Every Wednesday and Friday in August we will publish some of our favourite audio long reads of 2025, in case you missed them, with an introduction from the editorial team to explain why we’ve chosen i...

Dutch sustainable smartphone revamped with new chip and more RAM without sacrificing modular design

Character actor whose decades-long career encompassed the National Theatre, war films and Coronation Street

Geoghegan (57), who has come to prominence in this week’s protests, claims to have settled tax bills

An appeal for information has been issued by gardaí on the 25th anniversary of the disappearance of Trevor Deely in Dublin.

New York Times bestselling author John Connolly's unique imagination takes readers through the end of innocence into adulthood and beyond in this d...

Kenny's Bookshop and Art Gallery in Galway city is celebrating 85 years as a family business this weekend.

Amazon Web Services owns the basic infrastructure for other businesses to operate online, turning even governments into its serfs, says the leader of MeRA25, Yanis Varoufakis

Ireland women's Under-19 team struck up an a cappella version of Amhran na bhFiann before a European Championship qualifier in Bulgaria today after organisers mistakenly played Britain's 'God Save the...

Surprise discovery could pave the way for new treatments against drug-resistant infections.

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Trade wars are never solely about economics, as the Anglo-Irish tariff war of the 1930s reminds us.

Former US vice-president seen as a key figure in expanding White House’s power and ‘corrupting the intelligence-policy relationship’

The death of the three-time Oscar nominee, whose starred in films including Chinatown, was announced by her daughter Laura Dern Oscar-nominated actor Diane Ladd has died at the age of 89. The actor, whose credits included Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, Chinatown and National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, died at her home in Ojai, California. The news was announced in a statement shared by her daughter, Oscar-winning actor Laura Dern. Continue reading...

Rightwing politicians and pundits have called the soldiers accused of attack on Palestinian detainee ‘heroes’ and military investigators traitors

Exclusive: Labour peer calls for change in the law after company terminates contracts of strike ‘ringleaders’

Broadcaster Ivan Yates will no longer present a political podcast with Matt Cooper after it emerged that Mr Yates had not disclosed his work advising Fianna Fáil during the Presidential Election.

Actor portrayed Sybil Fawlty and later charmed viewers with her canal boat journeys alongside husband Timothy West

The Trinity Long Room Hub Annual Edmund Burke Lecture 2025 will be delivered by author and historian William Dalrymple.

The writer, broadcaster and documentary maker Manchán Magan has died at the age of 55, his family has confirmed.

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Italy and Spain deployed ships close to the flotilla for rescue and humanitarian tasks.

The largest replica World War One trench in both the UK and Ireland has officially reopened at Cavan County Museum, following extensive renovation and improvement works.

The Health Service Executive has announced that the chickenpox vaccine will be made available free of charge for all babies born on or after 1 October last year.

Explosives were dropped on the Global Sumud vessels and their communications were blocked by a strike that activists have blamed on Israel

Europe Editor Tony Connelly and cameraman Bram Verbeke report from Taybeh, a christian village in the West Bank where locals say they are facing increased attacks by Jewish settlers.

Press freedom group says ‘brutal and unjustified attack’ is deadliest against journalists since Maguindanao massacre Thirty one journalists and media staff were killed by Israeli strikes on newspaper offices in Yemen last week in what the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said on Friday was the deadliest attack on journalists in the last 16 years. Israel struck a newspaper complex in Sana’a, Yemen’s capital, which housed three Houthi-connected media outlets on 10 September. At the time, members of the Yemeni army’s press arm were finishing the weekly print edition, according to the publication’s editor-in-chief, which increased the number of journalists present during the strike. Continue reading...

Fr Carlos Ferrero of the Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza City said the danger there has made it "very difficult" for anyone there to leave their compound, as the situation has worsened in recent d...

Poland's State Protection Service (SOP) has neutralized a drone operating over sensitive government locations, including Parkowa Street and the Belweder Palace, said Prime Minister Donald Tusk on X, amid heightened regional tensions following recent airspace violations.