Thousands dead, countless injured by ‘world’s strongest tropical cyclone’
A top chaplain of the Dublin archdiocese has told African Catholic women in Ireland to “share and be enriched with different forms of expression of our faith and spirituality as Catholics and Africans in the diaspora”.
By Lois Kapila
Minister for Justice Alan Shatter joined Dublin Lord Mayor Oisín Quinn and Dublin City Council officials on 4 November for the launch of a citywide campaign to encourage people to register to vote before a deadline later this month.
Polish activists are calling on Ireland’s largest minority to make sure they register to vote for next summer’s local elections.
Meredith Hicks examines the benefits and pitfalls of internships that are bringing more young people from abroad to Ireland in search of new opportunities...
Student teacher Aisling McNeill describes her two-month summer work placement in Uganda as ‘both a life-changing and life-challenging experience’. The St Patrick’s College undergrad tells Metro Éireann how her stay in the eastern African
The Sligo Rural Transport Programme and Bus Éireann have joined the Sligo Family Resource Centre in a new drive to support the reporting of racist incidents in the northwest county. Buses in the region are currently displaying a campaign poster
Go dtí le déanaí bhí mé i mo cholúnaí Idirlín san Fhionlainn agus mé ag tarraingt na mílte léitheoirí chuig an láithreán gréasáin ar a mbíodh
Hailing from Bray in Co Wicklow, fashion designer Jacinta Pritchard specialises in made-to-measure, day-to-evening occasional wear for women. All her designs are individually produced and tailored to the client’s requirements. She is also a pattern drafter
While I’ve worked with numerous talented makeup artists in my experience as an international fashion model, some of these artists often lack cross-cultural understanding when it comes to black or dark skin.
Hot on the heels of America’s latest brush with defaulting on its debt, a war is being waged between pragmatic Republican business leaders and anti-government Tea Party ideologues for the soul of the Republican Party.
After four years living in South Korea, very little of the country’s identity really shocks me anymore. There are utterly maddening stories but nothing – unlike in my first two years – that hits you like a train of cultural importance.
Brazo de Mercedes is a type of rolled cake, like a Swiss roll, from a sheet of soft meringue with a custard filling.
Book Review by Jeanette Rehnstrom
Cork golden boy and world walking champion Robert Heffernan should face more than the wrath of social media for a recent offensive tweet he wrote after the removal of two Roma children from their families, anti-racism groups have said.
Nigeria’s under-17s are the toast of the globe after putting three past Mexico youth side on Friday 8 November to win the 15th edition of the Fifa U-17 World Cup.
Concerns over Sri Lanka’s human rights record recently came to the fore when Canada and India took separate decisions to boycott the Commonwealth summit in the country’s capital Colombo. Their protests against alleged human rights abuses in