Sources: BBC
Fashion retailer Claire's collapses into administration in the United Kingdom and Ireland, putting more than 2,150 jobs at risk, amid declining sales and strong competition from online shopping services. 2025-08-13
U.S. fashion retailer Gap announces that it will be closing all of its 81 stores in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The company will continue to provide an online store for British and Irish customers. 2021-06-30
Ireland reports a record 93 deaths in the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide death toll to 2,708. 2021-01-19
Taoiseach Micheál Martin announces that beginning December 1, the country will move to Level 3 restrictions with some modifications. Hotels, places of worship, gyms, and museums with protective measures will be allowed to reopen beginning on Tuesday, followed by restaurants and gastropubs on December 4. 2020-11-27
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine recommends the owners of three mink farms in Ireland to cull their mink to halt the potential spread of a mutated form of the coronavirus. 2020-11-19
The Republic of Ireland reports 255 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 10 more deaths, doubling the country's death toll to 19. The median age of the 19 patients who have died is 79 years old. 2020-03-26
The European Union and the United Kingdom reach agreement on the first stage of Brexit including the status of the border between the U.K. and Ireland. 2017-12-8
An Irish archbishop claims the Catholic Church has no records on the burial of 796 children in a disused concrete septic tank at a building it runs in Tuam. 2014-06-5
Ireland's Minister of State for Primary Care Róisín Shortall resigns due to a dispute with Minister for Health James Reilly. She also resigns from the Labour Party. 2012-09-26
Seven people are arrested in Ireland — five in Waterford and two in Cork — over an alleged plot to assassinate Swedish artist Lars Vilks. 2010-03-9