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Irish tourist dies after balcony fall in the Canaries
The man in his 40s fell from a balcony in the apartment he was staying in on the island of Tenerife.
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The man in his 40s fell from a balcony in the apartment he was staying in on the island of Tenerife.
The Department of Foreign Affairs said almost 1,500 Irish citizens received consular assistance over the past 12 months.
Newly released documents show Ireland’s attempts to engage American President Ronald Reagan on Northern Ireland and to counter British propaganda.
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.
Amama Mbabazi says while some Irish funds were “fraudulently paid to private accounts”, some was used for its intended aims.
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?
Eamon Gilmore has launched an immediate investigation amid suggestions the office of the Prime Minister misappropriated funds.
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.
The Department of Foreign Affairs will offer branded ties and scarves as ‘promotional mementoes’ for the European Council presidency.
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.
The 28-year-old Irishman had been attending a music festival in the city of Pula.
The Department of Foreign Affairs says soccer fans should be “aware of the global risk of indiscriminate terror attacks”.
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.
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.
The two men were seriously injured during an assault at a boarding house in Melbourne.
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.
Robert Gray was shot dead in the east of the country on Thursday. He was originally from Westport in Co Mayo.
We’re all going on our summer holidays….. IF your passport is in date. You’re being urged to check before you travel.
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.
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.
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.
Demand rules out any chance of an on-the-spot services for new passports, says Tánaiste.
The campaign to bring the alleged Ugandan warlord to justice was not the subject of any mass lobbying in Ireland.
Figures disclosed in parliamentary questions last week reveal the expenditure on consultancy services by the government since last year.
The death occurred after a suspected drug-smuggling attempt went wrong.
Divers have recovered a body in the Australian city, after a man believed to be from Ireland went missing in the river.
Fine Gael TDs have called for the decision to close the Irish embassy in the Vatican to be reviewed.
The Irish man, understood to be from Co Tipperary, was swimming with friends when he was pulled out to sea.
Eleven Irish couples have been innocently embroiled in the apparent child-trafficking ring as they believed it was a legitimate adoption process.
A 40-year-old seasonal worker died in the crash over the weekend.
Peter Buckley was participating in a mototaxi junket when his vehicle came off a muddy road and fell into a 500 foot abyss.
Meanwhile, the Government has issued an appeal for over US$28 million to help victims of the storm.
O’Sullivan succeeds Willie Penrose as Housing Minister, while veteran Joe Costello is given her old job at Foreign Affairs.
Ireland has no plans to send its condolences to North Korea on the passing of Kim Jong Il. Should we send formal sympathy?
We take a brief look at the closer bilateral ties between Ireland and North Korea – and the attention given to us over there.
An Irish refrigeration mechanic is killed when a gas bottle explodes in his work van in the Australian city of Darwin.
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.
The Government has commissioned a feasibility study on developing the airport as a centre for international aid.
The 38-year-old was accidentally crushed in his car while parking at the site in Limburg on Sunday afternoon.