Britain is set to commit about £7bn to help stabilise Ireland, as George Osborne, chancellor, confirmed that the UK was preparing to make a bilateral loan to its “closest economic neighbour”.

Northern Ireland’s police commander denounced Irish Republican Army dissidents Tuesday for giving his officers just 17 minutes to evacuate the center of a border town before a car bomb detonated. Monday night’s attack on the courthouse in...

Like other heavily indebted nations around the world, Ireland is borrowing vast sums from foreign investors to plug its budget deficit. Fearing that the country will buckle under the weight of so much debt, the Irish have an answer: Put the government...

Four Archbishops, including Cardinal Desmond Connell, will be named over their mishandling of hundreds of allegations, including not reporting crimes to the police. The senior clerics’ motive was to protect the church above defenceless children,...

One of the diagnoses of why the Great Depression was so bad is that countries engaged in “competitive devaluation” — weakening their exchange rates to make exports cheaper, but when all try to do this, no one gains, and confidence runs out. One...

Former President Dwight Eisenhower’s granddaughter lauded nuclear energy as the main way for the United States to meet increasing energy supply needs. Susan Eisenhower, an international business consultant, said all energy sources need to be...