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A priest from Derry has offered to meet the Real IRA in an attempt to persuade members of the group to abandon violence. Fr. Michael Canny made the...

A wise Irishwoman once said, "Get to the heart of the issue, then all your problems will seem a lot simpler." Though she gave this advice in relati...

Easter is a very special time. A time for family. A time especially for children. New "Easter" clothes have been bought and there are the chocolate...

Police investigating parcel bombs sent to Glasgow Celtic's Irish-born manager Neil Lennon are appealing for a couple in their early 20s to come for...

Ireland's leading Catholic prelate, Cardinal Seán Brady, is to attend the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton in London's Westminste...

Dissident republicans will never be the IRA. That was the uncompromising message from former IRA hunger striker Pat Sheehan as he addressed the ann...

Fine Gael MEP Maireád McGuinness has announced that she will seek the party's nomination for the Irish presidency. McGuinness, a former journalist ...

During her 25 years at Rikers Island, Sr. Margaret McCabe has met many troubled young men, but one, a boy called Augustine, stands out. His mother ...

Transport Minister Leo Varadkar is planning to close down some of the small cargo ports around the country. In an interview with the Irish Independ...

Brian Lenihan has claimed that he warned the European Union's institutions of the risk of social unrest in Ireland if the budgetary adjustments wer...

The British army has decided not to accept an offer from Belfast City Council for the Royal Irish Regiment to march through Belfast in a "homecomin...

Prof. Max Watson, one of the world's leading experts in palliative care, is in New York this week to launch "A Matter of Life and Death: An initiat...