Confusion after last minute change in Debrecen

In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of AI companies to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental rights of Europeans.

I’m going to use this month’s piece to invite you to come and celebrate Clare Pride Festival with us, Clare’s LGBTQIA+ Community, this weekend. And I’m going to do it in a wild meander though, so brac...

RTÉ has confirmed that Ireland will not take part in the 2027 Eurovision Song Contest and that it will not broadcast the competition.

There was a great cartoon in the New Yorker Magazine in 1993 by Peter Steiner that showed a drawing of two dogs, one sitting in front of a computer with a paw on the keyboard as if typing, and the oth...

They allege bank’s role in regulating sale of Israeli bonds in EU contributed to ‘genocide in Gaza’

Luxembourg will not renew role as approval body, causing it to revert to Dublin from September

The turning point was when a Disney Magic cruise liner pulled up along the quay and the public was barred from it for most of the afternoon. But really, there had been rumblings of discontent amongst ...

Idea that climate action is about individual responsibility is as ridiculous as suggesting everyone can equip themselves to fight in war

Podcast Episode · The Deirdre O'Shaughnessy Podcast · 31 July · 36min

This week as wildfires raged across Europe an image which will surely become a photo for the ages made the news. It was taken by Maximillian Lamy and distributed by AFP/Getty Images. It depicts a coup...

This week as wildfires raged across Europe an image which will surely become a photo for the ages made the news. It was taken by Maximillian Lamy and distributed by AFP/Getty Images. It depicts a coup...

Nelson Haase Mazzei was sentenced for murdering Jara in 2023, but fled from authorities in Chile

"Provavelmente", um poema de Sarah Clancy sobre a insignificância humana diante do universo, e ainda assim, a eternidade que se condensa no instante simples de dois amantes partilhando um enigma em movimento. O post Sarah Clancy – Provavelmente apareceu primeiro em singularidade - poesia & etc..

‘We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings,’’ Ursula K Le Guin. Around a decade or so ago I was ...

Ireland has gone from saving thousands of lives at sea, to participating in missions that aid human rights violations, to new laws that will permit troop deployment to hostile military missions