Brexit presents a “constitutional earthquake” for this country and is a “game-changer” for the future of the island of Ireland, according to Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald.

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has said that Brexit presents a "constitutional earthquake" for this country and is a "game-changer" for the future of the island of Ireland.

Anglo-Irish relations have been put under strain by Brexit and will continue to be strained in the future says Minister for Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, Paschal Donohoe.

“Whoever is Prime Minister, we will work with them,” Leo Varadkar said.

Members of the US political dynasty the Kennedys are to visit Ireland to open an exhibition about the late Dot Tubridy, who was a family friend.

Sean O’Riordan Private William Patrick Ryan was an unusually courageous man. Having fought and survived several bloody battles in the First World War, he then volunteered in its aftermath to exhume the dead for Christian burial, even though he could have been blown to pieces by unexploded shells.

Visitors can get up close and personal with Meghan Markle’s wedding dress as a new exhibition opens at Windsor Castle. Rachel Marie Walsh meets the curator.

The body of a British soldier executed and buried in Co Clare almost 100 years ago has been exhumed and will be reburied in Dublin.

Britain misses the point in approach to Brexit talks, writes Martin Mansergh

New Zealand police are to re-examine a teenager's plot to kill Queen Elizabeth II during her 1981 visit to the country after secret documents confirmed the assassination attempt.

After a year of fraught relations with the North, the South saw the Winter Olympics as a chance to show itself to the world as a stable democracy safe for investment, says Andrew Hammond

Analysts are more optimistic than the UK government that an agreement will be reached with the EU next month to move Brexit talks on to trade, even as Theresa May’s political troubles continue to weigh on the country’s beleaguered currency.

Analysts are more optimistic than the UK government that an agreement will be reached with the EU next month to move Brexit talks on to trade, even as Theresa May’s political troubles continue to weigh on the country’s beleaguered currency, writes Charlotte Ryan. 

Theresa May is expecting Boris Johnson to remain in her Cabinet as Foreign Secretary, Downing Street has said.

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

The Queen's private secretary has confirmed he is leaving but says he is confidently handing on the job, knowing the monarch's "unwavering commitment as sovereign" has the "full and active" support of her family.

Ian McKellen said it was a point of deep "principle" as he joined hundreds of protesters outside the Russian embassy in London voicing their anger against a "purge" of gay men in Chechnya.

Exiled Gambian ruler Yahya Jammeh has been accused of stealing millions of euro in his final weeks in power, and shipping out luxury vehicles by cargo plane.

Gambia's ruler of more than 22 years has announced he no longer accepts defeat in the country's presidential election, reversing course a week after he conceded to his rival.

Reinvigorating a brand is always an option, but often it’s best to leave well enough alone, writes Ed Power

The EU’s bad reaction to Brexit may backfire on Ireland.

Where were you June 24?

Brexit would be "better for black people" seeking to enter the country, Nigel Farage has claimed.

Queen Elizabeth was born in a townhouse in London’s Mayfair, the first child of the Duke of York, later King George VI.

The Queen has celebrated her 90th birthday by greeting well-wishers outside Windsor Castle.

Tory eurosceptics are demanding 340,000 Irish citizens be stripped of their right to vote in the looming in-out referendum on UK membership of the EU.

Charges have been dropped against Aisling Brady McCarthy, the Irish nanny accused of murdering an infant in her care in the US, after the medical examiner’s office reversed its position and concluded the death was not a homicide caused by shaken baby syndrome.

Actor Johnny Depp’s wife, Amber Heard, has been issued with a Commonwealth court summons in relation to the importation of the pair’s dogs, Pistol and Boo.

Jack Warner’s legal battle against extradition to the United States on corruption charges could ’possibly last years’ and even end up being heard by the Privy Council, the Attorney General of Trinidad has said.

David Cameron, the British prime minister, has come under pressure to reduce the age of eligibility to vote in the referendum on EU membership to 16, as he began in earnest a push to secure sufficient change to Britain’s relations with Brussels to persuade voters to back continued membership.

The Australian prime minister has defended his decision to honour the Duke of Edinburgh with a knighthood, despite a social media backlash in which many said they thought the news was a joke.

May I express concern at the report of an agreement on defence co-operation between Ireland and the UK, due to be signed later this month.

Paying tribute to the fallen British and Commonwealth soldiers during Remembrance Day ceremonies in London, British prime minister David Cameron said, “We stand united to remember the courageous men and women who have served our country, defended our freedoms and kept us safe”. 

An Irish diplomat has laid a laurel wreath at the London Cenotaph for the first time in almost 70 years.

Australian author Richard Flanagan has won this year’s Man Booker Prize for his novel The Narrow Road To The Deep North inspired by his father’s experience as a prisoner of war on the Thailand-Burma death railway.

Aisling Brady McCarthy’s lawyers have a filed a scathing objection to testimony implicating the Cavan nanny in the death of a baby girl in Boston at the beginning of 2013.

Last week, Glasnevin cemetery had a ceremony for Irish service men and women who served in World Wars 1 and 2, and for WWI’s 100th anniversary.

"It’s been years since the Super Bowl felt as significant as the draft."