'It is about ensuring that our gay and lesbian citizens have the same right to marry the person they love as everyone else,' says Pádraig Mac Lochlainn TD Free article

Calls for Government's controversial internship scheme to be wound-up Free article

Roberta McNally – Chair of the Lurgan branch of the Royal British Legion – signed the nomination papers for DUP candidate David Simpson and is pictured with his arm around her Free article

'The claims relating to Kincora are deeply disturbing – that MI5 turned a blind eye to child abuse and actively blocked a police investigation, instead using the paedophile ring for its own intelligence-gathering purposes' – Amnesty International Free article

Plans for 3D visual mapping software to bring the GPO and the Easter Rising to life 100 years on Free article

Michelle Gildernew MP slams DUP and UKIP for failure to stand a single female candidate in North Free article

The SNP and Sinn Féin are now the only significant parties in the British state or Ireland giving leadership on anti-austerity politics, and alternative economic and fiscal strategies Free article

Here's the text of a letter which Gerry Adams TD has been trying to get The Irish Times to carry for the last two weeks. It has refused. Free article

Mark Moloney – whose relatives fought with the British Army in World War One and the IRA in the Tan War – gives his view in the debate about a memorial in Ireland to the British Army dead from 1916 and the Tan War. Free article

Possibility of further industrial action as retailer targets those who took part in strikes Free article