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Eureka moment – An Irishman’s Diary on Peter Lalor, Australia’s outlaw rebel turned parliamentarian
- Opinion
- December 30, 2020, 18:30
In the bustling Flinder’s Street railway terminus in Melbourne, while waiting to catch a train to the port area where my ship was berthed, I got talki(...)

Australia’s first national poet – An Irishman’s Diary on Bernard O’Dowd
- Opinion
- November 22, 2020, 17:01
Bernard O’Dowd was Australia’s first national poet. This son of Catholic immigrants from Ulster was born in Australia in 1866. Described as “a radical(...)

Ex-Vatican treasurer Pell failed to remove suspected paedophile priests, inquiry finds
- Asia-Pacific
- May 7, 2020, 10:45
Former Vatican treasurer Cardinal George Pell was aware of child sex abuse by at least two priests in the 1970s and 1980s and failed to take steps to (...)

Australia is no longer the inclusive and progressive place it was when I arrived
- Abroad
- July 4, 2019, 09:30
Working Abroad Q&A: Marianne Hendron, who is originally from Portadown, is chief executive of a regional women's health service in Ballarat i(...)

Top stories from Irish Times Abroad this week
- Abroad
- July 4, 2019, 04:00
A lot has been happening with Irish abroad this week as a heatwave with recording-breaking temperatures hit much of Europe, more news on extending the(...)

Give it a lash: 100 questions to test your Irishness
- Abroad
- March 16, 2019
What was Father Ted’s money doing? What did Mary Robinson’s electors rock in 1990? And could Lindsay Lohan play soccer for the Republic of Ireland? (...)

Vatican treasurer George Pell to stand trial on ‘historical’ sex offences
- Asia-Pacific
- May 1, 2018, 06:53
The legal team representing Cardinal George Pell is understood to have applied for separate trials after Australia’s most senior Catholic was committe(...)

Divisive Cardinal Pell faces his day in court over abuse charges
- Asia-Pacific
- June 30, 2017, 21:08
For years, Cardinal George Pell was dogged by questions of what he knew about the child sexual abuse that happened under his watch in his home state o(...)