Thousands of people are expected to gather in cities around the world on Saturday to protest in favor of abortion rights for Irish women. The protesters are expected not only in Dublin but in cities including New York, Toronto, London, Paris, Wellington, Sydney and even Phnom Penh in Cambodia, focused on the fact that Ireland has some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the world.

A Dublin shop owner is hunting for a man who repeatedly defecates outside his shop in Finglas. Clever Buys owner Alan Buckley from Finglas told Independent.ie that he didn’t believe it until he saw the CCTV footage. “Someone keeps coming up and sh**ting outside the shop,” he told Independent.ie. “It’s very upsetting, you’d want to have your breakfast before you come in because you’ll not eat again after looking at it.

A former chief executive in a consultancy marketing firm has threatened to publicly divulge the names, addresses and bank details of customers of “the largest mobile phone company in the State” unless paid €135,000 by tomorrow morning, the High Court was told today. Ex-CEO Sean McGrath told his former employer Madcalm Limited, Monksland, Athlone, Co Roscommon, that “you don’t want to f**k with me on this”, Ms Justice Miriam O’Regan heard.

An Irish auction is set to include the medal collection of a rebel hero and programme from the famous match between the Irish Free State and Nazi Germany. The auction at the Fonsie Mealy auction house in Kilkenny on 28 September features over 800 lots with a focus on Irish sporting and revolutionary history. Other items of Irish cultural interests in the auction are a first edition of Roddy Doyle’s The Commitments and a Thin Lizzy collection that includes a copy of the band’s first single, The Farmer.

Want to get away from it all and stay somewhere truly flashy? Ireland has opened up lighthouse cottages for spectacular coastal breaks.

THE run-up to Brexit led to a fall in advertising at the former UTV local radio stations, the chairman of Belfast-based Wireless Group plc has said.

Ireland should recover up to €13bn (£11bn) from Apple in back taxes, the European Commission has ruled. After a three-year investigation, it has concluded that the US firm's Irish tax benefits are illegal. The Commission said Ireland enabled the company to pay substantially less than other businesses, in effect paying a corporate tax rate of no more than 1%. Ireland and Apple both said they disagreed with the record penalty and would appeal against it.

Hundreds of thousands of Dublin Bus passengers are facing six days of disruption in September with staff set to stage a series of strikes. Trade unions will today serve formal notice on the company of the planned stoppages, with the dispute believed to involve up to three strikes of 48-hours duration each next month. More than 330,000 passengers use Dublin Bus services every day.

Apple's official statement on the EU ruling against its Irish tax arrangements tells you all you need to know about what is at stake: You can have taxes or you can have jobs, but Apple is in no mood to deliver both. After learning on Tuesday morning that the EU expects Apple to pay 13 billion euros — equal to 11 billion pounds or $14.5 billion — in back taxes, the company said, "It will have a profound and harmful effect on investment and job creation in Europe."

Apple could be ordered to pay billions of euros in back taxes in the Republic of Ireland under a European Union ruling expected on Tuesday.

The head of the Irish and European Olympic committees, Patrick Hickey, is arrested in Rio over illegal ticket sales, Brazil media report.

McKenna McFadden was walking on the shore of Oney Island when she stumbled across a treasure from the 12th century.

A meeting between the Taoiseach and British Prime Minister Theresa May has ended with Enda Kenny stating they have both agreed that there will be no return of a hard border.

Virgin Media has announced it has agreed a deal to acquire UTV Ireland from ITV for €10m.

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Pro-choice activists have delivered abortion pills to women in Northern Ireland using a drone. The stunt aimed to highlight the strict laws around terminations on both sides of the Irish border. Courtney Robinson, 18, from Belfast, who took the tablets, said: “We are here to say we are going to defy the law in helping women obtain these pills and we are going to work to make the law unworkable and stand in solidarity with all women who want to have an abortion and have the right to do so in Northern Ireland.”

'The Left-Handed Gun' is not a film that many people will have heard of, let alone seen. It’s a 1958 Western, starring Paul Newman and directed by Arthur Penn.

Finding buried treasure is a dream as old as stories themselves. Treasure chests overflowing with gold doubloons, shiny lamps containing genies, gargantuan lumps of thousand-year-old butter. Okay, maybe most don't dream of unearthing enormous chunks of butter, but that's exactly what Jack Conway discovered in the Emlagh bog in County Meath, Ireland, at the beginning of June, Atlas Obscura reported. Conway is a turf cutter, meaning he harvests "turf" or peat - it's similar to moss - from a bog to later burn...

When a bedraggled man appeared at the side of a road in Ireland claiming he had been abducted, a bizarre tale of fraud and a fake kidnapping started to unfold. A new documentary, The Many Lives of Kevin McGeever, made by Brian Carroll tells the story. Kevin McGeever's drenched, emaciated figure lay at the edge of a country road - he wasn't wearing any shoes and a plastic sheet covered his skeletal frame.