Mother and Baby homes: a legacy of cruelty and concealment
Irish society must “atone” for sending women to institutions and burying babies in unmarked graves, Leo Varadkar has said in response to last week’s...
Tributes pour in for journalist shot dead during Derry riots
Michael D. Higgins and figures across the political spectrum have paid their tributes to journalist Lyra McKee after she was murdered during riots in...
Mayo Council CEO ‘regrets’ removal of memorials to murdered Joe Deacy
By Damian Dolan
Mayo County Council Chief executive Peter Hynes said he “regrets” the removal of two roadside memorials to a murdered Gaelic footballer from Hertfordshire.
Joe...
May’s 2022 festival ‘likely to heighten tensions’ in NI
British prime minister Theresa May’s plan to throw a nationwide party celebrating British culture may “inflame tensions” in Northern Ireland since it is set...
Dublin man left seriously injured in Liverpool
A Dublin man remains in serious condition after sustaining head injuries after being attacked in Liverpool.
Robert Fitzpatrick, 42, from Finglas in Dublin, was...
Thousands of children in UK renew Irish passports
Almost 2,000 children’s passports have been renewed online from Britain since last November, Ireland’s department of foreign affairs has revealed.
Changes brought about last...
Blair and Ahern step in to ‘rescue’ Good Friday Agreement
Twenty-one years after the Good Friday Agreement Brexit is now the “most serious threat to peace in the North”, according to the two government...
Entire FAI board should be replaced, say Irish soccer fans in UK
The entire FAI board should be replaced for “disrespecting” fans amid the current crisis engulfing the association, supporters’ clubs in the UK have said....
Magazine criticised by ambassador for “anti-Irish sentiment”
Adrian O’Neill, Ireland’s Ambassador to the United Kingdom, has criticised a political magazine for lapsing “into an anti-Irish sentiment", alleging that recent articles about...
Man on a mission: Microwave charity hiker nearing fundraising target
Irishman’s fundraising hike around England with a microwave inspired by his baby Oisín nearing target
By Damian Dolan
An Irishman who is hitchhiking his way around...