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The world of Irish arts has lost one of its most prominent figures with the death last week of sculptor Eamonn O'Doherty. O'Doherty passed away in ...

After the withdrawal of Senator David Norris there is no openly gay candidate in the Irish presidential election. But there might be two candidates...

In times of trouble you need a good Irish cop. They might end up with one in London where there are rising calls for the job of Metropolitan Police...

The GAA player who ended up in a coma after being seriously injured in a game in San Francisco has awakened from his coma. Mark McGovern, 22, was r...

That there were death threats against the late Senator Edward Kennedy has long been a matter of public record. But there were even more than the re...

Another soccer player born in Northern Ireland has declared for the Republic of Ireland team. Derry City's James McClean, who is expected to sign f...

A Facebook site that called for people to post pictures of PSNI officers has been shutdown. The page entitled "Crown Forces Watch," was criticized ...

Two people, a man and a teenage boy, have been arrested by police after a shooting in West Belfast. The victim, who is 34, was shot in the ankle du...

The family of murdered Belfast lawyer Pat Finucane has accused the British government of stalling on a decision to hold a public inquiry into his m...

I'm in a hotel in Gweedore. Donegal have just come from behind to take a tense game from Kildare. The pints are flowing but the jet lag has finally...

There was a swearing in of new U.S. citizens in New York the other day and the question was put to the State Department if there were, by chance, a...

Thousands will take to the streets of Dublin this Sunday, August 14, to march for marriage equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender peop...