World & Nation
Belfast lawyer Mary McAleese looked set to be the next president of Ireland, according to exit polls conducted after a sparsely supported election Thursday.
Oct. 31, 1997
Election: Belfast law professor is first candidate from British-ruled north to win post.
Nov. 1, 1997
Opinion
In a visit with Times editors and reporters, Mary McAleese says Americas next president has electrified Europeans.
Dec. 23, 2008
Politics
Four of five candidates to succeed the first female president are women. They are icons of progress as a once poor and provincial land gains strength and status.
Oct. 16, 1997
Armed intervention has no place in this volatile region. Get a skilled negotiator.
July 1, 1998
Ireland’s Green Party voted overwhelmingly to back a coalition deal that puts it in a government for the first time and guarantees a third term for Prime Minister Bertie Ahern of the centrist Fianna Fail party.
June 14, 2007
Queen Elizabeth II and Irish President Mary McAleese shook hands on Northern Ireland soil, the first British monarch and Irish leader to do so.
Dec. 9, 2005
Queen Elizabeth II has sent her first St.
March 17, 2001
A group of child abuse experts summoned by Pope Francis to help tackle priestly abuse in the Roman Catholic Church has criticized remarks made by the pope himself in which he suggested that it was permissible for parents to spank their wayward children.
Feb. 7, 2015