A town in Co Galway has become embroiled in an American human rights row.

I am very familiar with Charlottesville having lived there for almost a year in the early 1980s. 

If you remove the vestige and emblems of the past, do you erase the memory of what they represented too? asks Clodagh Finn

AMERICA has embarked on a great festival of denial.

The mayor of Charlottesville has called on the governor to convene an emergency meeting of state lawmakers to allow the city to remove the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee.

A Republican senator has said President Donald Trump "muddies the water" when he assigns blame to anyone other than white nationalist groups for the deadly violence last weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia.

The mother of a woman who was killed while demonstrating against a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, has said she will not speak to President Donald Trump because of comments he made after her daughter's death.

French President Emmanuel Macron has offered his support to anti-racism protesters in what he called a collective, historic battle against intolerance.

US president Donald Trump has waded back into the racially charged monument debate on Twitter, bemoaning "history and culture being ripped apart".

Former US presidents George HW Bush and George W Bush have said "America must always reject racial bigotry, anti-Semitism and hatred in all forms".

The mother of the young woman mowed down while protesting a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville urged mourners at a memorial service to "make my daughter's death worthwhile" by confronting injustice the way she did.

The grandfather of a woman who was killed during violent protests in Virginia has said she always wanted fairness, even from a young age.

A combative President Donald Trump has again insisted "there is blame on both sides" for the deadly weekend violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.

President Donald Trump has again waded into the row over the race-fuelled clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia, insisting there was "blame on both sides".

A fourth business leader has resigned from US President Donald Trump's White House jobs council.

US President Donald Trump's condemnation of hate groups has disappointed and angered some white nationalists who had supported him.

President Donald Trump is back in the New York skyscraper that bears his name as anger over his reaction to race-fuelled clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend shows few signs of dying down.

President Donald Trump has arrived at his New York home for the first time since his inauguration as a throng of protesters lined the street.

President Donald Trump has condemned white supremacist groups by name, declaring "racism is evil" two days after the deadly race-fuelled clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Google says it is cancelling the registration of neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer for violating its terms of service.

James Alex Fields Jr was fascinated with Nazism, idolised Adolf Hitler, and had been singled out at school by officials at the Randall K Cooper high school in Union, Kentucky, for his "deeply held, radical" convictions on race, his former high school teacher Derek Weimer said.

Latest: The man accused of ramming his car into a crowd of counter-protesters at a white nationalist rally in Virginia has been denied bail after the public defender's office said it could not represent him and the judge was forced to find a local attorney to fill in.

"Any Cork fan who carries the flag with a complete understanding of what it represents is an absolute langer."

A man accused of ploughing his car into counter-protesters at a white nationalist rally in Virginia is set to make his first court appearance.

A close friend of the woman killed when a car was driven into peaceful protesters in Charlottesville has described her death as a terrorist act.

Protesters have taken to the streets throughout America, condemning hatred and racism following the Charlottesville violence.

Donald Trump has come under fire for not explicitly denouncing white supremacists in the aftermath of violent clashes in Virginia, with the president being urged to take a public stand against groups that espouse racism and hate.

US president Donald Trump has blamed "many sides" for the violent clashes between protesters and white supremacists in Virginia, but stressed the "hatred and bigotry" broadcast across the country had taken root long before his political ascendancy.

Latest: A man faces a murder charge after a car ploughed into a crowd of people protesting against a white supremacist rally in Virginia.