Monday 28 September 2026Morning (Europe/Dublin)
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Police are examining whether Iran was linked to a suspected bomb plot near RAF Fairford after finding explosives in vans and arresting five men on terrorism charges.
Live updates follow the RAF Fairford investigation and the farmer who alerted police to masked men near the base.
A farmer's late-night sighting of vans near RAF Fairford led to a 999 call, evacuations and arrests in the suspected bomb-plot inquiry.
The US ambassador to China says Trump offered to sell US weapons to Xi Jinping's government during their recent meeting, prompting questions over Taiwan.
Marine Le Pen's National Rally and allies won a record 14 seats in France's Senate elections, allowing a caucus before the presidential vote.
Renewed fighting in Yemen is displacing families and forcing some children to leave school and work as years of relative calm end.
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Dublin-listed apartment owner Ires received a proposed acquisition from Barings valued at about €726.7 million; its board is minded to recommend a formal bid.
Phil Hogan's campaign for a UN food-agency post may be hindered because EU countries have yet to settle on a single candidate.
Personal essay: a writer reflects on ageing, parenthood and women's careers through the lens of Sharon Horgan's comedy Youth.
Personal essay: Michelle Gallen contrasts a decade of family life in Dublin with the repeated delays to the national children's hospital.
Officials say Dublin could not remove Herzog Park's name under placenames rules that had not been issued; a legal fix may be needed.
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Writer Carlo Gébler discusses his memoir about his mother Edna O'Brien's final years, grief, mortality and lessons learned in Fermanagh.
Garvaghy Road protesters dispersed after being told of a process to address the Drumcree dispute following the delayed Orange Order march.
Analysis from Garvaghy Road describes high anxiety as residents mobilised against a repeat of the parading confrontations of the 1990s.
Opinion: Tom Kelly says the Parades Commission ruling has damaged power-sharing and warns neither residents nor the institutions can win the standoff.
DUP leader Gavin Robinson called for the PSNI chief to arrest the Garvaghy Road residents' spokesman if the march could not proceed.
Opinion: Alex Kane argues that the Drumcree crisis has brought Stormont closer to collapse as the main parties harden their positions.
Marie Therese Murray says the renewed Drumcree dispute has brought back trauma from the death of her 12-year-old son after a sectarian confrontation in the 1990s.
A former DUP mayor who fell out with the party is in talks over a possible council return amid criticism of another councillor's attendance.
Antrim Hospital's use of temporary bank staff rose after Causeway's maternity closure, as further maternity changes are proposed elsewhere.
Opinion: Former Irish News editor Noel Doran challenges persistent claims about immigration in Northern Ireland using recent data.
Michelle O'Neill warned that the Drumcree dispute calls the peace process into question as protesters gathered on Garvaghy Road.
Catholic and Church of Ireland archbishops urged a new initiative to ease the Drumcree crisis and asked communities to treat one another with care.
An investigation continues into a South Africa road crash earlier this month that killed siblings from Donaghadee.
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Analysis: Jon Burrows has revived confidence in the UUP, but must turn conference energy into Assembly seats.
Opinion: A former unionist stronghold may be showing electoral warning signs after parties long took its support for granted.
A senior nurse at Antrim Area Hospital was struck off after pulling down a junior female colleague's scrub trousers; a tribunal heard of earlier warnings.
Taylor Swift says the video for Patient Zero draws on ghost stories, crime and thrillers, with Dakota Johnson and Colin Farrell appearing in it.
Ofcom ordered BT's Openreach to withdraw a discounted deal for new customers, saying it was unfair and risked harming competition.
Nicole Scherzinger performed in Düsseldorf despite suffering a boiling-water burn on her leg shortly before a Pussycat Dolls show.
Entain lowered its online-sales outlook after Brazil moved to ban online gambling and sports betting.
Residents of a Newry neighbourhood complained after apparent sewage flowed along their street following bad weather.
GB News presenter Nana Akua chose Fermanagh's Lough Erne Resort for her wedding to Stephen Gillen next summer.
A former Linfield footballer faces charges of assault, domestic abuse, damage and animal cruelty after allegedly attacking his partner and dropping her dog.