'You wouldn't want dinner served on paper plates' "YOU wouldn't want to see dinner being served on paper plates or with paper cups would you?"That was the response from the Department of Foreign Affairs when the Sunday Independent had the cheek to ask wh
LABOUR backbenchers all firmly back Tanaiste Eamon Gilmore’s decision to close our Vatican embassy – highlighting a huge difference of opinion with their coalition colleagues in Fine Gael.Fine Gael backbenchers are openly revolting over the closure of th
A FORGED Irish passport is at the centre of a €100m gold scam in West Africa being investigated by the FBI and Interpol.The passport -- in the name of a John Recketts -- was used in an elaborate ruse to dupe US investors out of millions of dollars in a f
THE late Conor Cruise O'Brien liked to quote a Middle Eastern joke about getting a donkey down from a minaret. There is no dignified way of conducting such an operation. The same is true of countless incidents in international relations, solved by smooth
The Government's stated reason for the closure of our embassy at the Vatican is questionable.Eamon Gilmore, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, said the reason had to do with cost cutting, and was unrelated to a row between Ireland and the Vatican regardin
Decision to shut was taken just after Cloyne Report was published, writes Jody CorcoranThe Government's stated reason for the closure of our embassy at the Vatican is questionable.Eamon Gilmore, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, said the reason had to do
An Irish couple who were on board a stricken cruise ship that ran aground off the Italian coast are safe and well, officials said.The Department of Foreign Affairs said the man and woman were the only Irish citizens it is aware of who were passengers on
Eleven Irish couples caught up in an alleged adoption scam in Mexico have been left devastated by the affair, they have said.While the lawyer at the centre of the baby trafficking plot remains on the run, the families who returned home last weekend have
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