11+ hour, 2+ min ago   (570+ words) The University of Cambridge has defended its mental health support for the academic Jason Arday. The university said it had continued to provide Arday with extensive mental health support and security measures, including installing panic alarms and screening racist emails…...

12+ hour, 5+ min ago   (548+ words) More than 20,000 people lined Tralee’s Denny Street on Saturday evening to catch a glimpse of the 32 International Roses hoping to be crowned the 2026 Rose of Tralee. Among them were siblings Caroline and James Murphy from Canada, there to support their…...

11+ hour, 46+ min ago   (590+ words) Ukraine has launched one of its largest drone attacks since the start of the war, causing a fire at a Wildberries distribution warehouse near Moscow and killing at least six people overnight, according to Russian authorities. Russia’s defence ministry said…...

11+ hour, 39+ min ago   (435+ words) The public complained to Met Éireann about wildly differing temperature forecasts during the summer’s first heatwave, including one that apparently gave a ten-degree difference for the same town. A weather watcher checking conditions in June was told it would be…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (307+ words) A dozen ‌people were killed and at least 10 seriously injured after a Polish bus carrying 57 pilgrims veered off a motorway ‌in eastern Hungary, in a crash that a survivor described as “unimaginable”. Hungarian prime minister Péter Magyar said on Sunday…...

13+ hour, 33+ min ago   (284+ words) West Ham have signed Belgium midfielder Arne Engels from Scottish champions Celtic. The 22-year-old has agreed a five-year contract in east London in a deal understood to be worth around £22 million (€26 million). Engels, who made 100 appearances for Celtic, said: “It’s…...

13+ hour, 43+ min ago   (538+ words) Three bonfires were set alight in Co Derry on Saturday night and are being treated as “sectarian-motivated hate crimes” by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI). The bonfires were lit in Bligh’s Lane in Creggan, on Lecky Road in…...

14+ hour, 42+ min ago   (369+ words) Ireland’s men’s first World Cup campaign in eight years opened with a 3-1 defeat by Australia in Belgium on Sunday morning, but they’ll take no little heart from a stirring second-half display against the world’s fourth ranked team. Australia took the…...

18+ hour, 34+ min ago   (360+ words) Medal ceremonies at the European Athletics Championships in Birmingham were postponed on Saturday evening and transport was suspended after a man was arrested on suspicion of fraud. Heptathlon champion Kate O’Connor was due to receive her medal on Saturday night,…...

22+ hour, 4+ min ago   (300+ words) “After the hype, SpaceX investors return to the numbers” was the headline of this column a week ago. That return, it turns out, was brief. After diving post-earnings, SpaceX shares promptly surged almost 40 per cent. It’s the market’s prerogative to…...