The Taoiseach said people have the right to free speech and peaceful protest.

A ‘Just Stop Oil’ protester jumped onto one of the tables at the Crucible on Monday evening and tipped orange powder over the cloth.

Hundreds of people gathered in the Donegall Quay area of the city centre on Sunday afternoon for the two events.

The Policing Authority heard that this was adding to costs for gardaí

Residents of the Lios Cara estate in Killeens began a protest on Wednesday last week, as 44 new homes being built in their estate have been purchased for social housing 

While the country’s ability to house refugees and asylum seekers has come under increased strain in recent months, far-right groups have capitalised on people’s real concerns to push a more sinister agenda

Minister for Integration Roderic O'Gorman said it was hard to "get a line of sight" of additional accommodation options

Last night, small protests were held outside several centres where migrants are being housed, including in Ballymun in Dublin

Videos emerged over the weekend of a crowd of people outside a building where families were living.

Call for Amnesty International to carry out inspections on former ESB office block where asylum seekers are being housed

In Dublin a small demonstration was organised by climate activists outside Amazon's office this afternoon

Charlotte Gainsbourg and her mother Jane Birkin took part in a protest video featuring stars such as Marion Cotillard and Juliette Binoche

Election officials in several US states have expressed fears about the safety of their workers amid a stream of threats and gatherings of angry protesters outside their doors, spurred by Donald Trump’s claims of a corrupt election.

As Donald Trump threatened to sue over what he alleged was a “stolen” election, his supporters in some states gathered to demand counts be stopped – while in others they insisted all ballots be counted.

Dozens of supporters of President Donald Trump chanting “Stop the count!” descended on a vote-tallying centre in Detroit on Wednesday, as Americans on both political sides vented their anger and frustration over the undecided presidential contest at ...

Scattered protests took place from Washington DC to Washington state in the hours after polls closed in the US elections, but there were no signs of widespread unrest or violence.

More than a thousand people protesting against US President Donald Trump have descended on Black Lives Matter Plaza, just a short distance from the White House.

Thailand’s king and queen met with thousands of adoring supporters in Bangkok, mixing with citizens in the street after attending a religious ceremony inside the Grand Palace.

Pro-democracy demonstrators in Thailand have expanded their protests internationally, marching to the German Embassy to appeal to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government to investigate whether Thailand’s king has exercised political power during his ...

Factory workers, students and business owners in Belarus have gone on strike to demand that President Alexander Lukashenko resign after more than two months of continuing mass protests.

Thailand’s parliament began a special session that was called to address tensions as pro-democracy protests draw students and other demonstrators into the streets almost daily demanding the prime minister’s resignation and other reforms.

Tens of thousands of protesters have swarmed the streets of Minsk pressing for the resignation of Belarus’ authoritarian leader in what human rights activists described as the largest anti-government rally since late August.

Thousands of pro-democracy protesters have gathered in Thailand’s capital, seeking to keep up pressure on the government a day ahead of a special session of Parliament aimed at easing political tensions.

The European Union has awarded its top human rights prize to the Belarus opposition movement and its leader, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, for their challenge to President Alexander Lukashenko’s long, hard-line reign.

Thailand’s government has cancelled a state of emergency it declared last week for Bangkok in a gesture offered by the embattled prime minister to cool massive student-led protests seeking democracy reforms.

Sudanese protesters took to the streets in the capital and across the country over dire living conditions and a deadly crackdown on demonstrators in the east earlier this month.

Student activists in Thailand have applied to a court to revoke a state of emergency the government declared last week to try to rein in growing protests.

Thailand’s cabinet has approved a request to recall parliament for a special session to deal with the political pressures from ongoing anti-government protests.

Thailand’s embattled prime minister has said there are no plans to extend a state of emergency outside the capital, even as student-led protests calling for him to leave office spread around the country.

Tens of thousands of people marched through the streets of Belarus’s capital on Sunday, demanding the removal of the country’s authoritarian leader who won his sixth term in office in an election widely seen as rigged.

Pro-democracy activists in Thailand launched their fifth consecutive day of protests on Sunday, scheduling demonstrations in the capital and at several other locations around the country.

Haitian police  fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse anti-government protesters who blocked roads and set fires in the capital, Port-au-Prince. Several people were injured.

Authorities in Bangkok have shut down mass transit systems and set up roadblocks as Thailand’s capital braced for a fourth straight day of determined anti-government protests.

Thailand’s prime minister rejected calls for his resignation, while riot police cracked down on thousands of student-led protesters who rallied in the capital in defiance of a strict state of emergency.

Thailand’s government declared a strict new state of emergency for the capital, a day after a student-led protest against the country’s traditional establishment saw an extraordinary moment in which demonstrators heckled a royal motorcade.

Kyrgyzstan’s President Sooronbai Jeenbekov announced his resignation in a bid to end the turmoil that has engulfed the Central Asian nation after a disputed parliamentary election.

Thai police early on Thursday dispersed a group of pro-democracy protesters who camped out overnight outside the office of the prime minister to demand his resignation, leading him to implement a “severe” state of emergency in the capital area.

Kyrgyzstan’s president has appointed a politician pushing for his resignation as the new prime minister in a bid to end the political crisis engulfing the Central Asian country after a disputed parliamentary election triggered mass protests earlier ...

Thai activists hope to keep up the momentum in their campaign for democratic change with a third major rally in Bangkok on Wednesday, though there are concerns about possible confrontation with police or rival government supporters.

The top opposition challenger in the Belarusian presidential election has threatened to call a nationwide strike.

Kyrgyzstan’s president ordered a new, week-long state of emergency in the country’s capital after parliament failed to consider and approve his previous order within the legally required three days.

The embattled president of Kyrgyzstan has ordered a near-two-week state of emergency in the capital in a bid to end turmoil sparked by a disputed parliamentary election as clashes between rival factions escalated and gunshots were fired at several ...

The embattled president of Kyrgyzstan has ordered a state of emergency in the capital in a bid to end the political turmoil sparked by a disputed parliamentary election.

Kyrgyzstan election officials have declared the results of the weekend’s parliamentary election invalid after mass protests erupted in the capital Bishkek and other cities, with opposition supporters seizing government buildings overnight and ...

Authorities in Belarus have detained about 500 people during weekend protests against the country’s authoritarian president.

About 100,000 demonstrators marched in the Belarusian capital on Sunday calling for the authoritarian president’s removal as the protests that have rocked the country marked their 50th consecutive day.

More than 360 people have been detained in Belarus during protests against the country’s authoritarian president. Alexander Lukashenko was unexpectedly sworn in to his sixth term in office on Wednesday after an election the opposition says was rigged.

Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong says he has been arrested again for allegedly participating in an unauthorised assembly last October.

President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus has been sworn in to his sixth term in office at an inaugural ceremony that was not announced in advance. It comes amid weeks of huge protests over his re-election, which the opposition says was rigged.

A plaque symbolising Thailand’s transition to democracy has been removed less than 24 hours after it was installed by anti-government demonstrators in a historic royal field.