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Some landlords are continuing to seek “sex for rent” arrangements “without any concerns”, the head of National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWCI) has said, as the organisation called for legislation outlawing the practice to be prioritised in advance of a…

Israel has expanded the objectives of its almost year-long campaign in Gaza to include securing the northern front against Hizbullah, increasing fears of an escalation of its conflict with the Lebanese militant group. Prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s security cabinet voted…

“You have to be two steps ahead,” Sinéad O’Riordan says. “I’ve got punched in the face because I called the wrong shot.” Now there’s a problem that producers rarely encounter on set. Or actors. O’Riordan, an assertive Cork woman with…

Northern secretary Douglas Hurd faced sharp criticism during a dinner with Catholic priests in the mid-1980s, who roundly condemned the behaviour of the Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) and the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC). Some of the most trenchant criticism during…