Taoiseach Enda Kenny makes a point to  US president Barack Obama and Britain’s prime minister David Cameron during a walk at the G8 summit  at Lough Erne  in Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh. Photograph:  Matt Cardy/Getty Images

Taoiseach Enda Kenny rounded on Independent TD Clare Daly after she accused him of showcasing Ireland “as a nation of pimps, prostituting ourselves in(...)

“For the Taoiseach it was an image to die for. There’s nothing a leader likes more than proximity to more powerful leaders.” US president Barack Obama, British prime minister David Cameron and Taoiseach Enda Kenny take a walk at the G8 summit at Lough Erne in Fermanagh. Photograph: Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland

You’d think they hadn’t a care in the world. Enda Kenny took a stroll by Lough Erne with Barack Obama and David Cameron before sitting down to lunch w(...)

Martin O’Malley: “There is among the Irish, by and large in America, a keen and heartfelt awareness that we are a nation of nations and we have all been strangers in a foreign land at one point.” Photograph: David Sleator

Martin O’Malley couldn’t figure out why the president of Ireland wanted to meet him. It was 2000 and he had been elected mayor of Baltimore just a few(...)

Noonan and Howlin, together with Kenny and Gilmore, operate as a Cabinet within the Cabinet. Photograph: Aidan Crawley

It takes an extraordinary political talent to convince most people that they should vote against the abolition of a body as bizarre and as offensive t(...)

A call to civic engagement

When congratulatory words and diplomatic language are stripped away, the message President Barack Obama delivered to the young people of Northern Irel(...)

Daniel O’Connell by Sir David Wilkie:  favoured the separation of church and state

Last Monday Enda Kenny visited Bobbio in northern Italy to see one of the great shrines of Irish Christianity, the tomb of St Columbanus, who brought (...)

It was a scrappy few weeks leading up to this week’s poll, full of spats and skirmishes, firstly involving Minister for Justice Alan Shatter (above) and recently Deputy John McGuinness of Fianna Fáil

There was no sunshine for Fine Gael and Labour in the latest Irish Times/Ipsos MRBI poll. Conducted on Monday and Tuesday of this week as the weather (...)

Fine Gael TD Richard Bruton has been named the Party’s director of elections for the referendum on the abolition of the Seanad. Photograph: Eric Luke/The Irish Times

Fine Gael’s Richard Bruton has been named the party’s director of elections for the referendum on the abolition of the Seanad, leading its campaign fo(...)

Enda Kenny: “I’m getting medals, scapulars, plastic foetuses, letters written in blood, telephone calls all over the system and it’s not confined to me.”

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has said he has received letters written in blood which claim that he is a murderer because of the forthcoming abortion legislati(...)

The conservative Catholic schoolteacher from Mayo stood by his sense of duty

They don’t make croziers like they used to. Never mind the belt of one – just the cold draught from an upward swing was once enough to cow entire gove(...)

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