British army experts have defused a roadside bomb planted by Irish Republican Army dissidents in Northern Ireland four days after finding it.

Aer Lingus Group PLC is planning up to 1,500 job cuts, Ireland’s SIPTU trade union said Tuesday.

Ireland’s finance minister says the European Union is mulling increasing government guarantees for private savings in banks across the 27-nation bloc.

The crisis in Northern Ireland’s power-sharing government deepened Thursday as Protestant leaders defeated plans for an all-Ireland summit.

One of the diagnoses of why the Great Depression was so bad is that countries engaged in “competitive devaluation” — weakening their exchange rates to make...

The Central Statistics Office (CSO) said gross domestic product (GDP) had contracted by 0.5% in the three months to the end of June.The economy had shrunk by 0.3% in...

Miroslav Havel, for more than four decades the chief designer for Waterford Glass, has died at age 86.

A judge charged a third Protestant on Wednesday with murdering a Catholic journalist who had specialized in covering Northern Ireland’s paramilitary underworld.

Shares on the Irish Stock Exchange fell 8 percent Tuesday to an 11 1/2-year low, driven by fears over the profitability of Ireland’s property-exposed banks amid a...

Police have arrested a 20-year-old man on suspicion of stealing dead animals from a veterinary hospital morgue and stuffing them into empty lockers at a Bay Area high...

The son of a one-time local leader in the Sinn Fein party was charged in Northern Ireland on Friday with possessing explosives, ammunition and other illegal equipment...

Shares in Ryanair Holdings PLC rose Thursday after Europe’s leading budget airline raised its outlook for this fiscal year, forecasting it would break even,...

A Waterford man told police his crack cocaine habit drove him to steal nearly 250 empty beer cans from a 7-Eleven store.

Two Protestant extremists were charged Tuesday with the 2001 assassination of an investigative journalist in Northern Ireland _ the only killing of a reporter during...

The remnants of Hurricane Ike swept into the Midwest Sunday with powerful winds and flooding that were being blamed for at least 13 deaths. Thousands have been...

The remnants of Hurricane Ike swept into the Midwest Sunday with powerful winds and flooding that were being blamed for at least 14 deaths. Thousands have been...

The remnants of Hurricane Ike swept into the Midwest Sunday with powerful winds and flooding that were being blamed for at least 12 deaths. Thousands have been...

A father and son drowned in northwest Indiana while trying to rescue children from a flooded ditch as heavy rains from the remnants of Hurricane Ike forced hundreds of...

Ireland’s majestic sail-training ship, the Asgard II, sank mysteriously off the French coast Thursday, but its 25 passengers and crew escaped safely on...

Irish beer giant Guinness is going back to its country roots.