Brian Cox: ‘The Irish have been so subjugated’The actor, who was born in Dundee to an Irish family, stars in Conor McPherson’s ‘The Weir’ in London. He talks Irishness, displacement, drink and his support for Scottish independenceTue Feb 25 2014 - 01:00
Bead-based washing machine puts market in spinMachines use 1.5 million small plastic beads, little water and almost no detergentSat Feb 22 2014 - 22:00
British government’s controversial benefit cuts survive legal challengesBedroom tax and benefits cap legal, rules court of appealSat Feb 22 2014 - 01:00
Harsh conditions at Pentonville Prison lead to calls for its closureAs it stands now, Pentonville ‘cannot operate as a modern 21st century prison’Fri Feb 21 2014 - 01:00
Barclays to lodge discounted bid for McKillen debtBillionaire brothers will bid for loans to Irish property investor, it’s been reportedFri Feb 21 2014 - 01:00
Heart disease in women linked to paternal grandmothersNew research finds links to sharp changes in food supplyFri Feb 21 2014 - 01:00
Scots tell David Bowie to ‘f*** off back to Mars’Singer’s calls for Scotland to stay in UK provokes flood of online abuseFri Feb 21 2014 - 01:00
Little comfort for Eurosceptics in UK’s cost-benefit analysis of EU membershipOpinion: Reports do not support the view that there is much need for renegotiationThu Feb 20 2014 - 00:01
Salmond ratchets up rhetoric amid doubts over currency and EUFight to sway undecided in Scotland’s independence vote is getting more aggressiveTue Feb 18 2014 - 01:00
UK ‘drifting from EU’ says senior commission figureVice president Viviane Reding says access to single market comes at expense of following EU rulesMon Feb 17 2014 - 20:47
Miliband rebuffs Clegg overture about potential coalition with LabourDeputy prime minister says Labour has changed for the better since 2010 electionMon Feb 17 2014 - 19:06
GM potato ‘completely resistant’ to late blightResearch excites scientists as disease currently costs farmers some €5 billion annuallyMon Feb 17 2014 - 07:20
Laing O’Rourke denies claims it blacklisted union membersConstruction firm founded by Irishman Ray O’Rourke rejects charges it blacklisted union members from Liverpool site and tolerated unacceptable numbers of accidentsMon Feb 17 2014 - 01:00
London’s new centre for Irish cultureAn Irishman’s Diary: Fundraising campaign kicks offMon Feb 17 2014 - 01:00
SNP furious as doubt cast on Scottish future in EUBarroso says membership for independent Scotland is ‘difficult, if not impossible’Mon Feb 17 2014 - 01:00
Southern England braced for flood repeatGround saturated as 7.3m tonnes of water being pumped off Somerset Levels dailyMon Feb 17 2014 - 01:00
Barroso urges UK to remain in EU despite migration policy tensionsEuropean Commission president rejects calls calls for targeted restrictions on freedom of movement enjoyed by low-paid workersSat Feb 15 2014 - 01:00
Third level: the view from abroadHow do the systems in other countries select, stream and educate students, and how do they pay for them? Our correspondents assess the degrees of differenceSat Feb 15 2014 - 01:00
Labour man holds seat in byelectionMike Kane, a son of Irish immigrants, beats Ukip candidate by about 9,000 votes in ManchesterFri Feb 14 2014 - 22:09
Public left to cope with misery as politicians flounder in the floodsThe costs of extreme weather could become a constant feature of life in BritainFri Feb 14 2014 - 01:02
Westminster parties bluffing over sterling threat, says Scottish National PartyScotland warned it will not be able to keep pound if it votes for independenceFri Feb 14 2014 - 01:01
Letter bombs sent to UK army offices ‘bear hallmarks’ of dissident groupsNumber of ‘crude but viable’ packages defused without damage or injuriesFri Feb 14 2014 - 01:00
The online love market: the death of romance?Has online dating reduced romance to the dismal level of economics?Fri Feb 14 2014 - 01:00
Family of Patrick Halpin pay tribute at London MassOver 100 attend gathering for 18-year-old Loughrea student who died last weekThu Feb 13 2014 - 21:50
Cause of death of Irish student in London still unknownPatrick Halpin found dead on roof in Leicester SquareThu Feb 13 2014 - 01:03
Son of Irish immigrants looks set to take seat for LabourMike Kane expected to see off Ukip challengeMon Feb 10 2014 - 01:00
Postmortem in London next week on Irish studentPolice believe 18-year-old Galway man Patrick Halpin made his way on to roof from Burger King restaurant in London’s Leicester SquareSat Feb 08 2014 - 01:00
Cameron urges Scots to remain in ‘Team GB’British prime minister attempts to shift pro-union camp to positive groundSat Feb 08 2014 - 01:00
CCTV examined after Patrick Halpin’s body foundPolice expect postmortem to be carried out within the next day or twoFri Feb 07 2014 - 20:52
McFeely firm given no more time in London to prepare for BoI case“All your wriggle room is gone,” counsel toldFri Feb 07 2014 - 01:00
Location, location – and crunching the numbers for the partiesConservative grassroots, though fewer in number, are flexing musclesFri Feb 07 2014 - 01:00
Lottery wins make people ‘more right-wing’UK study of those who won up to £200,000 finds ‘humans are creatures of flexible ethics’Thu Feb 06 2014 - 14:49
New bird flu virus claims world’s first human victimWoman (73) died from multiple organ failure after contracting virus from poultryWed Feb 05 2014 - 01:00
Scotland legislates for same-sex marriageHealth secretary Alex Neil says it will be seen as ‘one of the great days’ in Scottish historyWed Feb 05 2014 - 01:00
Wrongly jailed in UK may not get redressCommons vote means proof of not committing crime now neededWed Feb 05 2014 - 01:00
Thatcher drove Scots to drink and drugs, claims health ministerDestruction of heavy industry responsible for 60% rise in mortality rate, says Alex NeilTue Feb 04 2014 - 01:00
Berlin gives UK hope of treaty change before referendumGerman foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier refuses to rule out renegotiation before planned vote on EU membershipTue Feb 04 2014 - 01:00
Community in Somerset barely coping with floodsBritish PM says everything possible will be done but few locals believe thisMon Feb 03 2014 - 01:00
UK law: Renewed bid to make it difficult for those wrongfully convicted to claim compensationThe Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Bill returns to the House of CommonsMon Feb 03 2014 - 01:00
Attitudes in UK have changed, say immigrantsFears have calmed as the expected influx of Romanians and Bulgarians does not come to passSat Feb 01 2014 - 01:00
Angela Lansbury: retire, she won’tAfter nearly 300 episodes of ‘Murder, She Wrote’ and seven decades on stage and screen, Angela Lansbury talks about her latest role, the joys of Barry’s Tea and why she escapes to East CorkSat Feb 01 2014 - 01:00
Hollande rejects UK demands for EU reformFrench president is latest to rebuff to British efforts to secure support for EU changesFri Jan 31 2014 - 18:15
Teaching banks to value trust and honestyA lack of training for banking professionals has been dangerous for both banks and their customers, believes Michael LaffertyFri Jan 31 2014 - 01:00
Police whistleblower faces misconduct hearing that could end his careerOne British police constable has cast a light on accuracy of crime figuresFri Jan 31 2014 - 01:00
Cameron relies on other parties’ votes to see off deportation amendmentAttempt to make it easier to send foreign criminals home had backing of 85 ToriesFri Jan 31 2014 - 01:00
Governor of the Bank of England warns of sterling changes for independent ScotlandMark Carney says “a durable, successful currency union requires some ceding of national sovereignty”Thu Jan 30 2014 - 01:00
Ulster Bank behaviour ‘shocking’, claims Mattie McGrathTD tells House of Commons committee bank is ‘playing games’ with regulators over debtorsThu Jan 30 2014 - 01:00
Too many couples receiving unnecessary IVF, study warnsCommercial pressure partly to blame for rise in fertility treatments, say researchersWed Jan 29 2014 - 01:00
No prosecution of Nigella Lawson over cocaine useFurther police activity may deter victims from being candid, say policeTue Jan 28 2014 - 01:03
