The response by Minister for the Environment, Alan Kelly, to the magnificent turnout at the water charges protest in Dublin, has done much to galvanise the movement.

ASH WEDNESDAY was the day when foreheads were marked with ash and the words ‘Memento, homo, quia pulvis es’ were said (or, in English, ‘Remember, man, that thou art dust’). 

Unknown heroes of the Irish Volunteers have been identified in graves in Glasnevin cemetery as part of a new commemoration.

Divisions are affecting trade unions, writes Stephen Rogers

Two significant anniversaries in humanity’s visceral but never-ending struggle for justice, recognition and equality fall this week.

The man who triggered the Dublin Lockout should be judged on all of his achievements and not just on his role in Ireland’s greatest industrial conflict, his descendants have said.

Both Labour and Fianna Fáil puppets to their masters.

LABOUR took the soup of coalition and it is poisoning them.

The BBC has apologised to viewers after decathlon great Daley Thompson made an anti-Irish joke.

One of the longest-running industrial relations protests in the history of the State ended in Cork today.

It’s a bit rich that the Labour Party orate that they are free of corruption, when they have been clearly implicated in the Mahon findings.

The household charge is a stop-gap measure that will lead to property and water taxes in the next two years. It is too much for the ordinary citizen to bear, argues Mick Barry

Here is an edited version of President-elect Michael D Higgins’ victory speech from the National Count Centre in Dublin Castle after securing 1,007,104 votes.

INDEPENDENT TD and property developer Mick Wallace has admitted his political career could be at risk after being ordered by a court to repay €19 million he does not have to ACC Bank.

SINCE Dáil Éireann was established in 1919 there have been 125 by-elections. All but 11 of those were held within six months of the vacancy occurring. But the current Dáil has three vacancies, two of which are already more than six months old and the third well over a year and heading for a record delay.

Some of Dublin's most iconic statues are to be removed from O'Connell Street in Dublin to allow construction of Metro-North.

AS you walk through the rows of monuments in Glasnevin cemetery the story of Ireland’s political, cultural and sporting past is everywhere.

It is the Labour Party’s duty to step forward and become the leading partners of Government, Eamon Gilmore said today.

The Labour Party is holding a commemoration for James Connolly this afternoon.

THINKING of the behaviour of the Cork train drivers this week brought Rudyard Kipling to mind. It was he who first coined the term “power without responsibility”.

A Hollywood actor is to pay tribute to one of Ireland’s trade union legends at a rally in Belfast this weekend because of a personal family connection.

Ireland’s largest trade union is to help fund a film about one of the rebels executed following the uprising against British rule in 1916, it announced today.

SIPTU, the country’s biggest union, it to review its historic links with the Labour Party.