Emails show Dublin-based Elkstone CEO Alan Merriman coordinating an investment involving a client, an ex-Israel prime minister and Jeffrey Epstein in a tech startup founded by former Israel Defense Forces (IDF) officers.

Years before my job with The Ditch, I worked freelance for Irish and British magazines. The subjects I was assigned were often interesting, but putting together articles could be  mechanical.

Justice minister Jim O’Callaghan’s department has embarrassingly included three long-rescinded laws in its  “anti-democratic and authoritarian” new Civil Reform Bill.

Claiming antisemitism is a serious problem in Ireland, Micheál Martin and Simon Harris cited the work of an organisation accused of serious factual distortions.

An Irish insurance company that insured a ship so it could deliver munitions to Israel last month also covers Maersk vessels carrying vital parts for F-35 combat jets used by Israeli forces to drop bombs on Gaza.