# department-of-foreign-affairs - Wednesday 2 January, 2013
# Death
# Death
The man in his 40s fell from a balcony in the apartment he was staying in on the island of Tenerife.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Sunday 30 December, 2012
# Irish Abroad
# Irish Abroad
The Department of Foreign Affairs said almost 1,500 Irish citizens received consular assistance over the past 12 months.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Friday 28 December, 2012
# 1982
# 1982
Newly released documents show Ireland’s attempts to engage American President Ronald Reagan on Northern Ireland and to counter British propaganda.
# Falklands
# Falklands
Suggestions that Ireland would not support British efforts to ostracise Argentina after its invasion of the Falklands in April 1982 were met with warnings from diplomats in London.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Sunday 28 October, 2012
# Irish Aid
# Irish Aid
Amama Mbabazi says while some Irish funds were “fraudulently paid to private accounts”, some was used for its intended aims.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Friday 26 October, 2012
# Your Say
# Your Say
With the government suspending aid to Uganda yesterday, we’re asking should Ireland be distributing foreign aid while still under the terms of a bailout?
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Thursday 25 October, 2012
# Irish Aid
# Irish Aid
Eamon Gilmore has launched an immediate investigation amid suggestions the office of the Prime Minister misappropriated funds.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Sunday 21 October, 2012
# Passport
# Passport
The Passport Service is looking at the possibility of implementing an automatic reminder service that would alert passport holders by text or email that their document is due for renewal.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Wednesday 17 October, 2012
# Eu Presidency
# Eu Presidency
The Department of Foreign Affairs will offer branded ties and scarves as ‘promotional mementoes’ for the European Council presidency.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Monday 24 September, 2012
# Embassy
# Embassy
Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Eamon Gilmore also said the decision to close the Vatican embassy will not be reversed in the immediate term.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Monday 10 September, 2012
# Death
# Death
The 28-year-old Irishman had been attending a music festival in the city of Pula.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Thursday 6 September, 2012
# Kazakhstan
# Kazakhstan
The Department of Foreign Affairs says soccer fans should be “aware of the global risk of indiscriminate terror attacks”.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Sunday 2 September, 2012
# Ethiopia
# Ethiopia
The Minister of State for Trade and Development is in Ethiopia today to offer his condolences to the late Prime Minister who had been in power for nearly two decades before he died last month.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Friday 31 August, 2012
# Syria
# Syria
Joe Costello, Minister of State for Trade and Development, relates the dire tales of massacre and suffering told to him by Syrian refugees when he visited them in Jordan this week.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Thursday 30 August, 2012
# Hammer Attack
# Hammer Attack
The two men were seriously injured during an assault at a boarding house in Melbourne.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Saturday 25 August, 2012
# Syria
# Syria
The junior foreign minister will visit a refugee camp in Jordan this week where it’s expected he will announce a significant increase in humanitarian aid for people displaced by the civil war.
# Nigeria
# Nigeria
Robert Gray was shot dead in the east of the country on Thursday. He was originally from Westport in Co Mayo.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Sunday 22 July, 2012
# Passport
# Passport
We’re all going on our summer holidays….. IF your passport is in date. You’re being urged to check before you travel.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Thursday 19 July, 2012
# School Fees
# School Fees
The cost will rise this year but in over a third of Irish foreign posts there are no children in education paid for by the State.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Tuesday 10 July, 2012
# Snubbed
# Snubbed
The British Government and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation did not extend an invite to Ireland for this week’s London Family Planning Summit.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Wednesday 4 July, 2012
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Tuesday 19 June, 2012
# Missing
# Missing
The parents of 21-year-old Irish student James Nolan, who went missing in Poland on Saturday, have made an appeal for help in locating him.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Sunday 13 May, 2012
# Passport
# Passport
Demand rules out any chance of an on-the-spot services for new passports, says Tánaiste.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Tuesday 24 April, 2012
# Kony 2012
# Kony 2012
The campaign to bring the alleged Ugandan warlord to justice was not the subject of any mass lobbying in Ireland.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Monday 23 April, 2012
# Consultants
# Consultants
Figures disclosed in parliamentary questions last week reveal the expenditure on consultancy services by the government since last year.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Friday 23 March, 2012
# Venezuela
# Venezuela
The death occurred after a suspected drug-smuggling attempt went wrong.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Tuesday 21 February, 2012
# Body Find
# Body Find
Divers have recovered a body in the Australian city, after a man believed to be from Ireland went missing in the river.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Friday 3 February, 2012
# Vatican Embassy
# Vatican Embassy
Fine Gael TDs have called for the decision to close the Irish embassy in the Vatican to be reviewed.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Tuesday 24 January, 2012
# Australia
# Australia
The Irish man, understood to be from Co Tipperary, was swimming with friends when he was pulled out to sea.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Thursday 19 January, 2012
# Child Abuse
# Child Abuse
Eleven Irish couples have been innocently embroiled in the apparent child-trafficking ring as they believed it was a legitimate adoption process.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Tuesday 17 January, 2012
# French Alps
# French Alps
A 40-year-old seasonal worker died in the crash over the weekend.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Tuesday 10 January, 2012
# RIP
# RIP
Peter Buckley was participating in a mototaxi junket when his vehicle came off a muddy road and fell into a 500 foot abyss.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Friday 23 December, 2011
# Typhoon Washi
# Typhoon Washi
Meanwhile, the Government has issued an appeal for over US$28 million to help victims of the storm.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Tuesday 20 December, 2011
# Appointments
# Appointments
O’Sullivan succeeds Willie Penrose as Housing Minister, while veteran Joe Costello is given her old job at Foreign Affairs.
# Your Say
# Your Say
Ireland has no plans to send its condolences to North Korea on the passing of Kim Jong Il. Should we send formal sympathy?
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Monday 19 December, 2011
# North Korea
# North Korea
We take a brief look at the closer bilateral ties between Ireland and North Korea – and the attention given to us over there.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Friday 16 December, 2011
# Australia
# Australia
An Irish refrigeration mechanic is killed when a gas bottle explodes in his work van in the Australian city of Darwin.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Saturday 26 November, 2011
# Vatican
# Vatican
Charles J Brown will take up residence in Ireland in a move seen as an attempt by the Vatican to patch up relations with Ireland.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Wednesday 23 November, 2011
# Shannon
# Shannon
The Government has commissioned a feasibility study on developing the airport as a centre for international aid.
# department-of-foreign-affairs - Tuesday 15 November, 2011
# Netherlands
# Netherlands
The 38-year-old was accidentally crushed in his car while parking at the site in Limburg on Sunday afternoon.
A couple of t-showers; becoming windier
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Breezy with periods of rain
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A stray shower; breezy in the afternoon
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