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I am writing to you in response to your article, ‘Just two asylum-seeking students get grants for third-level accessibility’ (Irish Examiner, May 23, 2016). 

Former AC Milan defender and Italy coach Cesare Maldini has passed away at the age of 84.

Latest: Seven people, including three passengers, are being held hostage aboard the EgyptAir plane after it diverted to Larnaca airport on the Mediterranean island during a domestic flight from Alexandria to Cairo.

Imagine if you were missing from modern society for 44 years and suddenly re-emerged?

I was wryly amused by Daniel Teegan’s vision of a de-Zionised Israel, reintegrated into its neighbouring Arab world. 

Australian journalist Peter Greste said it was a great relief to be freed from prison in Egypt but added in an interview on Al Jazeera that he felt “incredible angst” about leaving two colleagues behind in prison.

Muslim Brotherhood supporters accused of role in killing 16 police

Two of three Al Jazeera journalists jailed in Egypt have applied to be deported under a new law after the country’s highest court ordered their retrial but did not free them as their families had hoped.

Egypt’s highest court has ordered a retrial of three jailed journalists working for Al Jazeera television, citing procedural flaws in last year’s trial.

An unlikely link between the museums of South Kensington and the protests in the US city of Ferguson has been revealed.

Gerard Howlin’s column in yesterday’s Irish Examiner was very well-written and welcome in exposing the hypocrisy of the rent-a-crowd Left (“the habitually protesting Left”). It has astonished me to hear and read the diatribes in Ireland about Israel, from people who have never been anywhere near an indiscriminately fired Hamas rocket.

Setanta Sports is in the final stages of selling its Australian broadcasting division to an international conglomerate owned by an affiliate of Middle East media giant, Al Jazeera.

Egypt’s president has acknowledged for the first time that the heavy sentences handed down to three Al Jazeera journalists had a “very negative” impact on his country’s reputation, saying he wished they were never put on trial.

One major selection dilemma haunts Alejandro Sabella ahead of the clash with Belgium; will he stick with calamity centre-half, Lorenzo?

The jailing of three Al-Jazeera journalists, and the sentencing in absentia of their colleagues, by an Egyptian court, has provoked an international outcry and raised fears of growing media restrictions in Egypt.

An Egyptian court has sentenced three journalists to seven years in prison each on terrorism-related charges.

THE Tuam babies story this week says much about the past, but about the present also.

The stats are with Paris, according to national sports daily L’Equipe and the French have a right to be confident about their match against Chelsea tonight.

The Prince of Wales was among more than 2,000 people who paid tribute to the late broadcaster David Frost at a service in Westminster Abbey.

Russia said yesterday that former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat died of natural causes, not radiation poisoning, but the Palestinian ambassador to Moscow said an investigation would continue, Russian news agencies reported.

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was poisoned to death in 2004 with radioactive polonium, his widow Suha said yesterday after receiving the results of Swiss forensic tests on her husband’s corpse.

MARYAM was 14 when her father arranged for her to marry Ibrahim Saeed Ahmed, the man who would become the al Qaeda courier of Zero Dark Thirty fame and unwittingly lead the Americans to Osama bin Laden.

IT ALWAYS seemed improbable that Arab sheiks could save journalism.

The clearest indication yet that Rio Ferdinand will be staying at Manchester United next season has come from a confirmation that the defender has been given a testimonial by the Old Trafford outfit.

The odds on Manuel Pellegrini becoming Chelsea manager shortened today after talks reportedly opened with the Chilean last week.

New questions about the death of Michael Dwyer are to be raised in a documentary to be aired tonight on Al Jazeera, the Qatar-based TV station.

Michael Dwyer’s death was used to further many agendas, writes Michael Clifford.

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Rio Ferdinand has defended his decision to fly out to Qatar in the week he withdrew from the England squad in order to follow a pre-planned fitness routine.

It began as a pebble in the shoe of the ECB, but yesterday the refuseniks of Ballyhea rang up the 100th march against the bailout, continuing a display of defiance that shows no sign of stopping.

Current TV, the network co-founded by former US vice-president Al Gore, was sold for about $500m (€383m) to Al Jazeera, the Qatar-based news channel, according to two people with knowledge of the deal.

A vigil will be held today at the NUI Galway campus to mark the one-month anniversary of Savita Halappanavar’s death.

Mohamed bin Hammam has vowed to clear his name after FIFA’s ethics committee opened investigation proceedings against him.

FIFA’s ethics committee have opened investigation proceedings against Mohamed bin Hammam.

It’s hard to imagine that just six years ago we were living in a world without Twitter. Pól Ó Conghaile asks top Irish tweeters for their favourite follows — and lists the 20 people everyone should be following.

The body of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat could be exhumed after it emerged that he may have been poisoned.

With colleagues A and B, I avail of a day off at the team camp in Montecatini to hop on a train and visit one of the great cities of the world. We are not disappointed. We do the Duomo. (Awesome). We cross the Ponte Vecchio. (Magical). We have pizza for lunch. (Tasty).

Jason McAteer has spoken of the lingering tension between himself and Roy Keane.

The man who claimed responsibility for a killing spree in southern France had separated from his wife days before the attacks and was suffering “psychological difficulties”, his lawyer said.

Arabic news network Al-Jazeera has been given footage of the deadly attacks on soldiers and a Jewish school in France, but said it will not air the tapes.