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The Government is currently advising against all travel to and from countries in South America. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA Wire
Covid-19 advice sent by text to 1,511 arrivals from Brazil amid new strain

Text messages in both English and Portuguese have been sent to 1,511 travellers who have arrived in Ireland from Brazil in the past 28 day advising th(...)

A file photograph from 2017 showing then Renault-Nissan Chairman and chief executive Carlos Ghosn as he addresses a press conference in Paris. Photograph: Getty
Carlos Ghosn, Nissan’s ex-head, flees from Japan to Lebanon

Ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn has fled to Lebanon, saying he wouldn’t be “held hostage” by a “rigged” system, raising questions about how one of the(...)

Raphael Duarte: “It’s a delicate situation. We don’t know how to approach the system.” Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
Ireland’s Brazilians: Insulted, punched and robbed ‘while the public looks away’

Upstairs in a pub in central Dublin this week, a group of about 20 people sit around a table having an impassioned, but calm, discussion about a recen(...)

Paloma Aparecida Silva-Carvalho: was refused entry to Ireland when she arrived at Dublin airport’s Terminal 1 on Tuesday, and detained at the Dóchas women’s centre in Mountjoy prison overnight. Photograph: Joe O’Shaughnessy
Brazilians complain of ‘mistreatment’ at Dublin airport

The Brazilian government has complained to authorities about an increasing “number of alleged cases of mistreatment” of Brazilian nationals at Dublin(...)

Mark O’Brien (left) receives the flame during Olympic relay in the city of Volta Redonda, some 130kms from Rio, on Thursday night. Photograph: Ciara Gilvarry
Dublin teen carries Olympic torch ahead of opening ceremony

Dublin teenager Mark O’Brien last night became the only Irish person to take part in the relay bringing the Olympic torch to Rio de Janeiro for the op(...)

Members of the Garda technical team are seen during the examination of an Aer Lingus flight at Cork Airport on which a man (24) died. Photograph: Daragh Mc Sweeney/Provision
Postmortem due on man who died on Aer Lingus flight

Gardaí investigating the death of a 24-year-old man who collapsed on board an Aer Lingus flight are hoping a postmortem on Monday will establish how h(...)