The return journey takes just as many days or even more. Although the 56-year-old could reach Marimla on the Nepal-China border in a day, he has no choice but to climb down to Dunai to buy food grains ...

Keep up to date with the latest developments with the Irish Independent’s live blog: We hope you stayed safe and healthy during the low temperatures this week, and that you manage during the ...

The Irish border loomed large during Northern Ireland’s Troubles, in which more than 3,600 people were killed in three decades of conflict involving Irish republican paramilitaries in the IRA ...

English football club Millwall, best known in the 1970s and 80s for their “No One Likes Us and We Don’t Care”-chanting supporters, and Irish unity rarely feature in the same sentence ...

It is known as one of the biggest shocks in the history of Irish League football. For some, it's perhaps the greatest of them all. The Irish Cup final of 1955 pitted an all-conquering, star ...

Meanwhile, the Irish Medical Organisation has called for healthcare to be the “central pillar” of the next programme for government, stating the current flu crisis highlighted the need “to ...