Malala Yousafzai is to receive the Tipperary International Peace Prize in honour of her campaign work to ensure girls’ access to education across the developing world.
Fighting each other will get us nowhere – Ireland needs to have a genuinely respectful and mature debate about this serious issue, writes Laura Larkin.
Irish peace groups have outlined the “aviation, human rights, and international humanitarian law” which are being violated by the use of the airport by foreign military.
Those arrested – aged between 17 and 25 – are suspected of planning cyber-attacks against several South American and European institutions. Interpol’s website went down following news of the arrests.
More than 50 groups, TDs, academics and NGOs have today called on the government to legislate for the right to abortion in Ireland when a woman’s life is in danger.
The country’s largest trade union said that the €100 household charge penalises low and middle income families and called on the government to suspend it.
Such is the obscurity around NAMA’s operations that protesters are forced to commit acts of civil disobedience just to uncover the paper trail, writes Conor McCabe.
HALLOWEEN IS ALMOST upon us and to get in the spooky mood the Bram Stoker Festival is set to announce its programme of events tomorrow.
The festival will take place at the end of the month from 28-31 October in Dublin.
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It takes its name from the author of the famed horror novel Dracula who was a Dublin resident.
The festival honouring the story of the undead bloodsuckers went into hibernation during Covid-19 but it is now rising from the crypt for a fresh outing.
With all that in mind we want to know today: Have you read Bram Stoker’s Dracula?
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