Will you be up with the lark for International Dawn Chorus Day tomorrow, Sunday 5 May? Events are taking place nationwide to celebrate the symphony of birdsong that can be heard in the early hours of the morning. It rises to a crescendo at this time of the year, with …

“They dropped me on the ground and kept kicking me and punching me,” Ted Jonas, an American lawyer who lives in the Georgian capital Tbilisi, told RTÉ News. A group of ten to 15 riot police, he said, punched and kicked him last Tuesday night as he protested against the …

An Irish-Palestinian man who had been trapped in Gaza for the last seven months has returned to Ireland. There were emotional scenes at Dublin Airport as Zak Hania was reunited with his wife Batoul Hania and four sons, who he has not seen since November last year. Ms Hania and …

Residents in the area where asylum seekers have pitched tents are calling on the Taoiseach to follow through on his commitment not to allow “shanty towns” to develop in Dublin city. Source link

Is this the week that the US campus protests peaked? The combination of police clearances, inter-factional violence in Los Angeles, politicians weighing in and the end of the academic term suggests it may well be – at least in its current phase. The movement has certainly left a mark on …

Goals from Wes Burns and Omari Hutchinson fired Ipswich back into the Premier League for the first time in 22 years with the 2-0 win over Huddersfield also confirming the Terriers’ relegation. That result for Ipswich – managed by Fermanagh’s Kieran McKenna – negated anything third-placed Leeds, who began the …

More than 40 tents have been pitched by asylum seekers along the Grand Canal in Dublin. The new encampment of tents has been erected between Mount Street bridge and Huband Bridge. The location is less than 400 metres from the International Protection Office on Mount Street. On Wednesday, a large …

Much to the ire of some of the Rugby Family in the UK, Leinster are preparing for yet another Investec Champions Cup semi-final on home soil this evening. A last-four game in the capital is starting to feel like an annual tradition; for the fifth time out of seven seasons …

More than 40 tents have been pitched by asylum seekers along the Grand Canal in Dublin. The new encampment of tents has been erected between Mount Street bridge and Huband Bridge. The location is less than 400 metres from the International Protection Office on Mount Street. On Wednesday, a large …

A man remains in garda custody following an alleged assault on three women in Co Louth yesterday afternoon. He is being held under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act, 1984. Gardaí responded to the alleged assault at a house in the Glenwood Estate in Dundalk and arrested the man. …