World on verge of ratifying key treaty to protect oceans
Failure to significantly scale up protection of oceans from deep sea mining and sea beds from 'bottom trawling' was widely criticised
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What will €175,000 buy you in France, Portugal, Italy, Greece and Longford?
A four-bed longère in Brittany, a studio in a converted merchant’s house in Silves, a four-bed doer-upper in Pietrasanta, a converted two-bedroom on a Greek island or a 1970s system-built bungalow in Longford?
US warns nations against attending UN conference on two-state solution
Washington says recognition of Palestinian state would be seen as acting against US interests
Macron to push for EU ban on social media for under-15s after school stabbing
French president says social media among factors to blame for violence among young people
A Breton in Ireland: ‘My wife calls me a culchie, which I completely embrace’
At 18, Charlie Le Brun travelled to Ireland, determined to meet his musical idol, The Chieftains’ Matt Molloy. After a memorable few months of playing the flute in a Westport pub, he knew he’d be back
Ireland to ratify high seas treaty and scale-up marine-protected areas, Taoiseach tells UN summit
UN secretary general António Guterres urges world leaders to move ‘from plundering to protection’
UN Ocean Conference 3: will it lead to protecting the high seas from all extraction, forever?
Climate change is reducing productivity of the high seas through warming and depletion of nutrients and oxygen
Meabh Quoirin on life after her daughter’s death in the jungle: ‘Nóra was meant to be here by our sides’
Franco-Irish teenager Nóra Quoirin was discovered dead in the jungle nine days after she went missing from a resort in Malaysia in August 2019. For her family she remains a cherished inspiration
What will €335,000 buy in Ibiza, Corfu, Italy, France and Lucan?
One price, home and away: An apartment in Ibiza, a villa in Corfu, an apartment near Cannes and more
The truth behind the Normans and Ireland: ‘They abolished slavery’
Historians give their view on plans to mark the 1,000th anniversary of William the Conquerer and what was more an English than a French invasion
Two killed as PSG’s Champions League victory marred by violence
Nearly 500 arrested after looters raid shops in the Champs-Élysées area and burn cars in the city
Champions League final: Two dead and more than 500 arrested during PSG celebrations
Police officer placed in coma after being hit by fireworks in Coutance
The Macron shove is not a sign of a very French love story, but something more disturbing
A conspiracy of coyness around the troubling origin story of Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte extended to the incident filmed in Vietnam this week
Picture this: Frank McNally on the sophistication of French scammers
If this column can’t help him, he fears the quest is a “lost cause”.
What will €350,000 buy in Italy, France, Barbados, the Dominican Republic and Dublin 6W?
An apartment on the Ligurian coast; a Normandy townhouse; a two-bed apartment at Rockley Golf Course; a new apartment in Punta Cana or a one-bed cottage in Harold’s Cross?
Summer 2025: 100 great restaurants, cafes and places to eat around Ireland
Some of the best restaurants in Dublin, Cork, Galway and around Ireland from brand new places to classic favourites
The Irish diaspora setting up and running businesses abroad
There are bittersweet elements to emigration too, such as re-learning to be Irish, as Laura Kennedy learns
Former French surgeon who abused children for decades sentenced to 20 years in jail
Joel Le Scouarnec, already in prison for earlier rape convictions, had faced charges of rape or sexual assault against 299 patients
Emmanuel Macron plays down video of shove from wife: ‘It’s nonsense’
French president Emmanuel Macron says video captured him and his wife ‘bickering’ and ‘joking around’
Fiction in translation: The Deserters traverses 20th century and brims with interesting ideas
Works by Mathias Enard, Georgi Gospodinov, Gaëlle Bélem, Elisa Levi and Solvej Balle
Iranian director Jafar Panahi wins Palme d’Or at Cannes for It Was Just an Accident
Harry Lighton’s Pillion, produced by Dublin-based Element Pictures, takes award for best screenplay in the Un Certain Regard section
Haiti paid France a costly ransom for independence. Some say it must be paid back
Worldview: Violence-ridden Haiti’s “double debt” and the borrowing to pay it, has pushed the country down a spiral of indebtedness
John Wilson: Loire white wines made for warm-weather drinking
From sauvignon blanc to Muscadet to chenin blanc, Loire Valley wines shout summer
Trump’s slapdown diplomacy reduces Oval Office meetings to spectator sport
Events are undermining America’s influence in the world, warn foreign policy experts
What will €275,000 buy in France, Spain, Portugal, Malta and Co Donegal?
One price, home and away: A new-build close to Perros-Guirec, a three-bed with views of the Costa Brava coastline and more
France has pushed ahead with regulation on ‘forever chemicals’, but should Ireland follow suit?
PFAS are almost impossible to get rid of once they have entered an environment
Beware the car hire honey trap: We had the most intensive inspection of a returned rental I’ve ever seen
Our hire car experience went from sunny to cloudy in minutes
UK, France and Canada criticise ‘egregious actions’ by Israel in Gaza
Announcement that basic amount of aid will be allowed into Gaza described as ‘wholly inadequate’
What Kim Kardashian and Gerard Depardieu tell us about France’s attitude to gender-based violence
The evidence suggests France still has a way to go. Seven in 10 women say they have experienced sexism in the workplace, according to a survey
What will €195,000 buy in France, Denmark, Italy, Greece and Co Longford?
A renovated chalet in the Haute-Vienne, a villa by the sea in north Jutland and more
I decided to buy almost nothing in 2025. Here’s how it is going
In the local freecycle and swapping groups, anything goes – and the audacity of some of the posts are breathtaking
Thrill-seeking in middle age: the spirit is willing but the pelvic floor is weak
Oh, how I wish I had listened when people were talking about the importance of doing Kegels
Is this the end for Gérard Depardieu? Polite society in France may argue otherwise
Depardieu’s sexual assault convictions will challenge those intent on finding his dissolution charming
French actor Gérard Depardieu found guilty of sexually assaulting two women
Judge says actor seems not to have grasped concept of consent or `traumatic’ impact of his behaviour
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