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Further unrest on the streets of the North has been caused by the removal of flags in loyalist areas. Last week saw yet more rioting, as a 100-stro...

A teenager from Derry City is feared dead after falling off a pier in a small County Donegal fishing village. Divers have been carrying out a searc...

Against the backdrop of local fury over the Irish government's decision to close the accident and emergency unit at Roscommon Hospital, artist Robe...

George Kimball had a glass eye. Oddly enough, that wasn't the first thing you noticed when he would barrel through the door of The Bells of Hell. I...

Now that Anthony Weiner's New York ambitions have turned to dust attention is turning increasingly to City Council Speaker Christine Quinn. "Eying ...

The "Ireland America: The Ties That Bind" exhibition at Lincoln Center attempts an almost impossible task at its entrance: put Ireland in historica...

The bill for the visits of President Barack Obama and Queen Elizabeth to the Republic was €40 million, almost double the previous estimate. Several...

Passengers on a weekend flight between Britain and Ireland escaped injury after the plane's nose wheel failed on landing. Aer Arann, which was oper...

A new dress code ruling that would have compelled TDs to wear a "tailored jacket and a collared shirt" in the Déil have been consigned to the close...

The 2011 Women of Concern Awards were recently held in New York at the Jumeirah Essex House. This year's recipient of the Women of Concern Humanita...

The Sinn Féin mayor of Cashel, who caused a stir within and outside his party when he shook hands with the queen during her recent visit to the Cou...

The phenomenon that is golfers from Ireland winning majors just keeps rolling along. And if we might be running low on superlatives, there is only ...