GOAL has dispatched an emergency response team to Nepal to support relief efforts following the worst earthquake to hit the country in 80 years.

The Department of Foreign Affairs is urging anyone planning a trip to Thailand to exercise extreme caution.

The Department of Foreign Affairs has said it has made contact with a group of Irish people trapped inside a Mosque in Cairo.

TÁNAISTE Eamon Gilmore’s decision to close the Irish embassy to the Vatican was met with overwhelming opposition from the public with over 93% criticising the move.

THE politics of whiskey production perplexed several government departments in 1979 and 1980, as they struggled for a legal definition of Irish Whiskey that would not heighten tensions over Northern Ireland.

The Department of Foreign Affairs has confirmed an Irish person has died in Colombia.

The GAA and the Department of Foreign Affairs today launched their joint community outreach initiative on Emigrant Heritage and Sport at Croke Park.

There are worries over the location of some Irish citizens caught up in the disaster stricken US city New Orleans, a Government minister said today.

The Department of Foreign Affairs has published advice for Irish supporters travelling to the World Cup.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern tonight relayed sympathy to the relatives of the New York air crash victims.

An SDLP delegation is travelling to Dublin today to meet a number of human rights organisations.

Aid workers from Afghanistan are visiting Ireland in a bid to seek help and publicise the plight of their war-torn nation.