Swiss singer Nemo Mettler, who won the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 with The Code, is welcomed by supporters at Zurich airport on 12 May 2024 (Photo by AFP) Swiss artist Nemo Mettler, winner of the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest, has announced they will return their trophy in protest at Israel being allowed to compete in the 2026 edition despite its genocidal war on Gaza...

Swiss singer Nemo Mettler, who won the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 with The Code, is welcomed by supporters at Zurich airport on 12 May 2024 (Photo by AFP) Swiss artist Nemo Mettler, winner of the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest, has announced they will return their trophy in protest at Israel being allowed to compete in the 2026 edition despite its genocidal war on Gaza...

Palestinians walk past the rubble of destroyed buildings in Gaza City on November 2, 2025...

Palestinians walk past the rubble of destroyed buildings in Gaza City on November 2, 2025...

Irish Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Lynn Boylan (File Photo) Irish Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Lynn Boylan has urged the European Union to impose travel bans and sanctions on Israeli officials after being barred from entering occupied territories for five years - a move she described as "an insult to the European Parliament and its elected representatives...

Independent candidate Catherine Connolly casts her vote in the election for the next Irish president at Claddagh National School in Galway city, Ireland, Friday, Oct...

An image grab from a video that shows the moment when a black girl is ignored in a gymnastics medal awarding ceremony in Dublin, Ireland, in March 2022...

It was supposed to ensure seamless trade between the UK and the EU following Brexit, but the Northern Ireland protocol, has become a problem itself, or has it? Negotiated in 2019, the protocol was aimed at avoiding a hard border between Northern Ireland still in the EU’s single market, and EU member- republic of Ireland...

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Michael Gove (R) and Vice-President of the European Commission in charge of Inter-institutional relations and Foresight, Maros Sefcovic (R) with EU chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier (C - on video conference) attend the third meeting of the EU-UK Joint Committee at the EU headquarters in Brussels on September 28, 2020...

Facebook tells Irish court that its EU operations would be at risk if the court goes on with a major probe...

In this file photo, taken on September 20, 2017, an official is seen looking at the empty chairs of leaders ahead of their participation in an open debate of the United Nations Security Council, in New York, the US...

With more than five decades of struggle against British colonialism behind him Gerry Adams is widely regarded as an icon of Irish Republicanism Irish Republican leader, Gerry Adams, has won his appeal to have two convictions stretching back to the early 1970s overturned...

Michael Gove is trying to play a central role in the British government’s drive to sabotage the Irish Unity movement Only days after he categorically vetoed a European Union (EU) request for a mini embassy in Belfast, Cabinet Office minister, Michael Gove, has tried to press home his advantage by bullying Northern Ireland parties into submission...

Mary Lou McDonald has emerged as the most charismatic politician and leader in the Republic of Ireland The coronavirus outbreak in the Republic of Ireland has had a personal impact on the country’s political leadership, as evidenced by the infection of Sinn Féin leader, Mary Lou McDonald...

Storm Ciara reached the UK and northern mainland Europe on Sunday, sweeping across the continent and causing travel disruptions, damage and power cuts...

Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald reacts after the announcement of voting results in a count centre, during Ireland’s national election, in Dublin Phil Noble/Reuters Sinn Fein, the left-wing Irish nationalist party, has won the popular vote in a general election, with the one-time political wing of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) disrupting a duopoly of centre-right parties which have historically controlled the Republic...

This AFP photo shows posters featuring Sinn Fein President Mary Lou McDonald (top), Ireland’s Prime minister and Fine Gael leader Leo Varadkar (C) and the Green Party’s Eamon Ryan, in Dublin on February 6, 2020...

Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of Dublin in opposition to US President Donald Trump’s visit to Ireland...

The Afghanistan national cricket team set a massive 234 runs target for the Ireland cricket team during the third and final match of the Twenty20 International series...