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May 23, 2023

Ireland's new alcohol labels lay warnings on too thick: critics

The new labels will include information on calorie content and additional health risk warnings, such as potential cancers and risk to pregnancy from consumption.

May 22, 2023

Sinn Féin gains record wins in Northern Ireland local elections, encouraging return of government

Sinn Féin, once party of the Irish Republican Army, swept the Northern Ireland local elections due to voter frustration with the Democratic Unionist Party.

May 17, 2023

Irish fighter Katie Taylor says removing boxing from Olympics will be 'huge blow' to the sport overall

Katie Taylor claims, “It will be a huge blow to boxing overall" if the sport is removed from the Olympics. The IOC has declined to confirm boxing's place in the 2028 Los Angeles Games.

May 14, 2023

Paper forced to delete 'woke' spray tan article after learning it got duped

The Irish Times was duped and forced to retract an article by a person who wrote it using mostly artificial intelligence that took aim at Irish women for using fake spray tans.

May 12, 2023

US, Irish military experts train 2 groups of Ukrainian personnel in clearing unmarked minefields

Military experts from the United States and Ireland are helping train two groups of Ukrainian personnel in Cyprus in clearing unmarked minefields.

May 8, 2023

Trinity College confronts 'racist' legacy by erasing slave-owner's name from library

Dublin's Trinity College is giving its biggest library a renaming after determining its ties to slave-owning philosopher George Berkeley are inconsistent with its values.

May 3, 2023

Irish citizens could soon be jailed for 'possessing material likely to incite violence or hatred'

A bill coursing through Ireland's government may lead to the political persecution of socially-conservative and religious Irish citizens if it becomes law.

April 28, 2023

Shock as Biden forgets recent trip to Ireland, has to be reminded by a child: 'Cognitively unfit by a mile'

President Biden faced a wave of mockery across Twitter after he had to be reminded which country he visited less than two weeks ago during a White House event.

April 27, 2023

WATCH: Child has to remind Biden which country he last visited when he can't remember

A child had to remind President Biden of the last country he visited when he couldn't remember during a Take Your Child to Work Day event at the White House.

April 18, 2023

Former President Bill Clinton says he is optimistic Northern Ireland government will be revived soon

Bill Clinton met with the Democratic Unionist Party leader on Monday. After the meeting he claimed he was optimistic a main Northern Ireland political party would end its boycott soon.