Charlie Hebdo, the satirical newspaper whose staff was decimated by Islamic extremist gunmen and then beset by internal tensions over an unexpected influx of donations and readers, said yesterday it will turn over all the money to victims of the three days of attacks in January.

Charlie Hebdo, the satirical newspaper which was targeted by Islamic extremist gunmen in January, is giving nearly €4m to victims of the attacks.

The entire country went a little bit sports-mad this summer, so it comes as no surprise to hear Rugby World Cup 2015 is the phrase people in Ireland searched online for the most this year.

While it is understandable that the plight of migrants and refugees should somehow be sorted out, especially that of genuinely persecuted people, there is a common and mistaken thread throughout media that migrants are somehow neutral ideological agents or hopefully people who seek to embrace and support the ideals of liberty of the free world.

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Never one to mince his words, Charlie Brooker returns to the BBC with a new instalment of satirical show Weekly Wipe. Kate Samuelson finds out what to expect from series three – and why nothing should be off-limits in comedy.

Amid the hype and bluster surrounding the Six Nations launch, the French provided a moment of context and a sharp dose of reality.

I know our thoughts and prayers are with the French and the families of those murdered by the extremists.

Taking her cue from Charlie Hebdo’s style of risque ridicule, Suzanne Harrington (Irish Examiner, January 16) offensively characterises all religions as abusive in their public manifestations, even though she contradicts herself by allowing that there are also moderates, albeit moderates who do not speak against the excesses of their co-religionists.

The global condemnation in response to the recent terrorist killings in Paris is commendable.

Tens of thousands have marched through the Chechen capital to protest the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, which again put a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed on its cover.

Charlie Hebdo publishes cartoons about all figures in authority, be they political or religious. It has depicted the leaders of the Catholic and Jewish faith more times than it has ever featured pictures of Muslim leaders.

France has ordered prosecutors around the country to crack down on hate speech, anti-Semitism and glorifying terrorism as it announced that 54 people had been arrested for those offences since the Paris terror attacks.

The first edition of Charlie Hebdo published after last week’s deadly attack by Islamist gunmen sold out within minutes at newspaper kiosks around France, with readers queuing up for copies to support the satirical weekly.

Je ne suis pas Charlie. 

An Islamic extremist group in Nigeria released a video in which its leader praises deadly attacks in Paris last week, a monitoring group said.

The Taoiseach Enda Kenny is insisting there will be no referendum on the blasphemy law this year.

Charlie Hebdo's defiant new issue sold out before dawn around Paris, with scuffles at kiosks over dwindling copies of the paper depicting the Prophet Mohammed.

One of the surviving members of Charlie Hebdo’s staff said the cover of the first edition since the massacre should help “open the door to forgiveness” for the terrorists who killed her colleagues.

Charlie Hebdo is releasing a new version of its irreverent and often offensive newspaper, defiantly putting a caricature of the Prophet Mohammed on the cover that drew immediate criticism and threats of more violence.

French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo is publishing a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed on the cover of its first issue since Islamic extremists killed 12 people at its offices.

French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo is publishing a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed on the cover of its first issue since Islamic extremists killed 12 people at its offices.

The editor in chief of French magazine Charlie Hebdo said he hopes this week’s edition makes people laugh despite the terrorist attack which claimed the lives of nine of its employees.

Je ne suis pas Charlie. 

Liberty, equality, and fraternity have defined the French people for centuries. These values cannot be diluted in the face of terror, writes Emmanuelle Schön-Quinlivan

During a weekend where world leaders gathered in Paris in a show of solidarity following last week's shootings, America's second family paid their own quick tribute.

It’s often the case that a simple message is the most powerful.

During a weekend where world leaders gathered in Paris in a show of solidarity following last week's shootings, America's second family paid their own quick tribute.

The man whose amateur video of a Paris police officer’s cold-blooded murder shocked the world now regrets sharing the footage online, saying he never expected it to be broadcast so widely.

The world outpouring of sympathy after the deadly Charlie Hebdo attack has touched many in France but some either detect a note of hypocrisy or feel squeamish about supporting a satirical weekly that antagonised many.

Yesterday’s marches, ceremonies of remembrance and defiance, were among the greatest expressions of solidarity and determination seen in Europe since VE Day — May 8, 1945 — when the final destruction of an evil as malignant as that expressed in France and Nigeria last week was celebrated.

World leaders have joined tens of thousands of people in a giant rally of national unity to honour the 17 victims of the Paris terror attacks.

The shooting of a jogger in a Paris suburb on the same day as the Charlie Hebdo massacre has been linked to the gunman who killed a policewoman and four hostages at a kosher supermarket, a prosecutor said.

A video has emerged showing Paris terrorist Amedy Coulibaly pledging allegiance to Islamic State (IS).

Newspapers around the world strongly condemned the attack at the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine.

They pushed boundaries, one cartoonist said. They were “absolutely crazy”, said another.

Tánaiste Joan Burton and a leading Islamic cleric are at odds over whether the Irish media has the right to show controversial cartoons featuring the prophet Muhammad in the wake of the Paris massacre.

Defiant survivors of the attack on satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo have said that they will publish an issue next week.

A minute's silence has been observed across France and around the world in solidarity with those affected by the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

The French satirical magazine where the shooting took place has a history of causing controversy with cartoons of Islam’s prophet Mohammed.

The execution of a police officer is among the horrific scenes captured in a string of videos posted online in the aftermath of the Paris magazine massacre.

Police were last night searching for two brothers from the Paris region and a man from the northeastern city of Reims, over yesterday’s shooting at satirical weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo, a police official and government source said.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny joined the worldwide condemnation of the attack in Paris, saying he was shocked and appalled.

France’s president has urged the nation to stay united as it hunts gunmen who killed 12 people at the office of a satirical newspaper.