officials of Ireland

Mr Varadkar told the Dail that he has written to church authorities in support of a visit to Northern Ireland and also suggested a meeting with victims of clerical abuse. Responding to questions from TDs, Mr Varadkar said: “I am very much aware that this is a pastoral visit and I don't think it is the role of the ...

DUBLIN, April 19 (Xinhua) -- The total value of the goods trade between China and Ireland reached 2.09 billion U.S. dollars in the first two months of this ... The lift of the Chinese ban on the Irish beef exports will surely serve a boost to the growing bilateral trade between the two countries, said an official ...

The official administering Sean Dunne's Irish bankruptcy has told the High Court the businessman did not co-operate with the process after being adjudicated bankrupt here ... The businessman denies he has not co-operated with the Official Assignee and opposes the application to extend his bankruptcy.

We expect a scathing Irish condemnation of this despicable resolution.” Last year, the Dublin City Council voted to fly the Palestinian flag above City Hall in a show of support for Palestinian statehood and considered a boycott of companies doing business with Israel. Ireland is rumored to be ready to ...

Mr Ahern said the effect of British and Irish politicians and officials no longer working together at EU level after Brexit has been given insufficient attention. ... Also at the conference, former Northern Ireland deputy first minister Seamus Mallon said nationalists must be able to persuade unionists that Irish unity ...

... resist wholescale adoption of GB legislation to Northern Ireland. He said such resistance was sometimes "factored in" by his former minister Arlene Foster when it came to decision making. The inquiry has heard suggestions that the RHI debacle may never have happened if Northern Ireland officials had simply copied an ...

Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan said Tuesday night that officials had turned MacDonncha back when he tried to pass through customs. MacDonncha is an outspoken critic of Israel and a supporter of the BDS movement, and is active in the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign. He recently led a ...

CONOR POPE, Consumer Affairs Correspondent. Irish consumers will win the right to bring class actions against companies under new proposals from the European Commission. National consumer authorities will also be able to impose fines on rogue traders of up to 4 per cent of turnover under the ...

Former Ulster and Ireland captain Willie John McBride was speaking following the Belfast rape trial in which both men were acquitted. "At the end of the ... "I hope that the Ulster authorities and the Irish authorities allow these guys to do what they do best - and that's playing rugby," he said. Mr McBride said ...

Mr Mitchell played a key role in broking the agreement that was then ratified in a referendum on both sides of the Irish border in May 1998. It set up a power-sharing assembly to govern Northern Ireland by cross-community consent. However, the deal proved difficult to implement and was amended by the St Andrew's ...

Usually a trip to an Irish beach requires putting on more clothes rather than taking them all off. But for people who can 'bare' the cold, there's now somewhere in Ireland where they can go and be natural. The first nude beach on the island of Ireland will officially open at Hawk Cliff in Dalkey, south Dublin in ...

TWO Irish families today presented Pope Francis with the official World Meeting of Families 2018 'Icon of the Holy Family'. ... "I remember when Pope John Paul II came to Ireland - I couldn't go to Dublin as I had young children at the time but we watched him on TV for days on end so this means so much to ...

Mr Wightman defended his informal consultation with industry. He said to have made changes without some contact with stakeholders would have left the department open to legal challenge. He said he also did not understand the implications for the Northern Ireland budget of an overspend on the scheme, ...

During the General Audience on Wednesday two Irish families presented the official World Meeting of Families 2018 'Icon of the Holy Family' to Pope Francis. Among those participating at the presentation were Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, President of WMOF2018, Father Tim Bartlett, Secretary General of ...

Anglo Irish Bank officials described transactions being carried out at the height of the financial crisis as "funny stuff", a court heard. In phone conversations recorded in 2008, bankers also referred to "rinky dink" figures and making the balance sheet looking "aesthetically as well as it can". The tapes were ...

BRUSSELS — European authorities on Wednesday proposed revamping the way many technology companies in the region are taxed, outlining wide-ranging ... In documents obtained by The New York Times before Wednesday's announcement, officials estimated that digital businesses in the bloc pay an ...

But there's no official oversight of foreign individuals or organisations targeting Irish voters online, and no obligation to declare foreign donations to groups which aren't registered with the Standards in Public Office Commission (Sipo), Ireland's electoral regulator. Many prominent campaign groups are not ...

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL has condemned a new ruling from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) concluding that British authorities did not engage in torture during the troubles in Northern Ireland. The Irish Government had requested that the ECHR revise its 1978 judgement that 14 detainees ...

He is alleged to have conspired with Anglo's former Finance Director Willie McAteer and head of Capital Markets John Bowe, as well as then-CEO of Irish Life and Permanent, Denis Casey, and others. The case centres on a series of interbank loans which circulated between Anglo and ILP in September ...

With a transition deal agreed, UK officials hope the full Withdrawal Agreement can be completed by July. .... On Ireland, they fear the EU will show little willingness to engage with alternative U.K. proposals to resolve the Irish border issue if the EU's backstop option remains in the withdrawal text, and are ...

Irish authorities gave me a warm welcome. They knew where I was coming from and how I had been treated. They listened to me and granted me residency here for six months. The way they welcomed me made me feel like I'm a human being. It was very different to how I had been treated in Sudan.

A FORMER DUP minister was told by officials of her department's obligation to recognise Irish and Ulster-Scots months after she claimed it had adopted “single language policy”. Details emerged after the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) was forced to provide documents, ...

HANCEVILLE — Saturday's overcast skies made an apt backdrop for Hanceville's first-ever downtown Irish Celebration event, lending a sense of climatic ... The celebration went off with an official sanction from the City, with Mayor Kenneth Nail proclaiming Saturday “Irish Heritage Day” in honor of city ...

There were three very close calls in the first half at Twickenham on Saturday and all of them went in Ireland's favour. On the face of it you might think that would give England reason to be upset but having analysed each of them I don't think Angus Gardner, the referee, and TMO Ben Skeen, got any of the big ...

The long-time Ulster Rugby sponsor Bank of Ireland has welcomed the organisation's announcement that it and the IRFU are to review their structures and education programmes after the termination of the contracts of Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding. The sporting bodies said in a joint statement on ...