Barbados to remove Queen as head of state by November 2021
A speech written by the country’s prime minister said “the time has come to fully leave our colonial past behind”.
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A speech written by the country’s prime minister said “the time has come to fully leave our colonial past behind”.
One Dublin woman who ran a grocery shop was considered a key asset to Michael Collins, according to the files.
This meant that Ireland left the Commonwealth, and formally ended the statutory role of the British monarchy in Ireland.
Questions have been raised about the level at which the Irish government is prepared for a no-deal Brexit.
Alain Juppe ruled himself out as a candidate today.
A Fianna Fáil senator has proposed 21 January (the date the first Dáil sat in 1919) should be Ireland’s Independence Day.
It’s proposed 21 January – the first sitting of the Dáil – should be marked as Ireland’s Independence Day.
Almost all of Australia’s state and territory leaders have signed up in support of the country becoming a republic.
There are warnings the new laws will make Dublin and the border counties more attractive for pimps and traffickers.
It appears to be a case of ‘don’t mention the war’ in the corridors of power at Dáil Éireann when it comes to 1916.
Only 18 per cent of the over 70s engage in high levels of physical activity.
The former Tánaiste Michael McDowell claims that that the Seanad costs each Irish citizen the price of a two litre bottle of milk every year.
If we want to end the partition between the Republic and Northern Ireland, then we need to embrace some realistic solutions for the economic future, writes David McCann.
A survey of tourists shows that our image among overseas visitors as a rip-off country has reversed – do you agree?
The man was arrested in Omagh and extradited to the Republic of Ireland to face charges of child rape.
David McCann travelled to Korea, a partitioned country with a chequered economic history. The view from there is very different, he writes.
Our system has made Irish people feel ashamed, the author and journalist tells TheJournal.ie ahead of a series of ‘state of the nation’ debates.
If politicians don’t want the masked men marching in a funeral cortege to continue being seen as the real face of republicanism, writes David McCann, they need to change the conversation.
The Catholic Communications Office says there’s “no concrete information” about a rumoured visit in 2013.
On the eve of November 11, writer and film-maker Liam Nolan questions the continued resentment towards the wearing of the poppy of remembrance – especially in light of loss of Irish life in the two world wars.