Number of people homeless in Ireland still rising
The latest Irish government official homelessness figures this week show 10,338 people need emergency accommodation. The figure for last month, August, comprises 6,490 adults...
Irishman heckles PM in Leeds for ‘playing games’
British prime minister Boris Johnson was harangued by a man with a strong Irish accent on a shopping street in Leeds last week for...
British Airways pilot strike to affect 10,000 on Irish flights
An estimated 10,000 passengers on British Airways flights between Ireland and the UK are expected to be affected by the two-day strike at the...
RTÉ Longwave radio out for month as works begin
RTÉ’s Longwave radio service will be out for a month as works get underway to preserve it for another two years after Irish activists...
Late Joseph Tuohy was a ‘fine, sensitive, intelligent’ man
An elderly Irish man with no family who spent decades fighting homelessness and mental illness in London will receive a special burial back in...
‘No back stop, no deal’
By Bernard Purcell
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar told British Prime Minister Boris Johnson that his promises to avoid a hard border if the EU drops...
Funeral of London Irish teen Nora Quoirin to take place today
A London-Irish teenager who was found dead in the Malaysian jungle last month will be laid to rest today following a funeral in Belfast.
Nora...
‘Give Us Our Daily Bread’
By PJ Cunningham
Perhaps for the first time, the uncertainty around Brexit has hardened to reality about giving to each their daily bread, as...
No ‘obvious signs’ of Brexodus to Ireland
The number of people swapping the UK for Ireland – which has been steadily increasing since the UK voted to leave the EU in...
The generational story of Kylemore Abbey
Kylemore Abbey, a Benedictine monastery in Connemara founded in 1920 for Belgian nuns fleeing World War I, has long been a place of interest...