Tea towels, flag pins, a framed copy of the Proclamation of Independence and an Aran sweater were among the gifts given out ...

The priciest gift in the department database was the €944.70 paid out for thirty bottles of Irish whiskey for members of the ...

Print has also got in on the act over the years. In 1965, The Irish Times ran a lengthy editorial on April 1 entitled ...

Heard about the Poolbeg chimneys? Or Supermac’s plan for Croke Park? Yes, it’s that day again and we’ve all been caught by the April Fool tradition that goes back ...

11. “What do you want to do: to start the Blueshirts again?” (Taoiseach Seán Lemass to FG’s Gerry L’Estrange, 1966.) “You, over there, started the Civil War.” (L’Estrange in response.) ...

Spearheaded by then-Taoiseach Seán Lemass and former Central Bank governor T.K. Whitaker, Ireland steadily removed its tariffs in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The country’s economy grew at an ...

The Taoiseach has sought to play down media reports that the Government will allow landlords to reset rents between tenancies as part of a strategy to encourage private investment in housing at a ...