Ireland

Durex, owned by Reckitt Benckiser, has recalled some batches of its "Real Feel" and "Latex Free" condoms in the United Kingdom and Ireland due to concerns they may burst.

Thousands of Irish women shed their inhibitions and their clothes on a secluded beach fifty kilometres south of Dublin for a world-record setting "skinny dip" to raise funds for a children’s cancer charity.

Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams, a pivotal figure in the political life of Ireland for almost 50 years, said he will step down as party leader and complete a generational shift in the former political wing of the Irish Republican Army (IRA).

Irish musician and activist Bob Geldof called Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi 'a hand maiden to genocide' as he returned his Freedom of the City of Dublin award in protest.

For a few days this week a goat will be king of a small town in Ireland's rural south west.

British Prime Minister Theresa May neared a deal with a Northern Irish Protestant party to save her premiership and confirmed Brexit talks would begin next week.

British Prime Minister Theresa May called for an early election in June, saying she needed to strengthen her hand in divorce talks with the European Union by bolstering support for her Brexit plan.

A Serbian man with New Zealand citizenship has been arrested after a police raid found more than 300 cannabis plants in a house in Ireland.