The new Pope Leo XIV has the best wishes of all Irish people, Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said. Mr Martin said the election ...

Michelle O’Neill, First Minister of Northern Ireland and vice-president of Sinn Fein, urges Dublin to push ahead with ...

Leaders from Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland have joined the outpouring of tributes to Pope Francis. Northern ...

Michelle O’Neill and Emma Little-Pengelly attended the ... thousands of people onto Belfast’s streets and across Northern Ireland on May 8 1945 was at least, in part, a release of the fear ...

First Minister Michelle O’Neill could attend the funeral of Pope ... including here in Ireland, will feel his loss deeply”. Mrs Little-Pengelly said the pontiff was "held in high regard ...

Shortly after noon on Easter Monday 1916, Pádraig Pearse accompanied by an armed guard, stood on the steps of the GPO and read a proclamation declaring the establishment of an Irish republic, ...

SINN Féin’s Michelle O’Neill has said that Ireland is living in “the end days of partition” while renewing her call for a border poll by 2030. Attending her first republican Easter ...

First Minister Michelle O’Neill has said that it was a “huge honour” to represent those who looked to the late Pope Francis for leadership by attending his funeral on Saturday. Ms O’Neill ...

Michelle O'Neill has attended her first republican Easter commemoration in Northern Ireland since taking up office as first minister. She addressed a crowd of about 50 at the republican plot in ...

First Minister Michelle O’Neill has urged Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn to “get on with it” and order a public inquiry in the Sean Brown case. The Court of Appeal in Belfast has ...

First Minister Michelle O’Neill has confirmed she will attend Pope Francis’s funeral on Saturday (Liam McBurney/PA) Northern Ireland’s First Minister Michelle O’Neill has praised Pope ...

First Minister Michelle ... O'Neill said she was "honoured" to be attending the funeral. She said Pope Francis would be remembered as a man of compassion and that she would represent the Northern ...