A joke from the old USSR reported an exchange during a Politburo discussion about a ten-year plan that almost all those present thought was progressing satisfactorily. “Yes,” grunts a dissenter steeped in Marxist theology, “it’s very, very successful in practice, but the theory is all wrong.”

Senator George Mitchell has said a Brexit outcome that avoids a hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland must be encouraged.

Esther McCarthy speaks to film director and producer Maurice Fitzpatrick about his documentary on Northern Ireland peace campaigner John Hume

Donald Trump’s foreign policy may see the US lose key allies, writes Mark Champion

A former New York bomb squad detective credited with saving countless children's lives during the Troubles, and hailed by former President Bill Clinton as a symbol for the North's peace process, is the subject of a new documentary.

Minister for Justice, Frances Fitzgerald with Garda Commissioner, Noirín O’Sullivan. Irish femocracy is still only getting into its stride. What is going to happen to us menfolk at all?

According to her obituary, this Virginia lady wasn't too impressed by either of the presidential candidates.

Mary Anne Noland wasn’t too enamoured with the possibility of a President Trump or a President Clinton - and she decided not to stick around.

The journalists at the Irish Press group were as hard drinking as they were hardworking. Sue Leonard hears many tall tales and true from David Kenny, who was there before its demise in 1995.  

George Mitchell’s life and career epitomise the American dream but it was his perception and patience that made it a great success, discovers Ryle T Dwyer.

Cork people are long convinced of the county’s delights, but the rest of the world seems stunned that Kimye would consider a honeymoon in the Rebel county.

As Bill Clinton leaves town, former Reuters Washington correspondent Bette Browne examines the odds of another Clinton making it to the White House.

Huddled around a celebratory lunch, the three ladies from Richmond, Virginia, basked in the afterglow of their president’s second inauguration.

Former US President Bill Clinton has told scholarship award winners that he himself got his education thanks to a scholarship programme.

The news that former US president Bill Clinton will visit Limerick to present third-level scholarships has been hailed as “a god-send” to the Mid-West.

The food riots of 2008 were a reminder of our infallibility and of how precarious life can be for the great swathes of humanity living at the very edge of subsistence.

The Government has today unveiled a plan aimed at creating 200,000 jobs by 2020.

HIS voice catching with grief at the beginning and end, Enda Kenny was determined to hold things together for the eulogy so he could make his mother proud one final time.

Former US president Bill Clinton will join hundreds of influential figures from the Irish diaspora for a major economic forum in Dublin next month, it has been announced.

Former US President Bill Clinton last night told a packed conference that Ireland will get out of economic trouble "just fine".

FORMER US president Bill Clinton has outlined an imaginative economic strategy to lift the North from its economic woes.

Former US President Bill Clinton arrived in Derry this afternoon and held meetings with First Minister Peter Robinson and deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness at the University of Ulster’s Magee College.

Former President Bill Clinton made a long-anticipated appearance in the upstate New York village where his daughter is getting married this weekend.

The Dalai Lama said today he was not offended by the low-key reception he received from President Barack Obama during his visit to the White House.

US PRESIDENT Barack Obama warned of “serious issues” over the disputed Afghan elections and said North Korea’s Kim Jong-Il seemed “healthy and in control”, in a media blitz yesterday ahead of a week of international summitry.

When Jean came in to my office in Iveagh House she was taken aback and moved to see my photo of her brothers. On leaving Ireland after her term as ambassador she kindly gave me a gift of one of her own photos of the three brothers at home.

The White House said it was “enormously pleased” with the release today of two US journalists held by North Korea.

Two American journalists freed from a North Korean labour camp were heading home today with their families “counting the seconds” until they met.

Former US president Bill Clinton met North Korean leader Kim Jong Il today as part of a mission to free two American journalists from the secretive state’s notorious work camps.

IF NICENESS had anything to do with it, George Mitchell will pull off Middle Eastern peace by Easter.

THE article by Palestinian Delegate-General Dr Hikmat Ajjuri (Irish Examiner, November 12) regarding the origin of Israel and the current state of Israeli-Palestinian relations was not only bitterly partisan and inflammatory, it was riddled with untruths and historical inaccuracies.

Former American president Bill Clinton will be honoured for his contribution to the Irish peace process at special dinner in New York, it was revealed today.

US PRESIDENTIAL contender Barack Obama needs Senator Hillary Clinton in some capacity, his former Irish-born foreign policy adviser said yesterday.

AMERICA has lost one of its most easily recognised brand names — for the moment at least.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton addressed America’s troubled economy and called for “bold action” to halt the US housing crisis today.

Bill Clinton’s decision to pull out of a Belfast conference marking the 10th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement is a vote of no confidence in it, a leading unionist claimed today.

NOT since 1960 have Wyoming Democrats felt so relevant.

Former US president Bill Clinton will visit the North to mark the 10th anniversary of the Good Friday peace agreement, it has been confirmed.

The passport story allowed the Taoiseach’s extraordinary U-turn to slip back

Barack Obama is stepping up his effort to correct the misconception that he is a Muslim now that the US presidential campaign has hit the Christian Bible Belt in the south of the country.

Former US President Bill Clinton will visit Dublin today on a fund-raising mission to support his wife's bid for Presidency.

IT’S the case of the unlikely diplomat. Former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds yesterday recalled how he tried to broker peace in one of the most volatile regions in the world.

A second President Clinton might occupy a little less space than the first.

NEXT week’s G-8 summit will probably be the last such meeting for Presidents George W Bush and Vladimir Putin.

One of Ireland's top politicians today came under fire after admitting smoking marijuana as a student.

In a rout once considered almost inconceivable, Democrats seemingly won a 51st seat in the Senate and regained total control of Congress after 12 years of near-domination by the Republican Party.

George Bush has signed an order that stiffens sanctions on Sudan and its oil industry in an effort to persuade the government to accept UN peacekeepers and stop the killing of civilians in Darfur.

BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair sparked boos, heckling and a walkout as he faced a further challenge to his authority in a speech to Britain’s unions.

The US House of Representatives has voted to make former President Bill Clinton’s boyhood home in Hope, Arkansas, into a national historic site.