Mario Vargas Llosa
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Maradooo! A preternaturally gifted artist and a rebel outsider
- Soccer
- November 28, 2020, 07:00
With the death this week of Diego Armando Maradona from a heart attack the most extraordinary Argentine life of them all has come to a close. Buenos (...)

End of an era in Mexico as political dinosaurs face electoral wipeout
- World
- June 28, 2018, 15:33
Like the Chicxulub asteroid that smashed into the country 66 million years ago and wiped out the dinosaurs, Andrés Manuel López Obrador and his Morena(...)

Opposition to Catalan independence grows
- Europe
- October 8, 2017, 21:33
Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of Barcelona on Sunday to voice opposition to the Catalan government’s plans to issue a unilateral(...)

Exhuming Roger Casement by TV drama
- Film
- August 12, 2017, 06:00
A century after his execution for high treason, a version of Roger Casement remains buried, not in Pentonville prison or Glasnevin Cemetery, but in Ma(...)

Celebration of Roger Casement symbolises Ireland’s relationship with Peru, says Higgins
- Irish News
- February 10, 2017, 07:14
President Michael D Higgins said he hoped a shared celebration of Roger Casement’s contribution to human rights would become a basis for renewed relat(...)

Guildford Four lawyer Gareth Peirce gets Irish honour
- Irish News
- December 3, 2015, 21:50
British solicitor and human rights activist Gareth Peirce is among 10 people who have received the Presidential Distinguished Service Award. Ms Pei(...)

Spanish parties tainted by corruption face vengeful electorate
- Europe
- May 23, 2015, 01:00
“There have been too many cases of people being corrupted,” says Esperanza Aguirre, the Popular Party (PP) candidate for mayor of Madrid in tomorrow’s(...)

The Discreet Hero, by Mario Vargas Llosa: a crudely macho romp
- Books
- March 28, 2015, 01:00
There is nothing discreet about this leisurely, burlesque and ultimately polemical jaunt about greed, corruption and the sundry nasty stuff with which(...)

A tough brief: selecting the first Laureate for Irish Fiction
- Books
- January 26, 2015, 06:40
‘We want a writer who will be a vehicle for the word,” says poet Paul Muldoon, chair of the selection panel for the Laureate for Irish Fiction, who(...)

Pressure on Catalans and Spain government to end standoff
- Europe
- July 23, 2014, 01:00
With a contentious Catalan referendum on independence from Spain slated to take place in less than four months, pressure is building on the region’(...)