Dart services resume after ‘major disruption’ due to overhead line damage
The fault caused knock-on delays to Dart and commuter services through the city centre due to congestion on the line. Photograph: Roman Overko/ Getty ImagesDart services between Lansdowne Road and Dún Laoghaire in Dublin have recommenced after a “major disruption” saw services suspended until 8pm. Irish Rail said the damage had caused a “major disruption to Dart services” with significant delays to wider services as crews arrived on-site to rectify the issue. READ MOREThe fault caused knock-on delays to Dart and commuter services through the city centre due to congestion on the line with Dublin Bus services honouring rail tickets throughout the disruption. A spokesman for Irish Rail said the line between Lansdowne Road and Dún Laoghaire reopened shortly before 8pm after the overhead lines were repaired.
Source:The Irish Times
June 12, 2025 01:54 UTC
Disorder in Ballymena ‘clearly racially motivated’, PSNI says
A damaged property on Clonavon Terrace in Ballymena following a protest over an alleged sexual assault in the Co Antrim town. Photograph: Jonathan McCambridge/PA WireSignificant and sustained “disorder” in Ballymena on Monday night was “clearly racially motivated”, the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has said. Police and firefighters responded to public disorder in Ballymena town centre on Monday evening. This violence was clearly racially motivated and targeted at our minority ethnic community and police,” Assistant Chief Constable Ryan Henderson said. Photograph: Jonathan McCambridge/PA WireSix properties in Clonavon Terrace were damaged after their windows were smashed during the disorder.
Source:The Irish Times
June 11, 2025 00:01 UTC
Tyler Bleyendaal hails Sam Prendergast as one of Leinster’s game drivers
“I actually thought Sam on the weekend played a good match,” said Bleyendaal. Sam Prendergast takes a kick during Leinster's semi-final victory over Glasgow Warriors at the Aviva Stadium. I think he’s getting through the season fine. I don’t look at him and think he’s getting beaten up or he’s slowing down,” said Bleyendaal. “I feel like he turns up every week, he’s got good energy and he’s young, I think he recovers well.
Source:The Irish Times
June 10, 2025 14:03 UTC
Is Currys in line for the worst customer care story of 2025?
She brought the flashing laptop into a Currys store in the middle of February and it was sent off for repair. “I contacted Currys again and spoke directly to the repair centre engineers by video call through the ‘repair live’ function on their website,” she says. “The repair centre engineer saw the fault. Almost a week passed and she got a call from the repair centre. When she sent a complaint to the Currys customer services department she got a reply that can most kindly be described as useless.
Source:The Irish Times
June 10, 2025 00:33 UTC
Leinster primed and ready to take the Bulls by the horns in URC final
Leinster's Josh van der Flier at the Aviva Stadium for the URC quarter-final match between Leinster and Scarlets on May 31st. The Lions duo missed last Saturday’s convincing 37-19 semi-final win over last season’s champions Glasgow Warriors at the Aviva Stadium due to hamstring and knee issues. Leinster secured home advantage by topping the regular-season table, with the Bulls in second place, thus leading to the first-ever final at the home of the GAA and Ireland’s most iconic sporting arena. We want to do right by that and be at our best again.”Leinster's Andrew Porter, Jack Conan and James Ryan wrap up a Glasgow player at the URC semi-final match in the Aviva Stadium on Saturday. “I love the process of getting ready for a game; that’s what excites me.
Source:The Irish Times
June 09, 2025 12:01 UTC
PhD woes: ‘Financially, I can’t really take care of myself, and I certainly couldn’t take care of anybody else’ – The Irish Times
She is grateful for the funding that has enabled her to do more work on the subject but her budget is stretched. “Financially, I can’t really take care of myself,” he says, “and I certainly couldn’t take care of anybody else.”Recent Higher Education Authority research, based on CSO data, suggests he should be all right in the end. I’m classed as a PhD student but I’m not an ordinary student. He announced a €17.7 million investment in nine research infrastructure projects through Research Ireland’s Research Infrastructure Programme, the spokesman said. He said of the PhD students who enrol annually in Ireland, “in the region of 3,000 receive stipend awards from Research Ireland and approximately 1,000 do so from other public funders.
Source:The Irish Times
June 08, 2025 21:32 UTC
The beaches here in Israel are full. Just an hour’s drive away Palestinians are starving
And the beaches in Tel Aviv are full. Just an hour’s drive away, two million Palestinians are on the brink of starvation. I also went to the beach in Tel Aviv last weekend. The skyline of Tel Aviv is dotted with hundreds of cranes. Paul Kearns is an Irish-born freelance journalist based in Tel Aviv
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June 07, 2025 20:27 UTC
The Brooklyn, Swords review: One star for the worst chicken burger I’ve ever tasted
Inside The Brooklyn in Swords, Co Dublin. Photograph: Alan BetsonThe Brooklyn has an all-day menu in what it calls a premium casual style. The Korean chicken burger (€19) faces a similar fate, encased in a wodge of thick, hard, batter. It’s the worst chicken burger I’ve ever had – it is gasp-inducingly poor. Because “The Swords” wouldn’t sell a €19 chicken burger like this one and get away with it.
Source:The Irish Times
June 05, 2025 16:35 UTC
Call for action – Contact your TD/MP
Björk was deported on the morning of June 2, while Murphy is currently being detained while fighting the unjust deportation order. For further information please see:We demand action now, and if you wish to help, we strongly encourage you to contact your local representatives to bring Murphy’s case to their attention and put the spotlight on the Palestinian struggle and their steadfastness. While Gaza is being bombed relentlessly and intentionally starved, Israeli forces are also committing alleged war crimes in the West Bank. Urge Israel to release D. Murphy and stop the criminalisation of international activists; Demand that the government withdraws our own ambassador to Israel; Pass the full, unadulterated Occupied Territories Bill. While Gaza is being bombed relentlessly and intentionally starved, Israeli forces are also committing alleged war crimes in the West Bank.
Source:The Irish Times
June 04, 2025 00:20 UTC
If there’s so much buyer’s remorse about Brexit, why is Nigel Farage the rising figure in UK politics?
A decade on, the question is whether English nationalism is still a force we may have to reckon with. Like most of the British political and intellectual establishments, he did not take English nationalism seriously. English nationalism was and is ambiguous and largely unarticulated. READ MOREBut Brexit was a terrible solution to the problem of English identity. If Brexit meant Scotland and Northern Ireland walking away – and thus the effective end of the UK – so be it.
Source:The Irish Times
May 28, 2025 00:31 UTC
Dismay among RTÉ staffers as broadcaster hires actors to play journalists in ‘make-believe’ ad campaign
However, the RTÉ spokeswoman said: “The staff members working on this project are continuing to engage with colleagues newsroom. He also thanked his partner and family, his campaign workers, Dáil staff and the constituents who voted for him. He knows all about housing and housing deadlines – the hot topic in Leinster House at the moment. The number of politicians signing up to play has grown since their last run-out against prisoners from Mountjoy’s progress unit. * This article was amended on 24/05/25 to include further responses from RTÉ to claims about its newsroom advertising campaign.
Source:The Irish Times
May 24, 2025 20:46 UTC
Flight carrying ‘barbaric’ deportees from US to Africa stopped at Shannon Airport
Tricia McLaughlin, the assistant secretary for public affairs at the department of Homeland Security, stressed the gravity of the crimes committed by the deportees. Photograph: Valerie Plesch/The New York TimesA US aircraft carrying deportees described by a US Homeland Security official as “barbaric” and “violent” to North Africa against the directions of a US federal court judge stopped at Shannon Airport en route to its destination. It is reported the final destination of the eight deportees is South Sudan. Judge Murphy ruled the US government’s attempt to deport migrants to South Sudan “unquestionably” violated an earlier court order. An eighth man in the group was a citizen of South Sudan, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
Source:The Irish Times
May 22, 2025 09:33 UTC