Nike released two shoes in advance of St. Patrick's Day: the Guinness, and the Black and Tan. But some Irish took offence to the latter because of its referral to an anti-Irish Republican Army paramilitary unit, and vented their frustration on social media.

British army experts have defused a 275-kilogram van bomb on the Northern Ireland border, the largest such bomb in more than a year linked to Ulster's Irish Republican Army die-hards.