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Last month May 2025
Kneecap: What's the terror charge 'Mo Chara' is facing, what's the defence and the sentence?
Liam Ă“g Ă“ hAnnaidh, who uses the stage name Mo Chara, is due in court in London in a month’s time.
Minister wants to 'secure our borders' as 39 people deported to Georgia on chartered flight
Justice Minister Jim O’Callaghan said that further ‘enforced removal’ operations will take place this year.
April April 2025
'The biggest f*****g disaster': Canada votes today in an election dominated by the Oval Office
The election of President Donald Trump in the United States upended the general election.
Vatican publishes photos of Pope Francis in open coffin as funeral confirmed for Saturday morning
The images were taken in the chapel of the Casa Santa Marta, Francis’s residence at the Vatican where he died.
Mark Carney has re-energised Canada's Liberals and tonight faces his main rival in a TV debate
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre looked set to lead his party back to power but Trump’s win changed everything.
Trade war u-turn: Why did Trump blink first?
It’s been a hell of a week and 24 hours.
February February 2025
Police 'keeping everything on the table' in deaths of Gene Hackman and wife Betsy Arakawa
- The Santa Fe County Sheriff confirmed the news just after midnight local time (7am Irish time).
- Local media has reported that the couple's dog was also found deceased.
- A prolific star of some of Hollywood's best-known films, Hackman won two Oscars in his career before retiring in 2004.
Amazon wrestles creative control of James Bond from Broccoli family after 25 films
The Broccoli family have produced every Bond film since Dr. No in 1962.
Another fine mess? How did the Arts Council spend €6.7m on a failed IT project
Who knew, what and when?
EU and UK demand to be part of Ukraine peace talks as Trump shocks world with Putin phone call
- The US president said he and Putin had agreed to "work together very closely".
- Trump later called Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who was not included on the call with Putin.
- In an evening address to his nation, Zelenskyy said the call with Trump was "very substantive".
This year 2025
Last year 2024
Donald Trump is the next US president
Trump’s projected win is one of the most unlikely turnarounds in political history.
- Brian Stanley TD said earlier that he'd asked the party to refer a complaint relating to an internal inquiry involving him to gardaĂ last month, but it didn't.
- Taoiseach Simon Harris said the respective statements from McDonald and Stanley today has "resulted in more questions than answers".
Something for everyone in the audience? The key points from Budget 2025
Finance Minister Jack Chambers has confirmed a range of measures.
Give it away, now: From tax cuts to SSIAs, some of the biggest giveaway budgets of the past
Can Jack Chambers keep up with these lads?
'I'm just so proud': Tears and togetherness as Ireland's relay team reflect on Olympic heartache
The team finished the race in fourth with a time of 3:19.90, a new national record.
Kellie Harrington will box for another Olympic gold medal after winning her semi-final in Paris
Harrington was already guaranteed to be the first Irish woman to medal at two Olympic Games.
8,000 calories and about 500 lengths: What does a day look like for Olympic champ Daniel Wiffen
Wiffen is Ireland’s newest Olympic champion and has his sights set on more gold.
Ireland wins rowing bronze as Daire Lynch and Philip Doyle take battling medal on the water
- The Irish pair came in behind the Romanian boat, which took the gold, and the Netherlands, which took the silver.
- Team Ireland will be hoping for more rowing medals, with two finals to come tomorrow.