Bernice Harrison

Dublin

Journalist at Irish Times

Journalist @irishtimes, lecturer, editor. Presenter In the News 🎧 - Irish Times podcast [email protected]

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Will tariffs make life even more expensive?

1 week ago | irishtimes.com | Bernice Harrison

Butter is becoming a luxury item; rents have reached an all time high – just two examples of prices that seem to be constantly on the move upwards. Good news for the hard-pressed consumer is in short supply – even as inflation has reduced to around 2 per cent. And to add to the uncertainty, US president Donald Trump on Friday said he will impose a 50 per cent tariff on goods from the EU starting on June 1st.
Was the truth about Joe Biden’s health hidden from American voters?

2 weeks ago | irishtimes.com | Bernice Harrison

Former US president Joe Biden’s announcement on Sunday that he has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer paused the avalanche of damning stories about his mental acuity and cognitive fitness for office during his presidency. The leaks and pre-publicity around a new book Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again by Alex Thompson and Jake Tapper have been going on for weeks.
Two Irish-based lawyers and their links to Putin’s soft-power agency

2 weeks ago | irishtimes.com | Bernice Harrison

An ad placed by a Dublin-based solicitor in a Russian-language newspaper based in Ireland in 2023 offered a free consultation to “compatriots”. What Elizaveta Donnery’s offer didn’t mention was that the service would be funded by the Kremlin through Pravfond, an organisation established in 2012 with the stated goal of protecting the rights of Russians living abroad, primarily by offering assistance in legal matters.
Kim Kardashian trial: Star faces ‘grandpa gang’ over 2016 gunpoint robbery in Paris

3 weeks ago | irishtimes.com | Bernice Harrison

A group of men dubbed the “grandpa gang” are among 10 suspects on trial in Paris on charges of robbing reality TV star and entrepreneur Kim Kardashian at gunpoint and stealing jewellery worth millions of euros during Paris Fashion Week in 2016. The billionaire business woman will be in court tomorrow.
Pope Leo XIV: who is he and what does he stand for?

4 weeks ago | irishtimes.com | Bernice Harrison

There was shock and surprise yesterday in St Peter’s Square when Robert Francis Prevost was revealed as pope. The Chicago-born cardinal had not featured in the names of the men most likely to be voted through by the 133 Cardinals in the conclave. And he was unknown to most observers watching events in Rome, leaving commentators rushing to learn more about the Augustinian who at 69 could lead the church for the next two decades. But what kind of Pope will be?
Molly minders: Why the famous Dublin statue is being protected from tourists

4 weeks ago | irishtimes.com | Bernice Harrison

For years tourists have been told it’s a tradition in Dublin to rub Molly Malone’s breasts – “for luck”. Something that’s news to residents of the capital. And it is causing damage – not just to the look of the piece but also to its stability and that has prompted Dublin City Council to take action. Every day this week “Molly minders” were at the statue with one job – to stop tourists climbing up to touch her.
How will Pakistan respond to India’s missile attack?

1 month ago | irishtimes.com | Bernice Harrison

India has conducted what it has described as “precision strikes” in neighbouring Pakistan and Pakistani-controlled Kashmir, days after it blamed Islamabad for a deadly attack on the Indian side of the contested region that killed 26 people. At least 26 civilians were killed and 46 injured by the Indian strikes, according to Pakistani officials. The Indian government claimed that nine non-military targets had been hit, in what it called “Operation Sindoor”.
Patrick Freyne on Africa’s forgotten war

1 month ago | irishtimes.com | Bernice Harrison

Chad now hosts 1.3 million forcibly displaced people, according to the UNHCR, despite itself being one of the world’s poorest countries. More than half of these refugees are Sudanese, mostly women and children, who have fled the fighting between rival militaries which erupted in April 2023. It has been called “the forgotten war” because of the lack of media coverage and global attention particularly on the plight of the refugees who live in sprawling refugee camps.
Blackout in Spain and Portugal: Why did the lights go out?

1 month ago | irishtimes.com | Bernice Harrison

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Kneecap: will ‘moral outrage’ over controversial comments halt the rappers’ rise?

1 month ago | irishtimes.com | Bernice Harrison

For Kneecap’s growing fan base, the band’s support of Palestine as they performed at the Coachella music festival in California last month didn’t raise a ripple of surprise. The Belfast-based rappers who sing mostly in Irish have been consistent in their vocal opposition to Israel’s response to the October 7th Hamas attack. But an American backlash coincided with UK police investigations into comments made by members of the group during concerts.