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Mies van der Rohe prize: My time on the road as a judge visiting the finalists
- Art & Design
- May 4, 2019, 05:00
If there’s a recurrent theme in this year’s Mies van der Rohe European Prize for Contemporary Architecture, it is surely imaginative renovation and tr(...)

Church and state divided: Ireland must learn from Britain's Catholic experience
- Opinion
- March 26, 2019, 01:00
The decisive vote last May to remove article 40.3.3 banning abortion from Bunreacht na hÉireann has generally come to be seen as dramatically underlin(...)

Cyclone Idai: Those who do least to cause climate change suffer the most
- Africa
- March 23, 2019, 06:00
Cyclone Idai emerged out of the Indian Ocean. It hit land over Mozambique, and from there caused destruction over vast areas as it tracked over neigh(...)

Bishops' Conference to divest from fossil fuels in line with papal pledge
- Irish News
- August 24, 2018, 10:22
The Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference is to divest from fossil fuels in keeping with a global pledge by Pope Francis in order to combat climate chang(...)

Migrants not welcome in Menton as French force them back to Italy
- Europe
- June 23, 2018, 05:00
Menton Garavan is a classic French railway station: two storeys covered in ivy, green shutters and a blue, white and red French tricolour flying on th(...)

What will I miss about Ireland back home in Kenya? Flahavan’s porridge, Barry’s tea
- People
- February 28, 2018, 06:00
When Caroline Munyi was six-years-old she was among the first group of children in Kenya to take part in a fostering project with a family i(...)

Germany’s ambiguous abortion laws rankle with all sides
- Europe
- February 5, 2018, 01:00
It’s almost 20 years ago, but Annika* remembers her abortion clearly. It was 1999, she had just moved from Zürich to Berlin with her two children afte(...)

Vienna New Year’s baby greeted with stream of online hate
- Europe
- January 5, 2018, 09:36
Within hours of her birth, 47 minutes into 2018, little Asel had attracted the attention of her home city, Vienna, as the Austrian capital’s “New Year(...)

Presentation Sisters go green as part of move against fossil fuels
- Religion & Beliefs
- November 17, 2017, 17:44
The Presentation Sisters are among the first Catholic institutions in the world to announce their divestment from fossil fuels. They are involved in(...)

Why is a valuable alternative to the Leaving Cert being neglected?
- Education
- June 13, 2017, 16:43
The Leaving Cert is regularly criticised for its pressure cooker-style final exams and rote-learning. Wouldn’t it be better if there was a more pract(...)