In a refugee camp outside Athens, Victoria White meets people fleeing the horrors of war in Syria, but who still try to live a normal life, including a young woman who has just married    

Victoria White reports from Skaramagas refugee camp, west of Athens, home to 2,800 refugees who fled fighting in Syria but now fear that their hopes of starting life afresh in the West will never be realised

The appalling hardship that Syrian refugees are forced to endure in Greece shows no sign of coming to an end as the powers that be wring their hands, writes Victoria White in Piraeus

A Syrian living in Clonakilty, and two volunteers, tell Louise McCarthy of their fears for the war-torn state

Monitors from Turkey have arrived on the Greek islands of Lesbos and Chios to help supervise an agreement aimed at limiting the number of refugees and migrants travelling to the European Union.

EU leaders are meeting in Brussels today to discuss the ongoing refugee crisis.

Refugees and other migrants pouring into Greece will be kept on Aegean Sea islands on ferries used as floating shelters, government officials said, as thousands who went before them find themselves stranded in increasingly desperate conditions following border closures in the countries to the north.

Greece's government has said it is expecting a growing number of stranded migrants and asylum seekers after neighbour Macedonia further restricted border access at the weekend.

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A ship crammed with thousands of mostly Syrian refugees docked in Greece’s main port of Piraeus, after the government said it was stepping up efforts to ease pressure on an eastern island being overwhelmed by new arrivals.

One family’s desperate attempt to forge a new life for themselves in fleeing the Syrian civil war has focused world attention on the refugees’ plight by means of one extraordinarily powerful image, writes Caroline O’Doherty.

Northern Ireland took a major stride towards their first major finals since 1986 tonight.

An image of a drowned toddler washed up on the beach in one of Turkey’s prime tourist resorts swept across social media after at least 12 Syrian refugees died trying to reach the Greek island of Kos.

Greece will miss its revenue target from asset sales this year due to delays in a €1.2bn airport deal, the head of its privatisation agency said yesterday, in a setback to efforts to meet the terms of its new bailout.

Rightly or wrongly, it has long been the tradition of news media companies, including this one, to not publish some of the most disturbing photographs that emanate from war zones, areas of conflict and man-made or natural disasters.

Greece will move rapidly to privatise its ports, regional airports and its power grid operator under a memorandum of understanding agreed with its international lenders.

The bodies of 18 migrants who likely died of dehydration have been found in the Sahara desert in northern Niger, the International Organisation for Migration said.

About 2,000 migrants, who had been stranded for days in the Greek island of Lesbos, have arrived in the port of Piraeus, south west of the capital Athens.

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Greece stepped up diplomacy with eurozone partners, yesterday, to try to avert a potentially catastrophic funding crunch this month, when it must make a big debt repayment to the IMF as cash reserves dry up.

Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras said yesterday he was confident of an outline deal with international creditors within two weeks, after shaking up his negotiating team and sidelining his finance minister who has infuriated eurozone partners.

Greece should reach a deal with its eurozone partners and the IMF next week on a package of reforms, which will help to unlock remaining bailout funds, the country’s economy minister said yesterday.

Greece’s new prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, has picked an outspoken bailout critic as his new finance minister – signalling his resolve to take a tough line with eurozone lenders in an effort to write off a massive chunk of rescue debt.

Football sometimes seems like politics in disguise but in Greece, the opposite is also true, writes David Shonfield.

Northern Ireland boss Michael O’Neill said his side’s 2-0 defeat in Romania should not distract from their excellent start to their Euro 2016 qualifying campaign.

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Eleven times Olympiakos and their fans have journeyed from Athens to England since 1965 and 11 times they have lost.

Wayne Rooney wants to end the pain caused by Manchester United’s dreadful season by winning the Champions League for a second time.

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You could have parked anywhere you liked in Athens a few weeks ago — the city’s parking police had all been fired.

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A DESCRIPTION in a local website of the murder of hip hop artist and well-known anti-fascist Pavlos Fyssas, 34, known as Killah P in a working class area of Piraeus outside Athens.

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Mario Balotelli fired Italy to next year’s World Cup finals as the Azzurri came from behind to beat the Czech Republic 2-1 in Turin last night.

A fire broke out today on a Greek ferry carrying about 250 people in the eastern Aegean Sea, but authorities said no injuries were reported and that the blaze was contained.

Ferries have resumed sailing to Greek islands for the first time in a week after the government used emergency powers to force striking seamen back to work.

Greek prime minister Antonis Samaras, below, knows how close his country is to economic destruction and anarchy, writes Europe correspondent Ann Cahill

Mesut Ozil’s 89th-minute free-kick rescued a point for Real Madrid from a pulsating 2-2 draw with Borussia Dortmund to keep both sides on course to qualify from Champions League Group D.

Marco Reus and Toni Kroos both helped themselves to two goals apiece as Germany made an emphatic statement of intent in World Cup Qualifying Group C with a 6-1 rout of Ireland in Dublin.