On Sunday, it was reported that 42-year-old Clarke won his first major at the Open Championship at Royal St George’s. The same title was won by Fred Daly. Fred Daly has won the Open Championship in 1947 and thus it was
observed that the Open Championship has returned to Royal Portrush.

On Tuesday, in the press conference, Clarke has represented his gold medal to the captain of the club, Philip Tweedie and Philip told that this medal will be placed besides Fred Daly’s medal and the title has returned to Royal
Portrush after so many years.

A deal has been struck between the Musgrave Group and Superquinn. Musgrave, Ireland has apparently bought the huge supermarket chain named Superquinn and is of the view that they are going to make huge benefits out of the same.

It seems that Vatican’s plans to reform and reduce the number of Irish dioceses have started coming into action. Following the publication of the Cloyne Report last week, six of the 26 dioceses will have to suffice with no bishop following their oust.

According to the news, it was reported that in a riot, around 100 protesters attacked the police with petrol bombs and crashed a hijacked bus into a vehicle injuring six police officials in Northern Ireland on Sunday.

Police officials tried to calm the protestors. They used plastic bullets and used water cannon to control the crowd in the mainly Protestant town of Ballyclare, 20 kilometers north of Belfast. There were no injured people reported in this attack.

As per the sources, it was found out that all the efforts of the government to rebuild investors were flushed when it faces a new threat. Portugal fears that Ireland could be the next country as it makes return in the private markets.

This downgrade on Portugal has heavily criticized by EU leaders who have led to a new spike in notional Irish borrowing costs as fresh doubt was cast over the effort to bring the sovereign debt crisis under control. Analyst in Dublin has reported that Ireland was likely to be the next country to see its sovereign debt rating downgraded to junk status.

The IMF and EU agencies will be making €9bn (£8.1bn) profit by the existence of the loans drawn down to Ireland.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan, exposed that the international organizations will be able to take a hefty amount once the €85bn in loans will be drawn down.

It has been announced that the body that looks after the paramilitary decommissioning in Northern Ireland is not going to publish any record that shows as to how many and what kind of arms has been destroyed by it.

But it surely is going to issue its final report on Monday. Name of the body is Independent International Commission on Decommissioning (IICD). The list was supposed to be given to the British and Irish government.

Breeding of red kites has been affected badly because of the harsh weather conditions. The authorities informed that all the plans to increase the bird population were hurt where 4 out of nine pairs that were kept for breeding turned unsuccessful.

This happened because of the storms that happened in the region during May. Because of heavy winds, the nests of the pairs were blown over and that is why the birds could not lay their eggs.

If anybody considers that there is a lot of entrepreneurial spirit in Ireland then they are totally and absolutely misguided. And no policy should be made keeping this misconception in mind, claimed an official.

There is no doubt that Ireland is one of the most industrialized nation of the developed world and industries alone account for 31 per cent of the GDP in 2009. But when taken into comparison with the EU area then it is only a quarter of the output of that region.

As per a report, the local health authorities have spent close to £100 million in trying to fill in the gap made because of lack of doctors at the hospitals. The report was made by the Northern Ireland Audit office (NIAO).

It advised that saving to the amount of £5 million could be made if at all the problem of shortage of doctors in the system. One of the solutions could be with the help of locums, who are doctors taken in for serving on a temporary basis.