Shawn Pogatchnik

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Algerian in Jihad Jane plot faces US extradition

Shawn Pogatchnik · February 28, 2013 1:32 am

Spain's agriculture minister Miguel Arias Canete, left, talks with British Secretary of State for the Environment, Food, & Rural Affairs Owen William Paterson, during the EU agriculture ministers council at the European Council building in Brussels, Monday, Feb. 25, 2013. The European Union's agriculture ministers gathered in Brussels Monday to discuss the widening scandal's fallout, with some member states pressing for tougher rules to regain consumer confidence. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)

Horse a hidden ingredient in many European foods

Shawn Pogatchnik · February 25, 2013 5:00 am

Ireland sells Irish Life to Canada’s Lifeco

Shawn Pogatchnik · February 19, 2013 5:47 pm

Ireland seals ECB deal to slash bank bailout costs

Shawn Pogatchnik · February 7, 2013 9:29 pm

Ireland dissolves ‘bad bank’ in midnight debt move

Shawn Pogatchnik · February 7, 2013 7:04 am

Ireland readies deal to ease costs of bank bailout

Shawn Pogatchnik · February 6, 2013 5:00 am

‘Horseburger’ firm blames 170 tons of Polish meat

Shawn Pogatchnik · February 5, 2013 10:00 pm

The interior of the now derelict Sisters of Our Lady of Charity Magdalene Laundry, in Dublin, Ireland, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013. An expert panel has found that Ireland should be legally responsible for workhouses run by Catholic nuns that once kept thousands of women and teenage girls against their will in unpaid, forced labor. Tuesday's report analyzing the defunct Magdalene Laundries found state authorities committed about one-quarter of 10,012 women to the workhouses from 1922 to 1996, often in response to school truancy or homelessness. Ireland stigmatized them as "fallen" women -- prostitutes -- but most were simply unwed mothers or daughters of them. The report found that 15 percent lived in the workhouses for more than five years, and police caught and returned women who fled. They endured 12-hour work days of washing and ironing. Tuesday's findings could pave the way for a state apology and payments to survivors. (AP Photo/Julien Behal, PA) UNITED KINGDOM OUT

Report: Ireland oversaw harsh Catholic laundries

Shawn Pogatchnik · February 5, 2013 5:00 am

Ireland: Test shows Polish ‘beef’ 75 pct horsemeat

Shawn Pogatchnik · February 4, 2013 10:39 pm

Suppliers, grocers turning to DNA testing on meat

Shawn Pogatchnik · January 30, 2013 5:00 am

Sinn Fein says sorry for IRA killing of Irish cops

Shawn Pogatchnik · January 29, 2013 10:45 pm

Ireland won’t ease drunken-driving law for farmers

Shawn Pogatchnik · January 24, 2013 6:48 pm