Friday was the third, and what is expected to be final, deadline for interested parties to make offers to buy the club.

The 79km march to Dublin sought to highlight the issues facing young people in rural areas

People Before Profit TD said it was 'not right' to target families of public representatives

Reacting to the din, Mr Macron proclaimed during his visit to Alsace last week that “it’s not saucepans that will make France move forward”

Direct action

‘Just Stop Oil’ protesters forced a stoppage in play early in the evening session at the World Snooker Championship in Sheffield

The protesters also want the Czech government to stop taking actions that are intended to reduce misinformation and fake news.

The race was delayed after activists tried to gain entry to the track.

Dozens of people have joined Hong Kong’s first authorised demonstration against the government since the lifting of major Covid-19 restrictions under unprecedentedly strict rules, including wearing a numbered badge around their necks.

While An Bord Pleanala’s decision on the mobile communications mast has not been made yet, its recent history with this type of application is a problematic one

Police in the capital of Georgia have used water cannon and tear gas to disperse demonstrators around the parliament building protesting against a draft law that they say could stifle media freedom and civil society.

Gardaí were forced to intervene as hundreds of people gathered in Cork's city centre this afternoon for two separate demonstrations, which led to minor altercations between the two groups

Thousands of people marched through Tunisia’s capital on Saturday, protesting against an expanding crackdown on opposition voices and a proposed lifting of subsidies for food and other goods.

Although the talks did not yield an agreement to resolve the wind farm dispute, Mr Aasland said “that we are not ruling out any solutions at this time”

Norway’s energy minister cancelled a trip to Britain on Wednesday because of a protest against a wind farm that campaigners say hinders the rights of the Sami indigenous people to raise reindeer in Arctic Norway.

The activists, mainly teenagers, lay outside the ministry entrance holding Sami flags and a poster reading: “Land Back”.

The group claimed responsibility for the 500 square metre blue and yellow flag, painted on Bayswater Road in London on Thursday, saying they did it to mark Friday’s first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Hundreds of thousands of Spaniards have flooded the streets of Madrid for the largest protest yet against the regional government’s management of the capital city’s healthcare services.

Entering the French capital through a southern gateway, the farmers’ convoy rolled to the gold-domed Invalides monument, site of Napoleon’s tomb.

UK strikes

A group of locals from Ashtown in Dublin held a solidarity rally for migrants attacked in a nearby makeshift camp at the weekend.

The protesters, many waving coloured flags with the symbol of environmental group Extinction Rebellion and one holding a sign saying, in Dutch, “This is a dead end road".

A jury was shown in-car footage of drivers passing the protests on the track last July.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said his government plans to move ahead with an overhaul of the country’s judicial system, despite fierce criticism from top legal officials and protests against the changes that drew tens of thousands ...

Tens of thousands of Israelis have protested plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government to overhaul the legal system and weaken the Supreme Court — a step that critics say will destroy the country’s democratic system of checks and ...

‘Protests’ at asylum centres

Several hundred climate activists tried to prevent heavy machinery from reaching an abandoned German village due to be cleared for the expansion of a coal mine, even as police pushed back protesters and removed road blocks ahead of a possible ...

Several hundred climate activists are trying to block heavy machinery from entering an abandoned village in Germany which is due to be cleared for the expansion of a coal mine.

A court in Germany has rejected a last-ditch attempt by climate activists to stay in an abandoned village which is due to be cleared for the expansion of a coal mine that has become a battleground between the government and environmentalists.

The protesters gathered in the central city of Tel Aviv days after the most right-wing and religiously conservative government in the country’s 74-year history was sworn in.

The marchers are also mourning three people killed outside a Kurdish cultural centre in Paris two weeks ago in what prosecutors called a racist attack.

The protest backed by the country’s three main unions affected public services throughout Belgium, especially rail and subway systems in and around the capital and Brussels international airport.

Hundreds of people have protested in Manila against what they say is a rising number of extrajudicial killings and other injustices under the administration of Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.

In a message to locals, seen by the Irish Examiner, the management of St Joseph’s Convent said they were delighted to welcome their 'guests'

Hundreds of activists taking part in a protest in Belfast have demanded action on soaring living costs and rising energy prices.

The Children's Minister has said “nefarious groups” are taking advantage of the valid concerns people have in relation to Ukrainians and other people seeking asylum here.

The window panes of the building at its multi-million pound Glasgow campus had been broken and three protesters held up banners declaring “this is an intervention”

The artwork in Cork’s Crawford Gallery which had soup thrown over it is back on display and will feature in forthcoming tours.

The demonstration, organised by students at Trinity College Dublin, coincided with the Cop27 UN climate conference being held in the Egyptian city of Sharm El-Sheikh

The gallery confirmed that the work targeted was a George Atkinson drawing

Two Belgian activists who targeted Johannes Vermeer’s Girl With A Pearl Earring painting in a climate protest last week were sentenced on Wednesday to two months in prison, with prosecutors saying their action “crossed a line” of acceptable protest.

Johannes Vermeer’s Girl With A Pearl Earring has gone back on display at the Netherlands’ Mauritshuis museum, a day after climate activists targeted the 17th-century masterpiece.

Workers across France have gone on strike to push for pay rises that keep up with inflation following weeks of walkouts that have hit oil refineries and sparked fuel shortages.

Protesters demanding wage increases, greater taxation of windfall profits and other steps to lessen the bite of rising inflation are marching on Sunday in Paris, heeding the call of left-wing parties and trade unionists hoping to crank up pressure ...