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One in seven people on social welfare in Ireland has never worked according to figures released by Social Protection Minister Joan Burton's department

Ireland's elected leader leader Enda Kenny speaks for the country's people and not the Catholic Church

Shocked police officers discovered the body of a disemboweled horse in the Darndale area of Dublin.

One in seven people on social welfare in Ireland have never worked

New figures reveal "disturbingly shocking" figures

Enda Kenny, not the Catholic Church, speaks for the Irish nation and its Diaspora

Catholic Church has failed the leadership test on numerous occasions in recent years

Horse disemboweled and sliced open in horrific Dublin attack

Campaigners fear animal attack may have been a ritualistic killing

Chilling testimony before congressional hearing on Pat Finucane death - New hearings told how informer was murdered before he could give evidence

Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane who was shot dead by Loyalists.Niall O'Dowd in Washington ... ...

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George Boland photographed in Dublin while on tour with the Irish Elderly Advice Network as part of The Gathering. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons/The Irish Times

Elderly Irishman decribes being kept in servitude for six years by Irish Travellers gang

A 65-year-old Westmeath man has spoken out about how he was kidnapped and kept as a slave for six years by a group of Irish Travellers. ...

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Notre Dame fans in Dublin, September 2012, when the crime took place

Warrant issued for arrest of Irishman who roared racial abuse at Notre Dame fans in Dublin

A man who screamed racist abuse at an American football fan who had traveled to Dublin for the Notre Dame-Navy Emerald Classic game last year has had a warrant issued for his arrest. ...

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Conor McRedmond and Rebecca Blake accused of having sex and drinking alcohol in Dubai

Irishman jailed for two months after losing appeal in Dubai sex case

An Irishman is to be sent to jail in Dubai for having sex in the back of a taxi – after his final appeal against the two month sentence was dismissed. ...

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Former chief executive of Postbank and Aer Rianta, Margaret Sweeney, blasts Ireland's culture of sexual harassment in the corporate workplace. Criticized wolf-whistling, groping and sexual proposition

High-profile female boss describes sexual harassment against her

Margaret Sweeney, the former chief executive of Postbank and Aer Rianta, has blasted Ireland's culture of sexual harassment in the corporate workplace. ...

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Former US Marine Timothy Kaufman appeared in court after he and two accomplices allegedly murdered former Irish police officer David Balmer and his girlfriend Elma de Guia in the Philippines.

US Marine appears in court 20 months after the murder of Irish police officer and girlfriend in Philippines

Former US Marine Timothy Kaufman finally appeared in court after he and two accomplices allegedly murdered former Irish police officer David Balmer and his girlfriend Elma de Guia in the Philippines. ...

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Thirty-three year old William Mitchell was a temporary constable in the Royal Irish Constabulary, the only member of the British Crown Forces to be hanged for murder during that bitter struggle for Ir

New details on an Irish-born Black and Tan who was executed by British

On Tuesday 7th June 1921, three men were executed at Dublin’s Mountjoy Gaol. Executions of Republicans were almost commonplace during the Irish War of Independence [1919-21]. ...

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Pictured Tommy Connors Senior and son Patrick were jailed at Luton Crown Court

Irish Travellers jailed for 13 years in the UK for forcing vulnerable men to work as 'slaves'

An Irish Traveller father and son who forced vulnerable men to be their slaves were sentenced to 13 years in prison on Wednesday. ...

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Century Ireland's online newspaper goes live charting events from Home Rule to to 1916 Rising

Century Ireland set to bring 100 years of history alive with photos, artefacts and social media

A new virtual newspaper which charts some of the most momentous periods in Irish history has gone live. ...

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Members of the National Union of Journalists and Amnesty International Ireland marked World Press Freedom Day and laid a wreath at the Veronica Guerin memorial in Dublin Castle on Friday. Ashling Seel

Ireland’s Eye – A round up of top Irish news stories

A look at news from around Ireland ...

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Head of the Police Service of Northern Ireland's (PSNI) Crime Operations told the press that it's 'difficult to see an end' to the threat of dissident republican violence

Police chief sees no end to dissident republican violence in Northern Ireland

Assistant Chief Constable Drew Harris, head of the Police Service of Northern Ireland's (PSNI) Crime Operations, has told the press that it's 'difficult to see an end' to the threat of dissident republican violence. ...

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Father-of-two Adrian Donohue was gunned down during a botched robbery attempt near Dundalk, County Louth

US Marshals given details of suspect in Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe case

The US Marshals Service has received details of one of the suspects in the murder of Adrian Donohoe, the Garda detective who was murdered outside a credit union in County Louth in January. ...