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[caption id="attachment_67272" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="The Burns Library at Boston College."][/caption] Great Britain is using two...

[caption id="attachment_67230" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Pat Finucane was gunned down in his Belfast home in 1989. The murder was witnessed ...

Donegal and Derry will showcase as hubs of creativity and culture at the annual Golden Bridges events in Boston, hosted by the Irish Echo newspaper...

[caption id="attachment_67217" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Liam Adams"][/caption] Liam Adams, brother of Sinn Féin president Gerry Ada...

A five-year-old girl has been killed in a suspected arson attack on a house in County Roscommon. The alarm was raised shortly after 2.30 a.m. Monda...

GAA footballer Mark McGovern's misfortune at least occurred in a fortunate place. McGovern ended up in a coma after an incident involving another p...

[caption id="attachment_67210" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Assistant Commissioner Fintan Fanning, who led the Garda GAA Club trip to N...

It's prone to technical error, under fire from critics in Congress, and not overly generous to the Irish. Still, for most Irish with the ambition t...

The decision to cut air passenger duty for long-haul flights from Belfast to the U.S. has been welcomed by politicians and business leaders. Air pa...

[caption id="attachment_67202" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Shaun Woodward."][/caption] The British government has been urged to live u...

[caption id="attachment_67198" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Chris Kelly"][/caption] "Sunlight pouring across your skin, your shadow Fla...

The candidacy of Martin McGuinness for the Irish presidency was announced on a Friday evening, too late for the Sunday Independent team of columnis...