Ramaphosa stays calm with golf diplomacy in face of Trump’s latest Oval Office ambush Blatant piece of theatre was designed to thrill the Maga heartland and fuel the wildest paranoias of what could happen in open-borders USAThu May 22 2025 - 07:13
Donald Trump pressures Republicans to back his ‘big, beautiful’ tax Bill Hardline Republicans demand deeper cuts to Medicaid and other social security programmesWed May 21 2025 - 11:09
Donegal man to be deported from US following driving charge after more than 15 years in BostonMan (40) with American-born children has been living undocumented after overstaying visa waiverTue May 20 2025 - 19:02
Trump suggests Vatican could host ‘immediate’ Russia and Ukraine peace talks following his two-hour call with PutinBut Russian leader more circumspect on state television about his conversation with US presidentMon May 19 2025 - 22:14
Joe Biden’s reputation was ruined in the morning, revived in the afternoon. It won’t lastNews of Biden‘s cancer diagnosis brings temporary civility amid fallout from new book on Democrats’ inaction over his cognitive decline Mon May 19 2025 - 07:25
Donald Trump moves from Middle East opulence to spectre of empty supermarket shelves in USGrowing disquiet over tariffs forcing up prices could lead to hard landing for his acceptance of Qatar’s gift of a $400m jetFri May 16 2025 - 13:52
Teenager charged with Kansas City murder of Irish chef Shaun Brady to stand juvenile trial Defendant, who was 15 when charged, will face trial in SeptemberThu May 15 2025 - 06:26
A ‘very nice gesture’: Trump accepts gift of new Air Force One plane from Qatar The US president said the ‘contribution’ from the Qatari royal family was a ‘very nice gesture’ as Democrats decry acceptance of $400m giftMon May 12 2025 - 19:24
Did Trump suggest reopening Alcatraz after watching the film last Sunday morning?The president’s suggestion to reopen the island prison-turned-museum just serves to move attention away from the issues that matterSat May 10 2025 - 05:00
Trump basks in ‘end of the beginning’ of new US-UK trade arrangementFramework will open UK market up to US meat products, including poultryThu May 08 2025 - 17:55
Cliona Ward, Irish woman held in US detention centre after family visit, releasedIrish woman was detained after returning to San Francisco following a visit to see her ill father in Co CorkThu May 08 2025 - 11:17
Irish woman detained in US after family visit to Ireland due in court Cliona Ward, who has been living legally in the US for decades, will appear in Seattle court on Wednesday morningWed May 07 2025 - 07:54
US-Canada relationship no clearer as Mark Carney stands ground through Trump’s latest Oval Office blitzUS president intransigent on tariffs and still keen on Canada becoming 51st stateTue May 06 2025 - 20:39
Mark Carney’s meeting with Trump will stress-test US-Canada friendship‘We don’t want their cars. We don’t even want their energy,’ Trump says before Tuesday’s meeting with Canada’s new prime ministerMon May 05 2025 - 22:20
Kamala Harris’s speech of condemnation and Trump’s of braggadocio underscore where US is at after first 100 days One speech of condemnation and another full of braggadocio underscore where US is at after president’s first 100 daysSat May 03 2025 - 05:00
Deportation anxiety in Irish America: ‘I would have a clean slate before travelling’Amid the ongoing harrowing experience of Cork-born Cliona Ward, Irish-American leaders are urging extra caution on people planning on leaving the country temporarilyFri May 02 2025 - 11:20
Ireland ‘out of step’ with United States on Israel, US ambassador nominee is toldEdward Walsh, who is Trump’s pick to be envoy to Dublin, pledges to build on relations between America and IrelandThu May 01 2025 - 19:26
Keith Duggan: Trump marks 100 days in power with speech designed to leave fact-checkers with migraineUS president tells country to ignore the doubters and negative pollsWed Apr 30 2025 - 06:54
Donald Trump’s approval rating in the US is way down, and no one knows what he’s going to do next As he reaches the 100th day of his second term, President Trump can point to few policy successesTue Apr 29 2025 - 05:00
Justine Bateman: ‘This election was a tipping point for the woke mob mentality’The film-maker and author, who starred in Family Ties with Michael J Fox in the 1980s, has strong views on plastic surgery, ‘woke’ culture and HollywoodSun Apr 27 2025 - 05:45
‘Harvard people’ squaring up for battle royale with White House over politics, power and privilegeTrump is threatening to withdraw billions in funding from the ivy league college, but can Harvard withstand this attack on its status?Sat Apr 26 2025 - 05:00
Wrongly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia caught up in one of US’s key ideological flashpointsMistakenly deported to his native El Salvador, Abrego Garcia remains in prison while Republicans and Democrats argue over what the case says about where the US is going under Donald TrumpFri Apr 25 2025 - 16:00
Kneecap say they have received ‘hundreds of violent threats’ over Coachella performanceSharon Osbourne and Fox News respond as Kneecap spark controversy at Coachella with anti-Israel messageWed Apr 23 2025 - 18:59
Trump’s Easter message showcases his easy way with denouncing ‘radical left lunatics’ Message on Truth Social network laden with White House preoccupations in looking to fend off criticism of deportation policyMon Apr 21 2025 - 20:03
Thirty years after Oklahoma bombing, Bill Clinton draws parallel with polarisation of US todayFormer president contrasts city’s ‘service, honour and kindness’ with current political unrestSun Apr 20 2025 - 13:00
‘I am sure there are other McVeighs out there’: Voices from Oklahoma City three decades after devastating attackSurvivors reflect on how the biggest domestic terror attack in US history affected them and their city Sun Apr 20 2025 - 06:00
Thunder enlightens Oklahoma as basketball brings wind of changeHoop dreams have transformed a moribund downtown into something more vibrantSat Apr 19 2025 - 05:00
Trump’s power plays starting to unsettle Pennsylvania votersDonald Trump is ‘winging everything. And the whole thing is: us consumers are going to pay. It is coming to us, as Americans’Sun Apr 13 2025 - 18:01
Dazzling tragedy of The Great Gatsby still stalks the American imaginationAmerica Letter: F Scott Fitzgerald’s novel continues to stir up questions about the American dream on its 100th anniversarySat Apr 12 2025 - 05:00
Market manipulation concerns grow following Trump’s tariff u-turn Democrat Alexandra Ocasio Cortez advises members of Congress to declare any stock moves Fri Apr 11 2025 - 14:33
Trump’s U-turn on tariffs fails to reassure markets and trading partnersUS president cuts tariffs on all countries to 10 per cent for 90 days – except for China, which has been hit with 125 per cent tariffs immediatelyWed Apr 09 2025 - 22:11
Accused in shooting of Irish chef Shaun Brady in Kansas should not be tried as adult, father arguesBoy (15) is accused of killing Tipperary restaurateur outside Brady and Fox restaurant in August 2024Wed Apr 09 2025 - 18:45
US tariffs: Harris to push for solution to trade war in crunch meeting with Trump’s commerce secretaryTánaiste in Washington for key meeting with Howard Lutnick, who labelled Irish corporate regime as his ‘favourite’ tax scamWed Apr 09 2025 - 00:01
‘Nobody but me would do this’: Donald Trump cares nothing for the doomsayersIt is impossible to imagine any other American president having the chutzpah to brazen out what represents a deliberate policy capable of foisting a recessionTue Apr 08 2025 - 06:52
‘It makes me sick’: Mass anti-Trump protests in US cities see Americans express their fear and loathingSaturday sees first true attempt at a national protest voice against Trump since the US president’s electionSun Apr 06 2025 - 07:47
Joe Biden may be best to let sleeping dogs lie as new books lifts lid on his final days in officeWith the former president said to be working on a memoir, two new books offer damning details of the fragmentation of faith in him before last November’s US electionSat Apr 05 2025 - 05:00
Trump tariffs: On Wednesday, it was liberation. On Thursday, golf‘Liberation Day’: The fallout from Trump’s scorched earth economic protectionist policyThu Apr 03 2025 - 20:03
Donald Trump is nothing if not a showman but his instincts deserted him on ‘Liberation Day’Trump tariffs: World saw familiar Trumpian concoction of threat, uncertainty, imminent chaos - and a sad little chartThu Apr 03 2025 - 06:34
‘Liberation Day’: Ireland and EU braced as Trump to impose tariff measures todayUS president’s spokeswoman says levies could be implemented immediatelyWed Apr 02 2025 - 09:59
Wisconsin election gives Democrats glimmer of hope as Trump tariff decision loomsParty emerges from relentlessly dark winter with poll win and voter snub of Elon Musk’s interferenceWed Apr 02 2025 - 06:36
Ireland fears EU response to US tariffs could hit tech sectorEuropean Commission preparing a range of responses to Donald Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ announcementWed Apr 02 2025 - 06:00
Coy Donald Trump ‘not joking’ about third term: ‘There are methods’ US president warns tariffs will be applied to ‘a lot of countries’ rather than to smaller groupMon Mar 31 2025 - 06:39
It took about 40 seconds for US immigration officers to lift the Turkish student off the streets of BostonShe is one of at least 300 students whose visas were revoked, but we only know of her story because it was recordedSat Mar 29 2025 - 05:00
Donald Trump says Irish pharma sector among next targets as he announces 25% tariffs on car importsUS president singles out pharma sector critical to Irish economy as a target for similar tariffs in coming weeksWed Mar 26 2025 - 22:29
Pete Hegseth faces growing pressure to resign over texted plans for Yemen attackWhite House argues latest texts released by the Atlantic prove nothing classified was shared in Signal group chatWed Mar 26 2025 - 21:32
Trump downplays unprecedented self-inflicted US security breach as ‘the only glitch in two months’ Washington political circles struggle to absorb staggering blunder by senior cabinet membersWed Mar 26 2025 - 06:00
Self-inflicted security breach by Trump officials opens up line of attack for DemocratsClaim by director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard made to look absurd during gruelling hearingTue Mar 25 2025 - 19:32
‘Pete Hegseth texted me the war plan’: How top US officials shared military strike details in group chat with journalist‘Genuinely shocking’: National security lapse presents a perfect snapshot of the fears over defence secretary Hegseth’s suitabilityTue Mar 25 2025 - 07:37
Trump’s bizarre televised tour of the Oval Office reflects larger question about direction of USAmerican Diary: Trump regularly invokes George Washington as he keeps one eye on posterity while simultaneously silencing The Voice of AmericaSat Mar 22 2025 - 06:00
Irish-based surgeon loses four family members in Israeli air strike on GazaSister and newborn grandniece of Navan-based Dr Mahmoud Abumarzouq left fighting for lives after attack south of RafahTue Mar 18 2025 - 18:39
