15+ hour, 8+ min ago   (1298+ words) “How can we expect a good lawyer from this centre? We’re only eating bread since we arrived,” a Tunisian man says. He is speaking to a Médecins Sans Frontière (MSF) staff member at a reception centre in the Sicilian city…...

15+ hour, 9+ min ago   (269+ words) Sir, – Listening from my home in Siem Reap to Irish radio coverage of Ireland’s latest Pisa (Programme for International Student Assessment) results, it is difficult not to be struck by the contrast with the country in which I have lived…...

15+ hour, 9+ min ago   (1681+ words) On the evening of Tuesday June 9th, Michael was at home with his family when a brick came through the livingroom window, shattering the glass of their terraced home in east Belfast and just missing his three-year-old son. “My child was…...

15+ hour, 12+ min ago   (557+ words) Soft toys, illuminations, large-scale floral tributes and “highly conspicuous materials” will be banned from roadside memorials to crash victims under a new policy covering much of south Dublin. Shrines and monuments to those killed in collisions have for decades been…...

15+ hour, 12+ min ago   (723+ words) At least 88 families were forced out of their homes as a result of Northern Ireland race riots in June, either through burning or local intimidation, according to figures supplied by housing authorities. As of the beginning of September, fewer than…...

1+ day, 1+ min ago   (755+ words) US president Donald Trump made the surprise announcement that he would remove tariffs from Irish whiskey at the end of his two-day visit to Ireland. It came shortly before he presented golfer Shane Lowry with the winner’s trophy after he…...

1+ day, 29+ min ago   (474+ words) Sweden appears headed for a change of government after post-general election exit polls showed a centre-left camp led by the Social Democrats with a parliamentary majority. The centre-left finished with 51.3 per cent of the vote, or 183 seats, according to an…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (620+ words) There has been some “overreaction” to Donald Trump’s remarks on prospects for a united Ireland, according to Taoiseach Micheál Martin, who said the US president’s view was that he believed unity was “the logical way for the island to be…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (703+ words) US president Donald Trump and Taoiseach Micheál Martin are due to be reunited later on Sunday at the Irish Open in Co Clare. Martin is to attend the final day of play at Trump’s golf resort in Doonbeg alongside the…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (489+ words) Is the torture over? Maybe not. I still have the door open to the back garden. The shaky sense of climactically induced unease is still beating about my fragile psyche. By far the least significant downside to climate change is…...