Do you consider yourself a slow reader? Feeling embarrassed when you receive an overdue notice from your favourite local library? Not to worry, it can always be worse. According to Jason McElligott, the Marsh’s Library keeper in Dublin, only nine…
Photo: Andrew Kelly/REUTERS A man drove a rented pickup truck onto a busy bike path in Manhattan on Tuesday (October 31st), killing eight people and injuring 11. According to officials six of them died at the local and two others…
The Spanish Government has moved to hold a cabinet meeting on Saturday, October 21 to process the enforcement of direct control over Catalonia after the region’s president refused to abandon the push for independence. The announcement from Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy…
Hurricane Ophelia has hit Ireland. It is one of the worst storms in more than 50 years that Ireland has faced. It is the most powerful storm this far east of the US on record. Only 15 hurricanes have passed…
Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson win the 2017 Nobel prize in chemistry. They developed a technique called cryo-electron microscopy, which simplifies the process for looking at the machinery of life. Announcement of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017:…
Oficially opened by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald, the new office at Wilton Place cost ¢85 million and is the company’s first purpose-built building outside of the US. The building has 17.650 sq metres, and was built to…
After devasting part of the Caribean causing at least 25 deaths, Hurricane Irma reached Florida with winds up to 120km/h, and is considerated to be one of the most powerful storms ever recorded in the Atlantic. When Irma crashed into…
Today Copenhagen police declared that a torso found this week in local waters was that of Kim Wall, a Swedish freelance journalist whose disappearance after boarding a Danish inventor’s submarine has shocked many Scandinavians and drawn interest from around the…
An earthquake hit the tourist-packed Italian holiday island of Ischia on Monday night, collapsing buildings, killing at least two people and injuring dozens, officials said. Residents and tourists on the island off the coast of Naples ran out onto the…
An Irish family of four has been caught up in the terror attack in Barcelona that left 13 dead. Two of the family – parents originally from the Philippines who are naturalised Irish and their Irish-born children – were injured…