Greece

One does not normally equate Ancient Greece with Ireland, but there is a small Moravian Church with a small garden in an even smaller village named Kilwarlin, where the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BCE has been honored. Basil Patras...

International travelers from Greece and Cyprus are no longer required to quarantine for 14 days upon entering Ireland, due to the country recently reviewing its travel mandates. This new move has now put the two nations in Ireland's "green" list,...

An influential Irish sculptor whose creations have been inspired by his country's traumatic experience of famine and forced emigration was in Greece this week, working with refugees living in a camp in north Athens. John Behan, whose sculpture Arrival was...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras referred to the economic crisis experienced by the Greek and Irish peoples, as he received visiting Irish president, Michael D. Higgins, at Maximos Mansion on Thursday. Tsipras said the Greek people perhaps have suffered more...

Prime Minister of Ireland Taoiseach Enda Kenny last night ruled out a national vote on Irish unity saying the conditions for a referendum do not currently exist. His comments followed the formal acknowledgement by EU leaders of the possibility for...

Representatives from Ireland's Child and Family Agency, Túsla, are currently in Greece in efforts to help identify 20 refugee children in Greece who are eligible for resettlement in Ireland, Children's Minister, Dr. Katherine Zappone stated. The representatives will be in Greece...

His advice to the newly elected Greek government expressed today Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny. As he highlighted on the sidelines of the Irish Business and Employers Confederation's conference held in Dublin, Greece should follow his country's steps in order...

Northern Ireland top Group F of the Euro 2016 Qualifying Stages with a 2-0 victory against Greece in Athens for their third consecutive win. Jamie Ward (9') and Kyle Lafferty (51') were the scorers for the British team. Inartistic, narcissistic, anarchistic...

    The European qualifiers are back in action next week with two crucial Greek games against Finland away (Saturday, October 11th) and N. Ireland (Tuesday, October 14th) at home. Coach Claudio Ranieri chose to invite twenty-five players for training at the Agios...

After meeting his Irish counterpart Enda Kenny in Athens on May 23, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said Greece could use the Irish model for getting out of an economic crisis. Like Greece, Ireland needed the help of international...

All the ratings have been removed from RWN, with the Negative Outlook on all six countries indicating a slightly greater than 50% chance of a downgrade over a two-year time horizon. The eurozone 'AAA' country ceiling has been affirmed for all six sovereigns

The Economist magazine said that Greece, Ireland and Portugal are on an unsustainable course but not for lack of effort by their governments as Greece and Ireland have made heroic budget cuts. Greece is trying hard to free up its...

Greece, Ireland and Portugal should leave Europe’s single currency area if they cannot cope with the burden of their debts.  The German daily Die Welt quotes Pimco’s head of portfolio management, Andrew Bosonworth as saying this Monday, according to...

The Greek passport has jumped up two places and is now the fifth most powerful in the world, according to the latest Henley Passport Index. This year saw a strong reshuffle in the list, announced annually by the London-based migration...

Greece was the country that held the title for having the shortest flight in the world up until a few years ago. The flight between the islands of Kasos and Karpathos in the Dodecanese is significantly less than five...