Republic of Ireland

The writer Colm Toibin says the Catholic church “has no moral authority to speak on civil matters” ahead of Ireland’s gay marriage referendum.

The Prince of Wales and Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams shake hands and talk during a reception for the prince in the western Irish town of Galway.

This Friday Ireland goes to the polls to vote on the Marriage Equality Bill to decide whether to allow same-sex couples to marry with the same constitutional rights as couples of the opposite sex.

Voters in the Republic of Ireland will take part in a historic vote next week allowing the public to decide if same sex marriage can be allowed in a traditionally Catholic country, Neil Markey writes.

Parents of Karen Buckley are “absolutely heartbroken” after police confirm the human remains discovered near Glasgow are that of the missing student.

Footage obtained by Channel 4 News purports to show a masked Continuity IRA gunman firing shots from a pistol over a republican burial plot on Easter Saturday.

The Irish government rushes an emergency bill through parliament after a court decision strikes out a law prohibiting the possession of some drugs including ecstasy, ketamine and magic mushrooms.

Campaigners call for more action to clamp down on the tax avoidance of multi-national companies as tech giant Apple records the biggest quarterly profit in corporate history.

A ship crammed with migrants and abandoned by its crew arrives in the Italian port of Corigliano Calabro after being towed in by the Italian coastguard.

Margaret Thatcher didnt understand why Irish nationalists in Northern Ireland were seeking more rights and feared that allowing them to express their identity would provoke a British Asian uprising.

A controlled explosion is carried out on device found under soldier’s car in Northern Ireland, while a suspect device is found in a park in Cork

A woman who suffered a blood clot is being kept on life support in Ireland against her family’s wishes because there is a chance her baby could survive.

Gardaí police estimate that over 30,000 people attend a protest against the introduction of water charges in the Republic of Ireland.

A dominant presence in British politics for half a century, the Reverend Ian Paisley has died aged 88. He was a party leader, an MP and an MEP, and went on to become NI’s first minister in 2007.