“Repent Decades of Sins in Seconds!” Irish bookmakers erects a giant confession box poking fun at the fact that 80 percent of Irish Catholics do not take part in the religious rite.
Ahead of the Pontiff's historic visit to Ireland this week Pope Francis issues a letter to "whole People of God" calling for solidarity and "acts of prayer and fasting in penance" for those who have been "long ignored, keep quiet or silenced" by acts of sexual abuse.
Irish singer, now called Magda Davitt, famously protested against the Catholic Church, on SNL in 1992 and her protest against the “nest of devils” continues.
Irish students working abroad in Vancouver, Canada, for the summer are getting a reputation for rowdiness, and their bad behavior is causing tensions in the Irish community.
Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the archbishop of Washington, has abruptly called off his visit to Ireland with Pope Francis after being named in the Pennsylvania church scandal involving 300 priests.
Researchers at the National University of Ireland, Galway, have found a way to improve the response to chemotherapy and reduce relapse for patients with triple negative breast cancer.
Artist Kevin Sharkey compared President Trump to American actor John Wayne and stated that he should be applauded for "giving up that beautiful wife and golf” to take on the Presidency.
President Trump has said several former staffers, including former CIA chief Michael Hayden, could potentially lose their security clearance. On Wednesday, Trump revoked former CIA chief John Brennan’s clearance.
The Irish national anthem will be performed in Irish Sign Language as part of the opening for this year’s GAA All-Ireland hurling final on Sunday August 19.
A top campaigner for human rights has written an open letter to Pope Francis describing how he was raped by a priest after the only other time a Pope visited Ireland.
Tributes have poured in to commemorate the life of Tom Moran, the Irish American activist, philanthropist and businessman who passed away on Sunday, August 12 after a short illness.
Doylestown Brewery's new Irish-style red ale Duffy's Cut to fund dig on site where the bodies of up to 57 Irish immigrant railroad workers are believed to have been murdered.
Irish police have upgraded the missing person case of Kildare native Deirdre Jacob to a murder investigation as sources are naming convicted rapist Larry Murphy as a prime suspect.
