4+ hour, 22+ min 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…...

14+ hour, 36+ min 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…...

16+ hour, 11+ min ago   (525+ words) It was, as one senior SDLP figure put it, “quite a moment, to have the American president saying that.” The “that” in question was Donald Trump’s endorsement of Irish unity, delivered when answering questions from the media after his arrival…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (201+ words) Hundreds of protestors attended a rally at Shannon Airport as Air Force One carrying President Donald Trump landed on Saturday. Video: Bryan O'Brien US president expressed support for Irish unity in a press conference with Taoiseach Micháel Martin. US president…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (755+ words) We have more from Jack Horgan Jones in the Phoenix Park. “We have our first TD. And it’s Cork East’s James O’Connor (Fianna Fáil), who is pressing the flesh already as the first bus of proper guests seems to have…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (544+ words) Construction tycoon Maurice Regan has bought a castle in Co Meath and its surrounding 236 acres of land that was formerly owned by builder Gerry Gannon. The purchase by Regan of Dangan Castle, the childhood home of Arthur Wellesley, the Duke…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (830+ words) The Irish Times Under new citizenship proposals, my 4.5 years in Ireland are being erased I have completed a master’s degree, built a career and paid Irish taxes throughout Sir, – Time spent in Ireland under the Temporary Protection Directive…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (383+ words) Nicole Flattery has been awarded the 2026 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature at a gala dinner in Trinity College Dublin this evening attended by 150 guests from the world of Irish literature, including 22 previous winners. Established in 1976, the prize celebrates an outstanding…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (523+ words) The European Union faces a generational deadline next week for age-based restrictions on social media platforms, the Minister for Communications has said. Patrick O’Donovan warned that future generations could ask why the EU failed to intervene against social media companies…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (719+ words) US long-term borrowing costs surged to their highest level in nearly two decades on Thursday, as a jump in oil prices and the latest evidence of stubbornly high inflation reignited a global bond sell-off. The 30-year US bond yield jumped…...