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Soccer-mad Ireland is fighting mad — and demanding justice for a disputed goal that had fans here crying "Oui were robbed."
Ireland appealed to France and FIFA on Thursday to replay their World Cup playoff after an obvious hand ball by Thierry Henry set up the deciding goal.
Ireland appealed to France and soccer authorities Thursday to replay their World Cup playoff after an obvious hand ball by Thierry Henry produced the winning goal.
A Northern Ireland filmmaker has won euro46,000 ($69,000) in damages after a judge ruled that his Irish island home was transformed into a parking lot while he was overseas for six years.
A premier Dublin golf club can continue to bar women from membership, the Irish Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in a discrimination case inspired by similar protests against men-only clubs in the United States.
A freed Irish aid worker held captive for three months in Darfur said Monday that her captors terrorized her and a Ugandan friend by repeatedly staging their mock executions using live gunfire.
The Irish National Liberation Army, an IRA splinter group responsible for some of the most notorious killings of the Northern Ireland conflict, renounced violence Sunday and signaled it could hand over weapons soon to disarmament officials.
Members of Ireland's environmentalist Green Party voted overwhelmingly on Saturday to stay in Prime Minister Brian Cowen's coalition government as it battles a runaway deficit, surging unemployment and crippled banks.
Ireland's senior Roman Catholic bishops on Wednesday met leading campaigners for thousands of children assaulted, terrorized or molested while in church care — but didn't address the victims' key demand for the church to admit its responsibility for overseeing decades of abuse.
The Rev. Aengus Finucane, a Roman Catholic missionary and Irish aid pioneer who braved civil wars and learned he must "fight like hell to do any good," died Tuesday, his charity announced. He was 77.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown pressed rival Catholic and Protestant leaders Monday to end the deadlock threatening their power-sharing government, the central pillar of Northern Ireland peacemaking.
Ireland's recession-hit voters have overwhelmingly approved the European Union's ambitious and long-delayed reform plans, electoral chiefs announced Saturday in a referendum result greeted with wild cheers in Dublin — and nervous sighs of relief in Brussels.
Frank Deasy made his living as the Emmy-winning author of gritty television dramas like "Prime Suspect." But with his final acts and words, the Dubliner inspired a nation to become organ donors — and may have saved scores of lives even as he lost his own.
Police in the British territory of Northern Ireland mounted increased checkpoints and patrols Tuesday as their new commander began his first day's work under the shadow of Irish Republican Army dissidents.
Ireland's unemployment rate has reached a 14-year high of 12.4 percent as the economy continues to unravel amid the recession, a property market depression and runaway debts, the Central Statistics Office reported Wednesday.
Prime Minister Brian Cowen lost his parliamentary majority Thursday after two lawmakers said they would ignore their party's voting instructions in a protest against cuts to cancer services.
The last two men imprisoned for Provisional IRA offenses won parole from prison Wednesday, closing another chapter in peacemaking — and reopening memories of a killing that infuriated much of Ireland.
Shares in Ireland's two biggest banks, Allied Irish Banks and Bank of Ireland, rose Friday as investors embraced the government's plans to form a "bad bank" that would take tens of billions' worth of dud loans off their books.
Ireland's next report into the cover-up of child abuse in the Catholic Church might be censored or delayed because its publication could undermine prosecutors' efforts to imprison pedophile priests, Justice Minister Dermot Ahern announced Friday.
Dubliners angry over the around-the-clock dismantling of U2's monumental concert stage mounted street protests Tuesday, threatening the Irish band's plans for the next stop on their European tour.
Irish no-frills airline Ryanair Holdings PLC reported surging first-quarter profits Monday, citing sharply lower fuel costs and a business model that thrives during recession. The company slashed its profit outlook, however, causing shares to slump.
Ireland has unveiled a plan to protect children better from abuse after investigators documented decades of chronic molestation and brutality in Catholic-run facilities for kids.
Bitterness over Frank McCourt's memoir "Angela's Ashes" still smolders in his hometown of Limerick. Residents of the western Irish city have never agreed whether his Pulitzer-winning account of childhood survival amid soul-crushing poverty was more fact than fiction.
Masked and hooded Belfast Catholics hurled gasoline bombs, fireworks and other makeshift weapons at police into the night as the most bitterly divisive day on the Northern Ireland calendar reached an ugly end.
Irish voters who rejected the European Union's Lisbon Treaty last year will be asked to vote again Oct. 2 on the EU's long-delayed blueprint for reform, the government announced Wednesday.
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