Russia

From the Shannon to Siberia: How alumina from a Limerick refinery enters Russia’s weapons supply chain

Alumina made in Aughinish, Co Limerick is exported to smelters that sell aluminium to a trader supplying Russian arms manufacturers, an investigation has found. The project analysed confidential documents, customs data and transport records along with satellite imagery and financial records, to trace the passage of materials from Guinea and Brazil, through Ireland, and on to Russian smelters.

First Venezuela, now Iran but is Washington’s real target China?

Behind Trump’s erratic policies there is one common thread: to check China’s rise

Iron Ladies: Gripping insight into Cold War and pursuit of justice by Irish Jewish women

Television: Slice-of-life memories a stark reminder of arbitrary cruelty of former Soviet Union

Irish-British defence agreement updated to boost co-operation, tackle Russia ‘shadow fleet’

Cyber security, information-sharing and joint procurement initiatives also covered in deal

How to cut your energy bills: from your heating temperature to use of the washing machine

Slower driving, switching gas and electricity supplier and turning off immersion among ways of saving

New legal powers will allow Naval Service to board vessels, including Russia’s shadow fleet

Existing laws will be updated to give the service ‘clearly defined statutory powers at sea to counter threats in our maritime domain’

Kremlin backs covert campaign to keep Viktor Orban in power

Vladimir Putin endorses plan drawn up by Russian consultancy that is under western sanctions

Price of our dependence on fossil fuels is becoming clear yet again

But renewable energy relies on resources that will never run out and cannot be cut off as act of aggression

Donald Trump is mad, bad and dangerous. Only the midterms can save the US now

One Congress member is even apparently tabling a Bill to allow the US president to serve a third term

Iran warns it will block oil shipments from the Gulf unless attacks cease

Donald Trump considers easing sanctions on Russia as part of package of options to combat spiking ‌global oil prices

Iran now knows Trump’s price point: soaring energy prices

Lacking an endgame, public support or regional buy‑in, Trump’s Iran war risks exposing US limits more starkly than any battlefield outcome

Russian deportation and ‌transfer of Ukrainian children amounts to crimes against humanity, says UN investigation

More than 19,500 children have been forcibly displaced or illegally ​deported to Russia and Belarus during Ukraine war

McEntee asked to intervene in case of Irish citizen imprisoned in Russia

Dmitry Simbaev was detained last August after ‘anti-Russian’ messages were found on his phone

Fuel prices top €2 a litre as annual extra cost to households from war could hit €1,000

Irish consumers could face hikes in domestic energy, food and mortgages if conflict drags on

What are the Government’s options for easing rising energy costs and will they happen?

Coalition is taking a cautious approach amid the Middle East conflict and resisting Opposition calls for immediate action

US focus on Iran intensifies Ukraine’s struggles and leaves Putin feeling vindicated

Oil-price rises from prolonged Middle East conflict could give much-needed boost to flagging Russian economy

Two children among 10 killed in Russian strike on Ukrainian residential building

Moscow’s forces launch 480 drones and 29 missiles targeting country’s energy and railway infrastructure

Miriam Lord’s week: An ‘outrageous’ gender oversight and turmoil for St Patrick’s Day plans

It’s not just stranded tourists and discommoded influencers who have been repatriated, Eoin Hayes has returned to the Dáil

Russia-Ukraine talks on ice as Middle East war widens

US and its allies seek Kyiv’s expertise in countering Iran’s drones

Cost of living interventions not under consideration at the moment, says Chambers

Minister says intervention at this stage ‘highly unlikely’, arguing that last year’s budget measures were ‘permanent, affordable and sustainable’

Taoiseach’s Operation Septic Turkey prompts epic levels of fury on Opposition benches

But Fine Gael TD Edward Timmins emerges as unlikely star in Fianna Fáil’s leader’s two hours of need

Ukraine under pressure to allow EU access to pipeline carrying Russian oil

Hungary and Slovakia accuse Kyiv of overstating the impact of an attack by Moscow on Druzhba pipeline

‘Smiling at strangers in the street is not something you encounter in Russia’

Arthur Velker moved to Ireland from Siberia as a child

Drawn-out Iran conflict would hurt Ukraine’s air defence, says Zelenskiy

Ukraine-Russia peace talks still expected this week but could be moved from planned Abu Dhabi location

Oil jumps 10% on Iran conflict and could spike to $100 a barrel

Opec+ agrees to raise production after Gulf oil flows disrupted by US and ‌Israeli attacks on Iran

When I was young and foolish, my friend and I hitchhiked around Europe

Between then and now so much has changed, while so much has remained the same

Disabled Ukrainian veterans play out war trauma of Russian invasion on Dublin stage

Three Ukrainian veterans will play themselves in a bilingual play to be staged in Dublin

Letters: Mainstream media have gone quiet on Gaza since the ‘ceasefire’

Western media interest seems to have fallen off a cliff, yet the suffering continues

Ukrainian and US officials hold postwar rebuilding talks despite deadlock with Russia

Latest talks come as Moscow launches fresh missile and drone attacks on Kyiv’s energy and other critical infrastructure

Limits on Ukraine’s army in peace deal should apply to Russia too, top EU official proposes

Zelenskiy praises Europeans who have ‘stood on the right side of history’ as Kyiv counts four years of war

Sinn Féin opposing EU loan for Ukraine like supporting surrender, says Micheál Martin

‘It beggars belief that Sinn Féin wants Europe to abandon Ukraine," says Taoiseach

Ukraine marks four years of war with Russia amid questions over western support

EU leaders confront divisions over €90bn loan as Zelenskiy addresses parliament

European unity faces critical test as Ukraine war enters its fifth year

EU’s Kaja Kallas not optimistic about peace talks as cities face continued bombardment

Four years of Ukraine war, learner driver may be behind death of 16-year-old, and Peter Mandelson arrested

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Four years on, Ukrainians no longer believe in anything but the weapons they carry

Idea of just peace, war crimes trials and reparations has fallen by wayside

Orban spoils the show of united EU front as Ukraine war enters fifth year

‘We don’t hate Ukraine’, says Hungarian minister before saying why far-right government threatened to block sanctions on Russia

Russia strikes Ukrainian energy grid with missiles and drones as war nears four-year mark

At least one killed and another five injured in Kyiv region with latest talks failing to produce peace deal

We face a real danger that the nuclear arms race might be about to resume

Worldview: The bulletin of the atomic scientists moved its estimate of the risk of a nuclear conflict, the doomsday clock, to 85 seconds to midnight

Defence Forces to acquire mobile air traffic control tower for emergencies during EU presidency

Government is fast-tracking acquisition of anti-drone technology for use during summits

How does Sinn Féin propose Ukraine negotiate without the necessary military resources?

Aggressors rarely concede at the negotiating table what they are winning on the battlefield

Tanker carrying Russian oil to fuel-starved Cuba will test Trump blockade

Pressure on Havana has been mounting since late last year, when US forces seized a ship bringing oil there

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