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Russian-owned Aughinish Alumina plant in Limerick records profits of €103m

Accounts just filed show it returned to the black in 2024

Moonstruck: A geologist’s playground, an elite retreat or a staging post to a new frontier?

From megalithic art to science fiction, Earth’s sole natural satellite has compelled us, scared us and been the site of our fantasies

McEntee forced to cancel trip to Lebanon after Defence Forces flagged concern over risks

Minister for Defence was set to fly into Beirut, travel under armed convoy close to Israeli border to meet Irish Unifil troops

Sinn Féin swaps cynical populism for pragmatism on Northern Ireland property tax rises

Some thought has gone into the psychology of carefully boiling the fiscal frog

Taoiseach concerned at reports Aughinish plant supplying ‘Russian war effort’

Micheál Martin rejects accusation Government speaking out of both sides of its mouth by supporting Ukraine and Aughinish Alumina

Ukraine ‘to be among priorities of Ireland’s EU presidency’

Helen McEntee to visit Kyiv on Wednesday for first time since taking office

Hungary under fire after leaked audio reveals efforts to help Russia overturn EU sanctions

Recording purports to capture phone call between foreign ministers of Hungary and Russia

Can Mongolia’s third prime minister in under a year stay in the job?

Global Briefing: Protests have continued for months over high prices, fuel shortages and plans for a highway to ease Ulaanbaatar traffic

Four stories that Albert Camus might choose to tell if he were alive today

Author’s speech 80 years ago, on how ideology is used to excuse or celebrate death, feels suddenly current

‘Very damning’ - Investigation may prompt EU to look again at alumina sanctions

High risk of material feeding ‘military industrial complex’ amid Ukraine invasion, envoy says

Message from the Editor: How our Aughinish investigation came together

IT Sunday: Information emerged that cast new light on activities of Limerick plant at centre of tensions between Russia and the West

The €500m hole in Chernobyl’s roof: A race to repair damage from a Russian drone

Ukraine’s financially strapped government has taken the first steps to fix the hole made by the attack drone

‘That’s a lie’: Rubio denies Zelenskiy claim US is demanding Kyiv give up eastern Donbas

Ukrainian leader said US was making its offer of security guarantees contingent on ceding the industrial heartland

Ireland talked tough on Russian sanctions - until it came to one metals plant in Limerick

Aughinish Alumina revelations in The Irish Times came a day after Russia launched a wave of missile and drone attacks across Ukraine

Russia-bound cargo ship seen dropping anchor near subsea cables off Irish coast

Vessel, named Arne, regularly transports alumina from Co Limerick’s Aughinish plant to St Petersburg

Man who assaulted woman during call with Barron Trump jailed for four years

Russian man drunkenly beat up victim when he became jealous of her friendship with US president’s son

Without weapons for the Naval Service, our bark will be worse than our bite

What happens when navy vessels with improved detection systems do find a hostile ship?

Aughinish exposes a general trend in State attitude to Ukraine, Palestine, human rights ...

The Achilles heel in Irish foreign policy is a deep and persistent unwillingness to properly regulate powerful corporate actors

‘Significant role’ of Aughinish Alumina for civilian use must be considered in further Russian sanctions

Helen McEntee says 20th package of sanctions under discussion over Ukraine war; Limerick plant under pressure over weaponry links

Off-the-record conversation between Irish EU official and journalist leaked online

Ursula von der Leyen’s communications chief’s call uploaded online by unknown party

US security guarantees dependent on Ukraine ceding territory to Russia, says Zelenskiy

Trump applying pressure on Kyiv for quick end to four-year invasion as US focuses shifts to Iran war

‘They’re not making bullets in Aughinish’: Limerick locals defend alumina plant’s Russian links

Residents living near Russian-owned industrial plant say it directly or indirectly employs 1,000 people in the area

Revelations about Limerick plant’s exports to Russia leave Government in awkward position

Next move will have implications for meaning of Irish neutrality

At least seven killed in Ukraine after Russia launches attacks using almost 1,000 drones

Barrage marks one of largest aerial bombardments of country since start of full-scale invasion in 2022

Government to review ‘concerning’ findings of Irish Times Aughinish investigation

Evidence of Limerick-produced alumina entering Russian military supply chain ‘horrific and shocking’, says Labour’s Ivana Bacik

Russian oil tankers carry oil for Cuba and a message for friends and the US

War in Iran has given Vladimir Putin a boost

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.

‘It’s not sustainable’: High cost of using fighter planes to down cheap Iranian drones

Gulf states’ reliance on jets to battle waves of inexpensive Shaheds is testing their finances, pilots and planes

‘We’re in survival mode’: Crews battle cold and missiles to save Ukraine’s grid

A 56-year-old former soldier in the Soviet army is one of hundreds of energy workers working to restore power in freezing conditions

Ukrainian film-maker Sergei Loznitsa: ‘Once you understand the world exists in abstractions you can do whatever you want’

The Ukrainian director of Two Prosecutors, who studied maths and AI, says although a film may be about something tragic, ‘it is still a work of art, and its form has to be harmonious’

Ireland joins the hunt for Russian submarines

From ‘token navy’ to sub-hunters: The plans to transform the Irish Naval Service into a modern military force

Rasputin and the Downfall of the Romanovs by Antony Beevor: perhaps a mirror for our troubled times

A dual examination of the decline of imperial Russia and the backdrop against which Rasputin’s influence was enabled

Catriona Crowe: The brave few risking everything to unmask Putin’s Russia

The Oscar-winning documentary Mr Nobody Against Putin is a record of something totally unseen in the world outside Russia

EU pulls funding for Rwandan force amid murky scramble for gas in Mozambique

French energy company rejects allegation of complicity in war crimes

Iran war: What can EU leaders do about rising energy prices?

Political danger of an inflation spike will focus the minds at Brussels summit on Thursday

Russia and Iran are ‘brothers in hatred’, Zelenskiy tells UK MPs

Ukrainian president warns against US move to ease sanctions on Russian oil

Is it time for the EU to start talking to Russia after four years of silence?

EU leaders frustrated at being sidelined in Ukraine peace negotiations

US ‘unfortunately’ suspends Russia oil sanctions in defiance of European leaders

US issues 30-day waiver for purchase of Russian oil stranded at sea; Moscow says lifting of sanctions ‘increasingly inevitable’

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

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