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Rescuers rush to save hundreds of stranded pilot whales in Australia
- Asia-Pacific
- September 22, 2020
Rescuers were trying to refloat hundreds of whales stranded on a sandbar off the remote west coast of the Australian island of Tasmania on Tuesday, ho(...)

Murdoch’s News Corp to stop printing 100 titles in Australia
- Media & Marketing
- May 28, 2020, 09:40
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp will close or stop printing more than 100 regional and community titles across Australia as it succumbs to the market domi(...)

Australia wildfires: One firefighter dies, two injured as evacuations ordered
- Asia-Pacific
- December 30, 2019
An Australian volunteer firefighter died on Monday and two others suffered burns after their truck rolled over when it was hit by extreme winds amid (...)

‘We are in for some nervous weeks’ - Irishman in Australia
- Abroad
- December 19, 2019, 07:06
Christmas is likely to be a muted, even an anxious affair for many Australians this year. All the bushfire smoke that has been shrouding Sydney and Ca(...)

Make a move to Ranelagh but beware of spiralling house prices
- Homes & Property
- December 7, 2019, 06:00
What’s so good about it? It’s almost inconceivable now, but time once was that Ranelagh was an unremarkable “flatland”, teeming with students and you(...)

Service set to go ahead after missing ashes finally arrive home
- Abroad
- August 6, 2019, 11:09
A family who were separated from the ashes of their loved ones on an Aer Lingus flight to Dublin are to be reunited with the remains just three hours (...)

Hokusai’s great wave and roguish behaviour
- Science
- March 7, 2019, 01:00
The Great Wave off Kanagawa, one of the most iconic works of Japanese art, shows a huge breaking wave with foam thrusting forward at its crest, toweri(...)

Australia’s heatwave triggers power outages as fires rage
- Asia-Pacific
- January 25, 2019, 09:47
Searing 47 degree temperatures, power failures and fires afflicted southern Australia on Friday, with one blaze creating a smoke cloud so large it beg(...)

Hot summer in Australia, where fruit is cooking on the trees
- Abroad
- January 21, 2019, 06:30
We are greeted this January morning with the familiar smell of acrid smoke everywhere outside. We’ve become used to the thrumming sounds of waterbombi(...)

Wild Geese: ‘Don’t be afraid to leave home,’ says Stephanie Lyons
- Work
- January 17, 2019, 18:00
Travelling is in Stephanie Lyons’s blood. She grew up in Donadea, Co Kildare, but went to boarding school in Dublin. She moved to Cork to attend UCC w(...)