Kneecap appear to bring missing head of King George V statue on stage during Melbourne gig
Statue was beheaded in 2024 during series of anti-colonial acts targeting British memorials
Australia
Brianna Parkins: I am the butt of my friends’ and family’s jokes because I can’t drive
Knowing you’re underachieving at the sport of underachieving tends to crush your ego
Baby wombat-snatching US influencer at risk of losing Australian visa
Outrage as woman posts video of herself grabbing baby marsupial from its mother
Autumn in Australia: I wonder if you ever get used to it?
I’m forever disappointing people at home with the news that Australia’s capital does have seasons
‘You need to not go to work tomorrow’: The words that brought a GP’s career to an abrupt halt
Dr Hilton Koppe now runs workshops to help health workers to deal with trauma
Australia: floodwaters still threaten parts of east coast after tropical storm
One person killed and several others injured after heavy rain falls on Queensland and New South Wales
‘Half the city is without power’: Readers in Australia share their storm experiences
It was an ‘eerie few days’ in Brisbane as a strange weather system named Alfred came calling
Ex-Cyclone Alfred: One dead and mass blackouts after tropical low hits Australia
Cyclone weakens to tropical low, but ‘intense’ rainfall threatens flooding, says expert
Ex-Cyclone Alfred: Are you Irish and living near Brisbane? Tell us your story
Were you negatively impacted by weather conditions that struck Australia’s eastern regions this weekend?
Australia warns thousands to move to safety as tropical Cyclone Alfred nears
Massive storm due to make landfall early on Saturday near Brisbane
No, the Irish who come to Australia are not the ‘worst’
There’s a hint of something in this school of thought. Maybe it’s classism. Maybe it’s jealousy. But it gets at me
Cyclone Alfred: Millions brace for impact as storm stalls off Australia’s east coast
Storm now likely to make landfall by Saturday morning near Brisbane, Australia’s third-most populous city
Cyclone Alfred: Australia’s east coast braces for rare tropical storm heading toward Brisbane
Storm warnings extend for more than 500km as authorities urge residents in low-lying areas to evacuate
Irish in El Salvador: A ‘jaw-dropping’ adjustment
We hear from some of the last Irish lords and a jockey making waves in Australia
Laochra Gael: Bríd Stack’s near-tragedy in Australian football movingly recalled in powerful TG4 documentary
Television: ‘This surge of pain shot up my head, down my back. I remember falling to the floor and just screaming,’ she says
Things aren’t better in Australia than in Ireland, but they are easier
I don’t want to tell anyone that things are better here than they are at home, but they are easier
Study shows few effective age controls at social media firms
More than 1m underage users of Meta, Snap in Australia, report says, ahead of law banning such users
‘Everyone is locked in their house’: Western Australia braces for flash flooding as Cyclone Zelia makes landfall
People told it is ‘too late to leave’, as destructive storm hits
The word ‘now’ is a weapon that Irish people wield as needed. But Australians use it differently
Like us, Australians sometimes talk in a way that is a few feet to the left or right of what they are literally saying
Apple Cider Vinegar: Why the ‘true-ish’ story of Belle Gibson needed to be told
Series is based on the rise and fall of a fraudster who faked brain cancer and claimed to have been cured by a health diet
‘If I don’t go to Australia, I feel my relationship will break up and my whole world will collapse’
Tell Me About It: I feel resentful that I have spent my whole childhood parenting my mum and I was so looking forward to not having to do this
Land Power: How ownership of the ground beneath our feet can mould our destiny and even embed racial and gendered inequalities
Michael Albertus draws upon 15 years of research and fieldwork in his examination of land-holding across the world from the 17th century onwards
An Irish jockey in Australia: ‘The longer you stay, the harder it becomes to go home’
Wild Geese: Johnny Allen, Australia
Plastic colonialism: ‘A stream of plastic debris, stretching miles, is heading towards us’
We may have placed it with good intention in our recycling bins, but it is choking villages, rivers and seas on the other side of the world
Trump may just have put an end to peace process absurdities
Trump has transformed expectations of what can be done, even if his administration ultimately fails to deliver it
DP Energy poised for €900m Australian project
Irish company wins key approval for Queensland wind farm
Power and Powerlessness in Union Ireland: illuminating Ireland pre-independence
Author turns to new and often-overlooked source material for a fresh examination of the nation before independence
The voice note is anathema to the values that uphold Irishness as we know it
Yet it is a crucial component of the Irish emigrant toolkit. It’s so cheering to hear my niece tell me, scandalised, that her baby brother farted in the bath
His leer was so filthy it would have you reaching for hand sanitiser. A man over 40. A man who knew so, so much better
There are many good men but that’s not the point. All it takes is one bad one, one look to make your insides drop
Low crime rate and ‘proper summers’ drawing police officers to Australia
Officers from An Garda Síochána are also being tempted by lifestyle and pay and conditions
Somebody broke in and stole our Christmas gifts – but I felt a sense of gratitude
Even as we picked our mostly valueless property up, I marvelled at the fact that in Canberra, unlike in Dublin, you get storage as standard. Lots of it
Aoife was diagnosed with HIV in Australia in 2020: ‘He was unknowingly positive. We had no idea’
New campaign aims to tackle widespread ignorance about HIV, a treatable condition that, contrary to myths, cannot be spread by kissing or using the same utensils
One Australian police force receives ‘over 100’ applications from gardaí, though few make move
Efforts by police forces of Western Australia and South Australia to recruit Garda members appear to have yielded very few results in recent years
‘That would have never happened in Ireland,’ my boyfriend said after my trip to Australian A&E
When a doctor came out carrying the green whistle, only seen after the worst of rugby tackles, I knew it was bad
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