Manchester Evening News

'Open the f***ing box and give me the money': Smirking thug threatens to shoot cash handler in £80,000 raid

Ashley Hodson was locked in a room with a quick-thinking shopkeeper and delivery man

Manchester Evening News

Gardai nab stalker who held woman hostage with hammer as he sits on plane at Dublin Airport

Best took a train to Birmingham after booking a flight to New York but missed the flight by 40 minutes. He then got on a ferry from Holyhead and when he arrived in Dublin went to the airport to take a flight to New York

Irish Mirror

'Terrifying' dumped stalker travels 4,000 miles to UK to confront girlfriend he never met

American Edward Best, 26, bought a one-way ticket from Chicago to Manchester to challenge his ex-girlfriend in person after subjecting her to "horrific" online abuse

Daily Mirror

'Obsessive' stalker travelled 4,000 miles to confront ex after she dumped him then held her cousin hostage

Edward Best bought a one way ticket from Chicago to Manchester

Manchester Evening News

Two drug dealers whose lives 'spiralled' into crime jailed after heroin and cocaine raid

The pair were sentenced today at Manchester Crown Court

Manchester Evening News

Gang broke into houses as children slept to steal £500,000 worth of Audis and Mercedes

Three men have been jailed for a total of 24 years

Manchester Evening News

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Ireland should follow Scotland's white paper example, expert says

IRELAND should draw up an equivalent of the white paper which set out the case for Scottish independence in anticipation of a border poll getting…

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