Article Index

Irish horse chestnut trees threatened by new parasite

By Tim O'Brien

Environment

Dublin Bikes: Adverts near US embassy 'nasty' and 'tacky'

By Olivia Kelly

Opinion

Newton Emerson: Takeover of UK Labour Party in North all too easy

By Newton Emerson

Residential

Ultimate Connemara bolthole for €595,000

By Alanna Gallagher

Kurds feel wrath during extended Turkish purge

By Stephen Starr

Minister for Sport leaves Rio early to act on ticket affair

By Sarah Bardon

THG says it acted as go-between for Olympic tickets

By Mark Paul, Joe Brennan and Tom Hennigan

Dissident republicans still haven’t gone away you know

By Brian Rowan

Brian Mooney: How to challenge your Leaving Cert results

By Brian Mooney

Residential

Bandstand attraction in Bray with lots of scope

By Frances O'Rourke

IOC distances itself from Hickey’s arrest in Brazil hotel

By Keith Duggan

Microbiologist calls for Irish register of ‘nanomaterials’

By Lorna Siggins

Genealogist finds Tim Kaine also has Irish roots in Cork

By Barry Roche

Environment

Dublin City Council asked to reverse apartment height limits

By Olivia Kelly

Forces in Iraq unite ahead of battle to retake Mosul

By Michael Jansen

Hungary Letter: Steppe festival celebrates mysterious origins

By Daniel McLaughlin

Wind energy advert held to have broken broadcasting law

By Ronan McGreevy

Splinter groups: Main players among dissident factions

By Brian Rowan

Rugby

Leinster line up Mike Ford to replace Kurt McQuilkin

By Gavin Cummiskey

Warning signs

An Irish Diary

An Irishwoman’s Diary on the rich life of wandering harper Arthur Ó Néill

By Maura Walsh Uí Chróinín

Gulls and managing waste

Foreign languages and education

Media and democracy

Opinion

Why I want to reclaim the C-word for myself

By Anthea McTeirnan

Data protection gone mad?

Olympic colours

Why no waiver for Leaving appeals fee?

Australia and asylum seekers

Israeli ambassador responds to ‘Arab-Israeli conflict in 10 points’

Michael Conlan claims AIBA punished Ireland for Seamus Kelly ‘outing them’

Rio Paralympics organisers alarmed as only 12 per cent of tickets sold

Usain Bolt safely into 200m final as Justin Gatlin crashes out

Gardening

Dynamic duo reinvent the picnic bench for Phoenix Park

By Fionnuala Fallon

Laundrie set to expand to continental Europe

By Ciara O'Brien

My sister the chef invented chicken with talcum powder

By Bernadette Quinn

Tanya Sweeney’s big regret? Coming up with The X Factor but not acting on it

By Tanya Sweeney

The five toughest sports at the Olympics

By Vanesa Martinez

The lack of support given to recreational maths is a real puzzle

By Peter Lynch

The making of a fascist megalomaniac: a family creation

By Tara Brady

A thought experiment to tease out religious attitudes to abortion

By Laura Kennedy

Books

Diplomacy in the digital age – blogs, tweets but no nudity

By Dan Mulhall

Ada English, a psychiatrist and revoloutionary from Co Kerry

By Rosita Boland

A very Irish history of festivals

By Patrick Freyne

The business of belief: an intriguing vision of Knock shrine

By Donald Clarke

This tattoo can control your smartphone

By Marie Boran

Data centre growth comes at price for Irish infrastructure

By Karlin Lillington

Thrive and the audio revolution for virtual reality

By Barry McCall

Gaelic Games

GAA Statistics: How Mayo deploy man marker Lee Keegan will be decisive

By Eamon Donoghue

Rugby

Leinster await return of Sean O’Brien and Cian Healy

By Gavin Cummiskey

Finishing kick can raise the bar again for Thomas Barr

By Ian O'Riordan

Innovation awards: Brandtone is making sales easier

By Barry McCall

Olympic Triathlon: Brownlees put brotherly love on hold

By Ian O'Riordan

Robot shop assistant Pepper makes US debut

By Marie Boran

Fashion

Fashion Forward: Shiny jackets and make-up mastery

By Deirdre McQuillan and Dominique McMullan

School study of computer science key to Irish knowledge economy

By Bob Savage

The Morning Sports Briefing

Childhood of a Leader review: a stunning high-art debut

By Donald Clarke

Sonia O’Sullivan: Thomas Barr’s heroics resurrected a tired studio

By Sonia O'Sullivan

Zevas to create 40 jobs in Dublin and Cork

By Pamela Newenham

Rio 2016: Irish in action on Day 13

A bluffers guide to . . . Modern Pentathlon

By Philip Reid

Media

Former Top Gear presenters raise $5.5m for digital media startup

Cigarettes in the firing line for Budget 2017

Coders with a conscience ready to change the charity sector

By John Holden

Financial Services

Rabobank first-half profits hit by one-off charge

Boy in the ambulance: shocking image of Syrian child pulled from rubble

Biosensia screening test set to speed up diagnosis of head trauma

By Olive Keogh

Five things you need to know today

Hibernia Reit CEO Nowlan gets €2m of bonus stock

By Joe Brennan

New technology allows you to mimic anyone’s handwriting

By Marie Boran

Tullow reports first flow from oilfields off Ghana

By Pamela Newenham

Transport

‘Flying bum’ aircraft makes successful maiden voyage

Irish business confidence lowest in three and a half years

By Laura Slattery

Farming & Food

Nestlé reports slowest first-half sales growth since 2009

Brexit-spooked UK companies need to talk to this Irish man

By Ciarán Hancock

Fed officials divided in July over interest rate hike

Three Cairn Homes executives take €3m paper hit on share deals

By Ciarán Hancock

Will autonomous cars make White Van Man extinct?

Media

Wireless Group shareholders accept News Corp swoop

By Joe Brennan and Laura Slattery

Rio 2016: Team Britain member reportedly held up at gunpoint

Financial Services

Permanent TSB signs up with Credit Review Office

By Ciara O'Brien

Viva review: Life lessons for a Havana drag queen

By Donald Clarke

State board appointments limited to 10 years under new code

By Sarah Bardon

Is pesticide the answer to the Zika outbreak?

By Juliana Adelman

Olympic scandal: ‘Ireland is being tarnished by these events’

By Vivienne Clarke

Lucinda Creighton insists there is a future for Renua

By Vivienne Clarke

Jonas Kaufman: Nessun Dorma – The Puccini Album review: mostly a tour de force

By Colman Morrissey

Album of the Day - Fred Hersch Trio’s Sunday Night at the Village Vanguard: This is as good as it gets

By Cormac Larkin

Peter Erskine Trio - As It Was album review: a different kind of groove

By Cormac Larkin

Factory Floor - 25 25 album review: dark, nocturnal and hypnotic

By Jim Carroll

Swallows and Amazons review: Oh golly-gosh! We’re in the wrong century

By Donald Clarke

History

50 Irish graves to visit before you die

By Arminta Wallace

Opinion

The Rio question: F the cheaters – but which ones?

By Una Mullally

The Get Down soundtrack album review: more modern shape-throwing than a throwback to the era

By Jim Carroll

Irish household debt decreases by €1.1bn in first quarter

By Pamela Newenham

Blinky Bill the Movie review: you had us at eucalyptus

By Tara Brady

Gap closes between North’s girls and boys in A levels

Mercury Prize nominee Kano returns to the scene of the grime

By Shilpa Ganatra

The futility of vaginal speakers for the unborn

By William Reville

Canary Wharf maps its post-Brexit future

Cork is certainly not the ‘real capital’ – but it could be great

Leaving Cert helpdesk: rechecks

Leaving Cert helpdesk: transferring courses

Analysis: No Brexit economic hit yet, but it’s coming

By Cliff Taylor

Tickled review: Competitive sport? Sexual fetish? Unmissable story

By Tara Brady

Food

Seasonal suppers: cooking outside feeds our body and mind

By JP McMahon

World’s media responds to Hickey’s ‘fall from grace’

By Sorcha Pollak

One in six young people in euro zone is a Neet

Golf

Shane Lowry: Time to make a late play to make Ryder Cup team

By Shane Lowry

Leaving Cert helpdesk: will course points go up or down?

Offbeat

‘Jigsaw murders’: The gruesome case of a jealous GP

By Dean Ruxton

OCI chief Pat Hickey remains in hospital following arrest

By Tom Hennigan and Sarah Bardon

Lucinda Creighton broke law with unsolicited phone calls

By Elaine Edwards

Health

Message for Irish mammies: it’s time to end dinnertime battles

By John McKenna

Podcast: Why humans must go to Mars

Sinn Féin MLA resigns amid Robinson collusion claims

By Gerry Moriarty

Rio 2016: Fears expressed over current at Olympic pool

Self-driving buses take to roads alongside commuter traffic in Helsinki

Ombudsman urges students to bring complaints to him

By Elaine Edwards

Work

Five things to do after you inform your boss you’re leaving

Gaelic Games

Sean Moran: Hurling feast strengthens case for football reform

By Seán Moran

ECB keen to contain stimulus hopes at meeting after Brexit vote

Citizens’ assembly on Eighth Amendment to be live streamed

By Ciarán D'Arcy

Irish man killed in Majorca in case of mistaken identity

By Gerard Couzens and Conor Lally

José Mourinho: Paul Pogba fit and primed to make Man United return

Books

When Tony Doherty was 9, his father Paddy was killed on Bloody Sunday

By Freya McClements

Nothing to see: just some earbuds for $299

By Ciara O'Brien

Light HP Spectre rivals MacBook Air

By Ciara O'Brien

Lights Out review: move over Chucky, there’s a new kid on the block

By Donald Clarke

Best ‘foodie destination’ in Ireland? Ten make the shortlist

By Ronan McGreevy

Sergey Malov - Hommage à Paganini album review: the spirit of Paganini is alive and well

By Michael Dervan

Ageing Danes look to robots to save their welfare state

Leaving Cert helpdesk: DARE scheme

Books

The Trout by Peter Cunningham: fishing for truth of clerical abuse

By Peter Cunningham

Gardaí properly dealt with man who later died, inquest hears

By Barry Roche

Fashion

Beauty report: Luxury face creams (and two budget buys)

By Laura Kennedy

Stiglitz wants ‘amicable divorce’ if euro area unable to reform

Euro zone return to inflation confirmed as food prices surge

Steve Bannon: the man hired to rescue Donald Trump

By Anna Nicolaou and Demetri Sevastopulo

Dolly Parton - Pure & Simple album review: walks the line between parody and authenticity

By Joe Breen

Racing

Seventh Heaven leads home Found to give Aidan O’Brien Yorkshire Oaks one-two

Shoppers shrug off Brexit as retail sales jump in July

Leaving Cert helpdesk: when you don’t get your first choice

Fashion

"My style is constantly changing and evolving"

By Emma Fraser

Art

How corruption and nepotism brought down Olympic artistic games

By Seamas O'Reilly

Markets

Sterling rises to two-week high on unexpected sales data

Rio 2016: Alistair Brownlee retains triathalon gold ahead of brother Jonny

By Johnny Watterson

Work

Moaning millennials unfair to themselves and others

By Andrew Hill

Cisco Systems to cut 5,500 jobs as it shifts focus

Optimistic explorers undertake dig for Nazi gold train in Poland

By Joanna Berendt

UFC 202: Why Nate Diaz Part II is Conor McGregor’s biggest ever challenge

By Paul O'Keeffe

Courts

Council secures injuction stopping ferry-ticket sales on pier

Interim examiner appointed to Dublin hotel and bar

By Aodhan O'Faolain

Aongus Curran remembered as loving father and gifted doctor

By Peter Murtagh

Family, friends of Thomas Barr hail ‘heroic’ fourth place finish

By Conor Kane and Kathryn Hayes

Over 17,000 killed in Syrian detention since 2011, says Amnesty

Thomas Barr’s storming finish comes up agonisingly short in Rio

By Ian O'Riordan

Gaelic Games

GAA inducts four newcomers to Hall of Fame

By Seán Moran

Angela Merkel rejects outright burka ban in Germany

By Derek Scally

Shakur Stevenson to face Cuban Robeisy Ramirez in final after walkover

At least 10 killed in bombings in southeast Turkey

Courts

High Court refuses to halt distribution of €283,000 estate

By Aodhan O'Faolain

Media

Newspaper sales decline in first half of 2016

By Laura Slattery

TV & Radio

Twitter closes 360,000 accounts for ‘promoting terrorism’

Tributes paid to murder victim who ‘served his community’

By Ronan Smyth

Two officers under investigation after Dalian Atkinson’s death

Markets

Ryanair, CPL market gainers on Iseq as Bank of Ireland falls

By Ciarán Hancock

Pakistan’s Sharjeel Khan puts Ireland to the sword

Golf

Rio 2016: Leona Maguire and Stephanie Meadow bounce back

Crystal Palace agree €37m deal to sign Liverpool’s Christian Benteke

By Paul MacInnes

Pat Hickey released from hospital in Brazil for police questioning

By Sarah Bardon and Keith Duggan

Financial Services

Dublin’s financial services expected to benefit from Brexit

By Ciara O'Brien

Plight of boy not exceptional in Syria, says photographer

By Kareem Shaheen

Estate agents expect house prices to rise 4.5% in next year

By Cliff Taylor

AIBA re-assigns executive director in wake of Olympic judging controversy

Gardaí prepare for further violence in Kinahan-Hutch feud

By Conor Lally and Gerard Couzens

Farming & Food

Warning changes at Lakeland Dairies will put 72 jobs at risk

By Francess McDonnell

Rio 2016: Natalya Coyle 12th after opening day of Modern Pentathlon

Thomas Barr: Competitiors had as much chance of ‘being clean as being unclean’

By Ian O'Riordan

The Rifles - Big Life album review: long, perky and forgettable

By Lauren Murphy

World

US Olympic swimmers may face charges over false testimony

By Simon Romero and Michael Schmidt

Ryan Seaton and Matt McGovern finish a creditable 10th

By David Branigan

West Ham concede late on and take only a draw from Romania

Hieroglyphic Being -The Disco’s of Imhotep album review: full of transcendent momentum

By Jim Carroll

Arsenal Wenger: No age limit in hunt for new defender

Garda investigates suspected human trafficking in Co Meath

By Mark Hilliard

Argentina hold off Belgium to take men’s hockey gold