The Irish question — the 21st century version of it, not the one that so vexed Victorian statesmen — has been settled. Ireland’s Oct. 2 referendum vote in...

Walk through Gort in western Ireland any weekday morning and you see them standing around in twos and threes. As many as 20 men will be waiting in the town square...

Pupils in a Irish school are being asked to bring their own toilet paper to school to help offset funding cutbacks. The principal of St John’s Girls National...

Only 16 months after rejecting it the first time, voters in Ireland have overwhelmingly approved a wide-ranging treaty to overhaul how the European Union is run and to...

It’s been a long time since passengers have been allowed to smoke on an airliner in the United States. It’s the same story in Europe. But now the smoking crowd...

‘Yes’ camp’s funding under fire as second Irish vote on Lisbon treaty looms Irish ‘yes’ camp funding attacked as vote looms Ryanair, Intel and lobbyists under...

A judge in the Republic of Ireland was accidentally shot in the face by a solicitor who was trying to demonstrate that an air pistol was harmless. Judge John Neilan...

The mayor of an Irish town where boxing legend Muhammad Ali’s great-grandfather hailed from has warned about housing policies that could lead to a ‘glut of...

The Irish government faces a tough battle to get the EU’s Lisbon Treaty ratified in a referendum next month, the country’s foreign minister says. Micheal...

A key gauge of Ireland’s economic health isn’t found in the island nation’s business districts or trading floors, but on the football fields of the...

I recently wrote about how fmr. Irish President Mary Robinson will be awarded the highest civilian honor in the United States: the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Such...

Several rioters and at least nine officers were injured, none seriously, when Irish nationalists in Ardoyne, a militant Catholic enclave of north Belfast, tried to...

He came to the United States in 1996 to paint houses and work in construction. Like many of his fellow Irishmen, he returned home soon after to ride the Celtic Tiger,...

A man has died and more than 150 people have taken ill on board a cruise liner berthed in Invergordon, Easter Ross. The vomiting bug, norovirus, is thought to have...

Two boys, aged 15 and 16, were arrested today in raids on two houses in south Belfast in connection with racist attacks against Romanians. More than 100 Romanians fled...

EU talks on the Lisbon Treaty have been marred by a rift over demands made by the Republic of Ireland - which rejected the treaty in a 2008 vote. Irish PM Brian Cowen...

More than 100 Romanians evacuated from their homes in Belfast following a sustained campaign of racist intimidation and violence were last night in emergency...

More than 100 Romanians fleeing racist attacks in Belfast have been moved to a council-run leisure centre after taking refuge overnight in a church. The 115 Romanians...

Ireland’s consumer-price index fell 4.7% in May from a year ago, by far the sharpest of price drops across Europe and the worst here since 1933. Inflation has...

Thousands of children were physically and sexually abused by priests and nuns in orphanages and reform schools in Ireland from 1930 to 1990, a government commission...