The Irish Northern Aid Committee — Noraid, as it was generally known — was accused of involvement in various activities to ...

The men and women (and one young child) featured in these pages experienced both joy and suffering — loneliness, sickness, ...

"The word for son in Irish is 'mac'. If you talk about your own son that would be 'mo mhac' and that became 'wac' and 'wacker ...

St. Patrick may be Ireland’s most famous saint, but a new biography for young readers sheds light on another great Irish holy ...

SDLP Leader Claire Hanna spoke in the Irish language during the British Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons ...

The Catholic Church needs heroes like never before, and Bishop Michael Power of Toronto who was placed on the path to ...

Photo: Peter Byrne/PA Wire A man attacked by former Labour MP Mike Amesbury in a drunken row ... last October. Join the Irish Independent WhatsApp channel Stay up to date with all the latest ...

WHILE many good and dedicated bishops and priests in the Philippines and elsewhere are examining their conscience about their responsibility to bring pedophile clergymen to justice, many more are not.

My grandfather, being Scots-Irish was originally a Presbyterian ... of Canterbury not the Pope is the head honcho and Episcopal priests are allowed to marry. There’s probably more to it than ...

DISGRACED Labour MP Mike Amesbury has been freed from jail after winning an appeal against his sentence for punching a constituent. The Runcorn and Helsby MP was locked up for ten weeks on Monday ...

Details: Martin cancelled a planned trip to Belfast with the government, citing changes in the schedule. Zelenskyy is travelling to the United States for a meeting with US President Donald Trump. On ...

Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Micheál Martin will meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at Shannon Airport on Thursday, 27 February. Source: The Irish Times, as reported by European Pravda ...