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Trinity Rodman of Washington Spirit dribbling between Chicago Red Stars players during a NWSL Championship match in Louisville, Kentucky. Photograph: Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images
Dave Hannigan: The world will hear a lot more about Trinity Rodman

When you type Trinity Rodman’s name into YouTube to scan the highlight reel of her nascent professional career, the search throws up some interesting (...)

Arthur Griffith was the chief negotiator of the Anglo-Irish Treaty and its most redoubtable champion. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty
Letter showing how Arthur Griffith foresaw his death made public

Sinn Féin founder Arthur Griffith’s death on August 12th, 1922, during the Civil War shocked the country. Griffith was the chief negotiator of the A(...)

Bridge Notes: English look set to lift Camrose trophy for fifth year in a row

England leads the home-international championship for the Camrose trophy, the opening rounds of which were contested online at the weekend. Ireland is(...)

The diningroom inside the Irish Embassy in Paris, France. File photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times
Women make up half of new ambassadorial appointments for first time

Women make up half of the 22 ambassadorial appointments approved by the Government at a meeting on Tuesday, with appointees including women ambassador(...)

The proposed development of Veridian at County Farm, a net zero development in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the US. Photograph: Union Studio/Renderings by McLennan Design via The New York Times
Net zero houses: The homes that produce as much energy as they consume

In the three years that Nicole Rae and Brian Mastenbrook lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, they grew increasingly concerned about California’s wild(...)

Irish inflation shot to a 14-year high of 5.1 per cent last month. Photograph: Lewis Whyld/PA Wire
Rising inflation cited as factor in fall-off in November Irish consumer sentiment

Economists tend to see inflation as one of two types: “demand-pull” where demand exceeds supply and prices go up or “cost-push” where the cost of prod(...)

Irish inflation shot to a 14-year high of 5.1% last month as rising energy costs, supply shortages and increased consumer demand drove up prices. Photograph: PA Wire
Irish consumer sentiment drops as Covid cases surge again

Irish consumer sentiment dropped to a seven-month low in November as Covid cases surged again. The re-emergence of Brexit worries and higher living c(...)

The coffin of civil rights leader Austin Currie is carried to his second funeral service at St Malachy’s Church in Edendork, Co Tyrone, before burial in the adjoining cemetery. Photograph: Oliver McVeigh/PA Wire
Austin Currie welcomed home to Edendork, Co Tyrone

In the bright winter sunshine, the people of Edendork waited to welcome Austin Currie home. They stood on the pavements, and clustered outside the en(...)

‘Daddy reached the great old age of 82 and he died peacefully in his own bed – if you’d said that to him at the age of 30, he would never have believed you.’ Photograph: Laura Hutton
‘True giant of civil rights’: Daughter leads tributes at funeral of Austin Currie

The funeral of Austin Currie has been told he was a “true giant of civil rights”. President Michael D Higgins, Tánaiste Leo Varadkar, Minister for Fo(...)

Born in 1939 and the eldest of 11 children, Austin Currie was originally from Coalisland in Co Tyrone. Photograph: Enda O’Dowd
Austin Currie, civil rights leader and SDLP co-founder, dies aged 82

Austin Currie, the SDLP co-founder, civil rights leader and former Fine Gael minister, has died aged 82. In a statement, his family said they were h(...)

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