Irish airline Aer Lingus Group PLC said Wednesday that record costs for fuel pushed it to a net loss in 2008 — and surprised analysts by forecasting further losses this year because of slumping consumer spending.
The Real IRA, which claimed responsibility for killing two British soldiers over the weekend, has caused more havoc than any other Irish Republican Army splinter group since most IRA members embraced a peace process in Northern Ireland.
Thousands of Protestants and Catholics united with their political and security leaders Friday at the funeral of a policeman — shot by IRA dissidents in what mourners prayed would mark the end of Northern Ireland's "troubles."
As a veteran nurse, Margaret Horan is used to feeling overworked and underpaid. A steady flow of coughing, moaning and bleeding Dubliners must wait hours to be seen because of staff shortages at her hospital in the working-class heart of the capital.
Police charged two men Monday night in connection with an Irish-record robbery in which a gang forced a Bank of Ireland employee to steal millions from his own employer — or risk having his family executed.
The Russian navy finally admitted Friday it caused an oil slick off Ireland's southwest coast — 12 days after European and Irish marine authorities first spotted the threat and linked it to the Russians' breakdown-prone aircraft carrier.
When nature calls at 30,000 feet, is $1.40 a wee price to pay? Or could it force passengers without correct change into a whole new kind of holding pattern?
Police recovered millions in stolen cash and interrogated seven suspected robbers Saturday, a day after a gang took a bank employee's family hostage and forced him to rob his own branch.
President Barack Obama is bringing the Irish prime minister to the White House on St. Patrick's Day.
Christopher Nolan, an Irish poet and novelist who refused to let cerebral palsy get in the way of his writing, has died. He was 43.
Around 100,000 people filled the streets of the Irish capital Saturday in protest at the government's handling of the country's economic crisis, police said.
Irish playwright and commentator Hugh Leonard, who won a Tony Award in 1978 for his bittersweet father-and-son drama "Da," died Thursday. He was 82 and had been hospitalized for more than a year battling various illnesses.
A former IRA chief accused of distributing millions in North Korean-produced counterfeit $100 bills jumped bail once and could flee Ireland if granted freedom again, a police officer testified Wednesday.
An Irish Republican Army veteran and Marxist politician was arrested Friday to face a new U.S. extradition warrant claiming he helped launder millions in North Korean-produced counterfeit dollars.
The Irish government on Thursday formally rejected Ryanair's bid to acquire rival Aer Lingus, emphasizing it would not sell its 25 percent stake in the airline at the Ryanair offer of euro1.40 ($1.81) per share.
United Airlines and Ireland's Aer Lingus unveiled an agreement Thursday to operate a new joint trans-Atlantic service between Washington, DC and Spain as part of their recent code-sharing deal.
The parent company of Irish beer icon Guinness announced Monday it may change or abandon plans to reform production in Ireland and open a new state-of-the-art brewery because of the struggling global economy.
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Ireland ruled out nationalizing the country's top two banks Tuesday as lawmakers voted to take control of the country's third-largest, scandal-struck Anglo Irish Bank.
EU regulators on Wednesday cleared Ireland's euro1.5 billion ($1.99 billion) bailout for Anglo Irish Bank, which had been effectively nationalized to prevent its collapse.
Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen is leading his country's biggest ever trade mission to Japan in an effort to boost investment from the world's second-largest economy, an official said Wednesday.
The chief executive of Ireland's Aer Lingus airline, Dermot Mannion, on Friday surrendered a politically explosive "golden handshake" from his contract that would have rewarded him euro2.8 million ($3.8 million) if he resigned following a Ryanair takeover.
U.S. computer maker Dell Inc. announced Thursday it will slash its Irish work force and shift its European manufacturing operations to Poland in a move certain to undermine Ireland's recession-hit economy.
The Irish government ordered a new investigation Wednesday into how a Roman Catholic bishop mishandled complaints against sexually abusive priests in his diocese.
Former Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern — who resigned this year amid a probe into the secret donations he pocketed while in office — has struck a six-figure deal to write his memoirs, the British unit of Random House confirmed Wednesday.