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The Journal.ie and the Irish Times – two of Ireland’s largest media organizations – have been forced to pull what appears to be a fabricated story about a poll that claimed 75 percent of Irish doctors support repealing Ireland’s pro-life Eighth Amendment and allowing abortions unrestricted up to 12 weeks gestation.

LONDON (AFP) – Mary Lou McDonald will on Saturday replace Gerry Adams as the president of Sinn Fein following his decision to step down after 34 years as the figurehead of the Irish republican movement.

The head of Ireland’s Amnesty International affiliate insists it is in the right to keep a grant received from the foundation of left-wing billionaire philanthropist George Soros to assist in making abortion legal in Ireland.

An event was held in Dublin, Ireland this week titled ‘Irexit: Freedom to Prosper’ which discussed whether or not Ireland should leave the European Union.

TEL AVIV – The Irish Senate on Tuesday postponed voting on a bill that would criminalize trade with Israeli settlements, following Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s condemnation of the proposed legislation.

Irish ministers have unanimously approved a referendum to be held by the end of May. Its purpose is to repeal the country’s Eighth Amendment, which prevents abortion.

Despite the “choice” rhetoric of abortion advocates, the unborn child has no voice and no choice and is at the mercy of what adults choose to do to him or her, said Irish bishop Kevin Doran in a pastoral letter

The Irish minister responsible for mental health has suggested that all public services cards be linked to social media accounts to verify users’ identities.

The migrant who went on a deadly knife and iron bar rampage in Ireland yesterday was an Egyptian asylum seeker who called himself Mohamed.

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

Apple is expected to begin paying back billions of dollars owed to the country of Ireland in back taxes.

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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.

In what has been deemed a “blasphemous” and offensive new campaign, abortion advocates in Ireland have been using the hashtag #AdventforChoice to urge the repeal of the 8th Amendment to the Constitution that protects unborn human life.

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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An Irish MEP was seized by police officers and bundled down the street after trying to attend a secretive meeting between the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security and arms industry lobbyists, concerning its new military integration plans.

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.