Luxury cruise cancelled after death of 80-year-old woman left behind on island
Suzanne Rees was left on the Great Barrier Reef’s Lizard Island and wasn’t found until the next day
Australia
Look out Ireland, our economy could go the way of Argentina
Ireland acts as if the good times will last forever
Hector OZ/NZ review: Not original but comfort telly that hits the spot more than it misses
Television: At no point is Hector in danger of doing anything original or surprising (the odd fusillade about politicians aside)
David McWilliams: Australia’s housing crisis looks very like Ireland’s, but it’s not the same
The more people believe property prices can only rise, the more recklessly they behave
Irish overseas on the presidential election: ‘I follow Irish news, I’m proud of being Irish. Why can’t I vote?’
Irish Times readers outside the State share their views on being excluded from voting in the presidential election
‘Bondi is crumbling under the weight of Irish accents, I’ve heard more than I can count’
‘Nobody pays attention to how naked everybody is. Being Irish, I’m wearing jeans’
Cheque trouble with drawing down payment from my Australian pension
Tens of thousands of Irish people need to access workplace pension funds on their return from two-year working holidays
Oliver Jeffers: ‘Culturally I feel Irish but I normally skirt around the question: where are you from?’
The children’s author, who grew up Catholic in Belfast, on complicated identities and how his marriage to a Protestant might have been trickier 10 years earlier
Visa changes mean leaving Ireland for a life in the US is suddenly much less feasible
Big changes in the US mean educated and professional workers must confront what working-class migrants have long endured
Phone data will prove innocence of man accused in Ballyseedy Garden Centre meth case, court hears
Case relates to seizure of 564kg of methamphetamine in Cork in February 2024
What if working from home was a legal right?
An Australian state is planning a new hybrid work law despite an angry business outcry
Muireann O’Connell: ‘There are people in this country who hate me with the fire of a thousand suns’
The TV presenter on breaking into radio in her 20s, buying her first home, and her new show The Assembly
Australia’s social media ban for teens praised at UN event
Governments and tech firms closely watching effort to block use of social media by those younger than 16
Birds in Australia are like birds in Ireland, except almost certainly on cocaine
For the majority of the year, Australian magpies are good neighbours - in September and October, things change
Britain, Portugal, Canada and Australia formally recognise Palestinian state
Move comes as Israel intensifies military action in Gaza and expansion of settlements in occupied West Bank
Irish-born Geraldine Slattery seen as favourite to lead world’s biggest miner
Head of company’s Australian division Geraldine Slattery likely to succeed Mike Henry
Ireland must adapt to revolutionary changes we are seeing in Rugby Championship
Ireland must prepare to adapt to Rugby Championship’s rapid changes in attacking tactics or risk being left behind
Next stop, Antarctica: ‘Van Diemen’s Land’ and its many historical Irish connections
It is the smallest of the Australian states, with a population of just under 600,000
Barne Estate: Bitterness over sale of historic Co Tipperary farm
High Court dispute centred on meeting at billionaire John Magnier’s home in August 2023
Loving Ireland is easy. Living in it, not so much
Many Irish emigrants feel drawn to home. We need to give them more reasons to return
Australia mushroom murderer Erin Patterson jailed for minimum of 33 years
Woman killed three elderly relatives of her estranged husband with a meal containing poisonous fungi
Man dies in shark attack at Sydney’s northern beaches
Surfer’s body found floating in sea after suffering ‘catastrophic injuries’
‘I went from a teacher to being in charge of three public hospitals’: The 100-year-old Irish nun revered in Australia
Sr Angela Mary Doyle, from Co Clare, went to Australia in 1947 where she worked in healthcare and fought to help men affected by Aids in the 1980s
Surge in numbers emigrating to Australia
Number arriving in Ireland over 12 months falls to 125,300, CSO figures show
Manhunt continues in Australian bush after two police officers shot dead
Manhunt continues in Australian bush for 'heavily armed' suspect after two officers shot dead
I am too negative about Ireland and too positive about Australia. I can’t please everyone
When you choose to move abroad, you accept the reality that life at home moves on without you
Moth Short Story Prize winner takes judge Evie Wyld ‘right back to the loneliness of having a small baby’
Clare Roche wins prize, with Martha Sprackland second and Shelley Hastings third
Why are so many Irish people moving to Australia?
Large rise in people from US moving to Ireland in year to April has also drawn some attention
Australia blames Iran for two anti-Semitic attacks, expels its envoy
Homes, schools, synagogues and vehicles have been targets by antisemitic vandalism and arson since Israel began its war in Gaza in late 2023
Australian police hunt gunman after two officers shot dead in rural town
Incident in Porepunkah, 300km northeast of Melbourne, reportedly happened while warrant for historical sex abuse allegations being served
Lone survivor in Australian toxic mushroom murder case feels ‘half alive’
Barrister for Erin Patterson says his client’s ‘notorious’ reputation would make prison more onerous for her than the average offender
A Kerry man in Melbourne: ‘I have not seen any tough, stereotyped behaviour. I see similar senses of humour and levels of respect’
Kerry man Paul Clifford moved to Melbourne two years ago and works in PR
My grandad’s hobbies are listening to the Dubliners and complaining about still being alive
Grandad would tell me to come home soon because he didn’t ‘have long left’. It worked. I went home to Sydney every year
‘We can’t have nice things in Ireland because no one follows the rules’: Emigrants on returning home
More than 30,000 Irish citizens returned to Ireland in the year to April 2024. Four recent returnees share their experiences of coming home
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