11+ hour, 46+ min ago   (703+ words) The Irish Times A realistic emergency preparedness booklet would say ‘prepare for a slow decline’ Climate change for most of us will be a slow, banal deterioration in our quality of life – and we’re the lucky ones…...

12+ hour, 47+ min ago   (632+ words) A woman who told a court her husband chased her through their home with a machete “screaming that he would kill me” has secured an interim barring order against him. She also told Dublin District Family Court that the man…...

23+ hour, 43+ min 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, 1+ 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…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (645+ words) A priest told the funeral of a teenager killed in a hit-and-run in Co Clare that parents and grandparents in Ireland are “full of fear” of the society their children and grandchildren are growing up in. Fr Richard Davern was…...

2+ day, 48+ min ago   (1006+ words) Every week, Adam Gannon talks to people on the doorsteps in his Fermanagh council district, which stretches from Garrison in the west to Derrylin in the east. More of them are talking about a united Ireland than ever before “and…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (1669+ words) French toast is offered to visitors at Drumcree Community Centre in Portadown when they walk through its doors on a mild-September morning. Sunflowers grow outside the whitewashed building where children’s scooters are abandoned beside wooden swings on a grassy play…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (552+ words) A charity run by a Wicklow-based businessman received more than 170 warnings from the Charities Regulator over its failure to file annual accounts over a period of six years. Earlier this year the Shauna Kavanagh Foundation (SKF) company was listed for…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (462+ words) A doctor who was jailed for sexual assault in Britain in August was the subject of a complaint alleging sexual harassment of a younger colleague in Dublin 20 years ago. Muhammad Iqbal (64), of Julianstown, Co Meath, was jailed last month for…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (651+ words) Irish Continental Group (ICG) chief executive Eamonn Rothwell’s €1.2 billion management buyout bid for the ferry operator was approved narrowly at a shareholder meeting on Thursday, despite objections from a number of big investors to the deal. The resolution to sell…...