The British government’s controversial gay marriage legislation returns to the Commons today with Tory MPs and activists deeply split over the (...)

Gunmen killed a senior female politician from a reformist party in Pakistan last night, the latest violent incident in a bloody election campai(...)

The widow of poisoned spy Alexander Litvinenko tonight accused a coroner of abandoning “his search for the truth about Russian state responsibi(...)

Finance Minister Michael Noonan, as chairman of the European Union’s finance ministers during Ireland’s time as president of the European counc(...)

When Prof Ian Hargreaves answered his mobile while out walking his dog, to find a minister at the other end asking him to do a report on copyri(...)

First Minister Peter Robinson and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness have outlined a set of proposals aimed at imp(...)

Queen guitarist Brian May has described the Irish policy of culling badgers as “utterly laughable” and has vowed to help those(...)

Two key republican figures remained in deep dispute last night about the content of Thatcher Foundation archive papers (...)

Official secret memos contained in the Thatcher Foundation papers on the 1981 hunger strikes point to a convicti(...)

In January 1835 a three-masted barque sailed from Cork harbour, bound for Australia, with 241 people on board. Most were Irishwomen who had bee(...)