Irish people


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Noun1.Irish people - people of Ireland or of Irish extractionIrish people - people of Ireland or of Irish extraction
nation, country, land - the people who live in a nation or country; "a statement that sums up the nation's mood"; "the news was announced to the nation"; "the whole country worshipped him"
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IN just under three weeks Irish people will vote on whether the four-year wait to apply for a divorce should be cut to two.
Hanan Ashrawi in a recorded video on Tuesday called on the Irish people to reject the importation of any settlement products.
They have been overwhelmed by the support of Irish people after their only daughter's murder.
M2 EQUITYBITES-December 27, 2016-Aer Lingus captures homecomings of Irish people
AT least 179 Irish people have been left stranded in Egypt amid terrorism fears.
"The Irish people have begun to lose confidence in politics and in the political process," he said.
THE Irish people have spoken and they have made clear that they do not want a Treaty that takes so many powers from the countries of Europe and gives it to distant institutions in Brussels.
IRISH people living in Coventry are experiencing greater health problems than those born and brought up in the city, a report has revealed It highlighted the widespread and persistent rate of continuing ill-health among the local Irish community.
IRISH people have topped a new study on drinking in Europe by knocking back almost WICE as much alcohol as our neighbours in a year.
Mr Rogers jokes about Irish people wanting to rejoin the United Kingdom.
He said: "Forty years ago, Irish people came over to Britain with literally muscle and brawn to offer.
`In a moment of heightened awareness and deep emotion which I have never been able to explain in rational terms, I realized that there would never be peace in Ireland until there was an expression of sorrow for all the hurt and injustice that had been done to the Irish people. I was equally certain that the primary obligation for that sorrow, and its public expression, lay first and foremost with Britain.'

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