45+ min ago   (474+ words) Sweden appears headed for a change of government after post-general election exit polls showed a centre-left camp led by the Social Democrats with a parliamentary majority. The centre-left finished with 51.3 per cent of the vote, or 183 seats, according to an…...

6+ hour, 17+ min ago   (265+ words) July 1972. I was 11 years old. In a country tense with uniformed killings and violent recrimination, my mother’s Austin A40 made a tortuous one-day journey to Toormore Bay in west Cork. It was a warm summer, but televised outrage had kept the…...

6+ hour, 40+ min ago   (363+ words) Two Co Galway women have appeared in court over alleged public-order offences on the seventh green at Trump Doonbeg golf course as US president Donald Trump’s Marine One helicopter was in the air preparing to land on Saturday afternoon. At…...

15+ hour, 21+ min ago   (436+ words) Telling their five-decade love story in my new biography Mary & Padraic Colum: Lives and the Dream (UCD Press) has become a chronicle of the cultural and political foment of early 20th-century Ireland, James Joyce’s emigre circle in 1930s Paris, and the…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (640+ words) Have you ever craved a funeral sandwich? Or better yet, the soup that is handed to you in a mug while your neighbour runs around with a saucepan of tea waiting for someone to accept a cup? The Irish do…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (622+ words) US president Donald Trump said Irish unity would be a “great thing” in response to a reporter’s question on his visit to Dublin. The comments, made alongside Taoiseach Micheál Martin at Farmleigh, caused eyebrows to be raised north and south…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (525+ words) It was, as one senior SDLP figure put it, “quite a moment, to have the American president saying that.” The “that” in question was Donald Trump’s endorsement of Irish unity, delivered when answering questions from the media after his arrival…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (830+ words) The Irish Times Under new citizenship proposals, my 4.5 years in Ireland are being erased I have completed a master’s degree, built a career and paid Irish taxes throughout Sir, – Time spent in Ireland under the Temporary Protection Directive…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (612+ words) When and where is it on? The 2026 Solheim Cup, a biennial tournament between teams made up of the best women golfers from the United States and Europe will take place from this Friday, September 11th to Sunday, September 13th at the Bernadus…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (477+ words) Energia Group booked an almost €92 million expense for share options granted to management during its latest financial year, a period in which an agreement was reached for the sale of the all-Ireland power company for an enterprise value of about…...