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Businessman Denis O’Brien has criticised Facebook for its tax practices and claims the social media giant ‘facilitates anarchy’. Photograph: Getty Images
Ireland has become Facebook’s ‘launderette’ for tax avoidance, Denis O’Brien claims

Ireland has become Facebook’s “launderette for the biggest tax avoidance scheme in the world,” businessman Denis O’Brien has claimed. The relationshi(...)

Every Facebook user in Ireland will receive alerts when children go missing in extreme emergencies. File photograph: Eric Gaillard/Reuters
Facebook users to get alerts in emergency missing-child cases

Every Facebook user in Ireland will receive an alert to their accounts when children go missing in extreme emergency situations. The move follows an (...)

Mary Aiken: “I get very worried when I see convictions based on cell tower pings.” Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
Justice system threatened by technology, warn experts

The legal system needs to “factor in” the potential for the cyber staging of evidence, according to a cyberpsychology expert. “I get very worried whe(...)

Facebook: The social media giant banned all foreign-financed and sourced ads relating to the referendum on Tuesday. Photograph: Reuters/Dado Ruvic
Facebook will not extend ban to all ads relating to referendum

Facebook has said that it does not intend to follow the lead of Google and ban all ads relating to the abortion referendum. Responding to questions f(...)

The cartoon at the centre of the controversy appeared in The West Australian newspaper earlier this week. Photograph: Irish People Living In Australia
Leprechaun cartoon was ‘irreverent and a bit of fun’

The editor of an Australian newspaper has responded to complaints over a cartoon portraying Irish nurses and a leprechaun saying he was “struggling to(...)