Taoiseach Leo Vardakar has said he believes Israel has become “blinded by rage” and that he is not sure if the country is listening to anyone in the world, including the US. Speaking during Leaders Questions, Mr Varadkar told the Dáil that there was a serious risk of a massacre …

For as long as he can remember, 16-year-old Yannis Belia has had a “second mother” invisible in the eyes of Greek family law. That’s about to change this week, when politicians approve a historic bill legalising same-sex marriage and adoption. “Until now, my second mother has been like a ghost …

RTÉ has released an updated version of the Grant Thornton report into Toy Show The Musical, which names most of the individuals included in the review. The original report, which was released last month, was anonymised. It found that the musical lost €2.27 million and highlighted a failure in generally …

A woman has appeared in court charged with the murder of her six-year-old son. Ruth Purcell Healy, 37, of Bishop’s Field, Williamstown Road, Waterford, was brought before a special sitting of Waterford District Court this evening. She was charged with the murder of Matthew Healy on 8 or 9 February …

A woman has appeared in court charged with the murder of her six-year-old son. Ruth Purcell Healy, 37, of Bishop’s Field, Williamstown Road, Waterford, was brought before a special sitting of Waterford District Court. She was charged with the murder of Matthew Healy on 8 or 9 February last at …

Garda Commissioner Drew Harris has said that An Garda Síochána must have access to modern digital analysis tools, as manual processing of images is “unfeasible and ineffective”. Commissioner Harris told an Oireachtas committee that the footage from the Dublin riots on 23 November 2023 runs to more than 22,000 hours, …

The scaffolding around the spire of Paris’s Notre-Dame cathedral has begun to come down, according to the authority charged with restoring the monument after a devastating fire in 2019. The spire should be entirely visible by the time the Olympic Games open in the French capital on 26 July, it …

Some displaced Palestinian families in Gaza’s Rafah fled the city this morning, as more than a million civilians crammed into a southern corner of the Palestinian enclave wait in fear for an Israeli assault. Source link

Booker Prize winner Paul Lynch has been appointed Distinguished Writing Fellow at Maynooth University. The appointment will see the author return as a colleague in the Department of English in Maynooth University where he will teach on the MA in Creative Writing. Previously, Mr Lynch was the 2019 Kildare County …

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said that he spoke with Paul Whelan, a former Marine detained in Russia, as he vowed sustained efforts to free him as well as jailed journalist Evan Gershkovich. Speaking alongside his Canadian counterpart at an event on hostage diplomacy, Mr Blinken said he …