Metro Ã‰ireann

Egypt brings a dark day for media freedom

Last update: 11:24 | 01.07.14 | © Metro Éireann

Egypt’s sentencing of several Al Jazeera journalists to lengthy prison terms for ‘spreading false news’ has been strongly condemned by the international community.

World Cup shocks show need for radical change at home

Last update: 11:21 | 01.07.14 | © Metro Éireann

No sooner did the whistle blow to end the England-Uruguay match than the red tops where sniping from the sidelines about the lack of English players competing in the English Premier League.

Photo contest gives thanks to Irish-Polish friendship

Last update: 11:03 | 01.07.14 | © Metro Éireann

Forum Polonia is celebrating 10 years of Poland in the European Union with a photography competition under the theme of Irish-Polish friendship.

Report says 32,000 set up new businesses in 2013

Last update: 10:57 | 01.07.14 | © Metro Éireann

Some 32,000 people started a new business in Ireland in 2013, according to a new report on entrepreneurship worldwide.

Turkish Airlines adds Benin to African routes

Last update: 10:40 | 01.07.14 | © Metro Éireann

Turkish Airlines has launched its latest African destination with a route to Benin.

Ireland sends vital supplies to refugees fleeing turmoil in Central African Republic

Last update: 10:39 | 01.07.14 | © Metro Éireann

Ireland is providing tents, blankets and other vital supplies to assist refugees in Cameroon who have fled the violence in the Central African Republic.

â€˜New Irishâ€™ welcome in Defence Forces

Last update: 03:23 | 15.03.14 | © Metro Éireann

Minister Shatter tells Ireland’s freshest citizens: ‘Your new country needs you’

Womenâ€™s Day event spreads message that immigrant women must get involved

Last update: 03:23 | 15.03.14 | © Metro Éireann

At the end of 2013, Adaku Ezueda took a group of migrant women on a trip around Leinster House. “Somebody said she didn’t even know what ‘Taoiseach’ is, or who it is,” the i-Smile International founder recalls. “It is

â€˜No loan is too smallâ€™ as credit union pitches for business among Dublin 15â€™s migrant communities

Last update: 03:23 | 15.03.14 | © Metro Éireann

A credit union at the heart of one of Dublin’s most diverse postcodes is reaching out to immigrant residents, offering access financial services that they might be denied elsewhere.

Retrace St Patrickâ€™s footsteps in Skerries

Last update: 03:22 | 15.03.14 | © Metro Éireann

Skerries in north Co Dublin is celebrating its unique history with Ireland’s patron saint by inviting the public to retrace St Patrick’s steps in the town 1,500 years ago.

NGOs battle perception of unequal pay for equal work

Last update: 03:22 | 15.03.14 | © Metro Éireann

Development sector is subject to global market demands, say insiders

Recipe by Meredith Hicks

Last update: 03:19 | 15.03.14 | © Metro Éireann

Mere’s cherry carrot muffins

Book Review by Roslyn Fuller

Last update: 03:18 | 15.03.14 | © Metro Éireann

Purple Hibiscus By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Fourth Estate)

Film Review by Grace Wilson

12 Years a SlaveDir: Steve McQueen

Letâ€™s play camogie!

The Camogie Assoc-iation has launched a new initiative for parents and their teenage daughters to get into the sport via their local clubs.

Syriaâ€™s children must not be abandoned

The United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) has said that the number of Syrian children who require help because of the on-going crisis in their country has more than doubled in the last 12 months to 5.5 million.

New animal welfare law â€˜protects blood sportsâ€™

The new animal welfare legislation that has just come into effect has some glaring anomalies.

Clintonâ€™s legacy is not so saintly

Mohammed Samaana

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