Young people are particularly engaged with the twin issues of climate change and biodiversity loss and rightly so. It is, after all, their natural inheritance — and that of their likely offspring — which is being squandered.

Ukip and the SNP are making inroads ahead of the election. Deadlock at Westminster would spell bad news for Ireland, writes 

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Will Oldham has achieved success on his own terms, performing under the alias Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy. He tells Ed Power about his love of Irish trad

Political Correspondent Shaun Connolly asks is Hurricane Bertie in danger of blowing out.