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Demonstrations after the attack on Thursday afternoon in front of the Parnell Square school turned into a night of disorder and violence.
Dublin Police Chief Constabulary Drew Harris told a news conference that 34 rioters had been arrested so far, but he feared the violence would continue.

After spending most of a day on a whirlwind countryside tour of his ancestry, President Joe Biden is turning back to diplomacy on Thursday, with an address to the Irish parliament and meetings with the country's leaders, and Ukraine is high on the agenda.

After a frosty encounter north of the border, US President Joe Biden is assured of a far warmer welcome by lawmakers in Ireland on Thursday during a visit to the country of his ancestral roots.

Leo Varadkar, the right-wing son of an immigrant Indian doctor, has been formally elected Ireland’s youngest and first gay Taoiseach.
Accepting his elevation to the most powerful office in the country, the 38-year-old said: “I’ve been elected to lead but I promise to serve.”

Chairman of Romania's Senate Calin Popescu Tariceanu, on Wednesday welcomed visiting Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann, chairman of the lower house of Irish Parliament, Sean Barrett, on an official visit to Romania at the invitation of the Chamber of Deputies.

Romania's Chamber of Deputies and the Irish Parliament will sign a memorandum of understanding concerning, among other things, an exchange of expertise to prepare Romania for its 2019 presidency of the Council of the European Union, Romanian Speaker Valeriu Zgonea and Chairman of the Irish Parliament Sean Barrett told journalists at a joint news conference on Tuesday at Parliament Palace in Buc

France's upper house of parliament on Dec. 11 urged the government to recognize Palestine as a state, following a similar and highly symbolic vote in the lower house.