Main image: A protest after Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding were found not guilty of rape, Dublin, March 2018. The verdicts were unanimous and came swiftly. After a trial that had lasted nine weeks, with four defendants and multiple charges, the jury...
Boris Johnson called on Theresa May to “junk the backstop” in a barnstorming speech at the Democratic Unionist party conference. The former foreign secretaryJohnson told the party’s conference in Belfast on Saturday that the backstop, a measure inte...
Channelling the spirit of Monty Python, Father Ted and Oscar Wilde, the voice trolls the Brexit process with a tone that is whimsical, sometimes surreal and always pointed. “I dislike Brexit but, speaking as a border, I do admire its ability to comp...
Theresa May’s proposed Brexit deal would be rejected in the House of Commons, the Democratic Unionist party’s Brexit spokesman has said, after his party reacted angrily to a letter from the prime minister detailing her plans. Sammy Wilson said sugge...
Filmmakers have long steered clear of the Irish famine, a trauma of starvation, poverty and suffering that remains a sacred national topic. It seemed too bleak, too depressing, too fraught – get a historical detail wrong and you risked accusations o...
Ireland will hold a referendum in October to remove the offence of blasphemy from its constitution, Charlie Flanagan, the justice and equality minister, has said. The Irish government has approved the preparation of a bill to remove blasphemy as pa...
Irish feminists buoyed by victory in the abortion referendum have their sights set on removing a section of the constitution which refers to women’s place in the home. The clause has no direct legal implications in contemporary Ireland, but politici...
Ireland has voted by a landslide to lift the ban on abortion that had been enshrined in its constitution for three decades, the first exit polls from a historic referendum suggest. If confirmed at Saturday’s count, the shock result – three years aft...
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Anti-abortion campaigners have sidestepped Google’s ban on online adverts relating to the referendum in Ireland on Friday, so as to promote their message on popular websites. This May the tech company banned paid messages relating to the referendum...
Ireland will vote in a referendum on 25 May on liberalising its strict abortion laws, the government has confirmed, in an announcement that officially kicks off two months of campaigning. Abortion has long been a divisive issue in the once stridentl...
Pope Francis is to visit Ireland in August, just three months after the country votes in a deeply divisive referendum that could lead to legal abortions in the republic’s hospitals. The Vatican confirmed on Wednesday that the first papal visit to Ir...
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