Irish military neutrality is greatly valued. It has enhanced the reputation of our peacekeepers overseas and allowed Ireland to remain a voice for peace, dialogue and the international rules based order. We are a small nation, on the outskirts of Eur...

BY the autumn of 1976, the armed conflict in the Six Counties had been ongoing for seven years. The widespread imprisonment, ill-treatment and, in some cases, torture of nationalists by the British state fuelled the conflict and, as so often in Irish...

The Easter Rising in 1916 was a pivotal event in Ireland’s history. It is the story that we grew up hearing, those who died that Easter time are the heroes that stilled our childhood play.

Earlier this month the mass funeral of 112 Palestinians, mostly women and children, brought again into sharp focus the scale of the genocide in the Gaza Strip. Only days ago, another mass funeral of 50 took place.  Those buried were recovered from ...

August 20th marks the death of Michael Devine, the 10th republican hunger striker to die in 1981. Born in Derry, Devine grew up in the tumult of the civil rights protests, internment and Bloody Sunday in January 1972. He died after 60 days on hunge...

New Graduated Driver Licensing scheme comes into force

A Fermanagh football club is celebrating after being one of six clubs across Northern Ireland to be granted funding in the NI Football Fund Grassroots Facilities Programme.

Tributes paid to popular Ederney man Christopher Wray, who died at South West Acute Hospital on September 29. His funeral in Fermanagh is set for October 2.

Concerns over access to emergency surgery at South West Acute Hospital (SWAH) have been raised during a meeting with President of Ireland Catherine Connolly.

Two men who carried out a horrific attack on a random teenage female, one of whom claimed she “wanted it” have been jailed.