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A company privately contracted to run three direct provision centres has defended its decision to distribute leaflets explaining its services for asylum seekers. Sorcha Pollak reports.

Dublin City University is leading a new EU project to tackle "fake news" by tracking and flagging online disinformation on social media. Carl O'Brien reports.

"Single-use", a term that describes items whose unchecked proliferation are blamed for damaging the environment and affecting the food chain, has been named Collins' Word of the Year 2018. Read more here.

The chill is in the air, the leaves are on the ground – and suddenly every man seems to be sporting a moustache. And just at the moment when you begin to question the sudden fascination with upper-lip facial hair, you remember that it is Movember. Liz Farsaci reports.

As news of the death of the pioneering composer and musician Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin spread, tributes to his music and his influence flowed, writes Deirdre Falvey.