Article Index

The Bee Sting by Paul Murray: Hugely entertaining tragicomic fiction about painful family dynamics

By Sarah Gilmartin

Opinion

Broken asylum system: Dual standard in how we treat refugees must end

By Sinéad Gibney

Coalition sources admit strain of ‘keeping manners’ on overspending

By Jack Horgan-Jones and Seanín Graham

Go for launch: is an author ever ready to publish their book?

By Hazel Gaynor

Consumer Tech

1More Aero earbuds review: A decent affordable option with strong noise cancelling but passable battery life

By Ciara O'Brien

Lowdown: RBC Canadian Open - Rory McIlroy looks for a three-peat in Canada

By Philip Reid

Ministers to be told of emerging financial risk in Department of Health budget

By Jennifer Bray and Paul Cullen

Gaelic Games

Teddy McCarthy was the GAA’s unrivalled dual star - and Cork’s one of a kind

By Gordon Manning

Restaurants

Hawksmoor review: This steakhouse is a serious addition to Dublin - top-notch food in a spectacular setting

By Corinna Hardgrave

Advertising Feature

Deloitte strengthens leadership team with a record 23 partner appointments

Consumer Tech

Garmin Fenix 7 Pro: New features make this smartwatch indispensable

By Ciara O'Brien

Innovation

Is the combustion engine doomed? Not if the boss of Ferrari is to be believed

By Neil Briscoe

Golf deal latest proof that money talks, so sportswashing works

By Sean Ingle

Gaelic Games

Read all about it, at last: the Tuam stars who lit up football in the 1950s

By Ciarán Murphy

Science

AI offers new approach to help cold-water corals

By Claire O'Connell

Opinion

Finn McRedmond: The tragic irony of the TikTok therapist

By Finn McRedmond

Music

‘It was a bit of a shock’: A singer loses her voice. How can a composer respond?

By Michael Dervan

Film

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts – A miserable one star for this numbingly tedious mayhem

By Donald Clarke

Abroad

We moved from Ireland to Switzerland and set up a luxury dog hotel. Business is booming

By Aileen Woulfe

Big tobacco flirting with ESG suitors

By Cantillon

Innovation

Identifying obesity-related health issues before they become critical

By Olive Keogh

Racing

US racing faces a reckoning as horse deaths continue to rack up

By Dave Hannigan

Work

Most employees feel managers out of touch with workplace needs, survey finds

By Emmet Malone

Commercial real estate seen as weak link this time around

By Cantillon

Technology

Apple’s Vision Pro feels as potentially transformative as the iPhone once did

By Karlin Lillington

‘We all have a right to remember our dead’: Michelle O’Neill defends IRA commemoration

By Martin Wall, Seanín Graham and Freya McClements

Social Affairs

State to pay €1.5m to EU amid lack of space for asylum seekers

By Jennifer Bray and Cormac McQuinn

Opinion

Newton Emerson: Michelle O’Neill brings antiquated republican thinking to Washington

By Newton Emerson

Culture

Lessons for the Catholic Church from Census 2023 – get out of schools, chase the lost sheep

By Joe Humphreys

People

I was shocked. Two people as fit as fiddles gorging on one enormous cream cake

By Michael Harding

What properties sold for in Cabinteely, Dublin 18

By Ronald Quinlan

Your Wellness

Why is there no public outcry about defects in disability services and facilities?

By Pádraig O'Moráin

Home with star quality off Dalkey’s main street for €1.9m

By Frances O'Rourke

New four-bedroom homes in Naas starting from €520,000

By Miriam Mulcahy

What will €495,000 buy in Dublin and Tipperary?

By Elizabeth Birdthistle

What can we do about overgrowth from gardens encroaching on a public walkway?

By Paul Huberman

Elvis Costello’s former property in foothills of the Dublin Mountains for €2.75m

By Elizabeth Birdthistle

Enda McGuane elected president of the SCSI

By Ronald Quinlan

Science

Ensuring public trust a top priority for science while countering threats to Earth and humanity

By Shane Bergin

Why are Ireland’s breastfeeding rates stubbornly low?

By Stuart Mathieson

New Clonskeagh apartments from €400,000 with green credentials and younger buyer appeal

By Kevin Courtney

CalypsoAI opens centre of excellence in Dublin as it targets expansion

By Ciara O'Brien

Your Fitness

Completing a Spartan race: I got through the barbed wire ... but then came the monkey bars

By Conor Capplis

Climate Crisis

Survey indicates strong support for enhanced protection of Irish marine ecosystems

By Kevin O'Sullivan

Business Today Newsletter

Quaint Ringsend mid-terrace with attic room for €425,000

By Elizabeth Birdthistle

Trump told by prosecutors he is target of a criminal investigation over handling of classified documents

By Martin Wall

Interest rates to keep rising, Cancer survivors may get mortgage protection, and holiday tech essentials

By Peter Flanagan

Fianna Fáil TD says ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ remarks made by Tánaiste Micheál Martin were ‘inappropriate’

By Harry McGee

Teenage cyclist dies after crashing e-bike into pillar in Tallaght

By Shauna Bowers

ISIF invests €65m in Al Gore’s climate fund

By Ciara O'Brien

Supermarket price war: retailers to ‘come out fighting’ after Tesco’s pledge to cut more than 700 grocery items

By Conor Pope and Shauna Bowers

TV & Radio

Shannen Doherty reveals breast cancer has spread to her brain

By Sian Cain

Climate Crisis

Global emissions at ‘all-time high’ causing unprecedented rate of global warming, scientists warn

By Kevin O'Sullivan

Motors

Volvo’s EX30 is compact, long-ranged, and surprisingly affordable

By Neil Briscoe

Edward Snowden says surveillance technology is more intrusive than ever

By Ewen MacAskill

Glenveagh continues progress as strong underlying demand provides support

By Ciara O'Brien

The Women's Podcast

Vera Pauw: ‘When I tell players they are not going to the World Cup, they hate me’

By Suzanne Brennan

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Sport

Denver stars rewrite the record books as Nuggets take series lead

Amazon should not pay €250m in Luxembourg back taxes, EU court adviser says

By Foo Yun Chee

How CNN’s CEO lost the confidence of staff and his ‘hands-on’ boss

By Anna Nicolaou and Christopher Grimes

Bigger than Beckham: Messi has the power to realise soccer’s potential in the US

By Graham Ruthven

Republic of Ireland players will earn €28,000 from playing in World Cup

By Gavin Cummiskey

Sports Briefing

Mary Hannigan: Rory the Sacrificial Lamb faces up to the cold, hard logic of Saudi money

By Mary Hannigan

CRH shareholders vote for New York listing

By Barry O'Halloran

Economy

Euro zone succumbs to mildest of recessions on energy shock

Liverpool confirm Alexis Mac Allister signing from Brighton for £35m

By Andy Hunter

George: A Magpie Memoir by Frieda Hughes — ‘an inexplicable joy’

By Martina Evans

Dam disaster is set to transform the geography and ecology of Kherson region

By Christopher Miller in Kyiv and Ben Hall in London

Smart Money

Cliff Taylor: When is a budget tax cut not really a tax cut at all?

By Cliff Taylor

Inflation rate falls for third month in a row but restaurant and hotel prices show significant rises

By Eoin Burke-Kennedy

NTMA raises €1.25bn in second bond sale of 2023

By Ian Curran

Europe and Ireland need to prepare for more refugees from Ukraine after destruction of dam - Varadkar

By Cormac McQuinn

Food allergies: one in every 20 children with allergy suffers accidental reaction in school or preschool

By Seán McCárthaigh

Paterson Joseph wins Christopher Bland Prize; Niall McDevitt celebrated; Giggler gets the musical treatment

By Martin Doyle

Arsenal confident of landing Declan Rice and aim to pay West Ham £90m

By Jacob Steinberg

State exams

Reaction to Thursday’s Junior Cycle and Leaving Cert exams

By Carl O'Brien

Crime & Law

Irish man arrested in Spain to fight extradition to UK

By Gerard Couzens

Household savings rate back at pre-pandemic level

By Ian Curran

KFC branch ordered to close for four days after health inspectors found dead rats on the premises

By Shauna Bowers

Retired RTÉ cameraman who sexually assaulted step-daughter to be sentenced next week

By Eimear Dodd

Holly Cairns on her Leaving Cert: ‘I wasn’t an academic student’

Man alleged to have shot and killed Gareth Hutch goes on trial at Special Criminal Court

By Eoin Reynolds

Pope Francis in ‘good general condition’ after surgery

Pollution from Canadian wildfires continues to spread

By Aime Williams in Washington and Steff Chávez in Chicago

Leaving Cert engineering: Topical and testing

By Peter McGuire

Bewley’s sells UK coffee business to ‘focus’ on Republic

By Ian Curran

Barryroe axes €20m fundraising plan after ‘surprising’ licence refusal

By Barry O'Halloran

‘It’s just like a match made in heaven’: Family of seven who moved to Inis Meáin urge others to follow

By Ellen O’Donoghue

Former Donegal waste operator Jim Ferry claims ‘political pressure’ driving prosecution against him

By Chris McNulty

Music

‘A beast of a musician’: Video showing concertina master Cormac Begley goes viral

By Deirdre Falvey

Lawyers for woman dying of cervical cancer urge HSE to settle personal injuries case

Junior Cycle Irish: Octopus question leaves some students in a tangle

By Peter McGuire

Dry spell set to give way to rain just in time for Harry Styles at Slane

By Tim O'Brien

Rory McIlroy says the PGA Tour needs to compensate players who stayed loyal

By David Gorman

Bailey family dispute with trustee has been resolved, court told

Special Reports

Trends in fintech

By Sandra O'Connell

Profits up at cash-rich Power City despite decline in sales

By Gordon Deegan

Asylum seekers to be housed in tents at former Central Mental Hospital in Dundrum

By Jack Horgan-Jones

200 Ukrainian refugees to be housed in modular units at Columb Barracks in Mullingar - Department

By Robert Kindregan

Former RTÉ 2FM DJ Nikki Hayes to be sentenced in October for €10,000 money laundering

By Jessica Magee

Skymetrix acquires Dublin-based Rainmaker Business Technologies

By Ciara O'Brien

Sport

Ron O’Hanley’s Privateer smashes Dún Laoghaire to Dingle sailing record

By David Branigan

Junior Cycle geography: Accessible paper but lack of marking scheme is ‘unfair’ on students

By Peter McGuire

Sunshine fuels spending in Ireland’s coastal towns

By Ciara O'Brien

Barclay family submit bid to write off some of Telegraph Media Group’s debt

By Alex Lawson

Threadbare Moldovan prosecutors take on former top leadership in anti-corruption drive

By Naomi O'Leary

FAI request €517 million of Government investment over 15 years

By Gavin Cummiskey

High Court orders hospital admission for woman with flies and maggots in foot wound

Liquidators to Russian-owned lessors will need Central Bank derogation for transactions

By Aodhan O'Faolain

Companies Office will require PPS numbers from directors

By Dominic Coyle

Was Pádraig Harrington right to say Ireland exports military technology to Saudi Arabia?

By Nathan Johns

Ukraine says dam destruction will devastate farming

By Daniel McLaughlin

Farming & Food

Galway and Moy fisheries close due to rising water temperatures

By Tim O'Brien

Sport

A pickup truck doing ballet: Nikola Jokić is making the NBA finals his masterpiece

By Aaron Timms

Leaving Cert English paper 2: Students delight as poet Paula Meehan makes predicted appearance

By Peter McGuire

Mixed economic signals leave share values treading water

By Barry O'Halloran

DUP efforts to secure Government legal assurances reaching ‘important stage’

Social Affairs

Stardust inquests: Emergency exits found locked several times before nightclub fire

By Kitty Holland

Former Fine Gael senator Paul Coghlan dies aged 79

By Harry McGee and Anne Lucey

State has opportunity now to ‘fix’ its attitude to Irish, says TG4 boss

By Laura Slattery

An Irish Diary

Serious business – Frank McNally on the alleged loss of Ireland’s sense of humour

By Frank McNally

Rory McIlroy happy to go back to the day job with topsy-turvy round at Canadian Open

By Philip Reid

Iraq war marked ‘low point of Irish pretences to neutrality’

By Ronan McGreevy

Leaving Cert diary: ‘I’m doing the exams in a soundproof room on my own’

By Cathal Moloney

Dublin

Dubliners could vote next June on whether or not they want directly elected mayor

By Cormac McQuinn

Calls for Dutch prime minister to resign over gas extraction controversy

By Peter Cluskey

Economy

Up to 73% of social housing coming from private sector

By Eoin Burke-Kennedy

IBRC liquidators to seek clarity from appeal court over scope of civil case facing Michael Fingleton

By Ellen O'Riordan

Editorials

The Irish Times view on the row between Poland and Brussels: stakes are high

Fractious Spanish left seeks unity ahead of July election

By Guy Hedgecoe

High Court president orders doctors to continue treatment to woman in coma for nearly 40 days

Editorials

The Irish Times view on inflation: finally, some encouraging news

Social Affairs

Why does the State want to pay €1.5m to the EU amid lack of space for asylum seekers?

By Jennifer Bray

Department of Transport underspent its capital budget by almost €100m in first quarter of the year

By Jack Horgan-Jones

Housing & Planning

Marc Godart: Woman locked out of her Dublin cafe months after son’s death settles with landlord

By Colm Keena

Climate Crisis

Al Gore calls for scaling-up of marine protected areas in Irish waters

By Kevin O'Sullivan

Special Criminal Court wrong to find man was miscarriage of justice victim, DPP says

By Ellen O'Riordan

Tennis

Alcaraz ready to lock horns with legendary Djokovic

By Tumaini Carayol

‘The nation is in shock’: Four young children injured after knife attack at French playground

By Alexandra Topping

Middle East

Netanyahu to deploy Shin Bet intelligence agency to stem killings in Israeli Arab communities

By Mark Weiss

Tennis

Muchova shocks Sabalenka to set up French Open final against Swiatek

By Tumaini Carayol

Protest at Russian embassy told of bodies washing through Kherson streets

By Colin Gleeson and Polina Maliuzhonok

World

Extreme weather expected as El Nino climate pattern returns, US forecaster says

By Gloria Dickie

Amendments to NI Legacy Bill criticised as ‘smoke and mirrors’ by campaigners

By Freya McClements

Biden and Sunak strengthen economic ties with ‘Atlantic declaration’

By George Parker, Felicia Schwartz and James Politi in Washington and Jim Pickard in London

Irish entrepreneurs knock on the gateway to Asia in Singapore

By Ian Curran

Warning over people who are older, mentally ill or ‘do not fit in’ being institutionalised

By Paul Cullen

Open question

Marching season

Tomahawk steak

Glorifying violence

Cycle path maintenance

‘Your phone cannot be your therapist’

Treating depression in the very elderly

Public transport and Dublin Airport

Dublin’s urban villages

Speed limits and road safety