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It was perhaps inevitable that in the recent announcement of eleven new members of the Irish Senate by Taoiseach Enda Kenny there was neither sight...

Controversial comments about pedophilia have come back to haunt the man tipped to be Ireland and Europe's first openly gay president. The remarks w...

The Molloy College Irish Studies Institute is this weekend hosting a discussion focusing on the 30th anniversary of the "Great Irish Hunger Strike....

The U.S. State Department is reportedly investigating just how more than 20,000 people were wrongly told that that they had been selected as finali...

The tricolor that flew over O'Connell Street's General Post Office during the Easter Rising in 1916 will be given today to the American Irish Histo...

A Galway man unemployed for almost a year has used an innovative strategy in an attempt to find a new job. Féilim Mac An Iomaire from Connemara, wh...

It isn't always Ireland of the welcomes. Former Fianna Fáil minister Brendan Smith signed 200 deportation orders on the cabinet's last day in offic...

A river weir in which two men drowned on a canoeing trip is impassable, accident investigators have found. Experts reviewing the deaths of Philip K...

The Team Youghal cycling team has launched its planned "Race Across America Cycle" in the County Cork town, famous as the setting for the classic 1...

The Maureen O'Hara Classic Film Festival is set to roll next week and will run from June 17 to 26. The festival will open on Friday June 17 in The ...

A $1 million campaign honoring the name of the late Frank McCourt is aiming to underpin the Frank McCourt Chair in Creative Writing at the Universi...

He may be one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in the world, but the founder of a major social networking site managed to recently travel ar...