‘It is quite emotional’: 1,277 Special Olympics athletes gather for start of Summer Games
President Catherine Connolly hails impact of event ‘beyond the court, the pitch, the pool’
Catherine Connolly
How the Westport was won: Frank McNally on an unscheduled but educational night in Mayo
An ancestor of visiting Canadian prime minister Mark Carney took part in a ‘great cattle drive’ in defiance of landowner Lord Sligo
Canadian prime minister Mark Carney returns ‘home’ to Co Mayo
Premier traces his heritage back to Aughagower, where his grandparents were born
Dorothy Cross: ‘The beautiful is always bizarre ... It is never about trying to shock’
The artist’s best-known work had a lasting impact. The cabinet of curiosities that is her studio offers an insight into the master behind it
Canadian prime minister Mark Carney to visit Ireland next week
Carney will make trip to Co Mayo to see grandparents’ home place
In pictures: Guinness Choir celebrates 75th anniversary
Independent Dublin-based choir brings poet Paula Meehan’s words to life in St Patrick’s Cathedral
Regressive migration policies risking Ireland’s economic performance, says immigrant council
Government is taking a ‘severe approach’ towards ‘penalising’ migrants, says ICI chief
‘Sinn Féin were never left’: Inside the political splits that threaten the Catherine Connolly coalition
Fianna Fáil, the largest political party, bombed in the byelections but divisions among the left-wing parties drew most attention
Are Sinn Féin drifting away from an uneasy left-wing alliance?
Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan
Left-wing parties round on Sinn Féin over policy direction
Differences fracturing progressive alliance formed during Catherine Connolly’s presidential campaign
Turnout figures show Galway West 44% and Dublin Central 40% as count set to get under way
New TDs could change speaking rights in Dáil if Social Democrats gain a seat, overtaking Labour
Irish aid flotilla detainees due to fly home on Saturday
Fourteen Irish citizens among more than 400 pro-Palestine activists Israel deported on Thursday
Who will win the Dublin Central and Galway West byelections?
In the News podcast: Such elections traditionally give voters a chance to thump the Government
‘Disgusting behaviour’: Taoiseach condemns Israeli minister who taunts detained Gaza flotilla activists
Irish activist is restrained by soldiers and pushed to the ground in video circulated by Itamar Ben-Gvir
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Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
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