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  • Diversion of flight fails to save passenger from Ireland Diversion of flight fails to save passenger from Ireland

    A flight from Melbourne to Qatar was diverted to India on Wednesday, in a desperate attempt to save an Irish man on board. The man, Raymond McMorrow, 68, is believed to have had a heart attack on board Qatar Airways flight QR 031 while in transit from Melbourne to Doha, the Qatar capital. The Qatar Airways plane landed without incident at Cochin Airport, in southern India, where an ...

  • “For most people who have chemo it’s no big deal” says man who sails around Ireland between bouts of chemotherapy

    Chris Egan and David Bevan, who have both battled cancer, plotting a course for their round Ireland trip aboard the Inizi in aid of cancer ...

  • Time limit a key issue arising from health committee hearings on abortion

    Dr Eamonn Moloney, consultant psychiatrist, Cork University Hospital; Prof Veronica O'Keane, consultant psychiatrist, Tallaght Hospital and TCD; and Dr Yolande Ferguson, consultant psychiatrist, Tallaght Hospital, attending Monday's hearing of the Oireachtas health committee. Photograph: Gareth ...

  • Shatter’s mistake in the Wallace saga was purely political

    Minister for Justice Alan Shatter at this week's citizenship ceremony at the Convention Centre, Dublin. "Shatter was seen initially (and still sees himself) as an energetic and reforming Minister but his style and personality in office have depleted his political capital." Photograph: Bryan ...

  • Living in Hatch Hall

    Hatch Hall , those trying to "keep busy" and those tired of trying. Many have spent years in the asylum system, living on EUR19.10 a week (it's EUR9.60 for children), not allowed to work or study and subject to movement or deportation at short ...


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Movie Review

Claire's Knee (Le Genou de Claire) [DVD]

Claire's Knee (Le Genou de Claire) [DVD]

Surely a man getting married in a month is level-headed, says the woman in Claires Knee (Le Genou de Claire) who is about to entrust her 16-year-old daughter to said level-headed man for a long afternoon hike even though the daughter has made it clear that she is in love w ... ...

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  • Political system tied up in trivia ignores the most serious issues

    The propensity of the Irish political system to tie itself up in knots over arcane or even trivial issues, while gliding over serious matters that have a vital bearing on the country's wellbeing, has again been in evidence over the past few ...

  • A hazel tide ebbing and flowing

    On its way to the shore the boreen tilts down beside a creggan, a sandstone outcrop like a last, rocky toenail of the mountain. Abruptly steep beside the lane, the ridge sometimes offers a wild silhouette between me and the morning clouds: a sitting hare, a wind-blown ewe with a mane like a wild Apache. And couched in the slope between rock and fence - an old one, tilting and bound with ...

  • ASTI and TUI seek further talks on improving Haddington Road deal

    Taoiseach Enda Kenny: "Those unions who have now agreed with the Haddington Road statement will have those agreements honoured, and those unions that do not will be subject to legislation." Photograph: Julien Behal/PA ...

  • A rock pool for life to cling to

    We are combating new threats of coastal erosion and flooding by armouring our shores. We do this mostly with gabions, those increasingly familiar conglomerations of cut rock or manufactured blocks, bound together with wire ...

  • Towards a deal on public pay

    Securing voluntary agreement from public service workers for savings amounting to EUR1billion over three years was never going to be easy. And so it has proved. A majority of union members rejected the terms of a renegotiated Croke Park deal last month and risked statutory cuts to pay and pensions, along with widespread industrial unrest. Rather than blunder into immediate confrontation, ...

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