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The GAA has announced that the firm Mott MacDonald, who have built some the world's leading sports arenas, including the Aviva Stadium in Dublin an...

A dissident republican paramilitary-style funeral has prompted garda to announce a crackdown on terrorist groups such as the Real IRA. The move fol...

The path to the United States Supreme Court is a winding one and there is no certainty that the nine justices will end up considering the tangled l...

Three leading Irish American organizations supporting the campaign to have withdrawn the subpoenas directed at Boston College in the Troubles archi...

Clearly the luck of the Irish isn't up to the year that's soon to be in it. The Irish government is reportedly set to introduce a new license-plate...

Campaigners against "barbaric" blood sports such as fox hunting are planning a mass rally in Dublin to call for tougher laws. The government is pre...

COLOURFUL TD Mick Wallace could face trouble if he tries to return to a group representing independent members of the Irish parliament. Wallace, fa...

A leading Ulster Unionist is expected to announce he is leaving the party after controversial comments he made on homosexuality. Ken Maginnis, now ...

At this stage it's something of a political hardy annual, though perhaps more annual than hardy. Sinn Féin is the latest Irish political party to p...

Like me, many young Irish people considering university options at this time of year will no doubt have mulled over the fantasy of university abroa...

The medals were comparatively small and came in gold, silver and bronze varieties. The trophy was silver and huge. The combination electrified an I...

BOSTON --- James "Whitey" Bulger, the 82-year-old Irish-American mobster who is charged with participating in 19 murders, will take the stand in hi...