A record of what was published, when, and how it changed.

‘It’s a mess’: To collapse Stormont now would benefit no one, but it cannot stay the same

By Freya McClements

Sinn Féin and DUP blame each other for the assembly’s failings, but there is a need for reform

All roads lead to Tralee as Roses take the stage tonight

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Festivities are in full swing in Kerry as the countdown begins for this evening's Rose of Tralee, which will be broadcast live on RTÉ One and the RTÉ Player.

OPW says Imma remarks on Kilmainham plan ‘disparaging and completely unacceptable’

By Órla Ryan

Organisations hold ‘constructive’ meeting this week following row over plan to renovate Dublin site

‘It’ll be nice when it’s a proper estate’: Breathing new life into a derelict development in Roscommon

By Ellen O’Riordan

Residents of Shannon Valley, where almost half the houses are boarded-up, are now hopeful for the future

File sent to DPP on two Sinn Féin politicians facing €200,000 fraud investigation

By Barry Roche

Detectives forwarded the near 600-page file on investigation into Cork North Central TD Thomas Gould and Cllr Kenneth Collins

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Why you should quit the coding job and retrain as a philosopher for hire

By Joe Humphreys

US philosophy graduates are more likely to have jobs than their computer science peers

Ireland’s football pitches have turned to ‘barren, dusty ground’ in the summer heat

By Jack Brady

GAA and soccer grounds have taken ‘real hammering’ over the prolonged hot and dry spell

Wrong-way motorway driving: M9 crash is latest incident as young men chase social media ‘likes’

By Conor Lally

Senior garda calls on social media platforms to stop users who glorify gravely dangerous road incidents

The Estonian city that fears it’s next on Putin’s list

By Jack Power

Narva in Estonia was once a symbol of cross-border connection. Today, residents live in the shadow of war and growing geopolitical tension

New Irish mother in the US: ‘After six weeks I couldn’t imagine going back to work’

By Genevieve Carbery

Having a baby abroad: ‘Once my Mum arrived I knew I could fall apart’

Sainsbury's pauses AI cameras after shopper wrongly ejected as shoplifter

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Matt Arnold says he was asked to leave the store after being wrongly flagged as a shoplifter.

Hayden Panettiere, actor in Heroes and Nashville, dies aged 36

By Sian Cain

Panettiere’s death was announced by her father, who called her ‘an incredible light and a force of nature who brought immeasurable love and joy’ Hayden Panettiere – a life in pictures Hayden Panettiere: an actor so magnetic that entire shows were rewritten for her Hayden Panettiere obituary Hayden Panettiere, the actor known for her roles in television shows such as Heroes and Nashville, has died at the age of 36. Pa

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‘Do not touch’: In Ireland we have conditioned ourselves to stay at arm’s length

By Céire Sadlier

The way we touch each other is such a delicate thing, with a fine line between lovingness and lechery

Are Microsoft’s AI plans being held back by a shortage of chips?

By Aisha Down and Ed Zitron

Guardian investigation finds apparent discrepancy between what tech company has said about its AI capacity – and the number of advanced chips it has in operation The chips are quite small and some can be held in the palm of a hand. They are fundamental to the development of artificial intelligence models – and the world’s biggest technology companies need vast numbers of them to keep ahead. Microsoft is one of them.

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Asking prices for newly listed homes in UK’s richest borough fall by £100k in one month

By Rupert Jones

Fierce competition in some areas of London means landlord purchasers are making successful lowball offers The average price of a home coming up for sale in Britain’s richest borough has dropped by almost £100,000 in a month as fierce competition among sellers in many areas prompts some to slash their price expectations, data shows. The property website Rightmove said that for Britain as a whole, average newly listed

‘His ache is real’: Bob Dylan and more on the wild genius of honky-tonk hellraiser Gary Stewart

By Garth Cartwright

Worshipped by everyone from Willie Nelson to Joe Strummer, the country star with the amazing voice imploded in a blaze of guns, knives, drugs and infidelities. What’s behind his astonishing posthumous rediscovery? ‘He sings like a man arguing with destiny. It sounds like the ache is real, that the ruin is real,” Bob Dylan tells me. “There’s a cracked truth there. What’s unsettling about him is that he sounds like he’

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Coping with 54C heat: Delhi slum diaries detail living in extreme temperatures

By Suchitra in Delhi

With heatwaves now recognised as disasters, personal testimonies are key to a new project that looks to protect those living in the most cramped districts of India’s capital Every summer evening, Gulshan follows the same routine. She washes the floor of her one-room home several times so it cools a little for her four children to sleep on. Last summer, the family saved enough to buy a desert cooler, which uses evapor

Italy’s mythic ‘month off’ in August was hard won. It would be good for us all | Jamie Mackay

By Jamie Mackay

The villeggiatura, a month-long break, was popularised in the 1960s when trade unions were strong – and so was economic productivity On the Riviera di Ponente, sandwiched between the glitzy resort towns of the Ligurian coast, sits the Albenga plain. Dotted with campsites and bungalows, the area developed during Italy’s postwar boom as an affordable refuge for workers to escape the smog of nearby industrial cities lik

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John FitzGerald: My wife was sceptical, but retrofitting our 1970s semi with a heat pump was a smart move

By John FitzGerald

Not only have we saved on heating bills, but we have dramatically reduced our carbon emissions

Search for Indonesia quake victims as thousands displaced

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Rescuers in eastern Indonesia are combing through collapsed buildings to find anyone who might still be trapped under rubble after a deadly quake killed at least 68 people.

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An tráth seo bliana

By Alan Titley

Tá contúirt ollmhór ann nach bhfuil á lua mórán

EU plans 'far-reaching' Russia sanctions in coming months

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The EU intends to significantly expand sanctions against Russia ⁠in the coming months, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas has said.

Ebola outbreak in DR Congo deadliest in country's history

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The Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo has killed 2,325 people, surpassing the toll from the 2018-2020 outbreak to become the deadliest in the country's history.

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It must be hell to be handsome

By Patsy McGarry

A total lack of challenge or effort has to be bad for character

Belgium wildfire halts short of German border

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Firefighters and farmers backed by water-dropping aircraft battled through a fourth day to tame Belgium's worst wildfire in a century.