Paschal Donohoe set to secure second Eurogroup president term unopposed Re-election seems certain after no other candidates declared before deadlineThu Nov 24 2022 - 13:54
Irish must cleave closely to the French to instil influence in EuropeEmmanuel Macron has invited the Taoiseach for lunch at a time when Europe is confronting epochal crises driven by war and accelerated global warmingWed Nov 23 2022 - 19:40
Following in Picasso’s footsteps on the streets of MontmartreYou can mark the 50th anniversary of the painter’s death with a stay at the hotel where he had his wedding partySat Nov 19 2022 - 05:00
French Mayo: Lara Marlowe on Gen Humbert’s swashbuckling career A hard-drinking, womanising son of peasants from Saint-NabordTue Nov 15 2022 - 11:09
Charisma and careful words of Bardella convey extreme right-wing ideas to increasingly sympathetic French public Rassemblement National’s new leader benefits from cultural shift whereby it is no longer deemed racist to link immigration to crimeFri Nov 11 2022 - 16:00
Macron criticises opposition as political impasse continuesPresident lashes out after Marine Le Pen’s far-right party joins with left-wing coalition in no-confidence motionThu Oct 27 2022 - 16:04
Macron and Scholz manage to meet consensus from ‘constructive’ three-hour meetingFrance and Germany disagreed on fundamental issues before the invasion of Ukraine — the war laid bare those differencesWed Oct 26 2022 - 19:45
Marcel Proust and Ireland: In search of connectionsAn event next week in Dublin will explore the impact of the author’s masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time, on Irish writersSat Oct 22 2022 - 05:00
Franco-German relations: Mild thaw but icy discord remains over energy and defence policiesParis and Berlin still at loggerheads as Macron accuses Scholz of failing to show solidarity with EuropeFri Oct 21 2022 - 17:19
Macron’s woes: French president faces strikes, demonstrations and simmering discontentSince losing his absolute majority in the National Assembly in June, ‘an impression of indecision reigns’Wed Oct 19 2022 - 14:26
Paddy McKillen’s French idyll: A place of great architecture and stunning artAt Château La Coste, the billionaire Irish hotel magnate has created an extraordinary destination for connoisseurs of fine wine and great designSat Oct 15 2022 - 00:00
Annie Ernaux: ‘Women have not become the equals of men in terms of liberty and power’Writer is the 17th woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature and 16th French citizen to do soThu Oct 06 2022 - 21:48
Irish rugby players have until Thursday to appeal French decision to send for trialDenis Coulson charged with participating in alleged gang rape in Bordeaux while Chris Farrell is charged with failing to prevent a crimeMon Sept 26 2022 - 15:26
Edna O’Brien: ‘If I don’t write, I might as well not live’At the age of 92 the author has written a play about the women in James Joyce’s life, and she won’t be stopping thereSat Sept 17 2022 - 05:00
Paris’ Centre Culturel Irlandais demonstrates a distinctly Irish brand of soft diplomacyIn the early years of the centre, which is celebrating it’s 20th anniversary, tension arose over the role the Catholic Church should playSat Sept 17 2022 - 05:00
Hint of ulterior motive as Macron attempts reconciliation with AlgeriaEven the most banal undertakings between the two countries provoke suspicion and misunderstanding. This visit is no exceptionFri Aug 26 2022 - 17:15
France left to muse upon failed intervention in Mali Threat from jihadists remains as potent as ever as poor relations with ruling junta prompts French withdrawal from MaliThu Aug 18 2022 - 14:50
Is Russia using rape as a weapon of war in Ukraine?Russian officials routinely dismiss accounts of rape by Russian soldiers as Ukrainian and western propagandaSat Aug 13 2022 - 05:00
Silicon Valley to the frontline in Ukraine: Using tech in the war against Russia‘I wanted to help in whatever way was needed. If that required picking up a gun, I would have picked up a gun’Fri Aug 05 2022 - 15:41
Ukrainian film-maker turned soldier: ‘I don’t think there is such a thing as heroism in war’Ukrainian film-maker Oleh Sentsov has traded his movie camera for an assault rifle and shoulder-launched missilesWed Aug 03 2022 - 15:43
‘Ireland has discovered Ukraine because of war’EU integration leader in Kyiv parliament draws parallels with Ireland’s history, regrets Brexit loss of British objective appraisal of Russian threat and sees EU and Nato membership as twin goalMon Aug 01 2022 - 15:59
We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir by Raja Shehadeh A striking story of loss, heartbreak and political perfidy, writes Lara MarloweSun Jul 31 2022 - 04:42
‘This is a war of destruction. Either we destroy the Russians or they destroy us’After Russia invaded Crimea and Donbas in 2014, rebellious, independent Cossack identity exploded in UkraineSat Jul 30 2022 - 05:00
Lara Marlowe: Prison attack just the latest outrage in a catalogue of horrorKyiv Letter: My heart went out to the relatives of Ukrainians imprisoned at OlenivkaFri Jul 29 2022 - 18:56
‘No body means no money’: Ukrainian official accuses Russians of abandoning dead soldiers Spokesman for Ukrainian foreign ministry says Moscow is leaving corpses on battlefields to avoid paying their families war-death compensation sums of about €120,000Wed Jul 27 2022 - 16:00
Ukrainian teenager in captivity: ‘I held him while he was bleeding. A soldier called a doctor and they took him’Ukrainians share what life is like under Russian ruleTue Jul 26 2022 - 16:00
Taras Borovok: Fighting Russia with an ‘arsenal of songs’Writer of viral tune about Bayraktar drones now has a hit with Himars songMon Jul 25 2022 - 09:02
A military hospital in Ukraine: ‘If you have arms and legs, they say you are ready to fight’On the worst days at Dnipro military hospital, pools of blood and wounded bodies cover the floorSat Jul 23 2022 - 06:00
‘I think in Russian. I speak in Russian...But we are all Ukrainian now’Mayor of Dnipro is facing down the country’s oligarchs and fighting the Russians ‘on three sides’Fri Jul 22 2022 - 20:10
The Russians have his nephew. Viktor would do anything to save Ivan Retired army colonel Viktor Ovchar’s nephew Ivan is a prisoner of the RussiansFri Jul 22 2022 - 17:00
‘They are blackmailing the world’: Black Sea grain blockade squeezes food supplyUkrainians have little faith Moscow will respect any agreement reached in talks aimed at resuming exportsWed Jul 20 2022 - 11:38
‘Putin thought Odesa would welcome him with bread and salt’Ukrainian city’s deputy mayor says public sentiment has permanently moved against RussiaTue Jul 19 2022 - 14:46
Odesa and Russia: ‘First they send a ballerina. Then they send a tank’ An artist and an intellectual in the Ukrainian port city grapple with the horrors of invasion and explain their perspectives on the role of Russian culture as a weaponMon Jul 18 2022 - 17:42
Ukraine letter: ‘They are murdering our children and there is no one to stop them’Nato leaders bought into hi-tech aircraft for decades only to find themselves arming Ukraine for what is increasingly a first World War-style conflictSun Jul 17 2022 - 16:00
The Villa Spada: Lara Marlowe on the Irish Embassy in Rome and the echoes of 1849Villa was site of battle to defend republican idealsSun Jul 03 2022 - 19:02
Bataclan verdicts: ‘This trial has been a lesson in humanity’Trial of November 2015 jihadists plunged survivors - and France - back into the horror of that nightThu Jun 30 2022 - 19:34
Court finds 19 men guilty over Paris attacks that killed 130 people in 2015 Only survivor of terrorist unit, Salah Abdeslam, sentenced to life without paroleWed Jun 29 2022 - 19:32
Macron faces uphill battle in talks with leaders after losing majorityFrench president rejects prime minister’s offer of resignation following legislative electionsTue Jun 21 2022 - 18:35
French president Emmanuel Macron to meet rival parties after losing majoritySome commentators have predicted France will become ungovernableTue Jun 21 2022 - 06:35
French president hobbled as many voters turn to ‘anything but Macron’ Satisfaction at his humbling mingles with fears France could become unstable as extremes make gainsMon Jun 20 2022 - 19:43
EU membership may prove a mirage for Ukraine despite optimism of Kyiv visitThe war is just one obstacle: Ukraine would be the largest country in the EU by land mass and would absorb huge fundingFri Jun 17 2022 - 17:00
Left-wing alliance performs strongly in French electionMacron set to struggle for overall parliamentary majority in Sunday’s second round of votingMon Jun 13 2022 - 18:10
Perception vs reality: How Ireland is marketed to tourists abroadWe focus on 'rip off' culture and queues at Dublin Airport, but foreign visitors are focused on other things, for now...Sat Jun 04 2022 - 06:00
Macron camp shaken out of lethargy with risk they could fall short in parliamentThe gloves are off, as ‘Last-minute Emmanuel’ names far-left grouping led by Mélenchon his chief adversaryFri Jun 03 2022 - 18:00
The banlieue comes to the Irish embassy in Paris Immigrant students preparing for a trip to Ireland encouraged to believe in a brighter futureMon May 30 2022 - 17:00
War hotels: Amazingly no one was killed in Belfast’s Europa, the most bombed hotel in EuropeThe Holiday Inn in Sarajevo was doubtless the most dangerous of the war hotelsSat May 28 2022 - 06:00
Food for thought – Lara Marlowe on the centenary of the dinner at the MajesticAn Irishwoman’s DiarySun May 22 2022 - 21:04
Emmanuel Macron’s reshuffled cabinet includes two unexpected appointmentsFormer TCD student Clément Beaune reappointed as minister for European affairsFri May 20 2022 - 19:53
Macron appoints Élisabeth Borne as prime ministerFormer employment minister is only second woman to hold the post in French historyMon May 16 2022 - 20:47
Russian crackdown: Why it takes tremendous courage to protestNewspaper editor Dmitry Muratov is a rare voice speaking out against Putin’s ‘purpose-built, repressive system’Sat May 07 2022 - 06:00
