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.
THE TIME HAS come when people across Ireland begin to drag their barbecue out of the shed and dust off their patio furniture.
While the weather hasn’t been too great up to now, Met Éireann says temperatures could get up to 18 degrees later on in the week and throughout the weekend.
So with clear skies and sun on the way, what else would you be doing but getting your family and friends around for a few grilled burgers and veggie kebabs?
Today we want to know: Have you attempted a barbecue so far this year?
Some sun with a couple of showers
Max: 16 °C
Min: 9 °C
Clouds breaking, a shower
Max: 16 °C
Min: 10 °C
Mostly cloudy with a couple of showers
Max: 17 °C
Min: 7 °C
