A shortlist of names for the latest bridge across Dublin's River Liffey has been revealed, reports the Irish Independent.

A Fine Gael TD has revealed how she has received death threats over the proposed amendments to change Ireland’s abortion laws.

Walls separating Protestant and Catholic communities in parts of Northern Ireland are to come down within the next 10 years, ministers pledged on Thursday.

Celtic's stuttering end to the season continued with a 1-1 draw at Ross County on Sunday – but the Bhoys were left fuming over an offside decision that cost them the win.

Colin Farrell’s movie Dead Man Down just opened in the U.K., and though it was a pretty colossal failure over here in March with just under $11 million in earnings, maybe it’ll pick up a few more bucks across the ocean to make that number a bit more respectable.

In an effort to send out a positive message and clear some of its troubled past, 11 of the 16 Derry City gates which are interspersed along the historic walls are in the process of being taken down.

A leading Church of Ireland cleric has turned down the job as Bishop of Meath and Kildare just days before his ordination – after admitting to an affair with a woman on the eve of his own wedding.

The Claddagh Association Inc., a charity set up to assist Irish emigrants in western Australia, is recognizing the fact and warning Ireland that a recent influx of unprepared and subsequently homeless emigrants has been noted in Perth. The charity is reporting a major increase in the cries for help from Irish emigrants who couldn’t find their niche in Australia and are now homeless. 

Eve after her death Margaret Thatcher figured at the Sinn Fein annual conference last weekend when a new addition to merchandise on sale were green-colored Thatcher t-shirts.  Daubed across them were the words, in Irish: “I still hate Margaret Thatcher.”

Tourism Ireland says that The Gathering has helped Aer Lingus.

Staff at the Galway hospital where tragic mum-to-be Savita Halappanavar died put her shivering and teeth chattering down to the cold rather than a life threatening infection according to the official HSE report into her death.

The draft review has been seen by the Sunday Independent newspaper which claims staff attributed her symptoms to the cold because the radiator in her room wasn’t working.

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Irish dancer Tristan McManus and his Olympic gold medal winner partner Dorothy Hamill side stepped out of ABC’s ballroom on Tuesday due to Hamill’s medical condition. They are the first couple to leave the competition this season.

Well, we always knew Guinness was magical but have you noticed that it actually disobeys the laws of physics. The bubbles in a stormy pint of stout actually go down!