Now that Ireland is moving forward in the social and cultural collective, how does it reconcile a past marred with strife and ...

Croke Park: ‘More than just a sports venue’ Croke Park has hosted thousands of the country’s most famous sporting events By ...

Ernest Blythe was born in 1889 into a unionist farming family with an 80-acre farm close to Magheragall, near Lisburn.

The Troubles did not break out on a specific date, but it is generally agreed that they began in 1969. The seeds of the ...

McKeown is also suspected of being behind the savage slaughter of innocent teenagers Andrew Robb and David McIlwaine during a UVF-LVF feud 2000. The youngsters were brutally stabbed to death and their ...

We’d struggle to recall when a league campaign has been so eagerly anticipated. Gaelic football, the Sick Man of the GAA with dwindling crowds and growing apathy, has received a good spray ...

The Gaelic Athletic Association was seen by many as a wholly Catholic and actually downright anti-British organisation. Catholics found it difficult to find an Irish League football club to follow ...

Gerry Adams, president of the staunchly pro-Irish Sinn Fein party, called on the Irish Republican Army to being disarming in an effort to save the teetering Northern Ireland Assembly. The ...

This is a seminal moment for Gaelic football, the next few weeks will ... up by former Dublin defender Philly McMahon who, in his Irish Independent column, quipped: “Personally, I’d rather ...

The White House invite hasn’t landed yet, but that won’t halt preparations for a blitz of Republican-voting states ... s tightrope act is no reason for Irish smugness, writes Michael McDowell.

A public inquiry is continuing to hear personal statements from witnesses and people affected by the Real IRA bombing in ...

No, it's not the fact that they're prominent members of the Republican Party. It's their blonde, bouncy, blown-out hair. The three conservative figures are among many in their orbit who regularly ...