Limburg
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Church is running out of reasons not to ordain women
- Opinion
- February 16, 2021, 01:00
Pope Francis recently announced that he would remove the phrase “lay men” from Canon 230 and replace it with “lay persons”. This change to the church’(...)

Dutch PM rules out calling in the army after anti-lockdown riots
- Europe
- January 25, 2021
The Netherlands’ caretaker prime minister, Mark Rutte, has ruled out calling in the army to impose order after two nights of violent weekend rioting b(...)

Traffic pollution linked with coronavirus spread in Netherlands
- Europe
- July 16, 2020, 17:09
A new report by a UK university has revealed the cause of the Netherlands’s two worst concentrations of Covid-19 as the reaction of the infection with(...)

Dutch GPs asked to add to coronavirus death records
- Europe
- April 15, 2020, 18:55
Family doctors in the Netherlands have been asked to keep a register of deaths they believe may have been caused by Covid-19 in an attempt to suppleme(...)

Executed for spying – An Irishman’s Diary on Timothy Quinlisk
- Opinion
- February 18, 2020, 00:01
Roger Casement’s visit to Limburg prisoner-of-war camp in late 1914 and early 1915 was an extraordinarily fruitless enterprise. Casement’s task was o(...)

Eight injured after suspected truck attack in Germany
- Europe
- October 8, 2019, 14:49
A Syrian man has been arrested on suspicion of hijacking a truck and ramming it into traffic in western Germany, injuring eight people, prosecutors s(...)

Ireland’s first World War veterans: Shunned, ostracised, murdered
- Heritage
- November 10, 2018
January 21st, 1919 was an auspicious day in Irish history. The War of Independence started when men from the 3rd Tipperary Brigade of the Irish Volunt(...)

French and Belgian fans meet in Dublin for World Cup showdown
- Irish News
- July 10, 2018, 23:00
Hundreds of French and Belgian soccer fans crowded into Dtwo nightclub on Harcourt Street, in Dublin city centre, to watch their teams face off in the(...)

German village to commemorate Irish prisoners of war
- Irish News
- June 3, 2017, 12:27
A German village is to host a commemoration event on Sunday to remember the thousands of Irish prisoners of war incarcerated there during the first Wo(...)

Geert Wilders: far-right populist who paints himself as an outsider
- Europe
- February 17, 2017, 17:24
The most depressing thing about the controversial suggestion by Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte recently that immigrants who no longer like living in (...)