9+ hour, 23+ 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…...

9+ hour, 24+ 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…...

9+ hour, 27+ 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…...

9+ hour, 22+ 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…...

22+ hour, 47+ min ago   (536+ words) The First Ministers of Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales will sign a landmark agreement on Monday aimed at putting pressure on Downing Street to hold referendums on independence. SNP leader John Swinney, Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth and Sinn…...

21+ hour, 59+ min ago   (551+ words) Sam Altman and Elon Musk have backed a call from the head of Anthropic, Dario Amodei, to “slow the pace” of artificial intelligence development after he warned that an AI swarm could otherwise become capable of “taking over the entire…...

1+ day, 16+ min 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, 39+ min 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, 5+ hour ago   (1785+ words) A friend, who is Spanish, has been resident here in Ireland for about 10 years. Her mother passed away recently and a house she owned in Galicia is being left to her and her brothers who live in Spain. They are…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (703+ words) The Irish Times A realistic emergency preparedness booklet would say ‘prepare for a slow decline’ Climate change for most of us will be a slow, banal deterioration in our quality of life – and we’re the lucky ones…...