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.
U2 fans, get your boots on. The first song from the band's first album in five years is ready for you to hear.
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.
Some people insist that it's an American invention, or at least a corruption of the Irish original. To get the story straight, Epicurious turned to chef and cooking teacher Rory O'Connell.
While we looked the other way – at a world that was melting, free-falling into depression, and warring over the remaining resources – the dreary steeples were there, waiting for us.
BELFAST (AFP) — Thousands of people joined peace vigils in Northern Ireland Wednesday to protest the killings of a policeman and two soldiers which threaten to re-ignite sectarian conflict after a decade of calm.
CRAIGAVON, Northern Ireland — Barely three days after two British soldiers were shot to death by a dissident faction of the Irish Republican Army, another I.R.A.
An unprecedented denunciation of dissident republican terrorists is expected to unfold across Ireland today with thousands of protesters expected in rallies in the north while politicians in the south unite to condemn the Real and Continuity IRA for the murders of two soldiers an …
Northern Ireland was plunged into a deeper security crisis last night when a police officer was shot dead in Craigavon, Co Armagh, the third member of the security forces to die in as many days.
The two soldiers shot dead in Northern Ireland by the Real IRA on Saturday night have been named as Sappers Mark Quinsey and Cengiz 'Patrick' Azimka. Prime Minister Gordon Brown visited the site today along with Northern Ireland Secretary, Shaun Woodward.
The recent attack on a British army base in Antrim by, it appears, so-called republican dissidents, will come as no surprise to anyone familiar with politics in the six counties of Ireland or who's spent even a small amount of time there.
Dissident republicans, who are opposed to the peace process, are being blamed for yesterday's killing of two soldiers at an Army base in Northern Ireland.
Two British military members were killed and another four people wounded in a "serious shooting incident" at an army base in Northern Ireland.
An Irish bishop has agreed to "stand aside" to aid an investigation into the handling of allegations of clerical sex abuse in his County Cork diocese.
The band that loves to rail against global corporate malfeasance is being criticized at home over allegations of tax dodging...
Phil Franco Actor Performing artist performs improvised comedy act Homeless guy and bag lady interact and Homeless Guy talks about his aspirations and the life he wished he had.
COMMIT RANDOM acts of kindness. Love your neighbour. Make people feel cared about. Surely some mistake? This sounds like a positive story. And it is. A year-long campaign has begun to encourage people to commit random acts of kindness at least once a month.
A Bank of Ireland employee was able to persuade co-workers to let him carry out four bags of cash because kidnappers who were threatening to kill his family also gave him photographs of his colleagues' faces and homes, the police said Monday.
I have been reading a lot of European history lately and I had always found the British Union Jack to be my favorite foreign flag (my favorite flag obviously being our own beloved Stars & Stripes).
"The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that soul were fled."
U2's lead singer, Bono, has been "hurt" by claims he is a hypocrite for agreeing to move part of the band's business to the Netherlands to avoid paying higher taxes in Ireland.
Feb. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Irish engineer David Kavanagh thought he'd have his pick of jobs when he graduated from college last year. Instead he's picking countries.
Details of how police in the Irish Republic finally caught up with the country's most reckless driver have emerged, the Irish Times reports.
Firemen's delegation at head of march A reporting team from the World Socialist Web Site spoke to a broad range of the workers taking part in Saturday's 100,000-strong protest in Dublin called by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions.
A section of the demonstration in Dublin Up to 120,000 marched through Dublin on Saturday, in a massive protest against government attacks on working people.
The Telegraph: Stephen Jen, currency chief at Morgan Stanley, said Eastern Europe has borrowed $1.7 trillion abroad, much on short-term maturities. It must repay -- or roll over -- $400bn this year, equal to a third of the region's GDP. Good luck.
Up to 100,000 people have gathered in Dublin city centre to protest at the Irish government's handling of the country's recession. Many are angry at plans to impose a pension levy on public sector workers.
The Isle of Man is dealing with the crime of Internet piracy in an equally novel way: by accepting defeat. Rather than police the Internet for illegal activity, the Isle of Man has proposed a radical new tax of £1 ($1.45) per week that will be paid directly to recording compani …