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‘It’s like the Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ – Andrew Porter on his Lions start and why he can’t have white pillow cases

Published: July 24, 2025 21:00

Even in Melbourne where few people pay any heed to rugby union, people know what Andrew Porter does for a living. With his great, hulking frame and cauliflower ears, he’s got prop forward written all over him.

Kate O’Connor smashes Irish heptathlon record to claim World University Games gold in style

Published: July 24, 2025 18:45

It had already been a record-breaking year for Kate O’Connor, but the medals just keep on coming. The 24-year-old added a gold to her glittering CV at the World University Games in Rhine-Ruhr, Germany on Thursday evening, dominating the heptathlon to smash


Landmark ruling against RTÉ as WRC tribunal finds Fair City photographer was not a freelancer

Published: July 24, 2025 18:34

RTÉ has failed to have employment rights claims by the former on-set photographer for Fair City thrown out, after the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) ruled, for the first time, that a supposed freelancer at the national broadcaster was actually an


Company at centre of listeria outbreak appoints former FSAI chief as consumers told not to eat meals affected

Published: July 24, 2025 15:44

Ballymaguire Foods at the centre of a major foods recall due to listeria concerns, said it’s “deeply aware that people have been impacted by consuming its freshly prepared meals,” as the company appoints a public health expert to lead a response.

Team Ineos soigneur David Rozman leaves Tour de France amid 2012 doping questions raised by Sunday Independent

Published: July 24, 2025 15:36

A team soigneur, or carer, for Ineos Grenadiers has left the Tour de France after being asked to speak to the International Testing Agency (ITA) over allegations relating to the 2012 season, the British team said on Thursday.

‘Everyone is in shock’ – Clare community reacts with horror as mother and two children killed in suspected triple murder

Published: July 24, 2025 12:32

A tightknit Clare community has reacted with horror to the news a local mother was killed alongside her two children in a suspected Fermanagh murder-attempted suicide.

Donald Trump was told by US Justice Department that he is in the Epstein files, Wall Street Journal reports

Published: July 24, 2025 06:21

US Attorney General Pam Bondi told President Donald Trump in May that his name appeared in investigative files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.

‘I started looking when I was three months’ pregnant and was told there’s a two-year waiting list’ – counting the true cost of childcare

Published: July 24, 2025 04:30

For parents like Aoife Whelan, a mother-of-two living in Sallins, Co Kildare, Ireland’s childcare crisis begins before their child is even born. “I had to take a full year off for my first baby, as there was no childcare available after my maternity leave


‘My sister does her fake tan religiously every Thursday night’: Irish women on their love of self tan

Published: July 24, 2025 04:30

The long-range forecast for Fiona Brown’s upcoming family summer holiday in France is showing sun and temperatures in the high 20s, but the possibility of coming home with a tan is the furthest thing from her mind – she’s already leaving with one.

Oliver Callan: Why a lovely local Pride has me agreeing with Denis O’Brien on expelling flaky foreign investors

Published: July 24, 2025 04:30

Damn 2025, because this nefarious year has made me agree with Denis O’Brien. It seems like only yesterday that I was reading rage letters from his lawyers about mean things I said about him on the telly. Now he’s talking sense. Mentally high-fiving Big


The Irish Independent’s View: No child should beg for heaven to escape hunger hell in Gaza

Published: July 24, 2025 04:30

At other dark periods in world history, the shutters were pulled down on mass suffering. What makes the starvation of infants and unending carnage among civilians in Gaza so exceptional is that it is being watched through an open window, and still nothing


Donald Trump’s Japanese trade triumph is bad news for Ireland and the rest of Europe

Published: July 24, 2025 04:30

Donald Trump’s trade deal with Japan is a triumph for his tariff agenda. It’s also a victory for his strategy of strong-arming ‘partners’ into bad deals trading on their unwillingness to risk facing into something even worse by rejecting his bruisingly


All Star Niall Gilligan assault case: An uncomfortable tale involving a child in the wrong place and a man let down by rural decay

Published: July 24, 2025 04:30

By all accounts, the jurors did what they were supposed to do. They listened, they weighed up the evidence and they returned the only verdict they reasonably could. The law hadn’t asked them to decide if Niall Gilligan was perfect. It had asked whether his


Aid groups warn Gaza faces famine as Israeli blockade creates ‘chaos, starvation and death’

Published: July 24, 2025 04:30

More than 100 charity and human rights groups said yesterday that Israel’s blockade and continuing military offensive are pushing Palestinians in the Gaza Strip towards starvation, as Israeli strikes killed 21 people overnight, according to local health


Restaurant review: ‘Overall I am disappointed by the food, which simply doesn’t pack as much flavour as it should’

Published: July 24, 2025 04:30

It’s the Galway International Arts Festival, the busiest two weeks of the year in a city never short of an excuse for a pint or a party. Shop Street is thronged with luvvies who haven’t seen each other in a while embracing luvvily, while legions of


Daniel McDonnell: Shelbourne learn the hard way about the big difference in European levels

Published: July 23, 2025 21:27

On the eve of this game, Qarabag manager Gurban Gurbanov was asked if he would be satisfied with a draw that would allow his side to do the serious work back home, a repeat of what happened when they saw off Dundalk in the second leg back in 2019.

Judge rejects Trump administration effort to unseal Epstein grand jury records in Florida

Published: July 23, 2025 20:57

A judge on Wednesday rejected a Trump administration request to unseal transcripts from grand jury investigations of Jeffrey Epstein years ago in Florida, though a similar request for the work of a different grand jury is pending in New York.

EU and US move toward trade deal that could include a 15pc baseline tariff on EU goods with possible exemptions

Published: July 23, 2025 20:23

The European Union and the US are moving toward a trade deal that could include a 15pc US baseline tariff on EU goods and possible exemptions, two European diplomats said on Wednesday, potentially moving president Donald Trump closer to another major trade


ICJ makes landmark opinion that countries must address the ‘urgent’ threat of climate change

Published: July 23, 2025 16:28

The United Nations' highest court on Wednesday said countries must address the "urgent and existential threat" of climate change by cooperating to curb emissions, as it delivered an opinion set to determine future environmental litigation.

Dementia patient visited room of 95-year-old woman 122 times on day of her death, inquest hears

Published: July 23, 2025 15:43

A 95-year-old woman was found dead in a nursing home after aspirating her own vomit with a duvet pulled up over her head in bed - as a second dementia patient was sitting unsupervised in her room after visiting the woman 122 times that day.

Over 100 aid groups call for Israel to stop starving Gazans; UN chief hits out at ‘horror show’ as 80 children die of hunger

Published: July 23, 2025 06:42

More than 100 largely aid and rights groups on Wednesday called for governments to take action as hunger spreads in Gaza, including by demanding an immediate and permanent ceasefire and the lifting of all restrictions on the flow of humanitarian aid.

‘It was meant to help my epilepsy but it destroyed my family’ – parents hope long-awaited inquiry will finally provide answers

Published: July 23, 2025 04:30

Families affected by an anti-epilepsy drug that can cause serious birth defects when used during pregnancy have said they hope a long-awaited inquiry will finally give them answers about “who knew what and when”.

Woman set up Facebook ‘honeytrap’ to snare aunt’s killer from 10,000km away

Published: July 23, 2025 04:30

On July 30, 2014, Lehanne Sergison was out with a friend when a South African number flashed up on her phone. She assumed it must be her aunt, Christine Robinson, who had lived in the country for the past 12 years. Instead, a female voice said: “Lehanne,


Is there an ‘ideal’ number of children? We asked parents of small, medium and large families how they decided how many kids to have

Published: July 23, 2025 04:30

Social care worker Helen Fox (41) was surprised when at the age of 26 she discovered she was pregnant. Growing up, she had always been something of a tomboy and hadn’t considered herself to be particularly maternal. “It [being pregnant] terrified me,” she


‘The 2000s were not very kind to Irish models. Ibiza offered so many more opportunities’ – Rachel Montague on making her home on the party island

Published: July 23, 2025 04:30

Actor/model/dancer — for some, that kind of hyphenate draws an eye-roll. But in today’s entertainment landscape, the rise of the multidisciplinary performer is undeniable. Just look at Cillian Murphy (actor/producer/author), Antonia Campbell-Hughes


Saoirse Hanley: Now even TikTok is trying to sell me things, it feels like consumerism is everywhere – is this a hangover from pandemic habits?

Published: July 23, 2025 04:30

I often worry about who we are as people in the aftermath of Covid-19. So unprecedented was that period in our lives that I don’t think even the best rated fortune teller on Yelp could have predicted who we would be on the other side of a pandemic like it.

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