Thousands of children suffered sexual abuse, beatings, malnutrition and emotional abuse for decades in the Irish institutions where they were raised, an Irish government commission said Wednesday.
A report says Ireland's Roman Catholic-run institutions terrorized thousands of children. CNN's Atika Shubert reports.
Budget-conscious celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has been hired to cook for G20 leaders in London next week, nearly a year after they provoked outrage by eating an eight-course meal while discussing the global food crisis.
Brian Cowen believes that his nickname of Biffo stands for Big Intelligent Fella From Offaly. He's now got the chance to prove he's right
CNN's David Clinch looks at why Ireland's prime minister has decided to resign.
Ireland's new prime minister will be Brian Cowen, the deputy of outgoing premier Bertie Ahern, his party decided in a vote on Wednesday.
The transformation in his country that Bertie Ahern presided over may have, in the end, helped bring about his downfall
CNN's Becky Anderson looks at how to resolve disputes without hostility in her quest for the spirit of diplomacy.
Commentators who have watched the conflict in Northern Ireland play out for decades call the peace process a miracle.
Washington bigwigs -- parts Irish, Italian and Texan -- donned their green Monday as the leader of Ireland made his traditional St. Patrick's Day visit to the United States capital.
Ireland's prime minister presents President Bush with a bowl of shamrocks on St. Patrick's Day.
Israeli military strikes have killed 10 Palestinians, including seven in northern Gaza and three in southern Gaza, Palestinian security sources say.
Votes are being counted in Ireland. Bertie Ahern's ahead by a nose, but will he be the winner?
Northern Ireland's major Protestant and Catholic parties joined together Tuesday to form a power-sharing government, marking a "new era of politics" and an end to three decades of sectarian conflict in the province.
The prime ministers of Britain and Ireland have issued a final deadline for Northern Ireland's deeply divided politicians to revive a stalled power-sharing assembly seen as key to lasting peace in the province.
The murder and mutilation of a former official with Northern Ireland's Sinn Fein party, who was recently exposed as a spy, has cast a shadow over renewed efforts to bring lasting peace to the troubled region.
Reaction to an announcement that the Irish Republican Army had "put beyond use" its weapons has been met with praise by the British and Irish governments.
British politician Mo Mowlam, who died Thursday, has been praised for her no-nonsense negotiating as Northern Ireland secretary that helped forge the province's landmark peace accord.
A man has been arrested in Northern Ireland the day after the outlawed IRA sparked outrage by announcing it had offered to shoot four people involved in the murder of a Belfast Catholic man.
Northern Ireland's police chief has blamed the Irish Republican Army for a $50 million bank robbery last month, a verdict that could unsettle the peace process.
British and Irish leaders have unveiled a plan to resolve the conflict in Northern Ireland but a standoff over IRA arms decomissioning looks set to dash hopes of a deal.
The leader of the Democratic Unionist Party has warned the IRA that it is "now or never" to do a deal on power sharing with his party in Northern Ireland.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair says three days of intensive talks to revive the Northern Ireland peace process have ended without an agreement between Roman Catholic and Protestant parties.
The European Parliament has approved former Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Manuel Durao Barroso as the next president of the European Union's executive commission.
European Union leaders have unanimously nominated Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Manuel Durao Barroso as next European Commission president.
Portugal's prime minister will be officially proposed as the next European Commission president following a painstaking search for a replacement for the outgoing Romano Prodi, it has been announced.
President Bush asked NATO and the European Union to put disagreements over the war behind them and help the U.S. rebuild Iraq, saying "the bitter differences are over."
European Union leaders have overcome their differences to agree to the bloc's first constitution and must now push ahead with their search for a compromise candidate to be the next European Commission president.
At a summit that begins this week, European leaders have to agree not only on a new constitution but also on a new President of the European Commission -- the EU's executive arm.
Greek Cypriot president Tasos Papadopoulos collapsed during a funeral and was rushed to a hospital, a government spokesman said.
Officials joined thousands of celebrants across Europe Saturday to mark the historic expansion of the European Union to embrace 10 mostly ex-communist nations.
Spurred by a sense of unity after the Madrid bombings, European Union leaders have agreed to major reforms in the bloc's fight against terrorism.
EU leaders have rediscovered a sense of unity in the wake of the Madrid bombings, agreeing to restart stalled constitution talks and boost joint action against terrorism.
Macedonia's leadership is considering how and when to organize a vote to elect a new head of state after President Boris Trajkovski was killed in a plane crash.
Rescuers have recovered the body of Macedonia's president and eight others killed in a plane crash in a remote and mountainous region of Bosnia, a NATO spokesman has said.
Ordinary Macedonians and European leaders have described their shock at the death of President Boris Trajkovski in a plane crash in Bosnia.
Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski, a moderate credited for helping to unite his ethnically divided country, is feared to have been killed in a plane crash in southeastern Bosnia.
Ireland has taken over the six-month revolving European Union presidency from Italy, placing a country of 4 million inhabitants in charge of a body which will expand to 450 million people while Prime Minister Bertie Ahern is in the chair.
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