Two Republican senators made a major effort to strip 10,500 visas for Irish from the 2013 immigration bill at the Senate Judiciary hearings on Tuesday.

Climate change is as important an issue for the nation as reforming gun laws, so why doesn't the Obama administration push for equal reform in this area?

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.

A Derry man who was originally convicted of the murder two British soldiers outside an army barracks in Northern Ireland, walked free from court on Thursday, after being acquitted in a retrial.

Quick, which two TV giants appeal most to Republican voters? If you said Bill O'Reilly you'd be right. If you said  Ellen DeGeneres, believe it or not you would also be right.

Former Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan has come out strongly in favor of immigration reform and says the Boston bombings have convinced him even more the system is broken.

Speaking at the first Judiciary Committee hearing on immigration reform yesterday, Senator Chuck Grassley tied his concerns about the issue to the bombings in Boston this week, which were allegedly carried out by immigrants who had lived in the United States for years.

Despite being supported by 90 percent of Americans, the recent amendment proposing background checks for gun-buyers came up short against the 60-vote threshold needed to carry through the legislation and caused much upset among its supporters.

According to the Huffington Post, Paul Ryan, the GOP's 2012 vice presidential nominee, is doubling down on an issue that famously failed to resonate with the majority of voters.

The flute band named after Real IRA leader Alan Ryan, who was shot dead in Dublin last September, led an Easter republican commemoration in Derry on Monday.

Graffiti including swastikas was etched on tombstones on a plot in St. Finbarr’s Cemetery in Glasheen Road in Cork. The police in Cork are currently investigating the vandalism which is thought to have happened during the evening on Thursday, March 28.

Sinn Fein leaders have warned Dissident Republicans to lay down their arms – and claimed the Irish and British governments are treating the peace process with complacency.

Dissident Republicans have been blamed for the murder of a pizza delivery man in Belfast on Saturday night.

Speaking to Republicans throughout the North at the Party convention in Derry Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness, the Deputy First Minister, told party activists that:
 
"If we are to become persuaders for a new Ireland … a land of equals… and if we are to respond appropriately to the fears and uncertainties of those who see us through different eyes than we see ourselves.
 
“We want and need unionists to understand what we are about and what our politics is about and what it really means for them.
 
“The transformation of society must include addressing their needs.”
 
McGuinness said Northern Ireland was undergoing massive change.

The dissident republican group Óglaigh na hÉireann (ONH) have confirmed that the target for the bomb discovered in County Fermanagh this weekend was the Lough Erne Resort, the venue set to play host to Barack Obama, David Cameron and Vladimir Putin among others at the G8 Summit.

Sinn Fein vice-president Martin McGuinness has condemned the dissidents responsible for a bomb intercepted by police close to the venue for the G8 summit.

House Republicans released their budget outline on Tuesday to an immediate chorus of criticism that they're conducting class warfare aimed at the poor in order to protect the interests of a small, high-income minority.

Republican representative Kevin McCarthy said on Sunday that he believes there is enough support in the GOP controlled House to pass comprehensive immigration reform.

New York Republican Congressman Peter King has announced that he will be facing off with ‘Irish’ Josh Foley in a sparring match at an Irish pub a week before St. Patrick’s Day on Long Island.