Soldiers from the Royal Irish Rangers taking a rest during the Battle of the Somme, 1916 The British army lost over 700,000 men in Europe’s trench warfare. And there was no escape from the Western ...

Judgment Day coming for AI algorithms, as shown by two recent reports By Michael Smith Nearly 40 years ago legal philosopher, Ronald Dworkin, postulated heroic Judge Hercules, an idealised judge with ...

By Frank Connolly a 35-acre site at Liscarton was purchased for €500,000 in 2016 and placed on the market for €4.2m a year later, after rezoning A public inquiry by the Standards in Public Office ...

Before he was convicted in 2023 in Cork Circuit Criminal Court for failing to make declarations of interest, An Bord Pleanála’s Paul Hyde left a final legacy to Dublin City — unplanned high-rise in ...

I now live in Leatherhead, the beginning and end of H.G. Wells’s prophetic War of the Worlds (1898). Wells summoned a Martian invasion of sleepy Essex in a parable of complacency. In my last ...

Uisce Éireann is failing to warn the public about a dual risk: the health threat posed when consumers are told to boil water that is already contaminated with dangerous levels of Trihalomethanes (THMs ...