Zombie students: Queues outside libraries before 7am as pressure grows

High rents and higher expectations impact on today’s third-level students

Sports books of 2018: The best, the rest and all in between

Malachy Clerkin looks at some of the volumes taking up the sports sections this year

‘There is a tsunami of third-level students with mental health problems’

Demand for counselling in colleges has jumped 40% in the past decade

Matteo Renzi facing ‘Brexit’ moment as Italy votes on reform

Some fear Renzi’s plan could move the country closer to an effective oligarchy

Italy’s president responds to US ambassador comments over vote

Sergio Mattarel moves to play down concerns over US interfering in Italy’s internal politics

David Bowie and the missing soundtrack for The Man Who Fell to Earth

Star Bowie would have been the obvious choice to soundtrack Nic Roeg’s 1976 sci-fi classic, but unfortunately he was deep into his cocaine and milk phase...

Reissue of the week: The Man Who Fell to Earth OST - still an oddity four decades on

Italy summons ambassador after reports US spied on Berlusconi

Intelligence services said to have tapped phones of ex-prime minister and his aides