The reader is transported by Heaney’s illuminating memory: we’re in a school, a photographer is visiting and the girls are having their picture taken

Rick is joined by former judge and writer Neil Hegarty, former competition winner John Donnelly, and the Short Story Series producer, Sarah Binchy, to celebrate 40 years of the RTÉ Short Story Competi...

Speaking to Skwawkbox by video link, Margaret Owen reminisced about her recently-passed friend Marion - Ed Miliband's mum

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A Labour leader is out of control. The world needs a containment strategy now

When a former Labour deputy leader joins a firm built on surveillance and military targeting, it deepens public cynicism – and democracy depends on trust, says Labour MP Clive Lewis

The generosity of the people of Derry in ‘accommodating loyal order parades is being eroded by the Orange Order’s renewed attempts to force a march down the Garvaghy Road’, Sinn Féin Councillor Christ...

A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...

Spiritual leaders stress diversity of views within Jewish community and warn against inaction on settler violence Prominent British rabbis have backed Ed Miliband’s sanctions on Israeli settlements, warning that the time for inaction on settler violence must come to an end. The intervention comes after the UK’s chief rabbi, the spiritual leader of mainstream Orthodox Jews in the UK, Sir Ephraim Mirvis, described UK sanctions against illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories as a “dark day for British Jews” and warned they could embolden people who “use hatred as a weapon against Jews”. Continue reading...

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Exclusive: 7,280 suspected illegal spills in rivers and sea recorded in first five months of 2026

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Andy Burnham’s response to genocide does not go nearly far enough. He must target the Israeli state itself by imposing an arms embargo and sweeping sanctions, and bringing perpetrators to justice.

Course at Donald Trump’s Turnberry resort was painted with words ‘Gaza is not 4 sale’ and clubhouse was sprayed with graffiti

Andy Burnham commended Sainsbury’s for ‘stepping up’ while his government addresses youth employment crisis

The former Cambridge professor suffered a relentless campaign of coverage against him. His death should teach us an important lesson about keeping a s...

People are fed up with privatised water companies letting us down and ripping us off. We deserve a real conversation about public ownership. Can you help build pressure by asking your MP to attend th...

Taoiseach said party colleagues should concentrate on the benefits of the Shared Island initiative

Israel is unabashed about its policy of taking over West Bank land, and Israeli soldiers seem content to prevent Palestinians, Israelis, or international journalists from documenting the settler takeo...

Unlike peace agreements – which require negotiation, compromise and (ostensibly) long-term commitment – ceasefires...

Zeteo’s weekly round-up of the stories you may have missed out of occupied Gaza and the West Bank, as Israel continues its genocidal war and apartheid policies.

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QUSRA, West Bank: Israeli military operations to remove extremist settlers encircling three homes on a hilltop in Qusra are “just a performance,” the village’s mayor told Arab News, as 15 Palestinians...

Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank diverted a spring that was a lifeline for the Palestinian village of Fasayil, cutting irrigation pipes in June and converting it into a tourist attraction, l...