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Northern Ireland’s First Minister Arlene Foster has insisted she was not attending a 1916 Easter Rising commemoration during an event marking the rebellion against British rule. The Democratic Unionist leader, who had vowed to snub centenary commemorations of the uprising, travelled to Dublin to take part in a Church of Ireland-organised talk at Christ Church… Continue reading Arlene Foster denies attending Easter Rising commemoration in Dublin

Fianna Fail has promised an extra 18 million euro to revitalise the Irish language and Gaeltacht areas. The windfall would help increase the use of An Ghaeilge and create new jobs in Irish-speaking regions.

Micheal Martin has accused Leo Varadkar of failing to intervene in crisis after crisis in the health service as their war of words became increasingly bitter. Mr Varadkar criticised his Fianna Fail rival’s record when he was health minister from 2000-2004.

Ireland’s largest trade union has abandoned its “once in a century” hope of a left-wing government just days before voters go to the polls. Siptu has conceded there is no “feasible prospect” for a coalition of leftist parties and independents forming a coalition after next week’s general election.

Heroin and cocaine with an estimated street value of half a million euro has been seized during a raid on a house in west Dublin. A 24-year-old man was arrested at the scene in Clondalkin and is being questioned about drug trafficking.

The former chief executive of Anglo Irish Bank has dropped his fight against extradition from the US and agreed to return to Ireland to face fraud charges. Irish investigators have accused David Drumm of conspiring to conceal massive losses from shareholders. He left Ireland after the bank collapsed and moved in 2009 to the Boston… Continue reading I'll fight fraud charges in Ireland, says ex-Anglo Irish Bank boss

Alleged former IRA chief Thomas “Slab” Murphy will be sentenced for tax evasion on the same day as the general election. The Special Criminal Court in Dublin heard the 66-year-old bachelor farmer owes the Irish exchequer almost 190,000 euro for eight years of tax dodging.

Dozens of armed police have led a massive security operation in central Dublin at the funeral of one of the victims of a bloody gangland feud. David Byrne, 34, was shot dead during a boxing weigh-in at the Regency Hotel in the north of the city on February 5 by a six strong gang, some… Continue reading Large Garda presence at funeral of boxing weigh-in murder victim David Byrne

Irish Water staff will either lose their jobs or be redeployed if Sinn Fein takes power, Gerry Adams has said. The party president and Louth TD said the utility would be abolished based on whatever is cheapest for the taxpayer and pensions and redundancies would be worked out on an individual basis.

A multimillion-euro drugs haul has been made by gardai. About 300 kilos of cannabis resin, eight kilos of cannabis and one kilo of cocaine were discovered during a raid on a house in Donaghmede Park in north Dublin on Saturday evening.