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This beautiful and compassionate film from first-time feature director Colm Bairéad, based on the novella Foster by Claire Keegan, is a child’s-eye look at our fallen world; already it feels to me like a classic. There’s a lovely scene in which the “quiet girl” of the title, 10-year-old Cáit (played by newcomer Catherine Clinch), is reading Heidi before bedtime, and this movie, for all its darkness and suppressed pain, has the solidity, clarity and storytelling gusto of that old-fashioned Alpine children’s tale – about…

The peat-covered uplands of the North of Ireland are today used mainly for commercial forestry, sheep-grazing and outdoor recreation, but were formerly wooded and farmed. Credit: Helen Essell, CC-BY 4.0Study finds social conditions key to long-term resilience during times of dramatic change.A remote community in Ireland was adaptable enough to persevere through a millennium of environmental change, according to a study that was published on April 27, 2022, in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Gill Plunkett and Graeme…

Many of the largest U.S. tech firms hold their European headquarters in Dublin.Artur Widak | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesIncoming EU rules forcing Big Tech to police content on the internet more aggressively will be enforced directly by the European Commission, a move experts say will diminish the role Ireland has played so far in supervising digital giants in the region.Since 2018, Ireland's Data Protection Commission has been the main privacy watchdog supervising the likes of Facebook parent company Meta and Google under the…

The 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup is being streamed live online, and you can follow the action on both live television as well as OTT platforms, in a number of different ways. Here's what you need to know about the 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup and how to watch it online. The cricket tournament kicked off Sunday in Oman, with the co-hosts emerging victorious in their opening round encounter. Oman is one of eight teams — alongside Bangladesh, Ireland, Namibia, Netherlands, Papua New Guinea, Scotland, and Sri Lanka — that is…