Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner procurement of island reservation in Albania proves lightening rod for wider protests against Edi Rama.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Conservation groups say work has begun in protected coastal area, while prime minister insists project will bring jobs and investment
Exclusive: Brexit car deal needs to be changed, again, says industry in both the UK and the EU. Was changed in 2024 for three years only, said Sefcovic at the time. Now car industry still not ready for the tariff schedule laid out in the TCA.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Suzanne Breen's piece - knife crime didn't arrive in Belfast with a refugee - it's been here for decades (lest we forget the punishment beatings, the kneecappings, the murders, the torture, the kidnappings? the bombs, the petrol bombs...)
www.independent.ie/incoming/suz...
“I don’t think [rejoining] is possible. Because all of us, we are wounded to some extent by this . . . historic step the British have taken" - Jean Claude Juncker to FT.
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Reposting report from 2024 on Home Office enforcement day in NI.
Also worth noting that travel of migrants to Ireland from GB/NJ is greater with up to 90% of all asylum seekers in Ireland coming via GB/Belfast
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
An extraordinary account of adoption back in the 1970s and the pain it created. So many of these stories in Ireland, but obviously it was big enough in the UK too back then.
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Exclusive: deal in 2020 had sought to stimulate local battery making but industry says it still cannot meet targets
Tom Parminter interviews Somalian woman who says she grew up with tribal war and then comes to NI and sees sectarianism all over again
And then the Romanian care workers. Why are they after the people who look after the elderly of NI
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Is @themodernhouse.bsky.social going to come to Ireland - it would be a great addition to a rather conservative offering, which would celebrate architecture.. Tom De Paor's extraordinary refurb of a concrete ag building...
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Lisa O’Carroll
Lisa O’Carroll
Home Office brands operation targeting people smugglers a success after cash and false ID documents seized
Thirty years after my parents were pressured into placing me with an adoption agency, I finally reconnected with them. But it was nothing like the neat stories you see on TV
Violent racist attacks broke out in Belfast following a knife incident, forcing immigrant families to flee burned homes and face ongoing harassment. Sky’s Tom Parmenter speaks to the communities affec...
For the latest instalment of Postcards from Phin, Phin visits Dysart in County Wicklow, Ireland, the family home of architect Tom de Paor. Dysart is an idiosyncratic collection of concrete agricultural buildings and landscaped gardens that form “a living laboratory of architectural experimentation.” The site is full of symbolism and playful flourishes: there’s gravel in the shower room, glass insulation in the bedroom and monolithic found objects and mysterious shapes strewn around the gardens, which are part Hadrian’s villa, part Jurassic Park, part Prospect Cottage.🇮🇪 Join Phin for a first-look at this fearless and playful Irish homestead.Click the link in bio to watch the full tour.Film by @phinharper
Arson targeting Keir starmer originated in Russia - FT investigation. Recruiters also responsible for anti Islam graffiti on Mosques - part of hybrid warfare aimed at weakening western democracy seen b4
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Arson targeting Keir Starmer properties originated in Russia
Handler was affiliated with a pro-Kremlin hacktivist group
