“Prime minister Netanyahu, the Irish people could not be clearer. We are repulsed by your actions.”
Simon Harris delivered a strong message during his ardfheis speech in Galway today. Video courtesy Fine Gael.
Irish Times exit poll suggests that the margin of victory for the Yes side in the referendum will be 68 per cent to 32 per cent – a stunning victory for the Yes side after a long and often divisive campaign.
Miriam Lord: ❝ The Irish people have taken ownership of their abortion issue. They have taken it out of the hands of unrepresentative lobby groups and celibate clerics and decided how they want to approach it.
Alanna Quinn-Idris: ‘I am half white and I am half black, but if I had been a white Irish girl, and these boys hadn’t been white, then my assault would have been more of an issue I think for a lot of people’
A letter from EU staff members with 842 signatures has accused the European Commission of giving ‘a free hand to acceleration and legitimacy of a war crime’ in Gaza
Dublin has been ranked worst for public transport among 30 European capital cities by Greenpeace, based on affordability and simplicity for users in purchasing tickets
Sinn Féin has surged into first place in the general election race, with a quarter of all likely voters now saying they intend to vote for the party, according to the latest Irish Times/Ipsos MRBI opinion poll.
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All British and Irish citizens born in Northern Ireland will be be treated as EU citizens for immigration purposes, the government has announced after a landmark court case
At a protest today, RTÉ employees including education correspondent Emma O'Kelly and political correspondent Paul Cunningham have expressed anger at the revelations of secret payments made to Ryan Tubridy.
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Young artist Charley Bell (17) from Belfast has been chosen as overall winner of this year’s Texaco Children’s Art competition for her portrait in coloured pencils, entitled Anticipation. Here are a selection of winning entries from the competition 👇
Israel is carrying out a “disinformation campaign” against the UN Palestinian refugee agency and one country “must not be allowed to undermine” the organisation’s “life-saving mandate” in the Gaza Strip, the Tánaiste has said
Fianna Fáil Cllr Uruemu Adejinmi has been elected as Mayor of Longford County Council, marking a series of firsts for the county, as she is the first migrant, first African and first black female to become Mayor
'I think I will be living with my parents until the end of time if I don't leave Ireland': Many young people feel they have little hope of ever owning their own home. Video: Jack White
President Michael D Higgins has condemned the “obsession” with achieving economic growth in a speech on Friday that was implicitly critical of the economic policies pursued by successive governments.
A GAA club in Uganda has issued an appeal to Irish clubs for second-hand helmets, boots, football gloves and jerseys for dozens of local schoolchildren who have fallen in love with hurling and football.
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A young Dublin drugs courier who lost a bag containing €40,000 of cocaine phoned a Garda station to report it missing, Cork Circuit Criminal Court has heard.
John Major: 'To [some] Irish demand for a backstop is a bogus ploy to keep the UK in the customs union. In truth, a backstop is a vital national interest for Ireland and the UK'
An Israeli software company that employs 500 staff in Dublin encouraged its employees to create content supporting “Israel’s narrative” in the country’s conflict with Hamas militants in Gaza, leaked internal messages show
A plane carrying two million face masks and 32,000 surgical gowns for Irish healthcare workers, purchased by rock band U2, landed at Dublin Airport from China on Sunday morning
In a strongly worded statement, Michael D Higgins also said international bodies – including the European Union – who “remain silent” or “allow their messages to have ambiguous construction have a responsibility to commit to vindicating international law”
Father-of-two Caio Benício intervened in the knife attack at a school on Parnell Square, in which three children and a woman were injured. Video: Enda O'Dowd and Isobel Boechat
An Irishman's Diary on a family whose traditional thatched home burned down last month. Locals have clubbed together to rebuild it. None of the reconstruction team asked for any payment, only a regular supply of tea
Gardaí will now have the power to arrest and detain those who breach the restrictions. This includes those found exercising beyond 2km from their homes or those travelling for non-essential reasons
Fintan O’Toole: If Gaza were part of Ukraine and Israel were Russia, the United States would be at the forefront of international outrage. The only consistency we get is the dreary persistence of shameless inconsistency.
One of Dublin’s biggest restaurant groups has threatened the Government with legal action if it extends coronavirus restrictions on pubs and restaurants in the capital beyond October 10th
“Violence against women and girls is one of the most widespread, persistent and devastating human rights violations in our world today,” President Higgins said.
Irish Times Exit Poll: The size of the victory predicted by the exit poll leaves little doubt that, whatever the final count figures, the constitutional ban on abortion, inserted in a referendum in 1983, is set to be repealed.
Donegal, Cavan and Monaghan would be reconnected to the national rail network for the first time in decades under proposals set out in the new all-island rail review
The head of the WHO has urged the world not to forget the humanitarian crisis in Tigray, saying that even amid the war in Ukraine there is “nowhere on Earth” where people are more at risk than the isolated region of northern Ethiopia
Cillian Murphy has been named best actor at the 96th Academy Awards for his performance as the eponymous father of the atomic bomb in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. He becomes, after Daniel Day-Lewis, the second Irish citizen to win that award for lead performance.…