Lara Marlowe

Lara Marlowe

Paris Correspondent

Lara Marlowe is Paris Correspondent with The Irish Times.

Soldiers guarding the graves of seven French Trappist monks, at their monastery in Tibhirine in May 1996. Photograph: STR/AFP/Getty Images
Algeria urged to reveal truth of decapitated monks’ deaths

Families want François Hollande to push Algiers to co-operate over 1996 killings

French president François Hollande: wants to establish a “personal training account” for the unemployed. Photograph: Andrew Winning/PA
Hollande faces wrath of unions at social conference

Meeting of ministers, business and trade unions will confront thorny issues of pensions, unemployment and the status of France’s c(...)

Franck Ribéry: could be sentenced to up to three years in prison and fined €45,000 if convicted
Trial of Ribéry and Benzema for sex with underage prostitute postponed

Judge refers case to the court of cassation, which will take it up in January 2014

France’s former finance minister Christine Lagarde and her then head of cabinet Stephane Richard in 2008. Photograph: Charles Platiau/Reuters
French officials face investigation into €403m Tapie payment

Magistrates say settlment the result of a ‘sham arbitration’

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso speaks at a news conference before the start of a G8 summit in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland
Hollade and Barroso clash over trade deal

Row between French PM and Commission President as G8 summit begins

Research clinician prized for his efforts in scientific discovery

An Irish medic has helped revolutionise how we treat heart attacks with his research on aspirin

Seamus Heaney at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris. Photograph: Des Harris/The Picture Desk
Otherworldly hush descends for Seamus Heaney’s readings in Paris

Irish poet’s 90-minute performance the highlight of month-long Marché de la Poésie festival

French president Francois Hollande will use next week’s G8 summit in Co Fermanagh to ask Russian president Vladimir Putin to pressurise Syria to take part in peace talks. Photograph: Charles Platiau/Reuters
France eager to have corporation tax discussed at Lough Erne summit

Hollande will use summit to press for new peace talks on Syria

French prime minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, who will be presented with the Moreau report on Friday. Photograph: Reuters
French government begins to test the waters on pension reform

Key provisions of Moreau report leaked as socialists plan to tackle issue for first time

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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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The bulky, charismatic American actor, star of The Sopranos, has passed away at the age of 51
Pionneer of London GAA who wrote first draft of history

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