IRISH President Mary McAleese is to visit the World War I battlefield of Gallipoli in Turkey on March 24 to remember the 3,000 Irish soldiers who died there.
Mrs McAleese will dedicate a foundation stone of a proposed memorial to Irish casualties at a cemetery in the Suvla Bay area, where the 10th Irish Division were [...]
The beleaguered Irish Government suffered its third resignation in a fortnight last night amid claims that the coalition is at breaking point from internal dirty tricks.
Green TD Trevor Sargent dramatically quit his junior ministerial post over his attempts to save a “concerned neighbour” from a criminal prosecution.
The opposition seized on the swift but dignified departure, [...]
Irish Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan has confirmed that he will continue his roles in the Department, the Dáil, and in Cabinet, despite recently being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
Mr Lenihan revealed that he will need chemotherapy and possibly radiotherapy after cancerous tissue was removed from the entrance to his pancreas.
The Minister’s health had been the [...]
The funeral Mass of former Irish Catholic Church leader Cardinal Cahal Daly will take place on Tuesday in Belfast after the retired cleric passed away peacefully on New Year’s Eve.
Cardinal Daly, who was 92, died peacefully at 6.45pm at the City Hospital in Belfast.
Tributes have been rolling in for the retired cleric who had a [...]
Two more Irish bishops have announced their resignation in the wake of the recent Murphy report on clerical child abuse in the Dublin diocese.
Eamonn Walsh and Raymond Field bowed to weeks of intense criticism and pressure, announcing at services across Dublin that they planned to quit their posts as auxiliaries in the archdiocese.
They are the [...]
by Irish Echo Staff
Ireland’s US ambassador is expected to speak with US President Barack Obama within weeks about a possible visit to his ancestral home in Co Offaly, according to reports in Dublin.
The American embassy in Dublin confirmed that Dan Rooney would travel to Moneygall this week for a trip that has sparked fresh hopes [...]
by Irish Echo Staff
Irish union chiefs have warned of chaos and further industrial action if the Government forges ahead with public sector pay cuts in the this week’s Budget.
Taoiseach Brian Cowen indicated that a salary axe of between 5 and 6 per cent was in store after crunch talks on alternatives dramatically collapsed on Friday.
But [...]
by Irish Echo Staff
The head of the Catholic Church in Ireland is to meet with the pope to discuss a damning investigation into clerical child abuse.
Cardinal Sean Brady will travel to the Vatican next week for the meeting with Pope Benedict on the findings of the Murphy report on the crimes of paedophile priests in [...]
by Colm Kelpie
Taoiseach Brian Cowen tonight gave a stark warning to flood ravaged communities across Ireland – it will get worse before it gets better.
As energy chiefs attempted to ease pressure upstream on the Shannon without inundating homes downstream, Mr Cowen said further days of misery were on the way.
“It’s expected that the levels in [...]
by Irish Echo Staff
Irish hopes of a World Cup reprieve have been dashed with both FIFA and the French Football Federation insisting there will be no replay of the controversial play-off against France.
France striker Thierry Henry thinks the “fairest solution” would be to replay the match following his handball in the build-up to the vital [...]
