Republic of Ireland

MI5 raised the terrorism threat level in Northern Ireland´ to “severe” amid an increase in activity by dissident Irish republican militants.

Climate laws are having a negative knock-on effect on farming as businesses outbid locals for land in hopes of generating carbon credits.

Ted Heath signed the treaty on this day in 1972, although the ceremony was delayed by a protester throwing a bottle of ink in the PM’s face.

The EU is currently drafting a law that will allow the government in Brussels to seize private goods in a pandemic emergency.

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

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.

Joe Biden has issued a formal reprimand to Boris Johnson for not rolling over to the European Union of whether or not it should continue to dictate what happens in the British province of Northern Ireland despite Brexit. 

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.

Crowds from Protestant and Catholic communities hurled bricks, fireworks and gasoline bombs at police and each other overnight in Belfast.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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’s Europhile prime minister is facing defeat as his party trails in the polls ahead of the election on Saturday.

Ireland’s prime minister, Leo Varadkar, has told the UK to “tone down” its “nationalistic rhetoric” during forthcoming negotiations with the European Union.

An African couple in Dublin has been convicted of having female genital mutilation (FGM) performed on their 21-month-old daughter.

Ireland´s prime minister has warned the EU will have the upper hand in upcoming negotiations on future relations between the two sides.

Irish prime minister Leo Varadkar has declared that Ireland is “on team EU” and thanked the bloc for its “solidarity” while telling its British neighbours they must agree to abide by Brussels’ anti-competitive “level playing field” rules after Brexit to secure a trade deal.

Members of loyalist paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland have threatened action if Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal devalues the status of Northern Ireland in the United Kingdom. 

The leaders of Britain and Ireland are meeting in an attempt to find common ground for an elusive Brexit deal, with just three weeks until the U.K. is set to leave the European Union.

Vice President Mike Pence and the Irish Prime Minister met Tuesday, with the U.S. leader calling on Ireland to be more cooperative with Britain on Brexit and urging the nation to adopt a position of “good faith”. 

The Central Bank of Ireland believes that not enough migrants are arriving to have a “wage-dampening effect”, and that “if wages are not downwardly flexible” it could become a “concern”.

Authorities in Ireland are nowhere near prepared to deal with an Islamist attack against its people, an expert has warned.

Democrat Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said there will be “no chance whatsoever” of a UK-U.S. trade deal after Brexit if Britain leaving the European Union impacts the British-Irish border.

A foreign national living in Ireland who thought it was “OK under Irish law” to rape his step-daughter has been jailed for 12 years.

British counter-terrorism police have confirmed they are treating four suspect packaged received by high-profile public buildings accross the United Kingdom are being treated as linked.

Guinness has dropped a number of rugby sponsorship adverts in Ireland after complaints that they could cause “offence or confusion” to immigrants. The world-famous dry stout company, which is a sponsor and the official beer of the Six Nations rugby

Democratic Unionist Party MP Gregory Campbell has said Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar must “dial down the rhetoric” after the Taoiseach claimed the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland may need an “army presence” in the result of a no-deal Brexit.

Brexiteer Labour MP Kate Hoey has said that the Republic of Ireland and the European Union have overblown the Irish backstop issue and “connived” to keep the UK close to the bloc to take its money.

Brussels bureaucrats have rejected suggestions that the withdrawal agreement with the UK can be renegotiated, while the European Union ramps up preparation for a clean Brexit.