A wave lifts me up, answers the heavy slice of my arms arcing through the saltwater on either side of the board. The cold sea makes room, strikes a bargain as it catches the fins and  propel...

The Dáil has voted to pass the first stage of a piece of legislation that would ban fox hunting with 113 TDs voting in favour and 49 against.

"...it is hard to avoid the sense that the Government’s newfound notions of austerity will skip right past the men in suits and pass directly to the artists who rely on government funding to pursue th...

Tune in on Tuesday 4th March at 8am GMT for the announcement! Hear from our judges as they reveal the 16 books on the 2025 Women's Prize for Fiction longlist sponsored by @audible and @Baileys. The judging panel for the 2025 Prize is chaired by author Kit de Waal. She is joined by novelist, journalist and inaugural winner of the Orange Award for New Writers (the Women’s Prize for debut novelists in 2006), Diana Evans; author, journalist and mental-health campaigner, Bryony Gordon; magazine editor, most recently Editor-in-Chief of Glamour UK, Deborah Joseph; and musician and composer known for award-winning film scores, Amelia Warner. We hope you discover some brilliant books to buy, borrow, read, love and pass on.

Letter will be issued in the coming days in the wake of the Arts Council €6.7m IT system scandal

The minister believes there needs to be planning exemptions to allow family members to live together on the same site.

The Celtic Tiger left a hollowed out corpse that we're now filling with Claddagh rings, Pellador jumpers, St Brigid's crosses and pints of Beamish. And I don't mind.

Ms. Haaland, one of the first former cabinet officials in the Biden administration to announce a run for office, would be the first Native American woman to serve as governor of a state.

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Amazon has quietly removed protections for Black and LGBTQ+ workers from its company policies.

ALT: a woman says i fear neither death nor pain in a dark room

The Céide Fields, one of the most important and extensive Stone Age ­monuments in the world, was ditched as a possible World Heritage Site due to a “lack of public support”.