The death of Francis Hughes at the age of 25 on hunger strike in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh saw not the end of a legend but a new chapter in what was, by any measure, the story of one of the most fearless and tenacious guerrilla fighters of the 20th C...

There was huge interest among delegates to the presentation on the Triple Lock at last summer’s ICTU Global Solidarity School. As a result Dublin Council of Trade Unions organised a similar presentation for its delegates and a call for the Trade Un...

Sinn Fein MLA Gerry Kelly gave the main oration to a gathering of over 1,000 people in Scotstown, Co. Monaghan, to honour IRA Volunteer Séamus McElwain on the 40th anniversary of his death in a British SAS ambush.

5 May 1981 was one of the most defining days in Irish history. It was the day that Bobby Sands, the 27-year-old Member of Parliament for Fermanagh/South Tyrone, died on hunger strike in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh as part of the republican prisoners’...

24 April marks the 110th anniversary of the Easter Rising in Ireland, when Irish revolutionaries took on the might of the British empire and declared a national Republic. The Proclamation of the Republic itself was a revolutionary document which...

Gardaí have launched an investigation following a fatal road traffic collision in Co. Donegal which claimed the lives of two men this afternoon.

A County Tyrone man has appeared before a special court sitting in relation to alleged sexual offences involving a child.

The death has taken place of celebrated Donegal storyteller Packy Jim McGrath, whose stories and memories of life along the Border became known to audiences far beyond Ireland.

A serious road traffic collision has resulted in the closure of the N15 at Clar, Donegal Town, with motorists advised to avoid the area and seek alternative routes.

Omagh has been named one of the worst “tree deserts” with its population living without enough trees to protect from stress, ill health and air pollution, a report has found.