Joe Humphreys

Joe Humphreys

Senior Staff Journalist

Joe Humphreys is a senior staff journalist with The Irish Times. A former correspondent in South Africa, he has recently been acting as an Assistant News Editor, helping to direct daily News Desk operations. He is also a regular feature writer, and has published books on Irish missionaries, the politics of sport and the ethics of world religions.

Men less satisfied with work-life balance than women

Workplace set-up makes it hard for men to play bigger role in family life

Main points: Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013

NUI chancellor stresses ‘centrality of human rights’ on visit to Bahraini medical campus

University group rejects claims it has been ‘silent’ on operating in non-democratic countries

President Michael D Higgins: shared some concern about the direction Irish universities were taking. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons /Irish Times
Irish universities ‘intimately engaged’ with non-democratic regimes

Former RCSI Bahraini chief Prof Tom Collins says other colleges need to face up to their ethical responsibilities

From left: the Chief Justice, Mrs Justice Susan Denham and baroness Nuala O’Loan, former police ombudsman of Northern Ireland, who were enrolled as members of the Royal Irish Academy yesterday, with RIA president Luke Drury. Photograph: David Sleator
RIA chief highlights longer-term goals of education

Graduates risk becoming ‘alienated workers in a smart economy’, academy chief warns

Humanist Association of Ireland director of ceremonies Brian Whiteside said he had been informed by the General Registrar’s Office that it had concerns about people profiting from solemnising non-religious marriage ceremonies. Photograph: Matt Kavanagh
Shortage of humanist marriage solemnisers

Couples seeking secular weddings face delays as celebrants await accreditation

Simon O’Brien, centre, chairman of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, at yesterday’s publication of it’s seventh annual report, with commission members Kieran Fitzgerald and Carmel Foley. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien
Lack of Garda co-operation with inquiries unacceptable, says Ombudsman

Gardaí obstructing release of documents on ‘erroneous’ grounds

James O’Mara organised the Irish government’s first bond-certificate drive in the US from 1919 to 1921. Over $5.1 million was raised in the campaign.
Millionaire helped finance War of Independence

James O’Mara played a vital role in Ireland’s fight for independence by organising a bond drive in the United States that raised $(...)

Insolvency Service of Ireland director Lorcan O’Connor: “If we don’t get the practitioner bit right the system won’t work.” Photograph: Eric Luke
New insolvency regime: a windfall or a headache for professionals?

Success of scheme will depend on integrity of PIPs, says insolvency chief

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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

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Russell Brand makes mince meat of MSNBC

Watch the comedian (through your fingers, if you must) tear the Morning Joe crew on MSNBC apart.
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The rapper you might love to hate is still producing gems
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