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Erasmus student Eoin Gormley, pictured at the Jardin du Luxembourg in Paris: “The university experience I have had here so far is in no way comparable to that of previous exchanges.” Photograph: Laurie Maher
‘It is difficult to be 20 in 2020’: studying abroad in lockdown

“C’est dur d’avoir vingt ans en deux mille vingt.” It is difficult to be 20 years old in 2020. Such were the words of Emmanuel Macron on October 14th (...)

Sally Mulread: “The biggest concern is the quarantine. A friend of mine said to me that she wanted to go home and visit family, and I told her how she would have to quarantine for 14 days. She said to me that she only wanted to go for 14 days”. Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi
Irish emigrants in Britain fear they won’t see Irish family members this year

Irish people living in Britain fear they will not be able to see their family in Ireland until 2021 as foreign travel remains a concern even after cor(...)

Rebecca Hoare (74) in Bayswater, London, takes delivery of a new fridge from Matt Wilcock, of Quinn London, which the Irish Elderly Advice Network organised. Photograph: Joanne O’Brien
Coronavirus: London-Irish groups play a vital role

Recently, Rebecca Hoare’s fridge broke. Usually, such a problem would be an annoyance, but no more than that for the 74-year-old Irishwoman living alo(...)

Alice Kennedy ‘worked tirelessly for others in her adoptive city, with the interests of the most vulnerable closest to her heart’.
Alice Kennedy obituary: Tireless worker on behalf of the Irish in London

This article is one of a series about people who have died with coronavirus in Ireland and among the diaspora. Read more at irishtimes.com/covid-19-li(...)

Rozzanne Stevens: “ I’ve sacrificed having the ‘normal’ settled life in exchange for freedom and flexibility.”
‘People think living in two countries is more expensive’ ... Not necessarily

Can you live happily and fully in two cities? For some people, dividing their time between Ireland and a second country affords them the best of both (...)

Jim O’Hara, chair of the Irish Cutural Centre in Hammersmith for 13 years. ‘During the 1970s and 80s it was a difficult time for the Irish community here in Britain. One felt self-conscious reading an Irish newspaper.’ Photograph: Joanne O’Brien
Champion of Irish culture in London bows out after 13 years of service

Walking around the bright and airy Irish Cultural Centre in Hammersmith, Jim O’Hara still holds the strong strains of the accent he brought with him i(...)

Sr Moira Keane, who has been working with Irish prisoners as part of the Irish Chaplaincy, is the 2019 winner of Irish in Britain’s Individual Volunteer award.
Galway nun who helps Irish prisoners in UK wins award

A nun from Co Galway has won an award for her work helping Irish prisoners in the UK. Sr Moira Keane, from the Sisters of Mercy who has been working(...)

John Hume’s wife Pat pictured in the Savoy Cinema in Dublin for the premiere of ‘In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America’ last November. Photograph: Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland
Hume film reminds us of risks taken by Americans during early Troubles

Last Sunday, residents of the small town of Springfield, Massachusetts gathered for a screening of Maurice Fitzpatrick’s In the Name of Peace: John Hu(...)

The Commissioners of Irish Lights said on Thursday that a new rotating lantern on the lighthouse will have the same character as the existing light. Photograph: David Branigan/Oceansport courtesy of Baltimore RNLI
Fastnet lighthouse beam to reduce from next week in spite of appeals

The long sweep of the beam from Ireland’s “teardrop” – west Cork’s Fastnet lighthouse – is due to shorten from Monday, the Irish lighthouse authority (...)

A maritime lawyer has appealed to the Taoiseach and the Irish lighthouse authority to save the original Fastnet lighthouse beam off west Cork. Photograph: David Branigan/Oceansport courtesy of Baltimore RNLI.
Appeal to Taoiseach, lighthouse authority to save Fastnet beam

A maritime lawyer has appealed to the Taoiseach and the Irish lighthouse authority to save the original Fastnet lighthouse beam off west Cork as a “sy(...)

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