Republic of Ireland

The Irish poet Seamus Heaney, winner of the Nobel prize for literature, has died at the age of 74. Poet Simon Armitage tells Channel 4 News “it feels like the end of an era”.

The body of Henryk Piotrowski, who had been sleeping unnoticed in an industrial bin, was found at a Dublin recycling plant.

Melissa Reid, 19, and Michaella McCollum Connolly, 20, are being held in custody in Lima on suspicion of drug trafficking after they were stopped from boarding a flight to Madrid.

Police have charged six of the seven people arrested during riots in Belfast on Friday evening but tensions remain high over an IRA commemoration.

Supporters of dissident republican groups march to protest against ‘internment by remand’ provoking anger from loyalist communities.

As the Irish Sun breaks with tradition and scraps page three, UK lads mags are facing an identity crisis with dropping sales and ultimatums from supermarkets.

The Irish parliament legalises abortion for the first time – but only in cases where the mother’s life is at risk from the pregnancy.

Two games into the three-match series, the British and Irish Lions are up by a point and Australia are one try ahead. After a week dominated by Brian O’Driscoll’s omission, how will it end?

Embarrassing conversations between former executives of Anglo Irish Bank, which was rescued by the taxpayer after running into trouble, are leaked to a Dublin newspaper.

The first rugby union test between the British and Irish Lions and the Wallabies is upon us. Can the 2013 squad emulate the 1989 Lions in Australia to become one of the greatest touring sides ever?

US President Barack Obama is given a warm welcome as G8 leaders descend on Northern Ireland.

The Northern Ireland G8 summit has seen £50m put into security preparations. With 3,600 officers brought in from across the UK for back-up, protesters are saying the operation is over the top.

The music that was the backdrop to Portugal’s transition to democracy almost 40 years ago is making a comeback on the streets of Europe, as 20-year-old Portuguese student Joao Lima writes.

As England play Ireland for the first time in 18 years, Roy Hodgson has written to Three Lions fans asking them to avoid chants about the IRA.

John Anthony Downey is charged with the murders of four soldiers in the IRA’s notorious Hyde Park bombing in London 31 years ago.