First public trial opens in sprawling abuse scandal with more than 100 schools, kindergartens and daycares under investigation

Record temperatures caused by heat dome, with hot air from Morocco trapped under an area of high pressure

In landmark encyclical, pontiff compares AI to nuclear power and urges global rules grounded in conscience and responsibility

The towering figure in French folk music, who revived the Celtic harp, is touring Ireland this week

Micheál Martin offers help of Irish officials involved in peace process to Vatican Middle East efforts

Cheap three-course lunches are aimed at easing financial hardship among young people

Naomi O'Leary reports from Paris, where the French government has introduced a policy of €1 meals for students to help combat rising costs. Video: Naomi O'Leary

Helen McEntee to raise EU-wide action again in Brussels as long-proposed legislation to be revived in Dáil

Video of Gaza aid flotilla activists being mistreated has ‘shocked the world’

France’s cherished vin culture faces a generational shift – and a costly surplus crisis

Meloni government accused of attempt to impose ‘right-wing hegemony’

‘Systemic failures’ enabled audacious eight-minute jewellery heist, report finds

France and Spain among countries imposing mandatory hospital quarantines as more passengers test positive

France’s radical left leader Jean Luc Mélenchon is taking another tilt at the presidency - but critics argue that his polarising appeal could hand power to the right

What began during Covid curfews has become a popular, permanent reset of Spanish social hours for many