For more than two months now since the military’s removal of Egypt’s first democratically elected president, widespread demonstrations and protests have destabilised the country, with the army’s clashes with supporters
A directly elected Lord Mayor of Dublin, along with other reforms, could make the capital a more democratic city, writes Paul Dillon
I have recently returned from the Spanish island of La Gomera, one of the smallest of the Canary Islands, where an ancient whistling language that seemed to be dying out is now undergoing a revival.
Mariaam Bhatti: Tales of a Domestic Worker
Know Your Rights with Femi Daniyan
What has been called a civil war in Syria began on 15 March 2011 when the Syrian people, inspired by the wider Middle East protest dubbed the Arab Spring, staged popular demonstrations against the government of Bashar al-Assad.
‘No Irish need apply.’ People still remember how Irish emigrants over the centuries often had to deal with hostility and discrimination when they sought a better life in countries around the world
The time has long come for hare coursing’s end
The recent dispiriting news that no single candidate passed this year’s University of Liberia admission examination, out of some 25.000 who sat the paper, highlights the terrible lasting effects of that country’s brutal
The fixtures for the group stage of the upcoming Fifa U17 World Cup have been announced after the official draw in host country the United Arab Emirates on 26 August.
A student of St Patrick\'s College in Drumcondra has returned home from the 2013 Unified Taekwon-Do Open World Championships with a medal haul.
What Maisie Knew Dir: Scott McGehee & David Siegel
Albertine Sarrazin was more or less forgotten not long after her surprising death from complications with kidney surgery in 1967, aged only 29 and at the height of her fame.
Lumpiang shanghai is an appetiser consisting of ground or minced pork or beef, finely diced onions and carrots and in some cases spices, in a fried pastry roll not unlike a spring roll. Beaten egg is added to hold the mixture together.
The figures are often disputed, depending on which journal or website is your source, but according to data released by the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons in 2011, South Korea has the highest number of cosmetic procedures per capita
Charles Laffiteau\'s Bigger Picture
The only language spoken in Finland alone that is not Finnish is Aanaar Sami, one of the three Sami languages you would hear spoken in Lapland, the Sami country, in northern Finland.