Irish students tell of ‘panic’ after Mount Etna erupted during their tour of volcano
Friends on holiday in Sicily to celebrate graduation had to run as volcanic smoke rolled towards them
Italy
From Malin to Milan: Donegal tweed gets an international twist at Dublin show
Donegal tweed is central to a textiles exhibition involving an Italian art collective and students at Dublin Castle
Florence like a local: The ultimate guide to eating and drinking, from a €6 pasta dish to Tuscan haute cuisine
The Italian city is food heaven, but make sure you plan, book ahead and watch where the locals queue
What will €350,000 buy in Italy, France, Barbados, the Dominican Republic and Dublin 6W?
An apartment on the Ligurian coast; a Normandy townhouse; a two-bed apartment at Rockley Golf Course; a new apartment in Punta Cana or a one-bed cottage in Harold’s Cross?
Mercury Engineering aims for €3bn revenue within five years
Construction group eyes strong expansion in key European markets
Francesca Albanese: ‘The struggle against the Mafia has marked me and my sense of justice’
UN special rapporteur on Palestine assesses Ireland’s stance on the Israel-Hamas conflict and says Trump is ‘wildly and fastly contributing to the dismantlement of the world order’
Is a happy ending in sight in the Albania-EU tale of unrequited love?
Albania’s enigmatic prime minister Edi Rama returns for a fourth term, but corruption still dogs the small Balkan state
What will €195,000 buy in France, Denmark, Italy, Greece and Co Longford?
A renovated chalet in the Haute-Vienne, a villa by the sea in north Jutland and more
Diver dies during salvage operation to recover Mike Lynch’s Bayesian superyacht
Cause of death unknown as preliminary examination of body reveals no visible injuries or burns
Meet the ‘Papabiles’: The six men who could become the next pope
Conclave eligible to elect the successor to the late Pope Francis are expected to meet within weeks
What will €100,000 buy in Italy, France, Spain, Cape Verde and Co Leitrim?
One price, home and away: A Tuscan apartment with pool access, a duplex in a French château, a stone house in Spanish hiking country, a plot with three houses on an island on Stockholm’s archipelago, or a cottage on four acres outside Dromahair?
Cryogenically frozen, covered in hay, buried in sand: the weirdest and most wonderful wellness holidays
Cryotherapy is on the menu at the Camiral Golf and Wellness Resort in Girona. It’s an intense experience
Pope Francis’s funeral: ‘Pope among the people’ mourned by hundreds of thousands in Rome
Mass mirrored most Catholic funerals, albeit with hundreds of cardinals and dignitaries present
After the death of popular Pope Francis, what now for Christianity?
In Europe, after centuries of dominance, Christianity appears to be in retreat
‘A space that feels like we’re on holiday’: Design duo bring Tuscan curves to suburban Dublin
A couple who run their own design agency have transformed a Stillorgan semi-d into a family home that echoes Italy and the Algarve
Brace yourself as world’s leaders make holy show of themselves at Pope’s funeral
The men-only club will be out in force. Even Francis ‘the reformer’ could not assail that bastion
What will €350,000 buy in Madeira, France, Spain, Sardinia and Co Mayo?
A new apartment in Madeira, a renovated finca with two pools in Alicante and more
Late British tycoon’s sunken superyacht to be lifted from bottom of the sea
Mike Lynch and six others killed when superyacht sank in storm off Sicilian coast last August
Musician Oscar McLennan on the impact of his young son’s death: ‘I completely lost the power of words’
The tragedy changed everything for the songwriter, whose new instrumental album is a celebration of Ian’s life
Cable car crash: Prosecutors in Italy open investigation after four deaths
A British woman, Israeli woman and Italian cable car driver are among those killed southeast of Naples
Trump says ‘we’re going to have very little problem’ making trade deal with Europe as he meets Meloni
US president praises Italian prime minister and accepts invitation that could present opportunity for him to meet other European Union leaders
Four killed after cable car crash on mountain near Naples
One of the cables supporting cabin snapped, Italian media reports
Amanda Knox: ‘If I had not gone through this, I would not be the person I am today’
The Women’s Podcast with Róisín Ingle
Donald Trump puts Giorgia Meloni in an awkward spot
Italian prime minister under pressure playing both sides of fractured transatlantic relationship
John Hemingway obituary: Last surviving Battle of Britain pilot
He was shot down twice in the space of eight days, but went on to outlive all his contemporaries
What will €90,000 buy in Portugal, Spain, France, Italy and Donegal?
A farmhouse in Alentejo, a classic French doer-upper, an Andalusian townhouse, a studio apartment near Trieste or a one-bed apartment in Letterkenny?
Europe must avoid not just tariff row but ‘verbal escalation’ with US, Italian minister tells Dublin conference
Valentino Valentini says Italy and Ireland should forge greater trading ties to counter the impact of tariffs
Irish pilgrims join faithful in Rome celebrating Pope Francis recovery
Pope Francis’s decision to declare 2025 a ‘Jubilee Year of Hope’ entirely prescient, says Limerick Bishop
Irish art inspired by the beauty of Europe
Desire to live and work abroad on show at Dublin Irish art sales
What will €199,000 buy in France, Italy, Spain, Belize and Tipperary?
One price, home and away: A village home with lush gardens in Brittany, a lakeside retreat in Vagli di Sotto, an apartment with communal pool on Menorca, a beachside condominium in Belize or a cute terraced cottage with sunroom in Roscrea?
Six dead and 40 missing in boat disaster off Italian island of Lampedusa
Coastguard rescues 10 people and search resumes after half-sunken dinghy spotted near islet
Ireland fans savour Roman holiday as they hope for ‘dream’ results elsewhere
Some 30,000 Irish fans expected to watch Six Nations match in Italy
Shed Distillery adds Italian twist to new variety of Drumshanbo Gunpowder Irish Gin
Distiller worked with Bruno Vanzan, a mixologist and TV star in Italy with 800,000 social-media followers, to create spirit
Paddy Power owner Flutter is expected to be among frontrunners for €1.5bn Italian lotto franchise
But gaming giant draws criticism from NGOs amid suggestions it may use Italian licence to cross-sell other products
What to do with those exotic ‘holiday’ liqueur gifts? First, open them
How to Drink Better: Establish first whether you like the taste, if not dispose of them, otherwise they’ll sit in the drinks cabinet for years
Fiction in translation: Swedish bestseller Colony an impressive study of community, secrets and trust
Works by Annika Norlin, Malgorzata Lebda, Torborg Nedreaas, Robert Seethaler, Cheon Seon-ran and Alba de Céspedes
‘Our hearts lifted’: Parents of Wicklow woman seriously injured in Italy seeing signs of recovery
Hannah Leonard (22) suffered brain injuries when struck by a car in Sicily last October
What will €290,000 buy in Dublin 6, Crete, Corsica, Italy and Portugal?
One price, home and away: A cottage off Dublin’s Grand Canal, a Cretan summer dwelling, a Corsican stone house, a villa in Sanremo or an apartment in Santa Luzia?
The Grammar of Angels: Propulsive new account of Renaissance controversies about language, knowledge and the occult
Focusing on the life of Italian scholar Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, this is a superbly written effort to capture the power of language to transport us
What will €185,000 buy in France, Spain, Italy, Japan and Leitrim?
A classic country home in Vienne, a townhouse with saltwater pool in Mallorca, a restored village house in Tuscany, a ski chalet in Appi Kogen or a light-filled three-bed in Carrigallen
The Gorgeous Inertia of the Earth by Adrian Duncan: Captivating fiction about the emotional life of statues
Duncan’s is an utterly distinctive voice in contemporary Irish literature
What will €200,000 buy in Italy, France, Spain, Brazil and Wicklow?
A Tuscan farmhouse with an olive grove, a stone-cut home with mountain views and more
Posso Entrare? An Ode to Naples review: Trudie Styler’s documentary offers brutal truths and blissful sunlit escape
The core interview is with the stoical writer Roberto Saviano, who regrets publishing his 2006 novel, Gomorrah
Davos leaders who won’t take the train
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Italy’s first report on Catholic clerical sex abuse finds more than 60 cases
Investigators into Catholic clerical sex abuse warn of ‘dark field’ beyond cases examined
Gay men can train as Catholic priests but must observe celibacy, say Italian bishops
Guidelines announced by bishops’ conference signify shift in views, but sexually active gay men will not be admitted to seminaries
Italy’s Meloni sees Trump defending western interests, engaging with Ukraine
Italian prime minister seeks to allay concerns that Trump might break with Washington’s traditional European allies as he pursues a Maga agenda
Dublin-based Brera football investment group racks up €8m losses as a public company
Brera holds stakes in a number of small football clubs in Europe and elsewhere and also had a small stake in Manchester United
Giorgia Meloni meets Trump at Mar-a-Lago resort as Italian PM seeks to strengthen ties
Meloni is seen as a potentially strong partner for Trump given her conservative credentials
Giorgia Meloni masquerades as the ‘acceptable’ face of the far right, but nobody should be fooled
Worldview: Meloni is not bringing Italian post-fascism back to the centre ground and moderating it, but is polishing up a dangerous anti-democratic throwback
Andrea Bocelli: ‘My son, Johnny Depp, Ed Sheeran and Russell Crowe made pasta together, and were up until 6am’
A year in which the Italian tenor celebrates his luminous 30-year career will be rounded off by a well-earned Christmas at home
John Wilson: Two classic Italian wines that won’t break the bank
Wines for the Weekend: A Chianti and a Gavi from Tesco to enjoy over Christmas
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Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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