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Grainne Ni Aodha

Gráinne Ní Aodha is a Dublin News Reporter at PA Media, covering breaking news, politics and the courts. In this role, Gráinne has covered the Taoiseach's St Patrick's Day trip to Washington and US President Joe Biden's visit to Ireland. Gráinne began her career at the Irish language radio station Raidio na Gaeltachta as a roving reporter, before covering health, politics and Brexit at The Journal.

Tanaiste Micheal Martin has called for an ‘immediate cessation of all hostilities’ (Niall Carson/PA)
UK

Irish leaders condemn Hamas attack on Israel and call for peace process

Military personnel boarded the cargo vessel named MV Matthew (Niall Carson/PA)
UK

Four arrested over huge drugs seizure off Irish coast to appear in court

<p>Officers are investigating after the gruesome discovery (stock image) </p>
Europe

Police probe as two dogs found dead in lake with weight attached

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar speaks to the media after his bilateral meeting with US President Joe Biden (Niall Carson/PA)
UK

Varadkar pledges to ‘roll out red carpet’ for Biden’s visit to Ireland

Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris speaks to the media during a press conference outside the Hillmount Garden Centre, on the Upper Braniel Road in Belfast, during his visit to Northern Ireland to sell the Windsor Framework deal. Picture date: Thursday March 9, 2023.
UK

UK government to assure DUP on NI’s status amid Supreme Court judgment concerns

US President Joe Biden’s special envoy Joe Kennedy (centre) at a roundtable business lunch in Washington DC (FSB/PA)
UK

EU and UK striking new Brexit deal an ‘extraordinary achievement’ – Joe Kennedy

A person looks at an advert in The New York Times as Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is in Washington, DC, during his visit to the US for St Patrick’s Day (PA)
UK

McDonald plays down significance of US newspaper adverts on Irish unity

A person looks at an advert in The New York Times as Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is in Washington DC during his visit to the US for St Patrick’s Day (Niall Carson/PA)
UK

Sinn Fein US newspaper adverts calling for unity vote ‘unhelpful’, says Varadkar

Facebook parent company Meta’s European headquarters in Dublin which currently employs 2,600 people (Brian Lawless/PA)
UK

Latest Meta jobs losses in Ireland will be ‘relatively small’, Taoiseach says

Private Sean Rooney (Defence Forces)
UK

Irish peacekeeper to be buried with full military honours

The body of Irish UN peacekeeping soldier Sean Rooney has arrived in Dublin after being repatriated from Lebanon (Defence Forces/PA)
Middle East

Body of Irish peacekeeper killed in Lebanon repatriated to Ireland

<p>Irish cervical cancer campaigner Vicky Phelan </p>
Europe

Irish cervical cancer campaigner Vicky Phelan dies aged 48

Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney welcomed the return to talks (Brian Lawless/PA)
UK

UK ‘seriously engaging’ in Northern Ireland Protocol talks, says Coveney

UK

UK ‘seriously engaging’ in Northern Ireland Protocol talks, says Coveney

Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney welcomed the return to talks (Brian Lawless/PA)
Senior US Democrat Richard Neal (left) and Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney at Iveagh House, in Dublin. (Niall Carson/PA)
UK

US delegate says ‘it’s up to London’ to help find a solution on protocol

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