The experience of Mary McAleese shows that any cross-border journey to Áras an Uachtaráin will require the candidate to possess a thick skin ...

Nestled in a modest storefront in New York City’s East Village, Mary O’s Irish Soda Bread Shop blends into the other red-brick businesses on the block. But one thing sets it apart: Customers ...

There was nervousness among Irish officials before Wednesday morning’s meeting with Mr Trump on a day which sees the beginning of a trade war between the EU and the United States. Yesterday ...

Russia said it had downed hundreds of attack drones in Ukraine’s biggest such strike of the war and warned its people against donning “rose-tinted glasses” over prospects for relations with ...

Just months after he was elected president of the Philippines in 2016, he made a glowing and erroneous reference to the Holocaust as an aspirational analogy for his brutal “war on drugs”.

Civil war erupted in South Sudan in late 2013 when a rift between Kiir and Machar escalated into fighting along ethnic lines. Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, accused a group of soldiers loyal to Machar ...

Wall Street’s sell-off continued yesterday following US president Donald Trump’s latest escalation in his trade war, briefly pulling ... Join the Irish Independent WhatsApp channel Stay ...

Conor McGregor’s appeal aimed at overturning a civil jury’s finding that he raped a woman in a Dublin hotel will come before the Court of Appeal later this month. It is understood the mixed ma ...

Who is Rodrigo Duterte? The populist architect of Philippines’ bloody ‘war on drugs’Opens in new window ] The ICC public affairs unit said that the charges related to murders allegedly ...

Mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor’s appeal against the verdict in the civil rape case taken against ... is expected to be outlined. Join the Irish Independent WhatsApp channel Stay ...

Mary Kielty, whose husband Jack was shot dead by the Ulster Freedom Fighters in 1988, died peacefully at home in Dundrum, Co Down, on Saturday aged 84. Mourners at the Church of the Sacred Heart ...

An ambush on a Syrian security patrol by gunmen loyal to ousted leader Bashar Assad escalated into clashes that a war monitor estimates have killed more than 1,000 people over four days.