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One man has reportedly been killed and another two individuals have been injured in a knife attack in Dundalk, Ireland, according to reports.

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Anyone using social media to promote fake news in Ireland could be jailed for 5 years and handed a €10,000 euro fine, according to plans put forward by one of the country’s leading political parties.

Rumours are swirling that Theresa May is willing to effectively leave Northern Ireland within the EU’s Customs Union and Single Market to meet its demands on Britain’s border with the Irish Republic.

Trinity College Dublin in Ireland is getting rid of the “freshman” label for first-year students because it contains the word “man.”

Tens of thousands of Irish Catholic assembled across the island for one of the largest religious events in the nation’s recent history, praying for the rosary for the conservation of the Catholic faith and to keep the country pro-life.

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The pro-abortion New York Times has denounced Italy’s failure to oblige its doctors to perform abortions even when such an intervention goes against their conscience as healers.

Pro-life activists across Ireland say they are going door-to-door Saturday to save their country’s 8th Amendment and to protect mothers and babies from abortion.

A man imprisoned for 12 years for raping and making death threats to his wife has launched an appeal because he says the jury contained too many white Catholics and not enough Muslims.

After more than a million Poles lined the country’s borders to pray for an end to “Islamization,” Ireland’s Catholics are gathering along the coast to pray that abortion remains illegal in their country.

LONDON (AP) — Ireland’s government says schools and colleges will remain closed for a second day as a third death was attributed to the remnants of Hurricane Ophelia.

University College Dublin’s (UCD) Katie Ascough is facing an impeachment vote later this month after a campaign argued her pro-life stance is a barrier to serving as Student Union (SU) president.

The Irish government authorised the production of a stamp honouring the ‘Irish roots’ of Argentinian Marxist and mass murder Ernesto “Che” Guevara.

Rev. Al Sharpton joined Nobel Prize-winner and anti-apartheid leader Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Irish politician John Hume, poet Seamus Heaney, and far-left theorist Noam Chomsky when he received the James Joyce Award by the Literary and Historical Society of the University College in Dublin, Ireland for his achievements in civil rights.

Ireland has announced it will hold a referendum on legalizing abortion next summer, just months before a planned visit by Pope Francis.

An Irish councillor who criticised open borders immigration and the establishment of Shariah enclaves in the West has been condemned by prime minister and party leader Leo Varadkar.

Charles Tannock MEP has claimed an Irish passport in order to retain his EU citizenship, announcing he is “quite ashamed to be British”.

The nominally Catholic Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, has urged his Irish counterpart to consider abortion in Ireland as a “fundamental” human right.

LONDON (AP) — Britain says there must be no border posts between Northern Ireland and the Irish republic after Brexit.

LONDON (AP) — Ireland’s prime minister says it is “only a matter of time” before same-sex marriage is legalized in Northern Ireland — the only part of the United Kingdom where it still is banned.

Leading Palestinian NGOs — many of them backed with generous funding from European governments and agencies — have launched a new campaign in defense of the Palestinian Authority’s widely condemned policy of paying monthly salaries and other benefits to terrorists and their families.

DCLeaks.com revealed last year that billionaire investor George Soros has been using his Open Society Foundation (OSF) to turn Ireland – what Planned Parenthood refers to as the “jewel in the crown of the pro-life movement” – into a pro-abortion country.

LONDON (AP) — The leaders of Northern Ireland’s main political parties said Tuesday that they have not reached a deal to restore the collapsed Catholic-Protestant power-sharing government — and there is unlikely to be agreement before the fall.

Ireland’s annual “Rally for Life” in Dublin drew some 70,000 marchers Saturday, calling for the protection of the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution, which prohibits abortion.

A bug in Facebook’s software exposed the identities of moderators to potential terrorists, the Guardian has revealed.

The Queen’s speech, which lays out the governing party’s legislative programme, has been postponed until June 21st, with the announcement of an agreement between the Conservative and the Democratic Unionists delayed by the Grenfell Tower fire. This has left Sinn Féin time to seek meetings with the Labour Party in Westminster.

DUBLIN (AFP) – Leo Varadkar promised a “republic of opportunity” Wednesday after he became Ireland’s youngest prime minister and the first who is openly gay. The Dublin-born politician’s Indian immigrant father and Irish mother were in parliament to watch as

Documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act have revealed how Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg lobbied the Irish Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, over the replacement candidate for the role of Data Protection Commissioner in Ireland.

Tax avoidance lawyer Jolyon Maugham has abandoned his attempt to have the European Court of Justice (ECJ) declare that Britain’s exit from the EU can be stopped despite the activation of Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty.

Britain’s security services investigated Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn for alleged links to convicted IRA terrorists when he was a backbench MP, the Telegraph has revealed.

The European Union’s chief Brexit negotiator has warned Irish politicians that Britain’s departure from the bloc “will have consequences” in an address to their parliament.

The Palestinian flag will fly above City Hall in Dublin this month after councillors overwhelmingly voted to support the move, backing what they called communities living under “apartheid, worse than South Africa.”

EU leaders will discuss at a summit this weekend whether to back automatic membership for Northern Ireland after Brexit if it ever reunifies with Ireland, sources said on Friday.

BERLIN (AP) — Ireland’s prime minister says the European Union and Britain must be “creative and imaginative” to avoid creating a “hard” border between his country and the U.K. after Brexit.

DUBLIN (AP) — The British government faces a deadline on whether to extend negotiations on Northern Ireland’s political future or renew direct control from London.