Ali Dunworth explores the culture, customs and craic surrounding pints in Ireland in her new book "A Compendium of Irish Pints". In this extract, she explores the complex relationship between the ...

Thousands of fans gathered outside Sinéad O’Connor’s Irish home for the late singer’s funeral procession Tuesday. The crowd lined up along the seafront in the coastal town of Bray to witness ...

Private Seán Rooney, an Irish soldier who was killed in an ambush while on UN peacekeeping duty in Lebanon, has been laid to rest following a funeral service in Dundalk on Thursday. Rooney, 24, was ...

For all the clichés, the Catholic triduum of death, resting and resurrection is, at the heart, a traditional ritual of mourning, community and remembrance of a life well lived, traditionally in the ...

A Catholic priest in Northern Ireland has called last week’s funeral Mass for Irish musician Shane MacGowan a scandal. “It was an abuse of what the Mass is and what the Catholic funeral liturgy is all ...

The funeral of Irish language champion and activist Gearóid O Cairealláin has taken place in his native west Belfast. The 67-year-old former president of advocacy group Conradh na Gaeilge died last ...

In a quiet recess carved out of the otherwise bustling northside of Dublin City, a group of "Red Nuns" gathered to solemnly watch the funeral of Pope Francis. The late pontiff's funeral was broadcast ...