Fragile political stability in Northern Ireland is being undermined by the rise of the radical right in mainland Britain. The ...

DUBLIN (AP) — Northern Ireland’s major British Protestant party, the Democratic Unionists, appeared on course to retain its leading role in power-sharing Friday as Catholic backing for Irish ...

Both Catherine Connolly – who will be inaugurated as president tomorrow – and Heather Humphreys expressed a strong commitment ...

Sinn Fein vice president Michelle O’Neill has urged the Taoiseach to “rectify an anomaly” by allowing Irish citizens in Northern Ireland to vote in presidential elections. It comes after the Northern ...

BELFAST, Northern Ireland -- David Trimble was re-elected Tuesday as leader of Northern Ireland's unity government after a bitter showdown with Protestant hard-liners who had tried to bring down the ...

LONDON (AP) — Voters in Ireland went to the polls Friday to elect one of two women as their new president for the next seven years, a largely ceremonial role in the European Union member country.

The Republic of Ireland's new president says "our actions today will shape the world our grandchildren will inherit".

NORTHERN IRELAND’S MINISTER for the economy, Conor Murphy, has announced that he will contest the upcoming Seanad election.

In Ireland, election results are neck and neck, or maybe we should say neck and neck and neck. Exit polls are showing a three-way tie among the top parties, ending days of two-party dominance in ...

The next Northern Ireland assembly must make NHS staff shortages and growing patient waiting lists a priority, doctors' leaders have urged. The three royal colleges of physicians called on the next ...

LONDON(AP) — Voters in Ireland went to the polls Friday to elect one of two women as their new president for the next seven years, a largely ceremonial role in the European Union member country.