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If ever there was a time to listen to climate experts, it is now. The planet is responding to human abuses with unparalleled ferocity, unleashing floods, wildfires and heatwaves – opening “the gates of hell” as UN secretary general Antonio Guterres warned a climate summit.
Kevin Bakhurst has a surgeon’s job to do, in addition to managing a crisis. The RTÉ director general must cauterise the broadcaster’s open wounds – many of them self-inflicted – if he is to put an end to the convulsions of recent months.
If further evidence were needed of how unimportant and irrelevant Northern Irish concerns are to most British politicians, it lies in the contentious legacy bill now on the point of becoming law.
Blood calling to blood – family connections passed across three generations over more than a century – has led me here, to row after row of graves, in the world’s biggest Titanic burial ground. My grandmother’s uncle was lost with the ship, and this may or may not be where he is buried, but the remains of scores of unidentified Titanic victims were laid to rest in this graveyard.
Blood calling to blood – family connections passed across three generations over more than a century – has led me here, to row after row of graves, in the world’s biggest Titanic burial ground. My grandmother’s uncle was lost with the ship, and this may or may not be where he is buried, but the remains of scores of unidentified Titanic victims were laid to rest in this graveyard.