Charity tries to help as increasing numbers forced to sleep rough on London’s streetsAn Irish-born accountant is doing his best to help the homelessFri Dec 20 2013 - 01:00
Drinking among young exaggerated as middle-aged habits cause alarmMiddle-age drinking statistics surprise as years of dependency take their tollFri Dec 20 2013 - 01:00
MPs blame crime wave on Romanian, Bulgarian migrantsComments made in debate ahead of ending of EU work restrictions for two countriesFri Dec 20 2013 - 01:00
McAleese feared peace process ‘would crumble’Former president tells Edinburgh society how her husband stopped loyalist retaliatingThu Dec 19 2013 - 08:35
Villiers cleared in ministerial disclosure inquiryNorthern Ireland Secretary investigated for failure to list 2011 meeting with lobbyist in official registerThu Dec 19 2013 - 01:00
Cameron accelerates welfare curbs for migrantsDecision to deny EU immigrants welfare benefits brought forward to January 1stThu Dec 19 2013 - 01:00
UK failing to prosecute multinationals for aggressive tax avoidance, say MPsUK tax authorities need to show they deal ‘robustly’ with companies misleading them, chairwoman of Commons committee saysThu Dec 19 2013 - 00:01
Poor health of Irish in Britain ‘linked to abuse’, study findsEmigrants of 1920s to 1960s had poorer health outcomes than those who stayedWed Dec 18 2013 - 12:55
Ulster Unionist peer Lord Laird to be suspended from House of LordsFour-month ban for offering to accept a £2,000-a-month feeTue Dec 17 2013 - 01:00
Scotland Yard to be turned into a luxury hotel in £100m refitWork to be undertaken by a London-based property firm headed by a CorkmanTue Dec 17 2013 - 01:00
Life sentences to be introduced under UK’s new slavery BillHome secretary says toughest rules in world will apply to slavery and human traffickingMon Dec 16 2013 - 18:00
Irish man freed after 17 years in UK jail as conviction overturnedVictor Nealon was wrongfully found guilty of attempted rape, court of appeal rulesSat Dec 14 2013 - 07:13
Wealthy Irish investors throw their weight behind London-Irish rugbyInvestment promised to return club, whose playing fortunes are in the doldrums, to the topFri Dec 13 2013 - 01:03
Scotland shows some independence on immigrationOfficial attitudes towards migration are very different north of the borderFri Dec 13 2013 - 01:00
Church of Scientology a religion, rules UK supreme courtDecision follows two-year battle by couple seeking to be married in church premisesThu Dec 12 2013 - 01:00
G8 health ministers vow to ‘stop dementia in its tracks’ by 2025Regulatory rules will be eased to hurry the development of new drugsWed Dec 11 2013 - 20:18
Irish ministers raised nuclear concernsLondon court hears of letters from Gormley and Ó Cuív to British ministersTue Dec 10 2013 - 16:26
South African-raised MP accuses Tories of ‘craven indulgence’ to apartheid rulersBut Labour’s Peter Hain praises David Cameron for apology over Conservatives’ recordTue Dec 10 2013 - 01:00
Noonan vows to end cycle of boom-and-bust economicsChanges will make it more difficult for future Irish governments to ‘walk on the wild side’, Minister for Finance tells London audienceSat Dec 07 2013 - 01:00
No objection by Ireland, UK nuclear hearing toldAn Taisce objections not supported by Irish Government, say BritishFri Dec 06 2013 - 01:01
London Letter: A black and white picture of race in the legal systemAfro-Caribbean offenders are givenlonger sentences, a report has shownFri Dec 06 2013 - 01:00
Paddy McKillen seeks to have hotels case heard in IrelandBarclay brothers and Derek Quinlan claim they have a right to developer’s shares in Claridge’s, the Connaught and the BerkeleyFri Dec 06 2013 - 01:00
‘Since freeing myself from a brilliant and brutal man, I am now drug-free’Nigella Lawson appears in court to give evidence in fraud trialThu Dec 05 2013 - 06:23
Charles Saatchi is out ‘to ruin me’, says LawsonCelebrity chef says ‘the odd joint’ made ‘an intolerable situation tolerable’Thu Dec 05 2013 - 01:59
Half of Shelbourne Hotel loan is soldLoan bought by international property investor Kennedy WilsonThu Dec 05 2013 - 01:07
Collusion findings ‘deeply shocking’ - former NI secretaryTom King, who served at time of killings, says he heard of other allegations of Garda linksWed Dec 04 2013 - 21:25
IBRC loan sale includes Sunderland Stadium of LightNon-performing loans portfolio of €6bn to be sold off by end of yearWed Dec 04 2013 - 01:01
Blood and organ donations could spread CJD brain diseaseBritish experts warn infected donations from carriers cannot be identifiedWed Dec 04 2013 - 01:00
NHS pays compensation to families of 19 adults abused at Bristol care centreWinterbourne View in Bristol was owned by some of Ireland’s wealthiest businessmenTue Dec 03 2013 - 23:05
Grieving widow tells of moment ‘our wonderful life ended’Nearly 18 months on, Elber Twomey’s life still revolves around 2.46pm on July 6th, 2012Tue Dec 03 2013 - 06:40
Man ‘deliberately’ drove into oncoming traffic before crashDevon incident claimed the lives of three members of Twomey family from Co CorkTue Dec 03 2013 - 01:01
Police helicopter had been fully checked after safety fearsCommemoration service held for the eight people known to have died when helicopter crashed into Clutha pubMon Dec 02 2013 - 01:00
British police linked to blacklisting firmConstruction firms paid for data used to block over 3,000 workers, hundreds of them IrishMon Dec 02 2013 - 01:00
Cameron’s tough talk on immigration sparked by Ukip electoral threatPM’s remarks may be seen as ‘nasty’, European Commission warnsFri Nov 29 2013 - 01:00
Scottish vote will trigger change in UK, claims Welsh first ministerCarwyn Jones says independence referendum will lead to a rethink of devolved powerThu Nov 28 2013 - 01:00
The injured: forgotten casualties of the TroublesA victim who lost her legs in the 1972 bombing of the Abercorn Restaurant in Belfast has told how she is forced to live on benefits and charityThu Nov 28 2013 - 01:00
Woman in alleged slavery case is from North, say policeITV news names 57-year-old, claiming she appeared in 1997 documentaryWed Nov 27 2013 - 05:42
Scots urged to seize future ‘with both hands’Salmond publishes 650-page white paper on government vision of independenceWed Nov 27 2013 - 01:00
Critics accuse SNP of wilfully ignoring uncertainties of Scottish independenceWhite Paper ‘ducked the opportunity to answer the big questions’Wed Nov 27 2013 - 01:00
SNP is behind in voter intentions but complacency could yet undo unionOpinion: Women are the most opposed of any category to Scottish independenceWed Nov 27 2013 - 00:01
‘Slavery’ couple ran Maoist political centre in 1970sPair linked to 13 properties in London while Brixton locals grow weary of dramaTue Nov 26 2013 - 01:00
Couple arrested in slavery inquiry linked to 13 propertiesPolice looking at links to other properties going back decadesMon Nov 25 2013 - 09:01
Modern-day slavery hidden in plain sight, bound by invisible handcuffsThere is little private about the area in London where three women were allegedly held for 30 yearsMon Nov 25 2013 - 01:00
Police begin house to house enquiries in alleged slavery caseCouple are being questioned in connection with allegations of servitudeSat Nov 23 2013 - 20:01
Women ‘brainwashed’ before being turned into slavesMP says discovery may be tip of ‘rather large iceberg’Sat Nov 23 2013 - 12:27
Women held for decades in ‘unremarkable’ London house now revealing their storyLondon’s slavery victims, including an Irish woman, will need years to rebuild their livesSat Nov 23 2013 - 06:42
‘Slave’ women endured ‘life of invisible handcuffs’Irish woman one of three allegedly held for 30 yearsFri Nov 22 2013 - 17:28
Couple released on bail after three enslaved women freedElderly couple questioned as part of investigation into slavery after Irish woman contacts policeFri Nov 22 2013 - 10:39
Enslaved Irish woman’s phone call led to freedomThree women held in London house for 30 yearsFri Nov 22 2013 - 08:17
Ukip capitalises on fears over immigrationThe party will not lack funding to fight next year’s European electionsFri Nov 22 2013 - 01:00
