Mark Hennessy

Mark Hennessy

London Editor

Mark Hennessy is an award-winning journalist and broadcaster. He is London Editor of The Irish Times, having previously served as Political Correspondent. He appears frequently on RTE Radio 1 and Today FM, along with appearances on BBC, Sky and elsewhere.
Maria Miller: says the Internet Watch Foundation has been asked to search for illegal and abusive images and block them. Photograph: Rosie Hallam/Getty Images
Internet companies agree to do more to combat online child pornography

Deal agreed with British culture secretary Maria Miller hailed as a fundamental change

Migella Lawson and Charles Saatchi, who have been married for 10 years, publicly rowed on the terrace of Scott’s seafood restaurant in Mayfair, London, earlier this month. Photographs of the incident were published in a British newspaper last Sunday. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA Wire
Charles Saatchi accepts caution for assaulting his wife, Nigella Lawson

Organisations helping domestic abuse victims report quadrupling of helpline calls

Beinn An Tuirc wind farm on the Kintyre peninsula in Scotland: communities that accept a wind farm in their midst could receive a package of benefits worth £100,000 a year. Photograph: Ben Curtis.
UK wind farm campaigners welcome rules on objection rights

Rules make clear need for ‘renewable energy does not automatically override environmental protections and the planning concerns of(...)

British prime minister David Cameron chairs a trade summit as he sits with US president Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the G8 summit in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/Reuters
Demands for UK to explain G20 bugging

Turkey describes allegations of eavesdropping operation as ‘scandalous’

Patients in UK to get unprecedented access to surgical performance data

‘The problem with a lot of countries is not a shortage of capitalism, it is a shortage of capital’

Interview: David Cameron’s message to colleagues at the G8 will be simple: a tax rate set must be a rate paid

The majority of mothers associated with the study – 70 per cent — followed regular medical advice and had drunk no alcohol during pregnancy. Photograph: Eric Luke
Moderate drinking ‘not harmful’ in pregnancy, according to British researchers

Three to seven glasses of alcohol a week does not harm the development of unborn babies, according to study carried out on 7,000 c(...)

A girl waves towards police officers in Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh yesterday. A large security operation is in place around Enniskillen and Lough Erne ahead of the G8 summit, which begins today. Photograph: Yves Herman/Reuters
Syria tops agenda as G8 opens in Fermanagh

David Cameron embarrassed by revelations that British secret service spied on delegations at G20 meetings in London

Nigeria’s finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. “Could do more,” she told the Shell who had proudly declared that that the exploration company had paid $12 billion in taxes last year to African countries “including $4.5 billion into your treasury, Ngozi”. Photograph: Reuters
Multinationals pay little tax in Africa, forum told

Developing countries trying to play by tax rules drawn up in 1950s, says Nigerian finance minister

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Galleries

A firefighter tries to put out a fire at a plantation in Rokan Hilir district, Riau province, Indonesia. Riau authorities have deployed two fire brigade teams in Bengkalis district and Dumai to control peatland fires, Antara News Agency reported. The fires are being blamed for dense smog in neighbouring Singapore. Photograph: Aswaddy Hamid/Reuters Singaporean smog and Indonesian fires
This is Nanoweek 2013, and to mark it an exhibition, NanoArt 13, of 100 ‘nanolandscapes’ (research images, at a scale thousands of times smaller than a grain of salt) is being held at Trinity College Dublin, the Tryskell Arts Centre in Cork and the Tyndall National Institute at UCC. Here is a selection of the images. Above, 'Insect egg on a Leaf' by Patrick Carolan, Tyndall National Institute. Insect egg on underside of leaf. Stuff you never get to see

Blogs

Russell Brand makes mince meat of MSNBC

Watch the comedian (through your fingers, if you must) tear the Morning Joe crew on MSNBC apart.
Y-Day: Kanye West’s trip from “College Dropout” to “Yeezus”

The rapper you might love to hate is still producing gems
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