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Irish Embassy in Tehran closed due to ‘deteriorating situation’

Consular offices in Israel and Palestine are shut, with staff working remotely, as Iranian conflict enters second week

Gavin Tiernan aims to make history after reaching Amateur Championship final

Tiernan, 1,340th in the world amateur rankings, will face American Ethan Fang in final

The Irish Times view on caring for older people: deserving of dignity, gratitude and respect

The care of our elderly population has for far too long been compromised, sometimes egregiously

AG says he cannot help on legal query over Shannon flights that may aid Israel’s Gaza war

In response to Social Democrats, Rossa Fanning said advising individual Oireachtas members is not part of his role

The Irish Times view on the summer solstice: your one wild and precious life

Folklore records the widespread belief in rural Ireland that with every day after the solstice “the shadows lengthened by a cock-step”

Delays to housing plan could push it back to September

Government figures say plan could not be completed until funding review of multi-year infrastructure delivery programme published

Israel breached human rights obligations during Gaza war, EU review finds

Finding raises prospect of bloc taking action against Israel for first time since start of conflict 20 months ago

Court of Appeal remits charges against allegedly unlicensed taximan to District Court

NTA officer accepted during District Court trial that provisions for carrying out test purchase or ‘setting a trap’ were not set out under legislation

Ireland weather: Hottest day for nearly three years recorded as temperature reaches 29.6 degrees

Met Eireann warns of high UV risk and the need to be ‘sun smart’

Sunbed business fined for selling session to minor

Teenage ‘secret shopper’ was deployed by HSE to do a test purchase in Cosmopoli Tan, Co Clare

Scotch Broth – Frank McNally on Michael Cusack’s frustrated hope for a pan-Celtic sports alliance

In fact, like others in the book, the character was a composite of different people

Judge denies legal aid for three senior barristers to represent each of Sliabh Liag murderers

Judge says he has to have ‘some regard to the public purse’

Minimum pay for childcare workers to rise to €15 an hour

Government has pledged €45 million to help childcare providers pay an extra 10 per cent per hour

Cercene provides Joe Murphy and Gary Carroll with first Group One success in Coronation

Willie Mullins saddles 11th Royal Ascot winner as Ethical Diamond scores under Ryan Moore

‘Normal’ Cole Palmer assumes control of Chelsea’s attack from No 10

“I try and think it’s just a game of football, it’s not life or death”

Cork LGBT+ Pride festival organiser gets injunction lifting suspension over misconduct claims

Kery Mullaly claims he was suspended last September without any notice over eight misconduct allegations, which he denies

Ian Bailey’s ‘deepest wish’ was to clear his name of murder link, memorial service told

Ashes of ex-journalist, who was convicted in France of murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier, are scattered into sea in west Cork

Former TD Violet Anne Wynne tells court she has no income to pay ex-employee

Wynne, a former Independent TD for Clare, owes €6,500 to Fiona Smyth following WRC ruling

Markets mixed after US indicates it will hold back from any immediate action in Iran

PTSB was the standout performer on the day at home as it climbed 4%, while the Euronext Dublin index was little changed

Sinn Féin’s Michelle O’Neill declines to rule out presidential run

Former SDLP leader Colum Eastwood will ‘take time to think about’ possible candidacy

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