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Recent controversies around song lyrics by The Wolfe Tones and The Cranberries have prompted heated debates, but Cork singer JIMMY CROWLEY says there ...

Sarah Harte examines Irelands attitude to Catholicism and how it endures in the works of many priests and nuns since Sinéad O’Connor ripped up a picture of Pope John Paul II in 1992

Some 500 people attended a rally in support of Cork city librarians on Friday lunchtime, while a handful of counter-protesters were outnumbered 20 to ...

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While far-right movements in Ireland might not escalate to levels seen globally, one expert says it’s time to take it seriously, writes Neil Michael

News from the Irish Examiners team of reporters

Preliminary figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) show that the population of Cork City and Cork County increased by 7.1% in the six years ...

Ireland’s history of emigration has made most of us resistant to anti-immigration rhetoric, our columnist writes.

In 1971, Hunter S Thompson’s most famous novel, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, was published in two parts by Rolling Stone magazine.