Fianna Fail Leader Micheal Martin, right, and Michael McGrath celebrate at the general election 2016 count at City Hall in Cork, Ireland, Saturday Feb. 27, 2016. Ireland could be on course for a ...

UNTIL very recently, whenever someone mentioned in conversation that Ireland was divided or that the country was split in two, they could only have been talking about one thing - partition. Ireland ...

Winners have been declared for 137 seats in Ireland’s 158-member parliament — and the legislature has never looked so divided. Among the traditional big-name parties, Fine Gael has won 44 seats, ...

In Ireland, there is simply no issue that so inflames passions and ignites heated argument as abortion. Probably in response to the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision which made abortion readily available in ...

There is already the whiff of failure about the new taoiseach – and this is his first day in office. Simon Harris is one of those oleaginous politicians who has risen without trace, an all too common ...

DUBLIN — Ireland's election has produced a Parliament full of feuding factions and no obvious road to a majority government, spurring lawmakers to warn Sunday that the country could face a protracted ...