'Sinn Féin traitors!': how far-right rhetoric derailed the party's route to power in Ireland
For Siobhán Fenton, the dream of Sinn Féin taking power and leading a progressive left-wing government fell apart the day…
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I’m giving birth while a major dispute over maternity care unfolds in Ireland. We shouldn’t have to pay just to feel safe.
In the public ward where I spent my first days as a mother, there were no chandeliers. It was at…
Five teenagers died after a car was driven the wrong way down a motorway in Ireland.
Five teenagers have died and four other people were seriously hurt in a crash on a motorway in the Republic…
Is Ireland’s unprotected ocean the weak link in Europe’s defense?
For a long time, Ireland paid little attention to the seas around it—a vast maritime area ten times the size…
A new book breaks down Cork's local slang, featuring words like "lashes," "langers," "bozzers," and "belly bachelors."
If Des MacHale had to pick a favorite from the collection of insulting and confusing words that make up Cork…
Ireland is acting like big tech's lapdog, and that's undermining its role as EU president.
At first glance, Ireland looks like a model European country—strong on human rights and a progressive voice on the western…
Documenting Ireland’s disappearing boglands: ‘They hold thousands of years in their layers.’
“You can read Ireland’s history in the bogs. They hold thousands of years in their layers,” says photographer Shane Hynan…
The Irish parliament has voted to remove the three-day waiting period for abortions.
Ireland’s parliament has voted to eliminate the mandatory three-day waiting period for early pregnancy abortions, after campaigners argued the rule…
The death of a Congolese man has brought renewed attention to race relations in Ireland.
Irish officials have agreed to a second autopsy on the body of a Congolese man who died after being restrained…
An Irish gangland figure has failed in his attempt to win a seat in parliament during a Dublin byelection.
Gerry “the Monk” Hutch, a well-known figure in Irish organized crime, failed to win a seat in a Dublin byelection.…