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For Dubliner Norman Croke (76), every one of his schooldays, from 1954 to 1961, started with waiting to be beaten. “The first thing in the morning from the teacher was: ‘Hands up who didn’t do your ecker [homework]?’.” As the…

The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese organisation of atomic bomb survivors from the 1945 attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The grassroots group was awarded the prize on Friday by the Norwegian Nobel committee, which…

The US government is considering seeking the break-up of Google to end its monopoly in search in what would be the boldest effort yet to rein in one of the world’s most powerful tech companies. The potential remedy was set…