Some common words we use every day, including the name of one of the UK's main political parties, have a surprising origin in Irish.

Migrant students, at 15 years of age, score lower on English reading and maths ... compared to 9 per cent of Irish-born residents. Migrants face higher levels of poverty and deprivation than ...

The report shows that those born in eastern EU states and outside the EU face higher levels of poverty and deprivation than Irish-born residents ... score lower on English reading and maths ...

The Investec Champions Cup returns with the last-16 on Friday and BBC Sport explores five things to look out for across the ...

How often do you see Conservative politicians insulted to their faces on national ... Tories – comes from the Irish word for ...

In his latest video for the Rugby Pod, former Wales and Lions Fly-half Dan Biggar has selected a very Irish heavy team for ...

Lions head coach Andy Farrell has turned to three of his assistants from the Irish set-up – Simon Easterby, Andrew Goodman ...

Marcus Smith faces an uphill battle to regain his England ... dealing a major blow to his British & Irish Lions hopes. Borthwick dropped Smith for Sunday’s Six Nations fixture with Italy in ...

Bill Sweeney will on Thursday face a vote of no confidence that could leave the Rugby Football Union chief executive fighting for his Twickenham future. English rugby’s community game had ...

Ireland provides an English-speaking gateway to a European Union of 450 million customers for U.S. companies. But Irish companies ... This is not to say we don’t face challenges―we do ...

Robert De Niro may be considered the face of Italian-American talent ... Her mother, Mother Dianna De La Garza, has shared that she is of Irish and English descent. Olivia Wilde vacationed ...

Grand National is just days away, with Irish trainers once again sending a massive squad over to Aintree for the marathon contest ...