Sources: RTE
The Court of Justice of the European Union rules that Apple Inc. must pay €13 billion (US$14.3 billion) to the government of the Republic of Ireland as compensation for extraordinarily low taxes levied by Ireland against Apple. 2024-09-10
Taoiseach Micheál Martin announces a return of "Level 5" lockdown in the country with specific adjustments from Christmas Eve until at least January 12. 2020-12-22
EU Trade Commissioner Phil Hogan resigns for violating Ireland's COVID-19 restrictions by attending a golf dinner last week. 2020-08-26
Ireland reports 174 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours. This is the highest number of reported cases since early May. 2020-08-8
The European Union urges member states to conduct random tests to tackle an ongoing horse meat contamination scandal. Simon Coveney, Ireland's Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, says that the scandal is a "Europe-wide issue that needs a Europe-wide solution". 2013-02-13
Ireland's Taoiseach Enda Kenny attacks the Vatican's approach to the child abuse scandals in the country as "absolutely disgraceful", while the Socialist Party's Joe Higgins tells Dáil Éireann that people were "throwing their hands in the air" after the report into the sexual abuse scandal in Cloyne diocese was published this week. 2011-07-15
Irish senator Ivor Callely is suspended from Fianna Fáil over new expense allegations. 2010-08-3
Pope Benedict XVI is "distraught" by news alleged of child sexual abuse in Catholic dioceses in Germany, according to Archbishop Robert Zollitsch, as the church also faces paedophilia scandals in Ireland, Austria, and the Netherlands, while Pope Benedict defends clerical celibacy, calling it a symbol of "full devotion" and of "giving oneself to God and to others." 2010-03-12
The British and Irish governments call in their Israeli ambassadors over the use of fake passports by the alleged killers of a Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. 2010-02-18
A crew of eight Irish sailors is rescued after the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race competitor "Cork Clipper" hits a rock in Java, Indonesia. 2010-01-14