Place: Balkans’

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

Extremists demand a very tough response

When a hedgehog feels threatened, it rolls itself in a tight ball offering its attacker a choice: risk injury by trying to penetrate its sharp defences, or move along and find something else to do. 

Sat, 09 Jan, 2016

It’s time for the Balkan Riviera

MONTENEGRO, roughly the size of Northern Ireland gained independence in 2006 and confronted a readymade identity crisis. Few people actually knew where it was, apart from a hazy notion that this obscure place was hidden somewhere within the former Yugoslavia.

Sun, 14 Apr, 2013

Explosives used in London bombings ‘originated in the Balkans’

THE BALKANS were last night being named as the possible source of the explosive material used in the London bombings.

Thu, 14 Jul, 2005

Military police return from Sarajevo

THE last contingent of military police to serve in Sarajevo arrived home yesterday but the Irish defence force is preparing to increase its commitment to the Balkans’ region.

Fri, 24 Jan, 2003