Micheál Martin

It was signed by the writer Irvine Welsh, the film-makers Ken Loach and Jim Sheridan, the actors Adrian Dunbar, Maxine Peake and Siobhán McSweeney and the musicians Paul Weller, Johnny Marr and Imelda May, among others

He also addressed moves to tighten citizenship rules and opened the door to publishing crime statistics by nationality amid a heated debate over immigration and crime

There is a stalemate between loyalist marchers and republican protesters over an Orange Order parade in Northern Ireland

Germany and the cost-cutting faction it leads demanded on Tuesday a reduction of several hundred billion euros to the European Commission’s original near-€2 trillion proposal

Chancellor Friedrich Merz and his counterparts from five countries have threatened to withhold approval to the EU budget proposal unless it's cut by billions of euros

On match days, Peadar Browns pub in Dublin’s historic Liberties area is usually jam-packed with football fans piling in to watch the game on various screens

Ireland players consider last-minute boycott of Israel match

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is facing criticism over his limited public response to Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian’s arrival in New York for the United Nations General Assembly, amid his repeated calls for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to face arrest as a "war criminal"

The Republic of Ireland and Israel were allocated the same group in League B of the UEFA Nations League 2026-27, provoking strong opposition from Irish fans, footballers and celebrities due to Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza

Taoiseach Micheál Martin praised the stance taken on Israel and Palestine by British prime minister Andy Burnham as the two leaders met in Manchester on Friday morning

Polls will remain open until Sunday evening, when voters will have chosen all 450 members of the State Duma

The Irish leader met with European Council President António Costa at his country residence in Dublin to discuss negotiations and pave the way for signing a deal on the Multiannual Financial Framework, the bloc's seven-year budget, by an informal end-of-year deadline

She raised the issue on Wednesday as the Dáil returned on its first day after the summer recess, with demonstrations outside Leinster House by Palestinian support groups and protesters against puppy farms

Healy-Rae had his window rolled down and was talking on the phone to his son Jackie, a Kerry councilman, as a man walked into the road and started punching the politician in the face

The Irish leader met with European Council President António Costa at his country residence in Dublin to discuss negotiations and pave the way for signing a deal on the Multiannual Financial Framework, the bloc's seven-year budget, by an informal end-of-year deadline

Miriam Levin-Gold likes Prime Minister Mark Carney's idea of Canadians being able to live and work in the European Union under proposed closer ties with the trade bloc

SNP, Plaid Cymru and Sinn Fein sign pact to break up United Kingdom

Trump was asked by a reporter if he had spoken with Zelenskyy following his recent conversation with Russia’s Vladimir Putin

Well yes, because prior to his declaration on Saturday, President Trump avoided any tricky questions around Irish unity

For the first time since devolution began, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland all have first ministers who want to leave the United Kingdom

On foreign land but home turf, Donald Trump presented the Irish Open trophy to Shane Lowry at the president’s Doonbeg golf course

Trump lands in Ireland ahead of political meetings and golf

The unexpected intervention prompted a swift rebuttal from the UK government and Northern Ireland’s unionist leaders

Thousands prepare to protest in Dublin as US president holds brief talks before heading to his coastal golf resort

For Catherine Connolly, Trump’s courtesy call to Áras an Uachtaráin may prove a sterner test, balancing diplomatic niceties with her strong views on his policies

An Garda Síochána (Irish police force) have described preparations for the US president's visit to the Republic of Ireland as "one of the biggest security and policing operations" ever undertaken by them

Talks involving Dublin and London and all of the Northern Ireland parties should be part of “the teasing out” of when, or whether, the necessary threshold providing for a referendum has been met

He will meet Connolly and hold a bilateral meeting with the Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Micheal Martin before travelling to his golf course in Doonbeg, County Clare

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Ireland stresses Europe’s need for alumina amid spat over Russian-owned plant

German nuclear fuel plant cleared to work with Russia's Rosatom

Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin arrived in Kyiv on 23 July, where he will hold meetings with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Prime Minister Serhii Koretskyi and Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament) Ruslan Stefanchuk

She was named locally as Jamey Carney, who was originally from New York but moved to the area about five years ago and lived with her daughter

The presidency, which will last until December 2026, means that Ireland will guide negotiations and broker agreement between member states