IRELAND

Ireland is planning to utilize its upcoming term as President of the Council of EU to advance ban on products made in Judea and Samaria.

The bank's chief executive, David Duffy, confirmed that some of the €1bn of assets transferred from its balance sheet to its pension fund is helping to pay the "super-pensions" of former senior managers.

Irish boss of a leading Swiss bank has said that Ireland since the beginning of the 2000s was gripped by greed, complacency and materialism.

With its economy still reeling from the housing crash, Ireland is making a bold move to help tens of thousands of struggling homeowners.

Germany and France are heading for a clash over Ireland’s bank debts as divisions deepen over the scope of a plan to use the European Stability Mechanism bailout fund to rescue stricken banks.

An Irish parliamentary committee on trade relations has come out in unanimous support of a ban on imports from illegal Israeli settlements, The Irish Times reported Wednesday.

Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny has ruled out implementing recommendations from the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) review of the Irish economy.

A security alert at the Israeli Embassy in Dublin has ended following an earlier report of a suspicious package at the premises.

US president Barack Obama and his wife Michelle paid tribute to Jenny and her colleagues who are credited with saving the lives of some of those injured in the massacre.

The Government faces huge embarrassment today after two key figures appointed to help clean up the Irish financial system were named in an explosive US investigation into global banking giant HSBC.

Ulster Bank has said that it could take until the end of the week to clear a backlog of payments after a technical fault.

RBS is warning its 17 million customers that the backlog caused by a technical glitch could take at least another two days to clear, meaning that the computer failure will have lasted for more than a week.

The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) is recommending that there should be no advertising of foods that are high in fat, salt and sugar during children's programming.

This will effectively mean a ban on advertising what the BAI deems to be less healthy foods, including cheese, before 6pm in between kids' television programmes.

Ireland is soon to have a law similar to Sopa passed that would give music and movie companies the power to force Irish ISPs to block access to sites suspected of having copyright infringing material on them.

Irish citizens won't have a chance to lobby their democratic representatives because there won't be a vote on the law -- snappily named "S.I. No. of 2011 European Communities (Copyright and Related Rights) Regulations 2011" -- in the Irish Parliament. Instead the law is being enacted by ministerial order because it is being prepared in the form of a Statutory Instrument.

Secret contingency plans for a World War Three said that more than half a million Irish people would be fit for military service.

Five Irish companies went out of business every day on average last year – or almost 170 a month, new figures show.

Foreign Ministry accuses Irish government of inciting against Israel. Dublin City Council sponsors display presenting IDF soldiers as 'Nazi troops' abusing Palestinians

Europe's plans for treaty changes to enforce fiscal discipline in the eurozone may fall foul of popular anger in Ireland unless the EU creditor states agree to share more of the pain.

The documents – which contained details of the Government’s plans for a 2 percentage point hike in the top rate of VAT to 23 per cent and a flat rate €100 household levy – were inspected by a German parliamentary committee this week as Taoiseach Enda Kenny held talks with German chancellor Angela Merkel.

Two Irish activists, due to return to Ireland after they were detained in Israel, have been prevented from leaving the country for a second time this evening.