The man is Adrian Laird-Craig, an ‘extreme litter picker’, and as he unfurls the fagged sheet, he points out how it is disintegrating into fragments, over time becoming microplastics which float "down ...

Sally Rooney’s second novel begins with an unlikely romance between two sixth-formers in County Sligo. Connell is a ‘culchie’ from the proverbial wrong side of the tracks, a popular lad who plays ...