The head of a university governing body has expressed “extreme concern” over a likely shortage of student accommodation next September due to the volume of private rented accommodation being occupied by Ukrainian refugees.
For a party that has become so adept at riding the wave of populism, the British Conservative government is curiously uncomfortable with public demonstration.
Applications for the Irish Times Mary Maher Bursary 2022 are now open. The bursary aims to help students from backgrounds under-represented in the media and who face challenges gaining a journalism degree to pursue a career as a journalist.
The European Parliament has accused Russia of using rape as a weapon of war in Ukraine, and called for the establishment of a special international tribunal to prosecute those responsible.
In a world gripped by volatility, there is something tragically stoic about the inevitability of terrorism; so too the inevitability that the act will dominate the news cycle for a day, maybe two, before dissolving into the ether.
Sa cholún 'Ag Cuimilt Meala' san Irish Times na blianta fada ó shin, dúirt Breandán Ó hEithir go bhfuil "míle poll slogaide, drischasán, agus scraith-ghlogair i saol na hiriseoireachta." B'fhéidir go bhfuil, ach fiú má tá, is le cúnamh foclóra go minic a thagann an t-iriseoir slán as.
A century on, the wheel of Anglo-Irish relations has turned full circle. On this day in 1922 Michael Collins and Éamon de Valera, representing the two sides of the divide in Sinn Féin over the Anglo-Irish Treaty, announced they had agreed an electoral pact.
Derry Girls is such a beloved series Channel 4 has given it not one finale but two. Technically, Lisa McGee's Northern Ireland comedy took its bows on Tuesday night.
Tá torthaí an toghcháin soir ó thuaidh fós á meas agus daoine nach iad, fara daoine gurb ea iad, ag piocadh trí na putóga fad is atá na badhbha lastuas fós ag guairdeall. Gach duine ag giobadh ar na blúiríocha de réir a bhlais féin.
Over the last 12 years, readers have expressed a noisy lack of enthusiasm for this writer's annual report on the Cannesbag. Remember the odd little blue satchel in 2015? Almost certainly not. In 2018 I pointed at the denim bag that came with a baby denim purse.
To the Miramar Cinema for the opening film of International Critics Week. As we were standing in the wrong queue outside, a whoosh of French fighter jets streamed overhead leaving a red, white and blue tricolour in the sky. The colours were conveniently ambiguous. Introducing When You Finish Saving the World, his debut feature, Jesse Eisenberg observed that he too had spotted the flyover while travelling down the Croisette.
