Speculation is mounting that Britain could divert some of its vaccines to other countries, and in particular the Republic of Ireland, which has been left short by the EU’s botched procurement programme.
The European Union, which used the border between British Northern Ireland and the EU’s Republic of Ireland as an all-important bargaining chip in the Brexit talks, broke the rules it demanded for the province and introduced a hard border in an attempt to remedy its vaccine failures.
Nigerian politicians are demanding their country’s government intervene in the police shooting of George Nkencho, who has been presented as a something of an Irish George Floyd in recent days, near Dublin.
The brother of a knife-wielding black male shot dead by Irish police — or Garda — said of the officer involved “I want him terminated… I want him finished” to cheers from protesters.
The Irish government has proposed making it a crime to share ‘hate’ comments on social media platforms even if someone else wrote of them.
Despite controversy in other countries over the possibility of creating a two-tier society where those with vaccination papers have more freedoms than those without, Ireland is considering coronavirus passports, allowing bearers to escape lockdown.
Amazon came out in favour of a united Ireland, social media users joked, after a customer service representative mistakenly claimed that Northern Ireland was not a part of the United Kingdom.
British-American relations under a potential Biden presidency are off to a bad start, with the 77-year-old Democrat declining to give comment to the British press, saying: “The BBC? I’m Irish.”
Businessman Declan Ganley is challenging the ban on attending religious services under anti-COVID restrictions, insisting that the right to practice one’s faith is guaranteed by the Irish constitution.
British Conservative politicians including a former party leader have told Joe Biden to stop “lecturing” Britain on Brexit and worry about stopping the “killing and rioting” in the U.S.
Ireland’s foreign minister has claimed that Boris Johnson is not serious about threats to suspend parts of the Withdrawal Agreement’s Northern Ireland protocol, saying it is part of a hardball negotiating strategy.
Ireland’s data regulator has reportedly sent Facebook a preliminary order to stop transferring user data from the European Union to the United States.
LONDON (AP) — The EU’s trade commissioner is coming under intense pressure to step down after attending a golf event despite a ban on public gatherings during the pandemic.
Several prominent politicians in the Republic of Ireland were caught at a party a day after the Irish government announced large gatherings would be banned, prompting resignations and a police investigation.
Nursing home worker Emmanuel Adeniji has been convicted for raping a 73-year-old Alzheimer’s patient in her room during the coronavirus lockdown.
Tech giant Apple has won a landmark court case against the European Commission over a dispute relating to a 13 billion euro ($14.9 billion) Irish tax bill.
Irish women have taken full advantage of the repeal of constitutional protection for unborn babies, with 6,666 abortions performed during the first year of legalization, according to official figures released Tuesday.
Jean Kennedy Smith, 92, died in her Manhattan residence on Wednesday, her daughter Kym confirmed to the New York Times.
The Irish government has adopted a radical new program that will create “exclusion zones” around abortion facilities to eliminate pro-life demonstrations, counseling, and even silent prayer vigils.
Ireland’s classrooms are too white and children “should learn about black history from an early age” to fight racism, according to the country’s mainstream media.
Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has denied breaking the lockdown rules after he was pictured attending a topless barbeque in a sunny Dublin park with his partner and two other friends.
The Irish government will not lift its ban on public worship until July 20th, despite reopening restaurants, public libraries, opticians, and numerous other “non-essential activities.
European cities have begun lifting lockdown restrictions for business after months of quarantine, but scenes taking place across the continent depict a “new normal” that would have seemed alien to people in pre-coronavirus Europe.
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) star Conor McGregor has expressed his anger at governments allowing businesses to fly in migrant workers while the people “cannot go to the funerals of our loved ones”.
Irish conservative student journalists carried out a months-long undercover operation that exposed multiple collaborators with Antifa in Ireland’s student government.
WASHINGTON (AP) – The White House is expected to announce that the U.S. will broaden its European travel ban, adding the United Kingdom and Ireland to its list.
During a press conference on Saturday, Vice President Mike Pence announced that travel from the United Kingdom and Ireland will be suspended at midnight on Monday, but Americans and legal residents of the U.S. in those countries will be allowed
Ireland’s ethnic lobbies in Congress are trying to sneak a bill that would allow the Department of State to trade away several thousand upscale jobs per year that are needed by U.S. college graduates.
To the surprise of literally no one, the European Union has discarded Irish leader Leo Varadkar like a soiled rag now that he is no longer of any use to it.
Desperate Irish protesters whose families have been waiting up to 15 years for social housing have blocked the construction of new housing for “non-national families”, demanding “local houses for local people”.
Ireland adjusts to a new reality after election that saw the left-wing nationalist party Sinn Fein win the biggest share of votes.
Ireland’s Europhile prime minister is facing defeat as his party trails in the polls ahead of the election on Saturday.
Boris Johnson’s foreign affairs chief Dominic Raab has advised Leo Varadkar, the Irish prime minister who insulted Britain as a “small country” which the European Union will roll over, to stay out of British politics.
An African couple in Dublin has been convicted of having female genital mutilation (FGM) performed on their 21-month-old daughter.
Or, as Farage rather more succinctly put it: “It is a bad project. It isn’t just undemocratic, it is antidemocratic.”
Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has said that the UK must “come to terms with the fact it’s now a small country”, and said that the EU would leave a seat open for Britain in case Brexit is a failure.
Tim Cook, the CEO of tech giant Apple, has stated that a global overhaul of tax regulations is needed. Cook supports a current initiative by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development to pursue global reforms on where multinational firms should be taxed.
The government of Ireland is preparing to ban the registration of new petrol and diesel cars by the year 2030 as a part of its “Climate Action Plan”. Drivers in Ireland will be forced to buy electric vehicles within ten
Irish Health Minister Simon Harris criticized a Catholic parish this week for publicizing on social media Church teaching against in vitro fertilization (IVF).
DUBLIN (AP) — Conor McGregor has been fined 1,000 euros ($1,120) for assaulting a man in a pub.
