Injury-hit Ireland end Six Nations campaign with defeat in Scotland

Women’s Six Nations: Scotland 26 Ireland 19 Francesca McGhie grabbed an 81st-minute converted try as an injury-hit Ireland ended their Women’s Six Nations campaign with a defeat to Scotland at the Hive Stadium in Edinburgh on Saturday. While a losing bonus …

Mick Clifford: Protest without a plan — the worrying void at the heart of Ireland’s far-right surge

Anyone for the last few tricolours? The man on O’Connell Street is doing a brisk trade. An odd passer-by takes up the offer and joins the legions either waving or wrapped in the national colours, en route to the Garden of Remembrance.From there, at just …

Sinéad Kissane: Agony for Ireland as battling Six Nations performance comes up short after last gasp Scotland try

Ireland’s largest mosque closes doors amid wild speculation online

The Islamic Cultural Centre has been “stifled by exclusion and a lack of vision” says the Irish Muslim Peace Council amid shock and confusion over the closure of Ireland’s largest mosque.  The Islamic Cultural Centre of Ireland (ICCI) in Clonskeagh, Dublin …

Mullins -- Ireland's national training treasure

Irish training legend Willie Mullins offered his weary rivals a glimmer of hope when he said he "could not do better than that" after saddling the 1-2-3 in the Grand National but his son Patrick believes he will never retire. Mullins junior …

Agony for Ireland as Scotland snatch last gasp winning try in women’s Six Nations thriller

LIVE: Scotland v Ireland, Women's Six Nations

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Colum Kenny: Ireland is no longer as Catholic as it was — but Popes still matter to us

Born and bred an Irish Catholic, I first saw a Pope with my own eyes in Rome in 1968. Ireland was then firmly Catholic in its official ethos. But it was changing. Inward investment, TV and the reforming papacy of Pope John XXIII had opened windows. A ­ …

Brendan Rodgers and Grant McCann inspirational to all in Northern Ireland once again

Author Sharon Guard reflects on fiction, fertility and the untold truths of 1980s Ireland

SOMETIMES you write something and without knowing it you tap into a zeitgeist. More than once I have finished writing, say, a short story, thinking it was original, filled with my own hard-realised truths, only to open a book and be confronted with the …