The 69th Wicklow ICA Federation Drama Festival drew to a close on Sunday, with 12 groups participating over the four nights. The number of entrants in this year’s competition meant the festival ...

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The U.S. State Department has adopted a new policy under the Trump administration that effectively blocks U.S. embassies and outposts from flying Pride and Black Lives Matter flags, a report said ...

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(NEXSTAR) — Flags across the U.S. are meant to be at half-staff for another eight days, but they were at full staff in Washington, D.C. on Monday. Why was the nation’s capital in defiance of a ...

"We're scared as a small Irish business to see what the implications are going to be if tariffs are going to be slapped on," Ms McCarthy said. "I think the uncertainty and the unknown is scaring ...

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After some controversy over whether flags should fly at full-staff on Inauguration Day, President Donald Trump issued an executive order on the topic Monday. In one of his first actions as ...

More than 20,000 students who had exemptions from studying Irish at second level on the grounds of having a learning disability were studying other languages such as French, German and Spanish ...

There’s a sense of a circle fully turned for Stephen McNeff about the concert this month that includes the first Irish performance of his orchestral song cycle The Celestial Stranger.