It's nothing personal. Ireland was just one country among many. The individual interests of every country couldn't be protected in such a loose framework agreement Of course VDL naturally was inclined ...

2 June 1567: The death of Shane O Neill on this day. The MacDonnells of Antrim murdered him after he sought refuge amongst them following his defeat at the Battle of Farsetmore. Séan the Proud/An ...

Just back from doing the shopping in Lidl. While I was there, I noticed some incredibly juicy-looking pomegranates. I thought they looked a bit out of season - in fact they looked unnaturally juicy, ...

Here, as countries around the world celebrate International Women’s Day on March 8th, we present a portrait of 25 Irish women who have provided leadership, instigated change and bought hope to others ...

The Population of Ireland from Ancient Times until the Great Famine Last year I attended a tour of the National Museum in Kildare St, Dublin. The tour guide stated that Ireland was 'underpopulated' in ...

An interview on Newstalk earlier today exposed the lack of transparency on when water facilities would be made available from the monopoly Irish Water for a housing project. News reports suggest such ...

Amazon has cancelled a planned industrial plant due to a lack of power supply, according to Newstalk. I think they said industrial plant on Newstalk. I think it was to make servers for data centres.

The Irish Times published a useful guide to the first time voter in Wedneday's edition. However, as part of it, Patrick Smyth's attempted to explain how the quota is worked out. He gave the formula ...

He's a white British man in his 50s from the Liverpool area I doubt you will hear anymore until he's in court like any other time a criminal incident takes place sometimes you need to say something to ...

Ayman Odeh is the leader of Hasash which styles itself a joint Jewish-Arab Party (he comes from a Muslim background but went to a Christian school and identifies as a vague Theist rather than either ...

I'm surprised that they want to site that sort of a factory here. Server racks are just Ironmongery so I'd have thought that low skilled work like that would be done where labour is cheapest. The fact ...

It is a pity few people do not spot "kayfabe" when they see it. Trump will do his strut about his brilliant deal, but he did the same thing about his "Japan Deal". And the Japanese deny it is what he ...