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The Data Protection Commissioner of Ireland fines American technology company Meta for 265 million (US$275 million) for a data breach on its international users.
2022-11-28

Ireland reports its first case of the B.1.525 variant first detected in Nigeria.
2021-02-25

Ireland reports a record 8,248 new cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 135,884.
2021-01-8

Schools and hospitals are closed in Ireland and Northern Ireland as the extratropical cyclone Ophelia is forecasted to make landfall on the island.
2017-10-16

A mass grave is discovered at a former Catholic orphanage in Tuam, Ireland, containing “significant quantities of human remains”, all of them children. It is alleged over 800 children died at this orphanage and most were buried in the 1950s.
2017-03-3

A large number of Class A drugs became legal in Republic of Ireland after a legislative mistake overruled the 1977 Misuse of drugs act. this prompted some emergency legislation being rushed through but effectivly a single day where the use of drugs became legal.
2015-03-10

A tape recording is released of police in the Republic of Ireland allegedly threatening to rape two female protesters, one of whom is from North America, after arresting them, causing an outcry among women's groups and anti-rape organizations.
2011-04-6

Veteran Irish Labour Party TD Michael D. Higgins demands that the British government explain why one of Britain's undercover policemen was operating on Republic of Ireland territory on May Day 2004, as the European Union expanded to the east. Higgins compares it to illegal activities carried out by British state agents in the same country during the 1970s.
2011-01-14

Ryanair cancels all of its flights between Ireland and the United Kingdom until 13:00 on Friday 23 April and all Northern European flights — Ireland, UK, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Belgium, The Netherlands, France, Germany, Poland, Baltic States and North Italy — until 13:00 on Thursday 22 April.
2010-04-20

New Zealanders, Britons, Chinese and Irish tourists are among the thousands trapped after mudslides in the Incan capital Machu Picchu.
2010-01-27