Brian Kilmartin

Brian Kilmartin

Brian Kilmartin is Managing Editor, Features in The Irish Times

A view of Arno, a coral atoll of the Marshall Islands in the Pacific. Rising sea levels are already an inescapable part of daily life in the Marshall Islands. Photograph: Josh Haner/The New York Times
Climate change: Will Ireland’s coastal cities and towns be under water?

Global average sea level is rising at faster rate

Police seek to detain a woman and child after a train from Budapest heading to the Austrian border was stopped in Bicske, west of the Hungarian capital, on September 3rd, 2015. Photograph: Istvan Bielik/AFP/Getty Images
Sharp increase in asylum-seekers across Europe

Accelerating number registering in Europe in first half of year most evident in Hungary

Republic of Ireland players celebrate David O’Leary’s winning penalty against Romania in Genoa, on June 25th, 1990. Photograph: Billy Stickland/Inpho
Italia ’90: penalty kick spot the ball

You might remember where you were when David O’Leary scored the winning penalty in Genoa – but can you remember the actual penalti(...)

Ireland’s Molly Sterling during rehearsals for tonight’s Eurovision semi-final in Vienna.
Eurovision: one good vote deserves another

Of the 41 countries Ireland has voted for since 2009, 39 have returned the favour

French police and investigators working through the scattered debris on the crash site of the Germanwings Airbus A320, in the French Alps near the southeastern town of Seyne. Photograph: Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP/Getty Images
Germanwings timeline: the last minutes of the doomed flight

Andreas Lubitz set jet to descend to 100 feet when captain left the cockpit

Brian O’Donnell and wife Mary Patricia: end of the line. Photograph: Cyril Byrne
Interactive timeline: Battle for Gorse Hill

The O’Donnells conducted a dogged legal battle in an attempt to stave of bankruptcy and loss of Killiney house

Children from the Eclipse Road area of London view the solar eclipse in 1999. Photograph: Fiona Hanson/PA Wire
How to watch the solar eclipse safely: make a pinhole projector

Dos and don’ts during the solar eclipse

Death in the garden: sparrowhawk swoops in for the kill. Photograph: Mark Roantree
Death in the garden: when sparrowhawks attack

Bird of prey drops into north Dublin back garden for an al fresco lunch

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