Taoiseach Éamon de Valera regarded offering condolences after Hitler's suicide as a necessary courtesy given Ireland’s ...

Former taoiseach calls it depressing that so many Palestinians had to die before other European governments came around to ...

Pope Francis's visit to Ireland in 2018 came at a time when relationships with the Catholic Church were "quite difficult", former Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar has said.

Varadkar said the book is ‘both personal and political’ and that he hopes to ‘give new insights’ into his time in government.

Britain is ‘resetting’ its relationship with the EU, seeking that vague notion of ‘closer ties’ – Ireland should be the UK’s ...

On May 22nd, 2015, the Irish electorate voted by 62 per cent in favour of same-sex marriage, on a high turnout of 61 per cent ...

Last year’s general election saw a significant level of attrition, with some politicians leaving on their own terms and others being ejected by voters. Political Editor Elaine Loughlin finds out what ...

Writer and director David Hare previously took us around Ireland’s rugged coast via his book and TV series The Great Lighthouses of Ireland, and here he brings us inside 15 of the State’s most famous ...