12+ hour, 54+ min ago   (640+ words) Have you ever craved a funeral sandwich? Or better yet, the soup that is handed to you in a mug while your neighbour runs around with a saucepan of tea waiting for someone to accept a cup? The Irish do…...

11+ hour, 50+ min ago   (622+ words) US president Donald Trump said Irish unity would be a “great thing” in response to a reporter’s question on his visit to Dublin. The comments, made alongside Taoiseach Micheál Martin at Farmleigh, caused eyebrows to be raised north and south…...

13+ hour, 25+ min ago   (525+ words) It was, as one senior SDLP figure put it, “quite a moment, to have the American president saying that.” The “that” in question was Donald Trump’s endorsement of Irish unity, delivered when answering questions from the media after his arrival…...

14+ hour, 8+ min ago   (645+ words) A priest told the funeral of a teenager killed in a hit-and-run in Co Clare that parents and grandparents in Ireland are “full of fear” of the society their children and grandchildren are growing up in. Fr Richard Davern was…...

14+ hour, 42+ min ago   (534+ words) Dozens of criminal legal aid cases were adjourned at a midlands district court on Thursday due to the withdrawal of services by criminal solicitors involved in the legal aid payment dispute. At Mullingar District Court, Judge Patricia Cronin adjourned the…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (201+ words) Hundreds of protestors attended a rally at Shannon Airport as Air Force One carrying President Donald Trump landed on Saturday. Video: Bryan O'Brien US president expressed support for Irish unity in a press conference with Taoiseach Micháel Martin. US president…...

18+ hour, 48+ min ago   (135+ words) Gardaí have released a second man arrested in connection with a fatal shooting in Dún Laoghaire in July. The man aged in his 40s was arrested on Thursday as part of the Garda investigation into the death of Mark Cullen (39). Cullen…...

23+ hour, 25+ min ago   (755+ words) We have more from Jack Horgan Jones in the Phoenix Park. “We have our first TD. And it’s Cork East’s James O’Connor (Fianna Fáil), who is pressing the flesh already as the first bus of proper guests seems to have…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (1006+ words) Every week, Adam Gannon talks to people on the doorsteps in his Fermanagh council district, which stretches from Garrison in the west to Derrylin in the east. More of them are talking about a united Ireland than ever before “and…...

1+ day, 54+ min ago   (552+ words) A charity run by a Wicklow-based businessman received more than 170 warnings from the Charities Regulator over its failure to file annual accounts over a period of six years. Earlier this year the Shauna Kavanagh Foundation (SKF) company was listed for…...