Michael Kirby
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Gannet population continues to thrive despite human threat to its numbers
- Environment
- July 25, 2020, 06:00
Someone has pocketed my lovely gannet’s skull – well, probably not, but it seems to have disappeared from the years-old jumble of tideline ossuary on (...)

North Korean rights abuses likely to be ignored at summit
- Asia-Pacific
- June 7, 2018, 17:46
Lee Cheol cannot remember how many times he was forced to gather with his fellow soldiers at an airfield outside Pyongyang in North Korea and watch as(...)

Clare duo topple 11-time champions with razor-sharp moves
- Gaelic Games
- April 8, 2018, 18:21
There is a new name on the All-Ireland 40x20 Senior Doubles trophy after Clare’s Diarmaid Nash and Colin Crehan sensationally toppled 11-time champion(...)

UN Security Council imposes new sanctions on North Korea
- US
- December 22, 2017, 19:33
The UN Security Council on Friday unanimously imposed new sanctions on North Korea following its latest intercontinental ballistic missile test, a mov(...)

Australia revisits a chapter when gangs killed gay men for sport
- Asia-Pacific
- January 31, 2017, 13:24
On a December day in 1988, a teenager on a spearfishing expedition found a body at the bottom of one of the wild, honey-coloured sandstone cliffs tha(...)

A Canadian novel about Kerry’s ‘mythic’ Rás Tailteann in the 1950s
- Books
- July 6, 2015, 01:00
Jane Urquhart is indisputably a Canadian novelist. She was born in Ontario. She shares an editor with Margaret Atwood and Michael Ondaatje. She has(...)
North Korea’s crimes against humanity
- Asia-Pacific
- February 19, 2014, 01:01
The number of political prisoners in North Korea’s concentration camps, known as kwanliso , (...)

UN reports appalling human rights abuses in North Korea
- Asia-Pacific
- February 17, 2014, 17:09
North Korea’s leadership is committing systematic and appalling human rights abuses against its own citizens on a scale unparalleled in the mod(...)