Professor Dermot Keogh looks back at the case of Patrick Rice, an Irishman who faced torture and hardship in his desire to help the people of Argentina oppressed by poverty and a right-wing military dictatorship.

Health Minister Leo Varadkar says a second Fine Gael term in government would allow for a wide-ranging recovery including pay increases in the private and public sectors.

Whoever emerges as victor in tomorrow’s Dublin South West by-election, this particular poll could well be a weather vane for the shifting winds of politics, writes Michael Clifford

A judge issued the second arrest warrant in less than a week against former Argentinian president Isabel Peron, summoning her for questioning about a death squad that terrorised the country during her 1974-76 rule.

A former police officer alleged to have been a member of a far-right death squad active in Argentina during the mid-1970s has been arrested in Spain on a warrant to face murder charges in his native country.