Women's commercial fiction — or chick lit as it is dismissively called — helps to shape society in subtle ways, writes Dr Maria Butler

The study also suggests that nearly 50,000 homes could have been built if the resources in the data centre build-out were directed elsewhere.

Maria and Richard Lovell Edgeworth are hailed as educational pioneers whose jointly-authored work, Practical Education (1798), outlines methods that are grounded in and illustrated by accounts of t...

The lack of mainstream interest in popular romance explains why many were clearly surprised by the huge success of Heated Rivalry

Last night, the US launched an all-out assault on the "global censorship industrial complex", I respond with some deep breaths, solidarity and a vibey video (it's all I have)

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As Trump announces the former British PM as his choice to help govern Gaza, Carole Cadwalladr investigates the opaque workings of Blair's institute, its funding from friends of Israel – including bill...

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The broadcaster pointed to the ban on journalists entering Gaza and the many reporters killed there.

RTÉ Statement: 2026 Eurovision Song Contest “At the General Assembly of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) in July, a number of EBU members raised concerns about the participation of Israel in the ...

Even if all the known issues were magically resolved, we would still not want our students to use GenAI

Charlie Falconer says government was right to challenge Epping hotel ruling but now has to ‘move forward’

Cofounder of the LGBTQ+ youth organisation Belong To discusses the rise of anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric across the world

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“We understand these are our last days.”

EdgeConneX Ireland said that it was not within the remit of South Dublin County Council to determine whether there was sufficient capacity on the national grid.

UN experts and hundreds of lawyers warn that proscribing group would conflate protest and terrorism The home secretary is coming under increasing pressure to abandon plans to ban Palestine Action, as UN experts and hundreds of lawyers warned that proscribing the group would conflate protest and terrorism. In two separate letters to Yvette Cooper, the Network for Police Monitoring (Netpol) lawyers’ group and the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers said that proscribing the group would set a dangerous precedent. Continue reading...

The 40th annual conference of the Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society at the Trinity Long Room Hub 5-6 June 2025

The US and European allies should do more to restrain Benjamin Netanyahu

Labour insider rebukes ‘tech bros’ within Tony Blair Institute as critics question past work with petrostates

It's not Bake Off. It's a global far-right insurgency.

Belfast rappers' choice of word may have been crass but at least they were using their artform to create a space for politics

Until debate on universities foregrounds their core purposes, their woes will deepen, says Margot Finn

The poor provision of unisex children’s facilities— which reinforces gender stereotypes and inconveniences women and men both — was, incidentally, an issue I remember being quite talked-about a decade...