2+ hour, 10+ min ago   (1069+ words) One evening in early 2013, Aidan Mullally found himself nervously hovering outside the Foggy Dew pub in Dublin city centre. After “a bad Christmas” overshadowed by grief, Mullally had taken to Google in search of a sense of community. He stumbled…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (190+ words) An Irish woman was found dead at a house in a suburb near Melbourne, Australia, on Friday morning. A statement from Victoria police said a man was arrested after the woman was found dead at a residential property at Ferntree…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (408+ words) A self-described anti-Islam activist has been sent forward for trial accused of carrying out an arson attack at a mosque and putting lives at risk. Saeid Khosroabadi (41) was arrested following a fire at the doorway of the Faizan E Madinah…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (588+ words) A record 1,883 Australians applied for Irish citizenship in 2025, the highest annual total since electronic records began. Already this year almost 800 Australians have applied for Irish citizenship through the Foreign Births Register. The Department of Foreign Affairs said last year’s figure…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (455+ words) If you’ve watched Spider-Noir, with Nicolas Cage as a brooding Spider-Man in a black-and-white film-noir version of 1930s New York, you may have wondered which superpower you’d choose. The restaurant has since been refurbished, with a new dark wooden bar, matching…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (347+ words) A self-described jihadist has not co-operated with a psychologist trying to carry out an assessment of the risk he poses, the Special Criminal Court has heard. Abdullah Khan (24) had previously been inspired by Isis to set fire to a pub…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (758+ words) Those who placed a replica of a mosque on top of a bonfire have an “agenda full of hate and bigotry towards others”, a judge has said. District judge Barney McElholm made the comments as he refused bail to a…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (169+ words) There’s a moment in the criminally underrated Anne at 13,000ft, when Matt Johnson’s character goes on his second date with the title character following a wedding hook-up. The disbelieving look on his face when she brings him to meet her mum…...

2+ mon, 13+ hour ago   (546+ words) Written in 1913, and receiving a rare revival, George Fitzmaurice’s one-act comedy, first performed at the Abbey, is a curiosity championed by a band of academics who argue that its author was unfairly maligned by the theatrical establishment and deserves reinstatement…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (466+ words) Passersby checked we were okay and we headed away from the scene – which was not of our making – just in time to arrive for our restaurant booking and, just to inject more drama, watch gardaí wrestle to the ground and…...