MPs put pressure Theresa May to push for reform in the country after majority...
Theresa May is under pressure to change the law on abortion in Northern Ireland after scores of her own ministers called on her to back a vote on the issue. Anne Milton, the skills minister and former...
View Article‘Monumental day for women’: Prime minister, abortion rights activists claim...
DUBLIN — Abortion rights activists proclaimed victory for Irish women Saturday as referendum results indicated voters in largely Roman Catholic Ireland overwhelmingly backed repealing a 1983...
View ArticleSome 40,000 Irish have been urged to come home to vote in abortion law...
Nearly 40,000 Irish citizens have been urged to return home to vote in a referendum on repealing the country’s tough abortion laws, in the hope of tipping the odds in favour of reform. According to the...
View ArticleIrish PM to campaign to ease abortion laws in referendum
The prime minister of Ireland said Saturday he will campaign for a liberalization of the country’s strict abortion laws in an upcoming referendum on the divisive issue. Leo Varadkar said he hopes the...
View ArticleA deal on how much Britain must pay to divorce the European Union in 16 months
U.K. and the European Union negotiators reached an outline deal on the Brexit divorce bill, clearing a hurdle in negotiations and ramping up pressure to find a compromise on the thorny issue of the...
View Article‘This will take time’: Ireland starts clean-up after being hit by Ophelia,...
Irish authorities will begin to clean up and count the cost of the worst storm to hit the country in more than 50 years, after Ophelia left a trail of destruction in its wake. At least three people...
View ArticleIrish brace as ‘life-threatening’ Storm Ophelia set to slam coast
Irish authorities warned some of the worst weather conditions to hit the country in 50 years will endanger lives, as Storm Ophelia’s remnants batter the coast with “extreme” conditions. Met Eireann,...
View ArticleJohn Robson: When it comes to diversity, who’s the close-minded jerk?
The New York Times just celebrated Ireland’s referendum vote to repeal the constitutional ban on abortion with taunting glee. Oddly, nowhere in its victory dance did it bow even briefly to the signal...
View ArticleColby Cosh: Back in the newspapers at last … a good old-fashioned Irish uprising
The Republic of Ireland voted to repeal the Eighth Amendment of its Constitution on Friday, striking down a principle that the Irish State “acknowledges the right to life of the unborn and, with due...
View ArticleMPs put pressure Theresa May to push for reform in the country after majority...
Theresa May is under pressure to change the law on abortion in Northern Ireland after scores of her own ministers called on her to back a vote on the issue. Anne Milton, the skills minister and former...
View Article‘Monumental day for women’: Prime minister, abortion rights activists claim...
DUBLIN — Abortion rights activists proclaimed victory for Irish women Saturday as referendum results indicated voters in largely Roman Catholic Ireland overwhelmingly backed repealing a 1983...
View ArticleSome 40,000 Irish have been urged to come home to vote in abortion law...
Nearly 40,000 Irish citizens have been urged to return home to vote in a referendum on repealing the country’s tough abortion laws, in the hope of tipping the odds in favour of reform. According to the...
View ArticleCelebrate St. Patrick’s Day with recipes from Darina Allen, Ireland’s...
Our cookbook of the week is Grow, Cook, Nourish by Darina Allen, Irish chef and founder of the world-renowned Ballymaloe Cookery School in Cork, Ireland. To try a recipe from the book, check out:...
View ArticleIrish PM to campaign to ease abortion laws in referendum
The prime minister of Ireland said Saturday he will campaign for a liberalization of the country’s strict abortion laws in an upcoming referendum on the divisive issue. Leo Varadkar said he hopes the...
View ArticleA deal on how much Britain must pay to divorce the European Union in 16 months
U.K. and the European Union negotiators reached an outline deal on the Brexit divorce bill, clearing a hurdle in negotiations and ramping up pressure to find a compromise on the thorny issue of the...
View Article‘This will take time’: Ireland starts clean-up after being hit by Ophelia,...
Irish authorities will begin to clean up and count the cost of the worst storm to hit the country in more than 50 years, after Ophelia left a trail of destruction in its wake. At least three people...
View ArticleIrish brace as ‘life-threatening’ Storm Ophelia set to slam coast
Irish authorities warned some of the worst weather conditions to hit the country in 50 years will endanger lives, as Storm Ophelia’s remnants batter the coast with “extreme” conditions. Met Eireann,...
View ArticleHurricane Ophelia is so fierce Ireland and Britain may feel ‘severe...
This year’s Atlantic hurricane season is so fierce that even Ireland and Britain will get a piece of the action. Ophelia, the 10th straight Atlantic tropical storm to become a hurricane, is moving...
View ArticleIreland to hold referendum on repealing ‘inhuman’ abortion ban just weeks...
Ireland’s prime minister announced a referendum on whether to repeal the country’s ban on abortion in nearly all cases Tuesday, with the vote due to take place just a few weeks before a visit from the...
View ArticleSomething strange is going on at Canada’s embassy in Dublin. Kevin Vickers...
Kevin Vickers, Canada’s ambassador to Ireland, was hearing strange sounds at his official residence in Dublin. Lying in his bedroom, he heard “laboured breathing” and footsteps coming up the stairs. He...
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