Joe Costello

There was no mistaking the presence of the Catholics in Makeni, a large town three hours inland from Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone. Past the d(...)

Irish Ministers attended wreath-laying ceremonies in France and Belfast yesterday to mark the 97th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme. Minister of(...)

Minister of State for Trade and Development Joe Costello will begin a three-day trade mission today targeting Canada’s natural resources industry.Fift(...)

Minister of State for Development Joe Costello said it had been hoped the US would sign the first treaty to regulate the $70 billion (€53.6 billion) g(...)

New legislation banning drink sponsorship of sporting events was required because sport cannot be “so intimately related to drinking”, Minister of Sta(...)

Ireland has become one of the first States to sign a landmark treaty to regulate the trade in conventional weapons today.Signing of the internationall(...)

The European Union yesterday pledged an extra €520 million in international aid to Mali over the next two years, with Ireland committing €2.5 m(...)

Despite some setbacks because of a slowdown in China hitting exports, one of the world’s fastest growing economies is Mongolia, where GDP is ex(...)

The Government has signed a three-year strategic partnership agreement with the UN World Food Programme, the world's largest humanitarian agenc(...)

A grandmother with HIV has revealed how she is living a normal healthy life as a direct result of money from Irish taxpayers. Zadia (...)