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Irish architect Níall McLaughlin: ‘Home is home, but moving to London felt like home in a different kind of way’

The Dublin designer was awarded British architecture’s highest honour this year. His buildings prioritise their users’ wellbeing

The lilting Cork accent in my local Lidl reveals a truth about automated voices

Plus, filling in the blanks and the real meaning of life

CarTrawler acquired by travel giant Expedia

Irish tech firm founded by two brothers in 2004 out of the family business

Catherine Connolly warns against ‘normalising slaughter’ in speech during first official UK visit

Catherine Connolly speaks of need to ‘decolonise’ Irish minds in embassy address in London

‘Lack of housing’ a factor in Irish emigration to UK, says Catherine Connolly on first official visit to Britain

Trip takes place amid speculation King Charles will be invited to visit the Republic

Britain’s deep political divides were plain to see on the streets of London this weekend

Tricolours were mixed in with Union Jacks as Tommy Robinson held a big London rally while pro-Palestine marchers converged nearby

Tens of thousands march in London in separate far-right and pro‑Palestinian protests

British police deployed 4,000 officers, including reinforcements from outside the capital

Britain on edge: Streets brace for protest ahead of fraught weekend

After a week of drama at Westminster, London prepares for far-right and pro-Palestinian marches

Ahern remarks give voice to a fear many who grew up visibly different in Ireland live with

Long overdue investment in antiracism education and public awareness is urgently needed

I am back in London after three years. It’s difficult to explain why

My Australian life made me less courageous and more inclined to stay where I was comfortable

Get back: Beatles to open museum in London on site of their last gig

Paul McCartney hails plans for 3 Savile Row, which include access to rooftop where the band played their final public performance

Titanic dive widow: ‘We left London as a family of four and we returned as a unit of two’

‘We left London as a family of four. And we returned as a unit of two’

The ‘Irish emigrant’ is no longer a simple concept. Meet the new diaspora

With Ireland’s links to the US weakening, for now at least, the importance of other bonds is emerging

‘Name one thing invented by the Irish that improved the world? Zero’ – Local elections heat up in London

Suburban ward of North Harrow shows old battles between Labour and Tories haven’t gone away, you know

Derry Girls actor Kathy Kiera Clarke: ‘I feel like everything I did before doesn’t exist in many ways’

Actor Kathy Kiera Clarke, best known as Derry Girls’ Aunt Sarah, on how the Troubles shaped her early life

Róisín Ingle: ‘What is The Beatles?’ the 23-year-old asked. I thought I heard her wrong

I had an out-of-body experience, sitting in a cafe with a 23-year-old who had never heard of The Beatles

Burglar climbed through open window at Irish billionaire’s London home, court hears

Paul Coulson’s Knightsbridge townhouse was targeted in a series of burglaries over four days

UK police charge man over stabbing of two Jewish men in London

Green Party leader criticised for retweeting post accusing officers of ‘violently kicking a mentally ill man in the head’

Banksy confirms he is behind statue which appeared overnight in central London

Sculpture depicts man marching off a plinth, carrying a billowing flag that obscures his face

Suspect in London stabbings was referred to counter-extremism programme in 2020

Man being questioned over attack on two Jewish men in Golders Green has been named as Essa Suleiman (45)

Stabbing of two Jewish men in north London declared a terrorist attack

Man, who had been ‘attempting to stab Jewish members of the public’, arrested following incident in Golders Green

London Marathon: Sabastian Sawe breaks two-hour barrier as Irish record is also broken

Kenyan wins men’s race in 1:59:30, 65 seconds faster than the previous world record

MasterChef’s new presenter Anna Haugh: ‘I’m really proud I come from Tallaght’

Dublin chef’s new MasterChef presenting role is one of the highest profile gigs in cooking reality television

Stalin with a nose ring or ecopopulist? Inside the dizzying rise of Zack Polanski

Under his leadership the Green Party in Britain is riding high in opinion polls and threatens to swamp Labour in London

‘It’s a stereotype that Ireland is full of drinkers. It’s a problem all over the world’

Playwright and screenwriter Nancy Harris on her parents’ separation, the myth of family and her hit show The Dry

I never thought I wanted to live in Australia and now I’m struggling to leave

Many Irish people idolise Australian life - it represents escape into another version of yourself

The changing Ancient Order of Hibernians: ‘Irish America has moved past nostalgia in unity debate’

Ancient Order of Hibernians deeply invested in Ireland, but its attitudes have changed with the times

The Palestinian-Israeli actor tackling Middle East conflict with jokes and empathy

Yousef Sweid’s one-man show – Between the River and the Sea – is a risky, tongue-in-cheek swipe at his adopted home

Róisín Ingle: I took my mother to London to see Joyce, her only remaining sibling

Róisín Ingle: Chance to visit her last remaining sibling was a magic key that unlocked our trip to London

Grace O’Malley-Kumar, killed in Nottingham attacks, ‘was too good to be true’, say parents

Teenage Irish citizen from prominent medical family was killed in the Nottingham attacks but had lived a joyous life, her parents recall

What should a museum look like? London’s Irish-designed V&A East Museum could have the answer

O’Donnell+Tuomey’s new branch of the Victoria and Albert Museum, in the city’s East Bank quarter, is part of a rethink of what such institutions should do

Now you can see Edvard Munch’s The Scream in ‘film form’, but why would you want to?

Talk about a solution to a non-existent problem. Or an answer to a question no one asked

Viral video of London stabbing incident sparks debate over crime: ‘He was my only son’

Killing in north London park is one of the latest in a spate of knife attacks among young people in the city

Say Nothing author Patrick Radden Keefe: ‘The truth often makes people uncomfortable’

The US writer has found that getting answers involves brass neck persistence and blunt rejection, to which he has happily become immune

Rare Titanic survivor life jacket up for auction as anniversary approaches

Laura Mabel Francatelli’s life jacket is the only one belonging to a Titanic survivor to be auctioned

I live in the ‘most boring’ part of Australia. But a recent violent incident got me thinking

As an outsider I have the freedom to care about a place without belonging

JPMorgan to build Canary Wharf’s tallest tower after City airport approval

US bank wins clearance for 265-metre skyscraper after talks over low-flying aircraft

Conor Pope in Paris and London: ‘At every turn in Paris, someone was standing by to screw me’

A tale of two cities, one Eurostar, and some price-gouging that even an encounter with Paddington Bear couldn’t salvage

Three remanded over alleged arson attack on Jewish community ambulances in London

Four vehicles were set on fire in the early hours of March 23rd

Easter eggs stay pricey even as cocoa prices plunge

Makers try to recoup losses after margins were squeezed by spike in price of raw ingredient

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