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Topic: Ireland

Indian students waiting at a food bank in Ireland aren’t ‘freeloading’, it’s ‘jugaad’

It is assumed that any one able to fund an international education must be superbly wealthy.

India-EU now natural and preferred partners, says Jaishankar at mobility gateway office launch

Mobility a ‘strategic asset’ says EU’s Henna Virkkunen. Legal gateway office launched on margins of Impact AI summit.

‘Ireland is full’—why a largely peaceful, moderate country is erupting over immigrants

The alleged assault of a child by an asylum seeker set off violent clashes between protesters and police in Dublin. It’s the latest incident amid a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment.

13 racist attacks on Indians in Ireland in a month including on 6-yr-old girl. Here’s what’s happening

Irish President Michael Higgins 'unequivocally condemned' the attacks & Deputy PM Harris condemned the 'racism' against Indian community members.

‘4 Indian men stabbed in 4 days’—Irish woman who came to aid of Indian attacked in Dublin suburb

Irish police are investigating the incident as a hate crime. About victim, Irish woman who came to his aid says in emotional video, ‘he was so extremely polite to me the whole time’.

Jaishankar’s upcoming UK-Ireland trip: Key issues on his agenda

The external affairs minister will visit London and, for the first time, Dublin and Belfast in Ireland in early March. A joint economic commission is likely to be announced with Ireland.

Irish who served British in India were rejected at home. An exhibition looks at their history

The exhibition, ‘Looking East’, highlights the lives of soldiers, colonial administrators, and civil bureaucrats from Ireland who sought their futures in India during British colonialism.

How was British rule in Ireland and India different? Conversation between coloniser and colonised

The launch of the book, Making Empire, was jointly organised by the Embassy of Ireland and the British High Commission – an unimaginable combination, perhaps even three decades ago.

India & Ireland aim to build strategic partnership, may announce joint economic commission this year

The country has increasingly focused on deepening ties with India. Commission will aim at boosting trade & commerce between the 2 countries which currently stands at $10 billion.

Norway Ireland, Spain announce recognition of Palestinian state, Israel recalls its ambassadors

They hoped other Western countries would follow suit. Spain and allies have spent months lobbying European nations, including France, Portugal, Belgium & Slovenia, to garner support.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.