Saturday 17 October 2026Evening (Europe/Dublin)
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Nationwide protests in France against high prices and fraying public services, following calls on social media to revive the gilets jaunes movement that emerged in 2018.
Revealed: French police used UK-funded 4x4 vehicles to charge at protesters; the French government has launched an investigation into why cars funded by the UK to stop Channel crossings were used in school protests.
In pictures: 'If we burn, you burn' - hundreds arrested as tens of thousands take to the streets across France to demonstrate against rising fuel prices and the cost of living.
Trump's pause on Russia sanctions is a 'reward' for Putin, Zelensky says, warning it will embolden the Russian leader and intensify the war as Moscow hits Ukraine's power plants.
Trump has paused new Russia sanctions passed by Congress amid a deepening row, waiving the restrictions - championed by late senator Lindsey Graham - just as they were due to come into effect.
The Bank of England governor walked out of an IMF summit in protest as Andrew Bailey was among finance leaders to leave the session in Bangkok when the Russian finance minister addressed the group.
'Drones all night. By morning, you smell the smoke': Ukraine in darkness - amid blackouts, artillery fire and the onslaught of Russian drone attacks, Kherson's Richelievsky provides a refuge for those with nowhere else to go.
Ministers must be honest about the Russian threat to the UK, says Peter Ricketts, calling for more resilience in protecting banking, energy and water systems from cyber-assaults.
The UAE has agreed with Saudi Arabia to re-enter the Yemen conflict, reportedly resuming payments to Yemeni forces as gains by Iran-backed Houthi fighters alarm Gulf rulers.
'I cannot carry all of this alone': the couples kept apart by the war in Ukraine - families scattered, fathers separated from their children, couples unable to reunite and marry.
Katie Zacharia has been fired after five days as White House press secretary, after a widely panned first briefing and scrutiny after admitting she didn't pass the bar exam.
Analysis: Katie Zacharia's five days as press secretary expose flaws in Trump's TV-driven hiring - the president reportedly chose her after seeing her on television, and her first briefing and disastrous interviews sealed her fate.
Insults, odd obsessions and rambling thoughts: a week with Donald Trump - the president has hit red states to drum up Republican support, and his increasingly strange performances are on full display.
Ilhan Omar's attorneys say the federal search of the Minnesota lawmaker's property was unlawful, asking for the return of seized items and the preservation of any recordings.
Elon Musk has agreed to settle lawsuits over his 2024 election lottery, sued over the promise to give away $1m a day to random signatories of a petition.
'Is this too little, too late?': Cornell students on the school's response to fraternities, saying it is more interested in scapegoating than committing to institutional change.
Isabel Allende has won the 1m euro Premio Planeta, the Spanish literary prize, for a sequel written under a pseudonym to her 1982 debut novel The House of the Spirits.
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A man and woman are due in court over the fatal Waterford house fire in which Philip and Kim English and their children Callum (12) and Jayden (9) died last Tuesday.
'We all call him baby Jesus': welcome to Marty Morrissey's Marty Party in Alicante, where kindness and community are to the fore, featuring six of Ireland's seven Eurovision winners.
Vincent Browne: Haughey loved Terry Keane, and she made his life miserable - the journalist says he shed tears on hearing of Haughey's death in 2006, but the former taoiseach would have hated his upcoming book.
The health budget is no longer based on evidence, a consultants' conference heard, with the Cork University Hospital CEO saying returning to the HSE was like stepping back in time.
Pope Leo is to leave hospital today after lung cancer surgery, and will lead prayers from his Vatican apartment in St Peter's Square on Sunday.
Women in ministry is among the main issues at a historic Irish Catholic assembly, with proposals including that the Church seek a more respectful and life-giving vocabulary on LGBT+ people.
A Kerry house with a couple and three children inside was attacked with a petrol bomb in Tralee early on Saturday morning; the property was damaged but no injuries were reported.
O'Connell Street was always more than a street. Can it start to feel like Dublin's living room again? Halloween would be a good place to begin.
Retailers on Dublin's O'Connell Street have been hit with legal notices under revaluation laws: Circle K, Peter Mark and Allcare Pharmacy face Dublin City Council enforcement cases over alleged planning non-compliance.
A man (32) has been charged with the murder of Mark Cullen, a father of three fatally injured in a gun attack at Kill Avenue in south Dublin last July.
Fine Gael MEP Maria Walsh has announced the birth of her child following fertility treatment, the former Rose of Tralee thanking staff at University Hospital Galway.
A solicitor used client cash to fund the Forest Fest music event, a court heard, with the deficit in client funds rising from 450,000 to 1.13m euro between June and August, says a Law Society investigator.
What Paris can teach Ireland about clean water: we're paying a lot to clean polluted water while investing little in restoring the rivers, wetlands and farmlands that could keep it pure.
A public pay deal will be done - and here's what it will look like: the Government has to make a show of safeguarding public money, unions have to fight for every last euro, and there will be late nights.
Legal deals with planning objectors raise concerns over the risk of ransom payments, with millions in taxpayer money paid out to prevent further delay of infrastructure projects.
Farcical Leaving Cert reform must stop now: the Leaving Cert has a good reputation internationally and we are in danger of trashing it.
'Leave my health out of it': Patrick O'Donovan characterises anonymous Fine Gael party briefings on health as a sad day for Irish politics.
'We could be facing a dire situation': Irish aid agencies on the fight of their lives as international aid is cut everywhere - what it means for the world's poor and the charities trying to help.
Maverick Languedoc wines: 'The French AOC rules don't suit us' - John Wilson on Jean-Claude Mas, a fourth-generation grower but the first in his family to make wine.
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DUP leader Gavin Robinson has called for the full picture over Drumcree, saying transparency is key to understanding the decisions taken around the contentious parade.
BBC Northern Ireland is set to cut its Irish language staff by more than half - 60 percent - and axe its flagship Irish language programme, The Irish News understands.
A man has been charged over a 2025 fatal hit-and-run crash in Ballyclare in August of last year.
'Painting and music have always gone hand-in-hand for Brian': the work of artist Brian McDonagh has been awarded The Irish News prize at the 145th Royal Ulster Academy Arts exhibition.
The BBC has cut the award-winning comedy radio show A Perforated Ulster.
A man has been arrested over arson attacks in Belfast, after the PSNI received a report in the early hours of Saturday.
Five 'drug' bags have been discovered in toilets at Stormont buildings, with suspected drug paraphernalia found in a Parliament Buildings toilet this summer, the Assembly has confirmed.
A man (36) has been charged over an aggravated robbery in Belfast and will appear at Belfast Magistrates Court today.
Hilary Swank wore a cardigan from Northern Irish designer Hope Macaulay on The Drew Barrymore Show.
Newton Emerson: Stormont can go through the motions but can't balance the books - our Saturday columnist's inimitable take on the week's news.
The Department of Health is facing calls for a tougher response to illegal 'pop-up' clinics, and an MLA says more needs to be done for patients needing follow-up care after travelling abroad for dental treatments.
Review: a hotel dining experience that's one to remember from start to finish - Chris McClurg at Regency House is aiming for the highest peaks of Belfast's culinary landscape.
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London shouldn't give Stormont any more money: Stormont's financial chaos, moral hazard and failing services exposed as London cash keeps flowing - but John O'Dowd says enough is enough.
Loyalist community worker Gareth Beacom, a former employee of scandal-hit charity Charter NI which worked closely with the UDA, is due in court accused of a loyalist feud offence.
TV Review: we'd all have the Time of our lives in the 90s crime drama - after three episodes, a waste of its title, though the former Happy Mondays member graced our screens.
Jeffrey Donaldson is to be questioned behind bars by Met Police over an allegation he sexually assaulted a woman in his House of Commons office in 2016.
A stripper-loving former TUV election candidate who defaced statues of Mary Ann McCracken and Winifred Carney has been stunned by the reaction to his loyalist vandalism.
Exclusive: Jeffrey Donaldson's MoD role in Cameroon's Anglophone crisis, with luxury trips, fees and soft power influence revealed in a Belfast Telegraph investigation.
Jeffrey Donaldson's victims speak out for the first time: the two women reveal how they overheard strangers discussing their abuse in hairdressers and coffee shops.
Inside the courtroom as Donaldson's catastrophic fall played out: a paedophile who once had the ear of prime ministers and presidents.
All you need to know as Donaldson is to walk free from prison in seven-and-a-half years, the Lady Chief Justice's office confirms.
Belfast-born Stranger Things theatre star Louis McCartney 'unleashes the animal', revealing his intense approach to playing teen killer James opposite David Tennant in a BBC prison drama.
Paedophile Jeffrey Donaldson will be under threat every day of his sentence in Maghaberry jail, a former governor of the Maze prison has warned.
The Education Authority chief says a typo prevented funding, as an MLA accuses the Education Minister of trying to invent a mechanism to hand money to Richhill AFC.
How MLAs traded insults during a three-hour debate before the no-confidence votes, none of which received cross-community support.
Live coverage of the Drumcree dispute as a DUP delegation meets the PSNI chief and the party demands full transparency.
The DUP could be the biggest losers from Drumcree as a new political climate emerges, with the parading row heading back to court.
Chris Bryant rejects claims he bowed to mob rule over the Drumcree parade decision.
'When he got his award he was asleep under the table': a Co Down social worker whose pet Sebastian won an award for his work as a court therapy dog.
Who will find the fix when humanity hits the wall? It appears AI may be going rogue, yet most of us just shrug - scarier still, we're leaving the policing of it to people focused on profit.
Velvety butterbean sauce, risotto-style orzo and fresh fish: sourcing good locally caught fish on an island, with a few fishmongers leading the way.
'It's a sad day': a fresh blow for local comedy as co-writer Tim McGarry, who has also lost Give My Head Peace and The Blame Game, says the BBC has basically cut everything we've ever done.
Opinion: the only person in the world to publicly support Jeffrey Donaldson; he and Jonathan Aitken have plenty in common after decades in Westminster's corridors of power.
NI airport ground staff used an internal system for underhand practice, with Swissport saying it took all appropriate action during its investigation.
A Belfast family searches for answers after their mother, who had dementia, was allegedly assaulted inside a care home; a doctor said it significantly contributed to her declining health before her death.
How Eddie Coll became Northern Ireland's longest-serving prisoner under the two strikes law, and now speaks from prison.
An MLA has called for an urgent meeting with BBC chiefs over proposed cuts, as BBC NI seeks to shed 25 more jobs.
Comment: speeding drivers who kill get meagre sentences, while the victims' families serve life - recalling one of the most shocking road safety TV ads ever shown here.
Why travelling solo with my children has become our greatest adventure: honest challenges, budget tips and inspiring real-life experiences.
From attic monitor to lost evidence: inside the CCTV saga of the Noah Donohoe case, an extract from Donal MacIntyre's new book 'Noah Donohoe: The Search for Truth'.
The family of a GAA fan murdered by loyalists who claimed security force collusion with the killers are to receive an apology and undisclosed damages from the PSNI.
Look inside: the Regency-style Glenganagh Estate on Bangor Road offers 12 acres, period interiors, outbuildings and formal gardens for buyers seeking history.
My weekend: adventure addict Zoe McGivern shares her energetic weekend routine, love of travel, Peruvian cooking, dancing and her role with RTS Northern Ireland.