Driving out the gate of Tara Mines last July, on their last day of work, staff described the situation they were in as “limbo”. Around 650 people had been laid off and Europe’s largest zinc mine “mothballed”. Many of the workers had been there for decades. Some of them I …

A man, who set himself on fire outside the New York courthouse where Donald Trump’s hush-money trial was taking place, has died. Officials said the man did not appear to have been targeting Mr Trump. NBC News and other US media said early this morning that the man had died. …

The former boyfriend of Longford woman Sarah McNally, who was stabbed to death in New York last month, has appeared at a court in New York charged with her murder. Marcin Pieciak, 36, is charged with second degree murder and possession of a criminal weapon. Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz …

In Ireland, there have been over 1.7 million confirmed cases of Covid-19 infection so far. Long Covid is the continuation, or development of new symptoms, three months after the initial infection with Covid-19, that cannot be explained by alternative diagnoses. The exact number of people in Ireland with Long Covid …

North Korea has tested a “super-large warhead” designed for a strategic cruise missile, state media said, the most recent test since UN sanctions monitoring against the nuclear-armed nation was upended last month by Russia. The announcement comes after Russia in March used its United Nations Security Council veto to effectively …

Today was the day Sebastian Villasenor was going to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre – by massacring students at his own high school. At least that is how the police who arrested the 18-year-old in February tell it. When they raided his home in Eastvale …

The Green Party gather this weekend for their annual conference ahead of the local and European elections. It comes at a critical time for the party, and it will highlight many of its candidates. They will contest all three European constituencies. MEP Ciaran Cuffe will run again in Dublin while …

“When I heard the first laugh from the audience… it was just such a joy,” playwright Hilary Fannin says. “I just thought, they get it, they get what I was trying to say.” It is Friday morning and Ms Fannin is talking to me in the Abbey Theatre just 12 …

While the international spotlight has been focused on Gaza, the surge in settler-related violence in the West Bank has received less attention. But last week’s killing of a young Israeli settler and the deadly retaliatory attacks on Palestinian villages and communities has put the issue of settlements back at the …

“When I heard the first laugh from the audience… it was just such a joy,” playwright Hilary Fannin says. “I just thought, they get it, they get what I was trying to say.” It is Friday morning and Ms Fannin is talking to me in the Abbey Theatre just 12 …