Italian prime minister Mario Draghi with US president Joe Biden at the first day of the Rome G20 summit. Photograph: Antonio Masiello/Getty Images 2:52 G20 leaders sign off on global minimum 15% corporation tax deal
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Farmers Gavin and Trevor Crowley on the family farm is Lissarda, Co. Cork. Photograph: Daragh McSweeney/Provision ‘This broad brush of culling the national herd is just too easy – there are other options’
Climate change activist, Saoi O’Connor (16): ‘No amount of COPs will change this, because the people who hold the power in those negotiations do not want it to change.’ Photograph: Daragh Mc Sweeney/Provision What can the COP26 climate summit achieve?
Students protest in Dublin demanding action on the climate crisis in 2019. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw Climate protests planned in Ireland to coincide with Cop26
Charlie Bird: ‘My voice will go first. And my voice has been me’ Charlie Bird: ‘I wish I could say I was the strongest man in the world, but I’ve cried my eyes out over the last month, and I don’t sleep at night.’Photograph: Alan Betson

Veteran journalist on coming to terms with his motor neuron disease diagnosis

‘Covid got to him before I did. By the time I found out, it was too late to attend the funeral’ Frank McNally (r) with this old schoolfriend, the late Lawrence Keenan.

Frank McNally: A lockdown project resulted in a letter from a long-lost schoolmate

Paul Flynn: I have one piece of advice for all cooks Duck and spiced apple galette. Photographs: Harry Weir

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‘At the height of the Troubles, Halloween took hold in Derry like nowhere else’ Derry Halloween parade: ‘The council [did] a good job of making the festivities a lot more family-friendly and a little less debauched, but still creative and delightfully unhinged.’ Photograph: Charles McQuillan/Getty

Bands deemed it too dangerous to come and perform there. We had to amuse ourselves

‘You gotta put your crash helmet on’: Robert Plant on working with Alison Krauss Robert Plant and Alison Krauss in the press room during the Grammy Awards in 2009. Photograph: Jason Merritt/Getty

The pair take risks on a new album of lost nuggets, follow-up to a 2007 collaboration

Imelda May: ‘Sex can be more fun as you get older and you care less’ Imelda May: ‘Reading poetry is a better way to end the day than with technology or reading the news’

The musician on writing poetry, growing up in the Liberties, and pre-Christian Ireland

Hundreds protest over plan for hotel around Cobblestone musical pub Méabh and Síobha Mulligan, the daughters of Tom Mulligan who has run the Cobblestone pub for more than 30 years. They say their family is ‘heartbroken’ by the hotel development plans. Photograph: Sorcha Pollak

‘What’s really being sold to tourists is a shell of Irish culture,’ claim Dublin is Dying group

Manchester United bounce back with defiant win over Tottenham Manchester United’s Cristiano Ronaldo celebrates with teammates after scoring the opening goal of the Premier League win over Tottenham Hotspur. Photo: Glyn Kirk/AFP via Getty Images

Cristiano Ronaldo opened the scoring as victory eases pressure on Ole Gunnar Solskjaer

‘There is no room for delay in relation to climate – we need action today’ ‘Organisations are not going to succeed in decarbonising if they do not bring their people along with them.’ Photograph: Getty Images
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Gardaí appeal for witnesses after man dies in Co Clare road crash Gardaí are appealing for any witnesses to this collision to come forward. File photograph: The Irish Times

Driver and sole occupant of vehicle in his 40s sustained serious injuries and later died in hospital

Jennifer Bray: High time we tackled causes of vaccine hesitancy Among 18- to 24-year-olds from central and eastern Europe, vaccination rates were only 36%. File photograph: Getty

Endless debates about lockdowns are circular – and little more than a distraction

Cliff Taylor: Rural and urban Ireland will fight over who pays the price in climate debate Climate change: Choose to put less of the burden on agriculture and you end up putting more on the energy sector, transport and transitions by households and businesses. Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty

Targets and trade-offs will prompt finger-pointing by all affected sectors

Billy Connolly: ‘I’ve been scared my whole life’ Billy Connolly: “We’re the same race, the Scots and the Irish. We’re all Celtic people. The Scots came from Ireland – for reasons best known to themselves. Photograph: James Flood/Comic Relief/Getty Images

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