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Fixer, dirty trickster, Trump confidante, convicted felon - Roger Stone is all of these things. However, given a choice, he would probably label himself as a political strategist. So what...

It has been another hot and heavy week in the Vatican. Using some of the clearest language he has ever used about LGBT people, Pope Francis has indicated that they...

The old rule in cross-examination is that you never ask a question to which you don't know the answer. That might be adapted for presidential elections, with the advice going...

It has been another hot and heavy week in the Vatican. Using some of the clearest language he has ever used about LGBT people, Pope Francis has indicated that they...

The old rule in cross-examination is that you never ask a question to which you don't know the answer. That might be adapted for presidential elections, with the advice going...

'Gimme a break" is what many people will want to say to their mortgage lender as the country grapples with the first week of a second national lockdown.

The old rule in cross-examination is that you never ask a question to which you don't know the answer. That might be adapted for presidential elections, with the advice going...

'Gimme a break" is what many people will want to say to their mortgage lender as the country grapples with the first week of a second national lockdown.

Ghislaine Maxwell really didn't want her 2016 deposition, published last Thursday, to see the light of day. She objected to it being unsealed on the basis that its contents could...

Ghislaine Maxwell really didn't want her 2016 deposition, published last Thursday, to see the light of day. She objected to it being unsealed on the basis that its contents could...

Ghislaine Maxwell really didn't want her 2016 deposition, published last Thursday, to see the light of day. She objected to it being unsealed on the basis that its contents could...

Halloween feels a bit redundant this year. What's the use of a good ghost story or horror film when a worldwide pandemic threatens our civilisation and the future looks grim...

Halloween feels a bit redundant this year. What's the use of a good ghost story or horror film when a worldwide pandemic threatens our civilisation and the future looks grim...

Fixer, dirty trickster, Trump confidante, convicted felon - Roger Stone is all of these things. However, given a choice, he would probably label himself as a political strategist. So what...

Taxpayers availing of Covid-support payments could face a collective €1.2bn outstanding tax bill by the end of the year, Sunday Independent analysis shows.

Halloween feels a bit redundant this year. What's the use of a good ghost story or horror film when a worldwide pandemic threatens our civilisation and the future looks grim...

Taxpayers availing of Covid-support payments could face a collective €1.2bn outstanding tax bill by the end of the year, Sunday Independent analysis shows.

If other parties had not excluded Sinn Féin from government following this year's general election, I would now be Taoiseach and I would have done things very differently in recent...

Taxpayers availing of Covid-support payments could face a collective €1.2bn outstanding tax bill by the end of the year, Sunday Independent analysis shows.

If other parties had not excluded Sinn Féin from government following this year's general election, I would now be Taoiseach and I would have done things very differently in recent...

Fixer, dirty trickster, Trump confidante, convicted felon - Roger Stone is all of these things. However, given a choice, he would probably label himself as a political strategist. So what...

Colombia reached 1 million confirmed coronavirus cases on Saturday, becoming the second country in Latin America to report that number in less than a week.

Colombia reached 1 million confirmed coronavirus cases on Saturday, becoming the second country in Latin America to report that number in less than a week.

Colombia reached 1 million confirmed coronavirus cases on Saturday, becoming the second country in Latin America to report that number in less than a week.

A police officer in Waukegan, Illinois, was fired after he shot and killed an unarmed Black teenager and wounded the young man's 20-year-old Black girlfriend during a traffic stop earlier...

A police officer in Waukegan, Illinois, was fired after he shot and killed an unarmed Black teenager and wounded the young man's 20-year-old Black girlfriend during a traffic stop earlier...

US president Donald Trump has said he thinks Sacha Baron Cohen, the comedian behind the Borat films, is “a creep”.

Italy's Campania region, based on the southern city of Naples, said on Friday it would impose a lockdown to tame the coronavirus and urged the whole country to follow suit...

The Department of Education has announced a review of all sanitisation products on the list available to schools.

Poland's president Andrzej Duda has tested positive for coronavirus.

Representing thousands of football fans on Twitter is always a difficult job in defeat, but when your side concedes 13 goals in one game, it doesn't get much worse.

There have been a further four deaths and 859 new cases associated with the coronavirus in Ireland.

Two wards at a hospital, including a psychiatric unit, in Co Kildare are dealing with an outbreak of Covid-19.

Jerry Jeff Walker, a Texas country singer and songwriter who wrote the pop song Mr Bojangles, has died aged 78.

Fianna Fáil MEP Billy Kelleher condemned authorities in Poland following recent protests across the country surrounding abortion.

There have been six further Covid-19 linked deaths in the last 24-hour reporting period in Northern Ireland and 923 new cases of the virus, the Department of Health has announced.