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Fireworks explode over empty streets as 2020 slinks away into history
- World
- December 31, 2020
Fireworks soared into the sky above the Sydney Opera House, but the harbour below was a deserted ghost town, a fittingly creepy send-off for a year th(...)

Successor to Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin announced
- Religion & Beliefs
- December 29, 2020, 11:57
The new Catholic Archbishop of Dublin is to be current Bishop of Ossory Dermot Farrell (66). A former president of St Patrick’s College Maynooth, he (...)

Argentina on the cusp of legalising abortion, a rarity in Latin America
- World
- December 27, 2020, 19:00
The Senate in Argentina will on Tuesday debate a Bill that, if it passes into law, would make the country by far the largest in Latin America to legal(...)

Journalist Donal Musgrave (78) dies after long illness
- Social Affairs
- December 27, 2020, 17:01
Journalist Donal Musgrave has died in Cork following a long illness. A former chief leader writer and news editor at the Examiner newspaper, and prev(...)
Holly at Christmas
- Letters
- December 26, 2020, 00:06
Sir, – While Conor Pope (“Why we celebrate Christmas on the 25th, eat mince pies and put up trees”, Pricewatch, December 14th) is correct to identify (...)

To the atheist Sartre: Thank you for this vivid incarnation of Jesus
- Opinion
- December 22, 2020, 06:00
The French existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, one of the most famous atheists of the 20th century, left his unbelief aside – at least tempor(...)

In the bleak midwinter? An Irishman’s Diary on the date of the Nativity
- Opinion
- December 21, 2020, 19:25
The Christmas story has always been impervious to anything as inconvenient of the facts of what actually happened. For millennia biblical scholars hav(...)

Irish priest pepper-sprayed during break-in at Pontifical Irish College in Rome
- Crime & Law
- December 11, 2020, 19:05
A senior member of the Pontifical Irish College in Rome was pepper-sprayed after encountering intruders during a break-in recently, it has emerged, A(...)

Italy charges Egyptian security agency officials over murder of doctoral student
- Europe
- December 10, 2020, 18:21
Prosecutors in Italy have charged four members of Egypt’s national security agency over the kidnapping and murder of the Italian doctoral student Giul(...)

Rights agency head calls for greater appreciation of Traveller culture
- Social Affairs
- December 7, 2020, 15:21
The situation of Travellers is “not the fault” of the community, but “the fault of all of us in the settled community” one of the EU’s most senior hum(...)