Keith Duggan: Trump marks 100 days in power with speech designed to leave fact-checkers with migraineUS president tells country to ignore the doubters and negative pollsWed Apr 30 2025 - 06:54
Donald Trump’s approval rating in the US is way down, and no one knows what he’s going to do next As he reaches the 100th day of his second term, President Trump can point to few policy successesTue Apr 29 2025 - 05:00
Justine Bateman: ‘This election was a tipping point for the woke mob mentality’The film-maker and author, who starred in Family Ties with Michael J Fox in the 1980s, has strong views on plastic surgery, ‘woke’ culture and HollywoodSun Apr 27 2025 - 05:45
‘Harvard people’ squaring up for battle royale with White House over politics, power and privilegeTrump is threatening to withdraw billions in funding from the ivy league college, but can Harvard withstand this attack on its status?Sat Apr 26 2025 - 05:00
Wrongly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia caught up in one of US’s key ideological flashpointsMistakenly deported to his native El Salvador, Abrego Garcia remains in prison while Republicans and Democrats argue over what the case says about where the US is going under Donald TrumpFri Apr 25 2025 - 16:00
Kneecap say they have received ‘hundreds of violent threats’ over Coachella performanceSharon Osbourne and Fox News respond as Kneecap spark controversy at Coachella with anti-Israel messageWed Apr 23 2025 - 18:59
Trump’s Easter message showcases his easy way with denouncing ‘radical left lunatics’ Message on Truth Social network laden with White House preoccupations in looking to fend off criticism of deportation policyMon Apr 21 2025 - 20:03
Thirty years after Oklahoma bombing, Bill Clinton draws parallel with polarisation of US todayFormer president contrasts city’s ‘service, honour and kindness’ with current political unrestSun Apr 20 2025 - 13:00
‘I am sure there are other McVeighs out there’: Voices from Oklahoma City three decades after devastating attackSurvivors reflect on how the biggest domestic terror attack in US history affected them and their city Sun Apr 20 2025 - 06:00
Thunder enlightens Oklahoma as basketball brings wind of changeHoop dreams have transformed a moribund downtown into something more vibrantSat Apr 19 2025 - 05:00
Trump’s power plays starting to unsettle Pennsylvania votersDonald Trump is ‘winging everything. And the whole thing is: us consumers are going to pay. It is coming to us, as Americans’Sun Apr 13 2025 - 18:01
Dazzling tragedy of The Great Gatsby still stalks the American imaginationAmerica Letter: F Scott Fitzgerald’s novel continues to stir up questions about the American dream on its 100th anniversarySat Apr 12 2025 - 05:00
Market manipulation concerns grow following Trump’s tariff u-turn Democrat Alexandra Ocasio Cortez advises members of Congress to declare any stock moves Fri Apr 11 2025 - 14:33
Trump’s U-turn on tariffs fails to reassure markets and trading partnersUS president cuts tariffs on all countries to 10 per cent for 90 days – except for China, which has been hit with 125 per cent tariffs immediatelyWed Apr 09 2025 - 22:11
Accused in shooting of Irish chef Shaun Brady in Kansas should not be tried as adult, father arguesBoy (15) is accused of killing Tipperary restaurateur outside Brady and Fox restaurant in August 2024Wed Apr 09 2025 - 18:45
US tariffs: Harris to push for solution to trade war in crunch meeting with Trump’s commerce secretaryTánaiste in Washington for key meeting with Howard Lutnick, who labelled Irish corporate regime as his ‘favourite’ tax scamWed Apr 09 2025 - 00:01
‘Nobody but me would do this’: Donald Trump cares nothing for the doomsayersIt is impossible to imagine any other American president having the chutzpah to brazen out what represents a deliberate policy capable of foisting a recessionTue Apr 08 2025 - 06:52
‘It makes me sick’: Mass anti-Trump protests in US cities see Americans express their fear and loathingSaturday sees first true attempt at a national protest voice against Trump since the US president’s electionSun Apr 06 2025 - 07:47
Joe Biden may be best to let sleeping dogs lie as new books lifts lid on his final days in officeWith the former president said to be working on a memoir, two new books offer damning details of the fragmentation of faith in him before last November’s US electionSat Apr 05 2025 - 05:00
Trump tariffs: On Wednesday, it was liberation. On Thursday, golf‘Liberation Day’: The fallout from Trump’s scorched earth economic protectionist policyThu Apr 03 2025 - 20:03
Donald Trump is nothing if not a showman but his instincts deserted him on ‘Liberation Day’Trump tariffs: World saw familiar Trumpian concoction of threat, uncertainty, imminent chaos - and a sad little chartThu Apr 03 2025 - 06:34
‘Liberation Day’: Ireland and EU braced as Trump to impose tariff measures todayUS president’s spokeswoman says levies could be implemented immediatelyWed Apr 02 2025 - 09:59
Wisconsin election gives Democrats glimmer of hope as Trump tariff decision loomsParty emerges from relentlessly dark winter with poll win and voter snub of Elon Musk’s interferenceWed Apr 02 2025 - 06:36
Ireland fears EU response to US tariffs could hit tech sectorEuropean Commission preparing a range of responses to Donald Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ announcementWed Apr 02 2025 - 06:00
Coy Donald Trump ‘not joking’ about third term: ‘There are methods’ US president warns tariffs will be applied to ‘a lot of countries’ rather than to smaller groupMon Mar 31 2025 - 06:39
It took about 40 seconds for US immigration officers to lift the Turkish student off the streets of BostonShe is one of at least 300 students whose visas were revoked, but we only know of her story because it was recordedSat Mar 29 2025 - 05:00
Donald Trump says Irish pharma sector among next targets as he announces 25% tariffs on car importsUS president singles out pharma sector critical to Irish economy as a target for similar tariffs in coming weeksWed Mar 26 2025 - 22:29
Pete Hegseth faces growing pressure to resign over texted plans for Yemen attackWhite House argues latest texts released by the Atlantic prove nothing classified was shared in Signal group chatWed Mar 26 2025 - 21:32
Trump downplays unprecedented self-inflicted US security breach as ‘the only glitch in two months’ Washington political circles struggle to absorb staggering blunder by senior cabinet membersWed Mar 26 2025 - 06:00
Self-inflicted security breach by Trump officials opens up line of attack for DemocratsClaim by director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard made to look absurd during gruelling hearingTue Mar 25 2025 - 19:32
‘Pete Hegseth texted me the war plan’: How top US officials shared military strike details in group chat with journalist‘Genuinely shocking’: National security lapse presents a perfect snapshot of the fears over defence secretary Hegseth’s suitabilityTue Mar 25 2025 - 07:37
Trump’s bizarre televised tour of the Oval Office reflects larger question about direction of USAmerican Diary: Trump regularly invokes George Washington as he keeps one eye on posterity while simultaneously silencing The Voice of AmericaSat Mar 22 2025 - 06:00
Irish-based surgeon loses four family members in Israeli air strike on GazaSister and newborn grandniece of Navan-based Dr Mahmoud Abumarzouq left fighting for lives after attack south of RafahTue Mar 18 2025 - 18:39
Conor McGregor represents ‘very worst of toxic masculinity’ - TánaisteGarda criticises MMA fighter’s remarks on crime rates in Dublin in wake of contentious St Patrick’s Day visit to White House Tue Mar 18 2025 - 17:04
Why did Donald Trump bring Conor McGregor to the White House?The shamrock bowl now lies wilting, and Ireland remains as vulnerable as ever to the caprices of the Trump administrationTue Mar 18 2025 - 06:58
New York’s solemn St Patrick’s Day traditions a reminder of the old order in a turbulent new worldMass and marching in the morning: a hard business warning from the Tánaiste in the afternoonMon Mar 17 2025 - 20:20
Donald Trump, Conor McGregor praise each other’s work ethics during St Patrick’s Day meeting at the White HouseMMA fighter’s immigration remarks ‘wrong’ says Taoiseach, as Tánaiste says fighter has ‘no mandate’ to speak for people of Ireland during Washington visitMon Mar 17 2025 - 20:04
In Philadelphia Simon Harris celebrates Irish-American story and a ‘very particular case’Minister for Foreign Affairs says ‘we haven’t given up' on the cause of undocumented Irish in the USSun Mar 16 2025 - 09:13
Taoiseach moves to clarify status of Occupied Territories Bill after meeting with Jewish groupSt Patrick’s Day visit: Micheál Martin meets groups in Washington after rejecting as ‘absurd’ claims of anti-SemitismFri Mar 14 2025 - 20:59
Burke family incident in Washington ‘regrettable’, says Taoiseach, ‘but we live in a democracy’Isaac and Ami Burke, along with their mother Martina, interrupted event attended by Taoiseach in protest at the imprisonment of Enoch BurkeFri Mar 14 2025 - 16:29
US visit gives North’s Deputy First Minister a chance to tell a new story Emma Little-Pengelly and Donald Trump discussed the ‘long-standing and close ties’ between the US and Northern IrelandThu Mar 13 2025 - 20:24
Taoiseach can’t disguise the fact that he’d say anything to keep shamrocks flying high in TrumplandDonald Trump's statements about the ‘very special’ Irish made economic clouds seemed not so ominousWed Mar 12 2025 - 22:07
Trade tensions, Ukraine and Israel-Palestine among Irish officials’ concerns on Washington tripOfficials hope Taoiseach will succeed in keeping the conversation with Trump positive – at least in publicWed Mar 12 2025 - 06:00
Taoiseach to meet Trump in White House as trade war kicks off between the US and the EUMartin expected to stress mutually beneficial trade relations between Ireland the United StatesWed Mar 12 2025 - 06:00
Micheál Martin tight lipped ahead of Oval Office meeting with Trump, as Burke family travel to WashingtonWith Capitol Hill focused on budget and market concerns, fears that the Taoiseach might be walking into an ambush seem unlikelyTue Mar 11 2025 - 18:13
‘Hold your nerve’: Taoiseach enjoys good vibes in Texas ahead of Oval Office visitMartin focuses in on his key message for Donald Trump - trade is a two-way street that has worked sweetly for Ireland and the USTue Mar 11 2025 - 07:24
Taoiseach kicks off US visit with whistlestop tour of Austin and pop-up GaeltachtMicheál Martin spoke at the SXSW tech festival in Texas, visited the governor and cheerfully batted away questions about Wednesday’s big encounter in the Oval OfficeTue Mar 11 2025 - 06:00
Micheál Martin ‘very conscious’ of thousands of jobs relying on US-Ireland relationship, he says in TexasTaoiseach begins high-stakes US trip which includes Trump meeting on WednesdayMon Mar 10 2025 - 16:20
What experts expect to happen when Micheál Martin meets Donald Trump this week The Oval Office 2025 has become a fascinating and volatile court, so the Taoiseach might expect one or two curveballs coming his wayMon Mar 10 2025 - 06:00
Selma still struggles 60 years on from march for civil rightsThe Alabama city that achieved infamy because of state troopers’ violence towards peaceful protesters in 1965 is struggling to find ways to reverse its steep declineSat Mar 08 2025 - 06:00
