The government has announced the commitment to an additional €9m to go to underfunded humanitarian crises.

As scheduled, the Brexit negotiation process between the EU and the UK got under way this week, despite the continued political uncertainty following Theresa May’s disastrous election performance and her subsequent less-than-convincing behaviour.

The 50,000 undocumented Irish immigrants in America are at the “forefront” of the Government’s mind, amid changing US policy.

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Thirty-seven Irish companies are taking part in a trade mission to the Middle East this weekend.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny today met with the European Commission's Chief Brexit Negotiator Michel Barnier at Government Buildings today.

An agreement has been reached to resolve a long-running parade dispute in north Belfast.

The decision by the UK electorate to leave the EU was certainly not the result most of us here in Ireland had wanted. But we must respect their decision and work with it.

Fine Gael has denied doing a deal with Independent TD Michael Lowry in exchange for his support.

Irish football fans have been given advice for this summer's European Championships - with the final tip being a shout out to the Boys In Green.

It does seem surprising, shortsighted and potentially counter-productive for the South African Embassy in Ireland to contemplate diplomatic immunity as a defence in the case of the domestic employee of its former charges d’affaires involved in the alleged ‘slave labour’ row at the Employment Appeals Tribunal.

Only a handful of people know the existence of the only burial plot in Ireland of two of the Air India disaster victims, and one man has lovingly tended it for 30 years.

The HSE is only acting now to ensure that complex surgery no longer takes place at the Midland Regional Hospital, despite saying years ago that surgical services at the hospital should cease, it has emerged.

Ireland is today dispatching thousands of blankets, tents, cooking kits, and other urgent supplies to assist thousands of Nigerian refugees in Northern Cameroon.

The government has announced €4.7m in funding for the Palestinian people.

The homes of gladiators and country music are among the landmarks joining the global celebrations for St Patrick’s Day this year.

The Department of Foreign Affairs assisted 217 families of people who died abroad last year and nearly 1,650 citizens who got into serious difficulties overseas.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny will be joined in Belfast this afternoon by British Prime Minister David Cameron, as the leaders seek to intervene in a process now in its ninth week.

The Chinese President has been officially invited to visit Ireland.

A US military plane which the Government denied on four occasions was at Shannon in September and October has been found to have visited the airport on those dates.

Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Charlie Flanagan has said he is "concerned" over plans by social networking site Ask.fm to move to Ireland.

Business links between Ireland and Austria are being discussed at a forum in Dublin today.

The Taoiseach is due in the Dáil shortly to announce the new Cabinet.

Joan Burton is set to become the new leader of the Labour Party.

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has said it is in the best interest for everyone in Northern Ireland that agreement be reached now in relation to issues such as parades.

Three people, including an eight-year-old boy, are now confirmed as dead and more than 100 are injured after two blasts at the finishing line of the Boston Marathon yesterday.

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore will today lead 24 Irish export companies on a trade mission to Turkey.

Ireland is showcasing its food, drink and giftware as the ‘Country of Honour’ at the Beijing Chaoyang International Spring Carnival this week.

This country has little hope of recovery, going on the ineptitude of this present Government and the way they make decisions.

The family of an Irishman shot dead by security forces in Bolivia over an alleged presidential assassination plot is to step up its campaign for EU help in holding the foreign authorities to account.

A call has been made for the Government to expand the Irish diplomatic corp in the fast-growing emerging economies.

TÁNAISTE Eamon Gilmore yesterday offered his full support for Palestine’s bid for membership of the United Nations during his address to the General Assembly in New York.

AS the GAA basks in the glory of another successful All-Ireland final, the game continues to flourish outside these shores.

IRELAND and Britain agree that each country in the EU had the right to set their own rates of corporation tax, Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Eamon Gilmore, made clear yesterday.

The Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Eamon Gilmore, has expressed his sympathy at the tragic loss of life and devastation in Japan.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny and his new team of Ministers have received their seals of office.