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At the end of the month. The home secretary calls on facebook to rethink plans to encrypt messages across its platforms. Walking out former conservative leadership contender rory stewart resigns from the party and plans to stand for mayor of london coming up on afternoon live, all the sport with olly foster. Encouraging progress for andy murray. He was quite chipper today, he says hes been playing his best tennis yet on the singles comeback trail. Thats despite a quarterfinal defeat in china tod...

As the two-year Ulysses European Odyssey project completes its journey in Ireland's north-west, Jenny Lee catches up with one of the organisers of this epic tribute to James Joyce's 1922 classic and finds out what spectacles visitors can look forward to

Ireland’s first all-female festival will take place at various locations across the north west this summer

YES – Spectacle-led, family friendly, international all-female event honours Joyce’s most famous female character, Molly Bloomsday

If a national newspaper is a record of one day in a country’s life, what would any edition of this week’s Irish Independent indicate about the state of Ireland? Judging by the column-inches metric, what’s revealed is anxiety about the spike in migrants arriving here, and impatience with the Government’s faltering steps to take control of the situation.

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I am writing to express my deep concern regarding the recent comments made by British prime minister Rishi Sunak regarding the effectiveness of the Rwanda project and its implications for migration to the Republic.

Now comes the season of doing our accounts. Ireland is experiencing escalating demand from asylum applicants as worldwide migration rises. What has that to do with us, you may say – we’re not persecuting or waging war on anyone.

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In February 1981, my father-in-law had his first burglar alarm put in. The man installing it arrived with a young apprentice who was in some discomfort and kept having to stop work to cough up a soot-black substance. The poor boy hacked and spluttered but kept going – it turned out he had been at the Stardust on the night of the fire.