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Writer, actor and raconteur Malachy McCourt will be delivering a free lecture this Sunday, May 15 at the world headquarters of the Maryknoll missio...

Taoiseach Enda Kenny delivered a firm message during his whirlwind visit to New York last week that Ireland would rebuild its economy and its doors...

"Not one single day goes by without thoughts of our ten heroes of the 1981 Hunger Strike and the smashed hopes of the 1980 Strike," says Terry Kirb...

The DUP and Sinn Féin have been confirmed as the two largest parties in Northern Ireland after last week’s Assembly poll. The results see the DUP’s...

By Peter McDermott Genealogists were once the poor relations. Not anymore. A conference at Drew University will hear that the walls between family ...

It will now be a salute to victory as well as a fallen comrade. The news that U.S. Navy SEALS had taken out Osama Bin Laden at his compound in Paki...

On the eve of the 30th anniversary of the death of Bobby Sands on hunger strike the leader of IRA prisoners in the H-Blocks at that time has spoken...

Hundreds of gorse fires that have been raging across Northern Ireland since the weekend have been started deliberately according to the Northern Ir...

Taoiseach Enda Kenny is expected to soon announce his list of 11 nominees for membership of Seanad Éireann, according to government sources. It is ...

The Dáil resumed work this week after its two-week Easter break. A forthcoming jobs initiative, provisionally scheduled to be announced on May 10, ...

The body of an Irishwoman who died while scuba-diving in Australia two weeks ago has been returned to Ireland. Elaine Morrow's remains arrived at D...

Families who lost loved ones in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, have welcomed the attack on Osama bin Laden's compound and the death of th...