Nicky Ryan News Today

As part of a $1 million prize tournament, Craig Jones will face 10-time BJJ world champion Gabi Garcia in an intergender grappling match.

Santa Cruz Longboard Union (SCLU) took first place at the 38th annual Memorial Day Club Invitational -- the longest-running longboard surf contest on the West Coast -- at Steamer Lane on Saturday and Sunday.

DCU’s Paola Rivetti, an expert in Middle East politics, joins us to look at the fallout from the death of Iran’s president in a helicopter crash last week. What role did he play in Iranian society? What does the succession process look like – and is there any scope for a more moderate leader?

The Journal’s political podcast The Candidate returns for a new season as part of the EU 2024, Explained series, delving into the election and helping you make sense of it. The podcast is profiling each constituency as well as giving you a wider look at the election itself.

We’re joined by Paul McCutcheon, a professor of Law at the University of Limerick to examine how exactly sentencing works. What factors do judges take into account? What guidance do they rely on? And how is that some judges deliver sentences that look very different to those of their peers?

Assistant News Editor Valerie Flynn joins us and explores its findings – and with the care it needs, as it is vulnerable children at the heart of this healthcare story.

Before today, the cause of the devastating blaze had never been officially determined.

We’re joined on this week’s episode of The Explainer by our reporter Eoghan Dalton who has reported extensively on the Kenneally case for us.

This week’s episode of The Explainer leaves the Brussels jargon to one side and focuses on what the core institutions are and how they all interact with each other.

The Mary Raftery Prize is awarded annually to an individual or small team responsible for social affairs journalism produced on the island of Ireland.