14+ hour, 55+ 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…...

14+ hour, 54+ min ago   (180+ words) In late summer, a criminal using the name “SpongeJob” posted a wanted ad on Telegram, an encrypted messaging service. He was looking for a hitman to travel to Cyprus to kill two men, twins from the UK. Everything would be…...

15+ hour, 56+ min ago   (586+ words) The State-owned Irish Shipping company had ordered a large bulk carrier, which was built in a shipyard in Glasgow. When it was finished in 1973, because of its size and its specialised function, on its maiden voyage it would not come…...

1+ day, 26+ min ago   (250+ words) Israel has bridled at British foreign secretary Ed Miliband’s accusation of “ethnic cleansing” against Palestinians in the “illegally occupied” West Bank. But ethnic cleansing is what it is. The E1 settlement project would forcibly displace over 18 more Bedouin communities in the…...

1+ day, 15+ 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, 5+ hour ago   (265+ words) July 1972. I was 11 years old. In a country tense with uniformed killings and violent recrimination, my mother’s Austin A40 made a tortuous one-day journey to Toormore Bay in west Cork. It was a warm summer, but televised outrage had kept the…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (363+ words) Two Co Galway women have appeared in court over alleged public-order offences on the seventh green at Trump Doonbeg golf course as US president Donald Trump’s Marine One helicopter was in the air preparing to land on Saturday afternoon. At…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (436+ words) Telling their five-decade love story in my new biography Mary & Padraic Colum: Lives and the Dream (UCD Press) has become a chronicle of the cultural and political foment of early 20th-century Ireland, James Joyce’s emigre circle in 1930s Paris, and the…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (640+ words) Have you ever craved a funeral sandwich? Or better yet, the soup that is handed to you in a mug while your neighbour runs around with a saucepan of tea waiting for someone to accept a cup? The Irish do…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (622+ words) US president Donald Trump said Irish unity would be a “great thing” in response to a reporter’s question on his visit to Dublin. The comments, made alongside Taoiseach Micheál Martin at Farmleigh, caused eyebrows to be raised north and south…...