50+ min ago   (1681+ words) On the evening of Tuesday June 9th, Michael was at home with his family when a brick came through the livingroom window, shattering the glass of their terraced home in east Belfast and just missing his three-year-old son. “My child was…...

53+ min ago   (557+ words) Soft toys, illuminations, large-scale floral tributes and “highly conspicuous materials” will be banned from roadside memorials to crash victims under a new policy covering much of south Dublin. Shrines and monuments to those killed in collisions have for decades been…...

53+ min ago   (533+ words) A Westmeath landlord who evicted a tenant and her two children claiming he required the property for his daughter before advertising it at a higher rent has been ordered to pay €15,000 in damages. Padraig Coyne’s actions were described as “egregious…...

53+ min ago   (723+ words) At least 88 families were forced out of their homes as a result of Northern Ireland race riots in June, either through burning or local intimidation, according to figures supplied by housing authorities. As of the beginning of September, fewer than…...

14+ hour, 13+ min ago   (536+ words) The First Ministers of Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales will sign a landmark agreement on Monday aimed at putting pressure on Downing Street to hold referendums on independence. SNP leader John Swinney, Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth and Sinn…...

23+ hour, 51+ 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…...

1+ day, 53+ 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…...

1+ day, 11+ 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, 13+ 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, 14+ 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…...