With Budget 2020 set for October 8, and with ‘fiscal space’ of some €700m, is there room for a focus on long-term wellbeing or just short-term tax cuts? Joyce Fegan reports

All additional money collected from carbon taxes is to be ring-fenced for climate action and a just transition, the Taoiseach is due to tell the UN Climate Summit.

New Zealand officials have admitted making a mistake by allowing the man accused of killing 51 people at two Christchurch mosques to send a handwritten letter from his prison cell.

As we say in Ireland, Meghan is damned if she does and damned if she doesn’t, partly because she’s a woman and partly because she’s a human of colour, writes Joyce Fegan

The activist and writer appears in the September issue of the magazine which is guest edited by Meghan Markle.

Internet safety guidelines for Ireland will be published soon, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said, as he and other leaders met to discuss a crackdown on online abuses.

How can social media prevent harmful content going viral? Serious changes will have to be made which could bring media back in time writes Lionel Laurent.

The Government is to make changes to help families who are left in “limbo” when a relative goes missing.

The Taoiseach Leo Varadkar will join world leaders in Paris to discuss how to tackle the organisation and promotion of terrorism via online platforms.

The Government is to make changes to help families who are left in "limbo" when a relative goes missing.

Farming and environmental lobbies in New Zealand have criticised their government’s introduction of a bill that aims to make the nation mostly carbon neutral by 2050.

New Zealand's parliament has passed sweeping gun laws that outlaw military-style weapons less than a month after mass shootings at two mosques in the city of Christchurch left 50 people dead and dozens wounded.

Only in the last few years have posters of missing young people been wrapped around lampposts in Ireland, accompanied by friends and family handing out leaflets in the street in the sadly wilted hope that some stranger will remember something.

An Australian senator has been censured by his colleagues for seeking to blame the victims of last month's mosque shootings and vilify Muslims.

Far-right hate speech is much more common online than Islamist extremism, but governments and law enforcement have not policed it to anywhere near the same extent, say Sasha Havlicek and Zahed Amanullah

There was a row of one, two, three, four coffins laid out on the grass in front of him.

Societies differentiate themselves through cultural practices. Many insist on long-established protocols that others find amusing, incomprehensible, reckless, or even barbaric. Some traditions are driven by religious beliefs; the origin of others are lost in time.

New Zealanders didn’t think they were a target, either. Our gun control is better.

The initial horror provoked by Friday’s massacre in Christchurch may have subsided slightly but the anger endures. That anger is exacerbated by the rise, the return really,

Thirty people remain in hospital after the shootings at two mosques in Christchurch - nine of them in a critical condition.

To those with religious belief, faith — the idea, the commitment — may remain a mystery but one that is nonetheless enthusiastically and sincerely embraced.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has condemned the attacks in New Zealand and called the killings an act of cowardice and said Muslims should not be afraid, writes Juno McEnroe in Chicago.

Earlier this year New Zealand decided not to allow any new offshore oil exploration.

Jacinda Ardern has been sworn in as New Zealand's prime minister - and says she will lead a government that is active, focused, empathetic and strong.

Jacinda Ardern will be New Zealand's next prime minister and hopes to take the country on a more liberal path after nine years of rule by conservatives.