This month is crunch time for the British government on one of the most prominent legal cases from the Northern Ireland ...

For centuries, Irish Catholics rigidly adhered to Lenten fast laws. Ash Wednesday and Good Friday were such strictly observed ...

When photographer Dorothea Lange, best known for her haunting series of images from the Depression era, chose Ireland as her subject in the 1950s, she was not very happy with the way the finished ...

Thomas Cahill, author of How the Irish Saved Civilization, talks to Patricia Harty. Thomas Cahill was born one of six children to a middleclass Irish family in the Bronx. He grew up in Queens, New ...

Irish entries with a Northern flavor at the Sundance Film Festival. Park City Utah, home of the increasingly popular Sundance Film Festival, is a long way from Belfast, Northern Ireland. The only ...

TWO men who committed sexual offences against two girls more than 25 years ago have been jailed. At Birmingham Crown Court on Tuesday, 64-year-old Paul Doyle was sentenced to six-and-a-half-years, ...

DRUGS and miniature mobile phones which were set to be smuggled into Irish prisons have been seized by gardaí. Officers investigating the smuggling of controlled drugs and contraband into Wheatfield, ...

THE Good Friday Agreement has been described as a “remarkable achievement” as the 27 th anniversary of its signing falls today. On April 10, 1981 the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement was signed by then ...

MORE than 300 Irish firms who export to the US have held one-to-one meetings with government advisors on how to weather the impact of Trump’s new trade tariffs. Enterprise Ireland has established a ...

TÁNAISTE Simon Harris has flown to the United States for talks to negotiate a solution between the EU and the US on tariffs. The latest round of President Donald Trump’s tariffs came into effect on ...

CANADA’S Prime Minister Mark Carney has found himself at the heart of a trade war with the United States. For Irish observers of the growing imbroglio, there’s added interest: three of Carney’s four ...

Colin Lacey reviews an eclectic mix of the latest albums on the Irish music scene. Twice as prolific as most performers half his age, Van Morrison shows no sign of slowing down after more than 30 ...