Late Late Show fans will find themselves with a gap to fill on television this week as the long-running talk show will not be on the air for the second time in a month. Last month, there was a break from the regular schedule on Friday, March 6, with host Patrick Kielty and co taking a rare Friday night off as the show clashed with Ireland’s Six Nations rugby match against Wales in the Aviva Stadium.

The story of Apple, the company they founded, reads like a business parable almost too dramatic to be credible. The visionary early success of the Macintosh, with its graphical interface and mouse ushering in the age of the personal computer. But as Apple enters its second half-century, the questions its success prompts become ever more pressing. Apple is not solely responsible for all these problems but it has profited from them. What started in that garage in Los Altos gave the world something remarkable.

Is common sense finally emerging in Ireland’s planning rules? The planning system up to now, has largely worked against the potential for creating flexibility in our existing housing stock. In the face of a chronic housing shortage, the rigidity of our existing housing stock has become a significant and entirely avoidable contributor to the problem. The ability to enhance and adapt an existing property, without entering into a lengthy and uncertain planning process, introduces a new level of control and possibility. If this momentum continues it will not solve the housing challenge overnight but the emergence of common sense in planning matters would represent a meaningful step in the right direction.

Mother and daughter Martina and Ammi Burke were arrested when they went to visit Enoch Burke at Castlerea Prison on Tuesday. The High Court ordered almost four weeks ago that the mother and sister of teacher Mr Burke be jailed for two weeks after finding them in contempt of court. The two were not at the hearing when Mr Justice Brian Cregan delivered his judgment. Mr Cregan said the hearing “descended into chaos” when they interrupted proceedings and “persisted in standing up in court and shouting”. In a statement, gardaí said: “An Garda Síochána executed a High Court order against two females in Castlerea, Co Roscommon this afternoon, Tuesday March 31 2026.

There has been little discussion about the UN alternatives that could help to circumvent Security Council paralysis. International peace and security are not the exclusive domain of the Security Council. Key to an understanding of this are the primary aims of the UN and the imprecise relationship of the Security Council and General Assembly. One of the ways it did this was to apply pressure on the Security Council to undertake peacekeeping operations. The General Assembly can recommend military measures even when, in its opinion, binding enforcement measures should be taken by the Security Council.

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Olga Urbina and her nine-month-old son Ares Webster participate in a protest outside the US supreme court over US president Donald Trump's move to end birthright citizenship. Throughout his first term, Trump habitually made noises about reversing the US birthright citizenship right defined within the 14th amendment to the constitution. In other words, children born to undocumented immigrants would not benefit from the right to birthright citizenship. “This administration believes that birthright citizenship is unconstitutional and that is why president Trump signed this executive order. The 14th amendment was passed by the US Senate in 1866 to deal with the notorious Dred Scott decision (1857), effectively ruling that no black person could be a citizen of the United States.

There will be a legal requirement for all statutory bodies and agencies to identify large capital projects for priority under the proposed Critical Infrastructure Bill, expected to be approved by Cabinet on Wednesday. Minister for Public Expenditure and Infrastructure Jack Chambers will seek Cabinet approval to publish the Bill at the weekly meeting of Government Ministers. These projects can then jump to the top of the queue at each stage of the project approval and delivery cycle. It will mean the Bill will be accelerated through the legislative process and could be enacted by summer. Minister for Justice Jim O’Callaghan will seek approval from Cabinet to strengthen the powers of the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) to seize crypto-assets.

The Corporate Enforcement Authority (CEA) hired an independent human resources consultant to help it tackle allegations of a “toxic” workplace after she was recommended as a candidate for the role by the CEA’s chief executive. Clancy formerly worked with Drennan at the Medical Council, where she was first hired as a consultant but then became interim chief executive at a body where Drennan is a board member. Last year the Medical Independent reported how the Medical Council paid Clancy €522,000 for her work over two years but that her hiring was “not fully aligned” with its procurement policies. The CEA said Drennan disclosed that Clancy was known to him from their Medical Council work, “notwithstanding the absence of any conflict, actual or potential”. She said the Medical Council had publicly acknowledged her professionalism, and its procurement issue was an internal matter.

You’ll turn up at some schools for an interview and immediately regret it, hoping you get rejected. I’ve travelled back in time, landing in towns still in the throes of the 1980s recession. On bicycles, they’d move from school to school, legitimate to hedge, primers in hand. It’s a bit like Ripley’s Believe It or Not, you’ll never know for sure. If you feel like a US senator in front of a House select committee, you’ll know that your time is being wasted while they trial out experimental questions on you.

“And now it’s time to leave and turn to dust,” goes the song, which might have been how Heimir Hallgrímsson and his crew felt when they left the Czech Republic last week. Joanne Cantwell did nothing at all to raise our broken spirits when she introduced RTÉ’s coverage of the World Cup qualifying losers’ friendly against North Macedonia from the Irish dressingroom. No happy faces back on RTÉ, though, Kenny Cunningham and Richie Sadlier having drawn the short straw – they were on punditry duty for the game. Over on Virgin Media Two, meanwhile, the Czech Republic v Denmark was getting under way. Who looked, as it happens, like a cross between Kenny, Richie and Bosun Lawal.

“I left home at 15 when my mother and stepdad divorced, and all hell broke loose with my mother without my stepdad as a buffer,” she says. As a result of her mother’s bullying behaviour, she made a conscious choice to cut off connection and to make Ireland home. “The latter is not the cause of all estrangements, but it is a dimension we can’t disregard and will inform the potential impact, both on individuals and the family collective,” says the author of Navigating Family Estrangement: Helping Adults Understand and Manage the Challenges of Family Estrangement. “I always found it hard to cut her off completely, but I knew in order to protect my own mental health I had to keep boundaries. Family estrangement can feel like a living loss, but Sarah is comfortable with the choice she made and “wouldn’t want it any other way”.

John Egan will make his first Ireland start for 18 months after Heimir Hallgrímsson made three changes to his starting team for tonight’s friendly against North Macedonia. The Hull City man made his international comeback as a late substitute in last October’s World Cup qualifier away to Portugal. Hallgrímsson said true to his promise of making minimal matches as he seeks the performance to build on the positive side of last Thursday’s World Cup playoff loss in Czechia. He’ll have two friendlies in Spain this May, one at least against Grenada, before meeting World Cup bound Qatar and Canada either side of the June weekend. Republic of Ireland (3-4-2-1):C Kelleher;J Egan, N Collins, D O’Shea;S Coleman, J Knight, J Molumby, L Scales:C Ogbene, F Azaz;T Parrott.

Although the immediate cause of this apagón was a technical fault, the underlying reason is the US blockade of Cuba. In 2021, the US State Department designated Cuba "a State Sponsor of Terrorism", meaning that entities trading with it could face sanction or prosecution. A Havana street with rubbish piling up. That is the reality of the US blockade on Cuba — it kills people. When we delivered the medical supplies to the Hermanos Ameijeiras hospital, the deputy director told us they had performed 28 surgeries that day alone.

Singling out the UK, the US president rebuked countries for refusing to “get involved” in the American-Israeli war against Iran, suggesting they learn “how to fight”. Tehran has effectively shut down the strait for weeks, sending global oil and gas prices spiralling. Later yesterday, Pete Hegseth, the US Secretary of War, reiterated Mr Trump’s criticisms of the UK’s refusal to send warships. The Israeli military said yesterday it completed a wave of strikes targeting 20 weapons manufacturing sites and a research and development site in Iran. Meanwhile an American journalist was kidnapped yesterday in Baghdad and Iraqi security forces are pursuing her captors, Iraqi officials said.