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IFA Farm Forestry Chair Padraig Stapleton has welcomed the announcement of €55 million to be made available for the new ...

The ominous sense that even greater disasters – geopolitical, environmental, cultural – are pencilled on our future calendars ...

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Charity’s report identifies the climate events that caused the most damage, including California wildfires, floods in ...

Donald Trump accepted an invitation from the King for an unprecedented second state visit to the UK, hand delivered at the ...

Will 2025 be remembered as the year Vladimir Putin put Fivemiletown firmly on the world map? The recent story about Russia ...

From political scandals and court sagas to people’s stories of achievement, resilience and – unfortunately – tragedy, here is what our Irish Independent readers were reading this year.

Tommy Moyles uses his phone as a bit of a diary among other things, but he's looking to cut back using it for a while over the Christmas, or so he thinks.

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Eowyn to be precise – with 100mph winds ripping off roofs and cutting off power, but it was the winds of change that blew throughout the year. A mild winter and spring saw the mercury rise in April to ...