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An LGBT activist has lost a case surrounding a Christian baker’s refusal to make a ‘gay marriage’ cake after it was thrown out of the European Court of Human Rights.

Irish government officials have been accused of showing “utter contempt” for the public after a picture emerged showing at least 20 individuals attending a lockdown-breaking party in a government building. At least 20 Irish government employees and senior officials attended

Between banning church attendance and jailing grandmas, Ireland has had a bizarre time with COVID during 2021.

An articulated lorry crashed into multiple vehicles and mounted the pavement at Dublin Airport departures Wednesday night.

An Irish grandma who violated the nation’s mask mandate is to spend Christmas behind bars after being sentenced to a year in prison.

Veterans and victims have reacted with outrage and dismay after former Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams featured in an allegedly “light-hearted” video singing a slogan associated with the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) terror organisation.

Ireland’s Deputy Prime Minister (Tánaiste) Leo Varadkar has warned of a “long war” with the coronavirus, during which the government may allow “periods of freedom” for the people.

A 66-year-old Irish grandmother has once again been jailed after being found in a shop without a face mask.

The government of Ireland has announced an amnesty scheme that will allow thousands of illegal migrants to stay in the country permanently.

Former two-weight mixed martial arts world champion and all-around sporting superstar Conor McGregor may have just become Ireland’s biggest advocate for ‘Irexit’ — an Irish exit from the European Union.

A senior Irish medical official has claimed that he never called schools safe environments with regards to Covid-19, despite previously saying they were.

Irish Senator Gerry Horkan has stated that those who wish to “participate in society” must be vaccinated against the Chinese coronavirus.

The European Union is reportedly considering sanctions against Belarusian airlines that brought migrants from the Middle East to Minsk.

LONDON (AP) – Ireland’s foreign minister has warned that British demands risk a “further breakdown in relations” with the European Union ahead of talks this week aimed at resolving the impasse over the Brexit agreement. Simon Coveney posted the remarks

Tyson Fury put a decisive end to his three-bout trilogy with American knockout artist Deontay Wilder with a devastating stoppage of his own, in what has been hailed as one of the greatest heavyweight contests of all time. 

One of the chief architects of the Good Friday peace deal between British unionists and Irish nationalists in Northern Ireland has written to U.S. President Biden warning him that his interference in the Province’s internal politics risks “causing civil unrest”.

Britain’s Minister for EU Relations has admitted Boris Johnson’s government is happy to let European Union law continue to apply in Northern Ireland for some purposes and keep an internal border between the British province and the rest of the United Kingdom for the EU’s sake.

The Irish data protection commissioner has fined the Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp €225 million euro (approximately $266 million dollars) for “severe” breaches of privacy laws.

Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald expressed her “solidarity” with the communist regime in Cuba, hailing the “just cause” of communism.

Conor McGregor sat and seethed with his back on the cage, a temporary cast around his left shin and foot. The biggest star in mixed martial arts was convinced he had just been robbed of revenge on Dustin Poirier by a broken leg.

A division within the left-wing Labour Party has seen far-left MPs come out against a United Kingdom, with Diane Abbott saying the party is in favour of Northern Ireland breaking with Great Britain and joining the Republic of Ireland.

Appearing Tuesday on Sky News, Ireland’s Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe came out against a Biden administration proposal to introduce a minimum global corporate tax rate of 15 percent. 

LONDON (AP) – Britain’s Brexit minister predicted Monday that relations between the UK and the European Union would continue to be “bumpy” amid tensions over post-Brexit trading arrangements.

The Irish Health Service Executive system has been hit by a ransomware attack, shutting down all IT systems just days after the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack in the U.S.

A plane carrying the bodies of three Europeans killed by jihadists in Burkina Faso this week has landed in an airport in Spain.

A new Irish statutory instrument aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus makes meeting with a priest outdoors for the sacrament of confession a crime, according to a law professor at Trinity College Dublin.

Britain’s inaugural Minister for Veterans has accused “cowards” in the Boris Johnson administration of stabbing Northern Ireland veterans in the back after he was ejected from the government.

A bomb was discovered under a female police officer’s car in County Derry, in Northern Ireland on Tuesday amid increasing tensions.

The Archbishop of Armagh, Eamon Martin, has sharply criticized a ban on public worship, calling the measure “draconian,” “provocative,” and “unnecessary.”

Figures from Ireland’s Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) have revealed that just 0.1 per cent of the country’s total Wuhan coronavirus cases were linked to outdoor transmission.

The Irish bishops have sharply criticized the government for continuing to ban public worship, insisting that leaders fail to grasp the importance of religion for the people.

U.S. President Joe Biden has appeared to side with the EU as it launches legal action against Brexit Britain, backing its imposition of internal borders between Northern Ireland and the rest of the United Kingdom.

President Joe Biden joked Wednesday at the White House he wished his Irish ancestors had stayed in Ireland.

The European Union is launching legal action against the United Kingdom over its efforts to protect trade between the British mainland and Northern Ireland, vindicating critics of Boris Johnson’s deals with the bloc who said they ensured Brexit was by no means “done”.

Ireland’s National Immunisation Advisory Committee (NIAC) has recommended that use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is temporarily suspended after Norwegian regulators reported “serious blood clotting events”.

The Catholic bishops of Ireland have forcefully criticized the Dying with Dignity Bill, calling assisted suicide “a failure of compassion on the part of society.”