Top performing students from St Benedict’s Catholic High School were honoured at a special awards ceremony this week.

It seems fair to observe that Neil Jordan is not the most voluble of interviewees. He has always seemed more comfortable with ...

A bonfire topped with an effigy of a migrant boat. Homes set alight. During the Troubles, similar tactics were used to target ...

"Mother-and-baby homes" were institutions in Ireland where unmarried pregnant women and their children were housed. They were characterised by harsh conditions, high mortality rates and a lack of ...

Richard was aged 19 and studying for the priesthood when he began sexually abusing Catherine in their Rathfarnham home in ...

Richard was aged 19 and studying for the priesthood when he began sexually abusing Catherine in their Rathfarnham home in Dublin on her ninth birthday. He put her sitting on her bed, instructed her to ...

Ireland began excavating remains of up to 800 infants buried for decades in a septic tank behind a home for unwed mothers – one of the so-called "Magdalene Laundries." ...

DUBLIN: Excavations begin on Monday of an unmarked mass burial site at a former mother and baby home in western Ireland suspected of containing the remains of hundreds of infants and young children.

Babies discarded in a septic tank by Catholic priests and nuns 80 years ago will finally receive a dignified burial. Hundreds ...

Ireland is opening a new chapter of its dark past as experts begin to dig for the remains of babies and children of unwed ...