Irish voters boosted the country’s centrist government during this week’s local and European Parliament elections, dealing a blow to the opposition Sinn Féin, while also electing a handful of far-right candidates, the Guardian reported. The ruling coalition, made up of Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and the...
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Irish police dismantled around 200 tents housing asylum seekers in Dublin on Wednesday, shortly after the government said it would push for legislation aimed at curbing the number of illegal migrants entering the country from neighboring Britain, Reuters reported. On Wednesday, authorities began moving refugees and...
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Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar resigned from his position as the head of government and stepped down as leader of his governing Fine Gael party Wednesday, a surprise announcement that shocked Ireland’s political elite and led many to wonder if the country would hold early...
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Irish voters overwhelmingly rejected two referendums aimed at changing the country’s constitution in areas relating to women and family, votes that observers called embarrassing defeats for the government, the Financial Times reported over the weekend. On Friday, two referendums had proposed recognizing families based on “durable...
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Irish voters will cast ballots in a nationwide referendum on March 8 – International Women’s Day – to determine how their country’s constitution depicts families and motherhood. Advocates are seeking to alter the constitution in the largely Catholic, Western European nation to reflect more progressive perspectives....
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Ireland is considering enshrining the rights of nature into its national constitution, a move that if approved could make it the first European Union nation to do so, the BBC reported. The Irish parliament’s Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action recommended that the government should...
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Irish people will vote next year to expurgate sexism from the country’s 1937 constitution, a referendum aimed at modernizing Ireland’s conservative Roman Catholic charter, Politico reported. On Tuesday, the government announced two proposed amendments to the constitutional section on family values, including the role of women...
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Riots broke out in the Irish capital following a stabbing attack allegedly perpetrated by an individual of immigrant background, an incident that prompted concerns about anti-immigrant and far-right elements in the country, the Washington Post reported. Protests broke out in Dublin last Thursday after a man...
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Ireland has long honored St. Patrick, as have many in Europe and elsewhere, often by wearing green and drinking pints. Now, the country is moving to honor another saintly figure from its past – St. Brigid of Kildare – by creating an official holiday starting...
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Three years after the exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union, officials in Brussels, London and Dublin still haven’t fixed the rules governing the border between Northern Ireland, a member of the UK, and the Republic of Ireland in the south. Recently, both sides...
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Sinn Fein, with a history as the political arm of the Irish Republican Army, a militant organization, is now poised to win the largest share of seats in Northern Ireland’s regional parliament when voters in the British territory go to the polls on May 5....
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