Irish lottery winners on dark side to jackpot with one saying ‘I will never have peace’

A new millionaire has been crowned after winning more than €1million in the Lotto Plus Raffle, but some previous National Lottery winners have spoken honestly about the darker side of sudden wealth... Read more »

Debt-ridden graduates seen as ‘cash cows’ to fund older people’s lifestyles, MPs told | Student finance

Graduates saddled with ballooning student loan debts feel they are being unfairly used as “cash cows” to finance measures benefiting older people such as the state pension triple lock, MPs have been... Read more »

Pavel Havlicek: “Marginal Anti-Ukrainian Narratives Enter Czechia’s Political Discourse”

The Ukraine Crisis Media Center publishes the speech by Pavel Havlíček, Research Fellow at the Association for International Affairs (Czechia), on Russian influence operations during electoral campaigns in EU countries. The expert... Read more »

EU reaches deal on ‘return hubs’ for rejected asylum-seekers

EU lawmakers and members agreed in principle on Monday to tightening asylum rules and allowing the establishment of “return hubs” outside the bloc, amid growing sentiment against migration. The deal, proposed by the... Read more »

Motorhome bought by Murrell with stolen SNP money was driven only 4 miles, court told | Scotland

The luxury motorhome that Peter Murrell bought using money stolen from the Scottish National party was driven for only four miles, sitting unused for more than two years. Murrell, then the SNP’s... Read more »

The BP drama will fade: boards are allowed to ditch the chair | Nils Pratley

An easy narrative about the great BP boardroom drama runs like this: the plodding non-executive directors couldn’t handle the blunt ways of the hard-charging chair they had hired precisely to give the... Read more »

Unpacking Germany’s campaign for a UN Security Council seat

Germany is in the running for a seat on the Security Council when the UN General Assembly elects new members to the most powerful body within the United Nations on Wednesday. According to the UN... Read more »

Family of man stabbed to death in Dublin city devastated at loss of ‘good, friendly and quiet’ son

Qayyum was a computer science student studying in Maynooth and would have graduated next year Paul Healy and Michael O’Toole 02:00, 03 Jun 2026 The family of Qayyum Balogun who was brutally... Read more »

Faced with being outflanked by those to his right, Farage seeks to channel public anger | Nigel Farage

The full horror of Henry Nowak’s last moments was only just sinking in on the morning after the release of police footage showing him pleading for help when Reform UK served notice... Read more »

Russia is losing so many trucks it’s now eyeing Cold War scrap

(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||;w[q].push([“_mgc.load”])})(window,”_mgq”); Ukrainian drones are now hitting hundreds of Russian cargo trucks every day, more than five times the war-long daily average Russian forces are struggling to harden their supply lines, so they... Read more »