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Tralee, County Kerry native, Brianne Murphy, is running for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives representing a district cenetered in Syracu...

You won't have to be in Dublin this Bloomsday to absorb the full James Joyce experience. The Irish writer will be celebrated on his famous day in t...

Ireland's finance minister, Michael Noonan, is in the U.S. this week working to pump up Ireland's image while at the same time working to lure more...

If only these walls could talk, goes the saying. Well, such a phenomenon might help Belfast's new lord mayor who is this week defending his decisio...

Move over Las Vegas! Take a hike down your own boardwalk Atlantic City! Two-Mile-Borris is getting into the game. An Bord Pleanála, the Irish plann...

Who will be the last one to die? How long now since John Kerry, a decorated hero, asked that question in relation to the Vietnam War as it lurched ...

Welcome to politics young man. Sinn Féin's recently elected lord mayor of Belfast, Niall Ó Donnghaile, more lad than lord by the look of various ph...

OFFALY COP REACHES TOP OF MT. EVEREST Fifty-eight-year-old Martin Byrne is back in his native South Offaly, after becoming the first member of An G...

The British Prime Minister has told MLAs at Stormont that Northern Ireland needs a "shared future, not a shared out future." David Cameron was spea...

The Irish Times has welcomed the move by Belfast political leaders to bring the North's corporate tax regime in line with, least close to or even l...

Sinn Féin's Paul Maskey has been elected as the new MP for West Belfast. Mr. Maskey, who celebrated his 44th birthday on the day of the poll, took ...

The United Nations Committee Against Torture has repeated its earlier requests for an independent investigation into the Magdalene Laundries abuse ...