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A screen grab from a handout video made available by Nasa taken from the International Space Station showing Hurricane Dorian on Monday. Photograph: EPA/Nasa
Hurricane Dorian kills at least five ahead of move towards Florida
  • World
  • September 3, 2019

Hurricane Dorian pounded the Bahamas on Monday, killing at least five people and inundating homes with floodwater ahead of its expected advance on the(...)

The X7’s front grille is as if someone has strapped two garden gates to the front of the car
When size matters, the X7 from BMW fits the bill

When it comes to size, scale is everything. So when BMW’s new X7 seems big on the streets of the supersized US, you know they’ve built a behemoth. God(...)

Stephanie G Foy has gone from Galway to Savannah.
Welcome to my place ... Savannah, Georgia

Stephanie G Foy is originally from Galway and is a professor of fashion at the Savannah College of Art and Design. She now calls Savannah home and wel(...)

Sisters Sisi and Elle Malindikin of Dual jewellery. Photograph: Fionn McCann
African fashion designers: ethically changing lives

“We are not selling because this is African, it is because of good design, desirable, and worth wearing,” says Belfast-born Penny Winter, a former cos(...)

David Browne pictured at the Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland. Photograph: Cyril Byrne/The Irish Times
Architect building on tradition of ‘being a service to society’

There was little doubt David Browne would follow a road familiar to his ancestors and become an architect. Even as he started secondary school in Clon(...)

A derailed Amtrak car can be seen up the tracks near a crossing after an early morning collision with a CSX freight train on Saturdayin Cayce, South Carolina. Photograph: Logan Cyrus/AFP/Getty Images
Locked track switch blamed in fatal Amtrak crash
  • US
  • February 5, 2018, 07:46

A locked track switch is being blamed for the collision of an Amtrak passenger train with a freight train that killed two people and injured more tha(...)

Ethel McDonagh with Lacey and William on Hoey’s Lane in Dundalk, Co Louth. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
Evicted Travellers still on Dundalk roadside with no water

A group of Traveller families who were evicted from an unofficial site in Dundalk in January, are still living on the side of a road – despite assura(...)

Charleston, South Carolina was declared to be the friendliest place in the world while Sydney finished in second spot just ahead of dear old Dublin
Dublin 3rd most friendly city in the world

In Ireland we like nothing better than being told how friendly we are. It doesn’t matter how many times we see smacked out skobies thieving mobile ph(...)

Caroline Herrera at her career retrospective at the SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion and Film in Atlanta. Photograph: Dustin Chambers/New York Times
Tribute to Caroline Herrera, a fashion icon who at 77 is still turning heads

Carolina Herrera’s fabled life is one that is best captured in pictures. Over the years, the camera has caught her immaculate in tennis whites at her (...)