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Humanitarian aid still stored as Maduro’s forces in standoff at border bridge
- World
- February 10, 2019, 21:15
Early on Sunday morning the Tienditas International Bridge does not look like it is at the centre of an international crisis. The few Colombian police(...)

Brexit pain, house price rises, media ownership and Christmas vouchers
- Economy
- December 12, 2018, 06:30
British Prime Minister Theresa May arrives in Dublin this evening seeking further leeway on the Border backstop. She will be hoping today’s warning fr(...)

Problem of making Paris accord stick dominates UN climate summit
- Environment
- December 12, 2018, 00:20
Negotiations at the UN summit in Poland, now entering their final political phase, continue to be dominated by issues around the strictness of a ruleb(...)

‘Tired of the abuse’: the illegal immigrant who makes Donald Trump’s bed
- US
- December 7, 2018, 11:47
During more than five years as a housekeeper at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, Victorina Morales has made Donald Trump’s bed,(...)

Move to ban fuel exploration licences could have ‘devastating consequences’
- Energy & Resources
- November 6, 2018, 03:45
A move to ban the issuing of fuel exploration licences in Ireland poses “enormous threats” to Ireland’s energy supply and could have “devastating econ(...)

Irish classrooms among the most overcrowded in developed world
- Education
- September 11, 2018, 18:59
Ireland has the some of the largest school class sizes in the developed world, according to a major international education report. The OECD’s Educat(...)

Nicaraguan government killing, torturing and raping protesters, says UN
- World
- August 30, 2018, 20:56
The Nicaraguan authorities and paramilitary groups working with them have killed, tortured, raped and forcibly disappeared anti-government protesters,(...)

A rebel no more, Daniel Ortega comes to resemble the dictator he replaced
- World
- August 22, 2018, 12:52
Juan José is digging a latrine on the small, 8m by 25m plot the government of Daniel Ortega has given him to build a house. It is prime real estate, a(...)

Kinahan cartel linked to €10m cocaine seizure in Costa Rica
- Crime & Law
- August 19, 2018, 17:05
Cocaine valued at about €10 million and believed to be owned by the Kinahan cartel has been seized in Central America. It was being smuggled in sea (...)

‘There’s no law’: political crisis sends Nicaraguans fleeing
- World
- August 7, 2018, 11:17
There is always a line outside the main passport office, often with several hundred people or more clutching documents and manila folders. It starts f(...)