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New Liffey Street plaza: ‘Madness, What’s the point of all the multi-storey car parks now?’
- People
- September 6, 2019, 12:00
This week, it was announced that a new pedestrian plaza in Dublin had been approved by city councillors. Last year, An Bord Pleanála refused planning (...)

‘Free speech: network Gab a hotbed for far-right rhetoric
- Technology
- September 4, 2019, 17:04
You may or may not have heard of Gab, a social networking site that touts itself as an alternative to Twitter, “champion[ing] free speech, individual (...)

In a world deluged by plastics, a giant factory rises to manufacture more
- Manufacturing
- August 12, 2019, 12:18
The 386-acre property looks like a giant Lego set rising from the banks of the Ohio River. It is one of the largest active construction projects in th(...)

Protests overshadowed Donald Trump’s visit to the cities of Dayton, Ohio and El Paso, Texas on Wednesday as the US president met survivors of two week(...)

Minutes before El Paso shooting anti-immigrant manifesto posted online
- US
- August 4, 2019, 11:19
Nineteen minutes before the first 911 call alerted authorities to a mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, a hate-filled, anti-immigrant manife(...)

David McWilliams: Boris Johnson is like an incompetent kidnapper taking Ireland hostage
- Opinion
- August 3, 2019, 06:00
The Brexit saga has become a bizarre hostage situation: Boris Johnson is the kidnapper, the ransom is the backstop and Ireland is the hostage. Johnson(...)

US to resume federal executions for first time in 16 years
- US
- July 26, 2019, 07:15
The US justice department has said the federal government will resume executing death-row inmates for the first time since 2003. Attorney general Wi(...)

Maureen Dowd: Trump’s Fourth of July plans are far from Yankee Doodle Dandy
- US
- June 10, 2019, 01:49
Halloween is sugary. Thanksgiving is fattening and fraught. Christmas is expensive. New Year’s Eve is annoying. Memorial Day is laced with melancholy.(...)

Anthony O’Reilly bankruptcy decision delayed by judge
- Commercial Property
- May 22, 2019, 05:00
A US bankruptcy judge in Pittsburgh is delaying a decision on a second attempt by retired HJ Heinz chairman and CEO Sir Anthony O’Reilly to have his b(...)

Start-ups kick-start revival in US midwest
- Innovation
- May 16, 2019, 07:45
Imagine it’s closing day on your new home. Early in the morning you get an email from the estate agent saying there has been a slight change of plan, (...)