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The Best of Everything by Kit de Waal: Navigating the ups and downs of life
Kit de Waal is too astute a writer to deliver just misery fiction - her latest novel, about a young St Kittitian working as ...
The Friend review: Bill Murray and Naomi Watts are genuinely touching in this lovely New York fantasy
The newcomer Bing is full of charm as the dog whose presence causes Watts’s character to confront what’s missing in her life ...
Fréwaka review: Aislinn Clarke’s Gaeltacht horror mines Irish mythology for socially conscious spookery
Just when you think the folk-horror vogue is all played out, along comes Aislinn Clarke’s textured delve into Celtic ...
Aviva Ireland reinsurance deal with parent depresses profit at Irish business
Aviva Insurance Ireland, the third largest insurer in the Republic by premium income, reported an underwriting profit of €15 ...
Michael O’Brien, former lord mayor of Clonmel and abuse survivor, has died
Michael O’Brien appeared on RTE television programme where he outlined details of his experiences in industrial school ...
Primary teachers want secular schools and an end to faith formation in classes, INTO survey finds
A breakdown of the survey results shows that while a majority (57 per cent) of INTO members believe faith formation should ...
Helen McEntee announces ‘largest national conversation on education in the State’s history’
A new national convention, to begin in the coming school year, will be the “largest national conversation on education in the ...
Death of Pope Francis: Michael D Higgins says pontiff had ‘unfinished business’, as preparations made for papal funeral
It has now been confirmed that Ireland will be represented at the funeral of Pope Francis by President Micheal D. Higgins and ...
Pope Francis: Thousands of Catholics to pay tribute as pontiff lies in state
Pontiff to lie in state at St Peter’s Basilica for next three days, where thousands of Catholics expected to pay respects ...
Win against Sligo Rovers sees Derry City within three points of table top
Danny Mullen bagged a brace against basement side Sligo Rovers as a resurgent Derry City moved to within three points of the ...
Tesla profit slumps 39% as EV sales dry up and tariff worries loom
Tesla’s first-quarter profit dropped 39 per cent as sales of its electric vehicles plummeted owing to a weak product line-up ...
Pope Francis funeral: Level of State commemoration trails that afforded John Paul II in 2005
The then-leader of the opposition, Fine Gael’s Enda Kenny, attended the funeral of John Paul II in 2005. A Government spokeswoman confirmed that the Department of the Taoiseach had requested that the ...