DUBLIN: A mass grave containing the remains of babies and young children has been discovered at a former Catholic orphanage in Ireland, government-appointed...
BLACKLION, Ireland: Hugh Maguire can’t believe the British really did it. The Northern Ireland farmer, like many residents along the United Kingdom’s...
Ireland's age-old political enemies struck a historic deal Friday night to create a fragile new government following an inconclusive election and two months...
When more than 800 people drowned last year on an overcrowded ship bound for Italy’s southernmost isle of Lampedusa, the European Union deployed a...
BUDAPEST: Thousands of exhausted, elated people fleeing their Arab and Asian homelands reached their dream destinations of Germany and Austria on Saturday,...
ZURICH: In the midst of an escalating financial scandal, FIFA admitted Thursday to giving Ireland $5 million in compensation for missing a place at the 2010...
DUBLIN: Ireland has voted resoundingly to legalize gay marriage in the world's first national vote on the issue, leaders on both sides of the Irish referendum...
DUBLIN: A central Provisional IRA figure in one of the outlawed group's most notorious killings has been shot to death in Belfast, residents and police said...
DUBLIN: Northern Ireland leaders reached agreement to sustain their troubled Catholic-Protestant government Tuesday following all-night Belfast talks that...
DUBLIN: Ireland is considering early recognition of Palestinian statehood as a possible tactic for kick-starting Middle East peace talks, the foreign minister...
DUBLIN: For most of his half-century in Northern Ireland politics, Ian Paisley was synonymous with two words: “No” and “Never.”The Protestant minister who...
DUBLIN: Albert Reynolds, the straight-talking Irish prime minister who played a key role in delivering peace to Northern Ireland but struggled to keep his own...
BELFAST: Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams remained in police custody for a third day Friday as detectives questioned him over his alleged role in the Irish...
DUBLIN: Ireland will exit its international bailout agreement next month without the safety net of a precautionary credit line, Prime Minister Enda Kenny...
DUBLIN: Bearing rosary beads and placards declaring "Kill the bill! Not the child," more than 35,000 anti-abortion activists marched Saturday through Dublin...
DUBLIN: Ryanair reported record profits Monday as Europe's largest budget airline relentlessly expanded its route network across the continent and into North...
ASHFORD, Ireland: If historical fiction guru Michael Hirst has his way, a legendary Viking raider named Ragnar soon will conquer North America on behalf of...
BELFAST: At Belfast City Hall, the flagpole is bare - and the streets are filled with nighttime fear and fury.These are dangerous times in Northern Ireland, a...
LONDON: Pioneering British physicist and astronomer Bernard Lovell, who developed one of the world's largest radio telescopes exploring particles in the...
LONDON: Leaders of the London Olympics have vowed to find out why blocks of seats at highly sought events are lying empty and said they might set up new...
Queen Elizabeth II arrived in Northern Ireland Tuesday to celebrate the British territory’s hard-won peace in a town that suffered one of the IRA’s worst...
DUBLIN: The Olympic flame arrived in Dublin on a cross-border peace mission Wednesday to celebrate Northern Ireland reconciliation and strong British-Irish...
DUBLIN: In the beginning there was Bono. And what a baby face he had. Photographs documenting the gritty beginnings of U2 in the smoky pubs and clubs of 1970s...
DUBLIN: The leader of Ireland's 4 million Catholics, Cardinal Sean Brady, faced renewed pressure to resign Wednesday after a BBC documentary accused him...
DUBLIN: Irish expressionist painter Louis le Brocquy, who was best known for abstract portraits of Ireland's literary and artistic stars, died Wednesday....