A terrible beauty: Ireland’s 1916 Easter Rising
It is a hundred years since some 750 men and women threw up barricades and seized strong points in downtown Dublin, to be joined by maybe a thousand more.
Europe's new barbarians
Austerity as a strategy is more than just throwing a scare into countries, it is also undermining the social contract between labor and capital that has characterized much of Europe for the past two generations.
Ireland: gay marriage approved with a landslide yes
"The decision makes every citizen equal and will strengthen the institution of marriage for all existing and future marriages."
Thousands in Ireland march for woman refused an abortion
More than 10,000 people gathered for a vigil and march over the death and the country's draconian abortion laws.
World Notes: Cuba, Afghanistan, India – and more
International news about Cuba, Afghanistan, India, Ireland and Colombia.
In Europe, poor countries in economic straightjacket
To satisfy the International Monetary Fund, countries like Ireland and Greece have taken drastic anti-worker measures.
Bloody Sunday massacre: Unjustified and unjustifiable
British Prime Minister David Cameron has apologized unreservedly to the families of those killed on Bloody Sunday 38 years ago, saying the action of troops was "unjustified and unjustifiable."
Satan, child abuse and the pope: an Irish view
To say that the revelations concerning child abuse in the Catholic Church has rocked it to its very foundations would be an understatement.
