Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has said that a border poll on a united Ireland should be held on the 30th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement.
Dublin Zoo has blamed the Pope for causing a drop of almost 100,000 in visitor numbers this year.
A new documentary highlights the effect Pope John Paul ll's visit to the Republic in 1979 had on the peace process.
It's important that people respect Arlene Foster's decision not to attend Saturday's civic reception for Pope Francis in Dublin Castle.
'UNGODLY hour' might not be the correct term when you are about to fly with the Pope, but it well describes the 3.45am alarm call that woke me on Saturday after a couple of hours' restless sleep.
GARDAI have declined to put an official figure on the numbers who attended Mass at the Phoenix Park - as the crowd appeared well short of the expected 500,000.
The car used by Pope Francis during his trip to Ireland is to be donated to help homeless families.
POPE Francis has been accused of being dismissive of a survivor of clerical abuse by saying she was "fixated" on tribunals.
IT is not every day that you get to meet the Pope.
IRISH army officers at Co Donegal’s Finner camp have revealed that more than 30 soldiers sought sick leave in advance of the papal visit.
The Republic's children's minister Katherine Zappone told Pope Francis the Church must address the "shameful" Tuam Mother and Baby home scandal.
JUDGING by yesterday's scenes in Phoenix Park, Pope Francis will have learnt that two stereotypes about the Irish are true: we love our tea, which was in plentiful supply, and our weather is terrible, even in August.
ONCE upon a time, if a pope or indeed a cardinal had made a speech in Ireland, he would have been virtually guaranteed a standing ovation.
On the 29th of September 1979 I enthusiastically and excitedly jumped onto a wreck of a bus commissioned by the then Chaplin to the St Francis Youth Group and headed to Galway in the middle of the night.
They say a week is a long time in politics and, if that is the case, then 39 years must be an eternity.
I THINK every Irish household has at least one bottle.
