Republic of Ireland

The IRA’s former chief of staff Martin McGuinness says he would be willing to meet the Queen if he succeeds in his bid to become president of Ireland.

The Vatican rejects “unfounded” accusations made in the Irish parliament in July that it tried to cover up child sex abuse by priests and interfered in Irish laws.

The Vatican labels reaction to an inquiry into child abuse in the Catholic church “excessive” after recalling the Pope’s ambassador to Ireland.

Belfast was trouble-free on Wednesday night after two preceding days of rioting.

A 20-year-old woman from Dublin with cystic fibrosis makes medical history after coming through a complex double lung transplant.

Brian Lenihan, the finance minister who led Ireland through the financial crisis, has died at the age of 52. He passed away at home surrounded by his family after a battle with pancreatic cancer.

President Obama delivers a rabble-rousing speech to huge crowds in Ireland after visiting Moneygall, the hometown of his Irish ancestors, as Channel 4 News correspondent Andy Davies reports.

The Queen offers her “deep sympathy” for those who suffered as a result of the troubled past and “regrettable reality” of Britain and Ireland but stopped short of an apology.

The Queen lays a poppy wreath at a memorial in Dublin in tribute to Ireland’s war dead. She will also visit Croke Park – where British forces shot dead 14 people in 1920.

The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh are served a pint of Guinness on day two of their visit to Ireland – but the royal couple resist the temptation to try Ireland’s most famous export.

The Queen has made an historic visit to Croke Park in Dublin. The stadium was the scene of a massacre in 1920 when British troops killed 14 innocent people inside the ground.