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Ukraine’s digital adviser urges equal treatment and access

Dr Yuliya Garycha, who fled to Ireland earlier this year, urges Ireland to lead support for internal market treatment for Ukraine

‘I don’t want war, I want peace. I want a world without war’

In Kyiv’s Independence Square, there are tears for a missing soldier and a shrine to the estimated 20,000 foreign volunteers fighting for Ukraine, bedecked with their national flags – among them the Irish tricolour

Ukraine war a significant risk for porridge-maker Flahavan’s as oat costs soar

The 230-year-old food business grew its revenues last year and turned a €2.5m profit, but warned that Russia’s war was likely to hike its costs

Ukrainians to be moved out of Dublin hotel to make room for asylum seekers

Officials are coming under pressure to find more accommodation after a surge in asylum applications at the same time as the arrival of 29,000 Ukrainians fleeing the Russian invasion

Rebuilding Ukraine: ‘It is a victory for humanity that we can be destroyed but rise from nothing’

Even as Russian troops move into the east of Ukraine, citizens in and around the capital Kyiv are working to rebuild their communities from the ruins

EU launches €210bn plan to replace Russian gas

Frans Timmermans, European commissioner for the Green Deal, said the EU was also preparing for a major Russian gas supply shock but that it would be ready

Dispatch from Ukraine: ‘A complete win for us would be if Russia ceases to be a powerful country’

Ukrainian sports journalist Oleksandr Proshuta explains what victory would look like to the people of Ukraine in his latest dispatch from Kyiv

Kyiv trade association urges Irish tech firms to work with Ukraine

IT Ukraine Association represents over 77,000 people working in the sector

Ryanair reports €355m annual loss and plans to hike prices

Airline anticipates summer fares will peak above pre-pandemic levels but current bookings are depressed due to impact of Covid-19 and Russian invasion

One in nine Ukrainian refugees working here within two months

Most of the 1,994 Ukrainians are working in Dublin and Clare, while more than half those working have found employment in pubs, restaurants and hotels

Against the grain: Global food shortages loom as Ukraine’s supply line remains blocked

Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has meant millions of tons of staple food crops remain stuck in the country – with potentially disastrous consequences for the rest of the world too

Editorial: We must not avoid hard questions on our role in the defence of Europe

Ireland’s security may not require the country to join Nato, but we must not delude ourselves into thinking we need to do nothing

On the ground in Ukraine: ‘These guys walked around expecting people to thank them as liberators’

Almost three months into the Russian invasion, the people of Kharkiv are remaining stoic as they endure a seemingly endless barrage of artillery fire and bullets

Lucinda Creighton: EU must not make promises of membership to Ukraine that it will not keep

The EU has to decide if it wants Ukraine to join the bloc – and if not, then spare it the decades of delays that have poisoned relationships with Turkey and the western Balkans

Comment: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine lays bare our collective ignorance of Central and Eastern Europe

Ireland’s historic, economic and demographic ties to the region run deeper than is often realised. It’s time we started paying attention

Hungary takes hard line on opposition to EU embargo on Russia oil imports

Country says it will withdraw veto threat on proposed ban only if its imports via pipelines are excluded from sanctions plan

Hostelworld says recovery continuing ‘across all destinations’

Demand for travel to Europe back to 2019 levels, according to the online booking platform

Irish packaging firm Zeus to spend €35m on M&A activity

The company’s operations in Ukraine are operating at between 50-60 per cent of budget, under ‘challenging’ conditions providing essential food packaging to retailers

Keeping the lights on: Why energy emergency group is looking beyond ‘worst-case scenario’

Ireland is less reliant than some on Russian energy imports – but ESEG, the state’s new energy crisis body, is planning for rationing just in case

Defiance in Lviv: ‘We will win this war. Absolutely. We are sure of that’

Up to last week, the western Ukrainian city of Lviv was considered a safe haven for refugees fleeing from other parts of the country. Now, it has been targeted by Russian missiles, but its citizens remain unbowed