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Two gay couples are getting married every day in Ireland since it was legalised last year. The country became the first in the world to vote for same-sex marriages in a referendum last May.

Aer Lingus has said new rosters are in place after cabin crew reported only getting the minimum 12 hours rest between shifts in a one-month rota. A survey of cabin crew in July 2014, weeks after staff went on strike in a bitter row over shift patterns, found almost half of attendants went to work… Continue reading New rosters in place following cabin crew survey, Aer Lingus insists

Some 400 jobs are to be created with the expansion of a pharmaceutical company in Co Meath. Shire said the roles will be created at a new biotechnology plant on a 120-acre site at Piercetown as part of a 354 million euro investment.

Ireland remains without a new government seven weeks on from a general election after a third attempt to elect a premier failed. Neither caretaker Taoiseach Enda Kenny nor Micheal Martin, leader of the second largest party Fianna Fail, could secure anywhere near enough backing from the Dail to form an administration.

A man shot dead outside a pub may have been c aught in the crossfire of a botched gangland assassination attempt. The victim was gunned down on Lower Sheriff Street in Dublin’s north inner city as a lone gunman on a black bicycle opened fire.

Gardai investigating the murder of a Co Armagh man almost nine years ago have arrested a suspect aged in his 50s. Paul Quinn, from Cullyhanna, was 21 when he was beaten to death near Castleblayney, Co Monaghan.

Two men are being questioned about a suspected New IRA bomb plot after explosives were discovered in a car just after rush hour at a busy junction in Dublin. The pair – in their early 30s and early 40s – are being detained at separate Garda stations in the city as the suspected explosives have… Continue reading Gardai quiz pair over suspected New IRA bomb plot after explosives found in car

Welfare chiefs will shut down Post Offices by pushing benefits recipients to use banks instead, postmasters have warned. Staging a protest outside caretaker Social Protection Minister Joan Burton’s office, the Irish Postmasters’ Union (IPU) said her refusal to reverse the policy will sound the death knell for branches country-wide.

Australia has warned its citizens about increasing tensions in Ireland between dissident republicans and unionists around the 1916 Rising centenary. In updated travel advice issued this week, people travelling to the country have been warned of the risk of protests turning violent, including those associated with Northern Ireland.

One of the country’s sports watchdogs has said it will work with Government to establish how mixed martial arts operates in Ireland after the death of a fighter. Sport Ireland said it does not recognise MMA in any form and it is not responsible for investigating Saturday’s bout in Dublin after which Portugal’s Joao Carvalho,… Continue reading Minister demands regulation for mixed martial arts after fighter's death