Tom Hyland

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Martin Browne with farmers weeding their maize seed production area in East Timor.
Being Irish gave me instant kudos in East Timor
  • Abroad
  • December 22, 2017, 15:00

I first visited East Timor (Timor-Leste) in 2005, as a backpacker embarking on an overland trip back home. Though I spent just over a week in the coun(...)

Max Stahl in Santa Cruz cemetery: one of a few foreign journalists working secretly in the country, he filmed the soldiers shooting, beating, and dragging people away. Photograph: Mary Boland
Footage of a massacre that changed history of Timor-Leste

November 12th, 1991. As day breaks, an eerie quiet hangs over Santa Cruz Cemetery in Dili, East Timor. Among the pretty headstones – some painted whit(...)

The selfless and often lifelong work of Irish missionaries “has been a powerful expression of the vision of the church of the poor”, says President Michael D Higgins. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons
‘Rhetorical gestures’ on poverty not good enough, says President Higgins

JOE HUMPHREYS Governments need to move beyond “rhetorical gestures” and “modest” goals to tackle climate change and poverty, President Michael D Higg(...)

Rian Staunton and his sister, Mei-Ling, look at a display in the Galway Science and Technology Festival Exhibition at NUI Galway. Photograph: Joe O’Shaughnessy
Popcorn codes, superpets, plastic made from milk – it’s the Big Top for boffins

Try drawing a straight line through a mirror, cracking popcorn’s code and learning how to transform milk into plastic. Or taking cognitive tests, com(...)

Joseph P Kennedy III is the only member of the Kennedy family currently holding political office in the US. Photograph: Suzanne Kreiter/Globe
Representing the next generation of the Kennedy clan

H e recalls sitting around the dinner table at his grandmother’s house listening to his aunts and uncles and older cousins debate the issues of(...)