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Minister for Foreign Affairs Charlie Flanagan has warned against Ireland seeking “special status’’ within the EU following Brexit. He said such conc(...)

Our refugee programme is focused on resettling refugees from camps in Greece, Italy and Lebanon and Government has advised Greece of our desire to tak(...)

Cyberspying has become so all-pervasive that diplomats are resorting to using typewriters to send important messages, a conference has been told. T(...)

Students from across Ireland attended a protest in Dublin on Wednesday afternoon and heard calls from student leaders on the Government to increase in(...)

Earlier this summer, in the days after the British vote to leave the European Union, Irish diplomats on the continent were struck by how often they f(...)

During the week, the Merriman Summer School in Ennis was timely in examining the theme of “our gallant allies in Europe”. It offered a chance to refle(...)

What is Brexit? The countdown has begun to the United Kingdom’s referendum on withdrawal from the European Union. The stakes are high: if UK voters o(...)

Media owner Denis O’Brien’s Communicorp Group, which owns Newstalk and Today FM, lobbied the Government for financial support for the public services(...)

The Government does not support the United Kingdom’s continued membership of the European Union “at any cost”, Minister for European Affairs Dara Murp(...)

President Michael D Higgins is to appoint international aid specialist Hans Zomer as his head of communications. Mr Zomer (47) has been director of D(...)