In pictures – Easter Sunday around the world
Updated: 5:45pm (AEDT) Across the globe, people celebrated Easter Sunday – commemorating the day when, according to Christian tradition, Jesus was resurrected in Jerusalem two millennia ago. Clerics read prayers before lighting the holy fire during the Easter religious service at the St Nicholas Roman Catholic Church in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Saturday, 30th March, 2024. […]
Calm restored to Dublin streets after 34 arrested for riots
Dublin, IrelandReuters Calm was restored to the streets of central Dublin on Friday night amid a heavy police presence after 34 people were arrested following rioting the previous night that was triggered by the stabbing of three young children in the street. Police were on alert for further violence after rioters smashed shop windows; set […]
Riots erupt in Dublin after children stabbed
Dublin, IrelandReuters Three young children were among five people injured in a knife attack in Dublin on Thursday that sparked riots in the city centre and which police have not yet ruled out any motive over, including whether it could be terror-related. Public transport was suspended and patients advised not to travel to a nearby […]
Do ‘mechanical trees’ offer the cure for climate change?
New York City, USThomson Reuters Foundation A Dublin-based company plans to erect “mechanical trees” in the United States that will suck carbon dioxide from the air, it said this week, in what may prove to be biggest effort to remove the gas blamed for climate change from the atmosphere. The company, Silicon Kingdom Holdings, will […]
Homeless Dubliners to give tours with a difference as tourism booms
DublinThomson Reuters Foundation Dublin’s Phoenix Park boasts the official residence of Ireland’s president, but for a while it was also home to Eddie Dooner who lived there in a tent with three dogs. Dooner, 27, plans to return to his old haunt soon, but this time he will be leading a party of tourists under […]
IRELAND: POPE FRANCIS CLOSES VISIT WITH APPEAL TO DIVIDED CATHOLICS
CHRISTINE A SCHELLER, writing for Religion News Service, reports on the Pope’s historic visit to Ireland last weekend…