Article Index

Farewell Macroom, hello bypass

Rotating leadership

Road safety – taking responsibility

European portfolio

The HSE and IT – not fit for purpose

Bring the marathon back into Dublin city

Religion and schools

Smartphones and schools

Innovation awards finalist: Cassandra AI helps pharma firms tackle regulatory hurdles

By Olive Keogh

Defence and security policy needs reform

Innovation awards finalist: Genicity greatly expands potential therapeutic options for treating cancer

By Olive Keogh

Innovation awards finalist: One Search identifies the right sites for clinical trials

By Olive Keogh

Innovation awards finalist: Orreco’s new te@m helps elite athlete’s prolong their careers

By Olive Keogh

Innovation awards finalist: PharmacyConnect delivers pharmacy apps to speed up patient prescriptions

By Olive Keogh

Innovation awards finalist: ReaDI-Watch tackles complex tax and grants process for start-ups

By Olive Keogh

Innovation awards finalist: Infraprint seeks to solve the biggest challenge to 3D printing adoption

By Olive Keogh

Innovation awards finalist: AgriGuardian aims to reduce farm fatalities

By Olive Keogh

Innovation awards finalist: AI Mapit revolutionises the way roadside infrastructure is managed

By Olive Keogh

Innovation awards finalist: RecaptureOne’s memory capsules help celebrate life

By Olive Keogh

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By Martyn Turner

Innovation awards finalist: Precision Sports’ new app delivers real-time feedback when exercising

By Olive Keogh

Innovation awards finalist: JustTip Technologies delivers a service tipping system for a cashless world

By Olive Keogh

Ingenuity on display: Profiles of the finalists in The Irish Times Innovation Awards 2023

By Olive Keogh

Food Month

Swedish meatballs and mash

By Orinta Kozlov

Books

Who Really Owns Ireland? by Matt Cooper: Too sprawling to stand up properly

By Eoin Ó Broin

Tesla deploys ‘gigacasting’ to shake up the way electric vehicles are assembled

By David Keohane, Kana Inagaki and Peter Campbell

Micro-credentials offer workers the ability to upskill at a more flexible pace

Centenary of Hitler putsch casts uncomfortable shadow on pogrom anniversary

By Derek Scally

We need to ask about humanity’s future – and the answers aren’t confined to a lab

Consumer Tech

Veritable’s high-tech herb garden spells the end for sad supermarket basil

By Ciara O'Brien

What happens in Gaza when the bombing stops?

By Naomi O’Leary

Music

Beirut’s Zach Condon: ‘I was a high-school dropout. I was a disorganised mess. I still am. I like chaos’

By Ed Power

Tapas and a fun vibe in the second-coolest neighbourhood in the world

By Corinna Hardgrave

Science

It’s not ‘only a theory’ – it’s a rigorously researched scientific study

By Stuart Mathieson

Film

Dream Scenario: Nicolas Cage stars in the year’s most uncomfortable sex scene

By Donald Clarke

Music

‘The woman who loaned me the Stradivarius offered to sell it for £140,000, but my own fiddle sounded better’

By Siobhán Long

Film

Anatomy of a Fall: An unlikable widow goes on trial in a fascinating, knotty courtroom thriller

By Tara Brady

Property Clinic

Is my neighbour allowed to have surface water from his garden routed into mine?

By Patrick Shine

Irish start-up aims to end drain of ‘talented women giving up their careers every day because of fertility issues’

By Olive Keogh

Five homes on view this week in Dublin, Cork and Kildare

By Elizabeth Birdthistle

Your Wellness

Emotional scars: The true cost of war and violence

By Pádraig O'Moráin

Immaculate four-bed in modern Greystones development for €760,000

By Miriam Mulcahy

What will €435,000 buy in Dublin and Carlow?

By Elizabeth Birdthistle

What properties sold for in Bray, Co Wicklow

Battery property overlooking Forty Foot sells to Irish buyer for €3m

By Jessica Doyle

Detached Rokeby Park five-bed near Lucan village for €1.1m

By Miriam Mulcahy

Opinion

Unionists are counting on Sinn Féin proving a fiasco in office and damaging republican project

By Newton Emerson

New homes at Mariner’s Point close to Wicklow town from €460,000

By Jessica Doyle

Sizeable luxury home in one of Galway’s most desirable suburbs for €2.5m

By Elizabeth Birdthistle

Meticulously maintained Victorian on Grosvenor Road for €2.75m

By Kevin Courtney

Glen Dimplex chairman secures €8m from sale of Howth mansion

By Ronald Quinlan

Picture-postcard new homes beside the sea in Bray from €475,000

By Kevin Courtney

Technology

Meta Ireland chief Anne O’Leary: ‘We need to work together across the tech industry ... so we keep people safe online’

By Ciara O'Brien

Beef off the menu as China bans premium product

By Cantillon

Housing & Planning

Vacant Dublin council houses will remain ‘boarded up’ due to funding cuts, official says

By Olivia Kelly

Vacant property acquisitions scheme delivers just 900 units

By Eoin Burke-Kennedy

Irish director at Aryzta quits amid tensions over dual chairman-CEO role

By Joe Brennan

Impact of inflation stalling green energy projects, industry says

By Barry O'Halloran

Opinion

Scale of homelessness crisis is far worse than the official data suggests

By Dr Rory Hearne

Gaelic Games

Corofin had the freshest ideas in football for a spell and we might be learning from them again

By Ciarán Murphy

Opinion

Maybe the kindest thing to do for The Simpsons would be to shelve it

By Finn McRedmond

Climate Crisis

Global food systems: we have reached another turning point, requiring a new level of political commitment and policy direction

By Tom Arnold

Technology

Ireland is not welcoming to whistleblowers. Why?

By Karlin Lillington

Housing & Planning

Peter McVerry Trust bought several apartments developed by its own auditor

By Jack Power

Your Wellness

Can you be addicted to food?

By Geraldine Walsh

Abroad

‘I peruse the shelves in my O’Neill’s shorts hoping the locals view me as Angers’ answer to Paul Mescal’

By Sarah McKenna Barry

Science

C’mere, it’s time to immerse yourself in Science Week 2023

By Claire O'Connell

Business Today Newsletter

Thomas Martens will be out of prison by the summer, predicts lawyer

By Martin Wall

Electric Ireland fraud alert, Aryzta board row and meet Meta’s Irish boss

By Peter Flanagan

Music

Take That: This Life review – The strengths of the songs lay in the pooling of resources

By Tony Clayton-Lea

Technology

Positive Carbon raises €2.3m in seed funding to tackle food waste

By Ciara O'Brien

New dog control measures to see fines doubled, number of restricted breeds increased

By Harry McGee

Culture

Hollywood actors’ union reaches tentative deal with studios to end strike

By Dani Anguiano and Lois Beckett

Thursday’s Top Stories: Molly and Thomas Martens sentenced, Peter McVerry Trust bought flats developed by own auditor

Flutter warns of ‘unintended consequences’ from new gambling laws

By Barry O'Halloran and Ciara O'Brien

Inside Politics Newsletter

Jones Engineering reports record €1.08bn revenue despite ‘challenges’

By Eoin Burke-Kennedy

Food Month

Swedish meatballs and mash: It’s all about the creamy sauce and comforting mash

By Orinta Kozlov

No end to sharp Dáil divisions over stance on Gaza bombardment

By Pat Leahy

Russia-Ukraine war: troops ‘stoutly holding’ Avdiivka against Russian encirclement

By Sammy Gecsoyler

Two thirds of Irish businesses plan to hike cyber security investment

By Ciara O'Brien

Health

Donnelly defends plan to move patients to first available nursing home bed

By Vivienne Clarke

Apple tax: iPhone maker and Government suffer major setback in €13bn EU case

By Joe Brennan

Man jailed in Cork for sexual assaults on woman

By Barry Roche

Work

Modular housing that’s ‘as good if not better than traditionally built homes’

By Olive Keogh

Republican hopefuls clash and sharpen attacks on absent Trump amid election losses

By Lauren Gambino in Washington

Sports Briefing

Mary Hannigan: Rock Brynner’s obituaries focused on his Hollywood father, but his path was uniquely his own

By Mary Hannigan

Smart Money

Ireland’s dangerous reliance on gas risks future price spikes for households

By Cliff Taylor

Taoiseach calls on nations to come together and demand ceasefire in Gaza

By Sharon Gaffney

Pat Kenny sees biggest listener gain at 9am after summer shakeup on Irish radio

By Laura Slattery

Irish inflation falls back to 5.1% as energy prices continue to drop

By Eoin Burke-Kennedy

French prosecutors investigate foreign link to Star of David graffiti

By Aurelien Breeden in Paris

Politicians threatening to sue media ‘not good in a democracy’, Tánaiste says

By Denis Staunton

Oireachtas

RTÉ proposes compromise in dispute with PAC over Tubridy document

By Cormac McQuinn, Jennifer Bray and Denis Staunton

Middle East

‘This is not a normal way to live’: The Palestinian town split in two by Israel

By Peter Beaumont in Huwara

Met Éireann issues weather warnings as temperatures set to fall

By Fiachra Gallagher

Troy Parrott earns Ireland recall for Dutch game but Séamus Coleman misses out

By Gavin Cummiskey

Oireachtas

Revelations that Peter McVerry Trust bought several apartments developed by former longtime auditor ‘very serious’, Dáil told

By Sarah Burns and Jack Power

Apple ruling: Why does it matter and what are the consequences for Ireland?

By Joe Brennan

Ashling Murphy Trial

Ashling Murphy trial: Jozef Puska convicted of the murder of 23-year-old Offaly teacher

By Mary Carolan

Anti-immigration protest at Leinster House leads to temporary street closures

By Sorcha Pollak and Cormac McQuinn

Fears for Killarney’s tourism trade raised due to plan to accommodate international protection applicants

By Anne Lucey

Sales and profit surge at WH Smith as travel booms

Sunak under pressure to sack Suella Braverman over newspaper article

By George Parker, Lucy Fisher and Anna Gross in London

Why did Jozef Puska murder Ashling Murphy? The answer may be known only to her killer

By Mary Carolan

Social Affairs

Cork hotel ordered to pay ‘humiliated’ Traveller family €11,000 in compensation after refusing them accommodation

By Stephen Bourke

Woman (20) with cerebral palsy settles case over birth circumstances for €9.75m

Rugby

Munster and Ireland wing Andrew Conway retires aged 32 due to knee injury

By Nathan Johns

Almost half of new cars licensed in October were electric or hybrid

By Ellen O’Regan

Rugby

Munster win the race to sign Irish-qualified Crusaders prop Oli Jager

By John O'Sullivan

Middle East

Israel-Hamas conflict: Hopes rise that Islamic Jihad may release two hostages

By Mark Weiss

Sabina Higgins receiving treatment for breast cancer

By Jennifer Bray

Big Tech

European adviser’s opinion on Apple case will not impact State’s corporate tax regime, says Varadkar

By Denis Staunton, Sarah Burns and Sharon Gaffney

Losses almost double at Godolphin’s Irish operation

By Gordon Deegan

Accounting group RSM Ireland acquired by UK firm in €20m investment

By Ciarán Hancock

Software engineer injured in alleged fall through gap in Westport wall settles High Court case

PAC rejects RTÉ compromise offer in dispute over document relating to Tubridy payments

By Cormac McQuinn

Catalan nationalist support paves way for new Sánchez coalition

By Guy Hedgecoe

Georgians keep eyes on EU prize despite threat from Russia

By Daniel McLaughlin

Father of Liverpool winger Luis Diaz freed by kidnappers

Rugby

Ulster’s stronger bench might just be enough to see them home against Munster in Belfast

By John O'Sullivan

Ashling Murphy trial: Family ‘relieved’ at Jozef Puska murder conviction as they grieve her loss

By Ronan McGreevy and Sorcha Pollak

Dublin

Live animal Christmas crib to return to Dublin’s Mansion House after one-year hiatus

By Tim O'Brien

‘We have evil in this room’: Judge tells Jozef Puska he will have ‘day of reckoning’ for murder of Ashling Murphy

By Mary Carolan

Owner of Co Kerry hotel and island contesting application for €175m judgment

By Ellen O'Riordan

Why does the Government not want the €13bn in back taxes from Apple?

By Cliff Taylor

Gardaí detained man accused of wife’s murder under Mental Health Act after finding him naked in field

By Alison O'Riordan

Interiors

How to choose the perfect bath for a spa-like soak this winter

By Denise O'Connor

Insurers must provide documents to lessors suing over cover for planes held in Russia, court rules

By Aodhan O'Faolain

Sport

Ireland’s Robert Dickson and Sean Waddilove 18th overall in Thursday’s 49er European Championship action

By David Branigan

Armagh-based Plaswire strikes turbine recycling deal with Ørsted

By Barry O'Halloran

Aberdeen Lodge operators claim sale of property is unconstitutional

By Aodhan O'Faolain

Dublin

HSE issues warning after sharp increase in heroin overdoses in Dublin

By Jack Power

European shares hit three-week high on earnings boost

By Eoin Burke-Kennedy

High Court orders Co Galway quarry to halt operations while locals’ legal case is ongoing

By Ellen O'Riordan

Scholz marks pogrom anniversary by expressing ‘shame’ at anti-Semitic attacks

By Derek Scally

An Irish Diary

Treasured son of Timor Leste – David Shanks on the heroic life of Max Stahl

By David Shanks

Stardust inquests: Woman recalls lying on floor with friend ‘resigned’ to death as fire spread

By Kitty Holland

Gardaí appeal for help in tracing movement of truck apprehended when officer fired shot at cab

By Barry Roche

Investment of €14.9m in fishing capacity does not attract capital tax allowances, court rules

Golf

Leona Maguire cards bogey-free 67 in first round of penultimate event of the LPGA Tour season

By Philip Reid

Brighton heap yet more misery on Ajax to move into Europa League qualification spots

New dog control measures include trebling of fines to €300

By Tim O'Brien

Late VAR drama sees Liverpool fall to Europa League upset in Toulouse

Number of deportations ‘increasing on monthly basis’, says Minister for Justice

By Sorcha Pollak

Middle East

Hizbullah pursues a complicated ‘dual strategy’ amid Israel-Hamas conflict

By Michael Jansen

Editorials

The Irish Times view on Ireland’s funding for demining: focus on forgotten wars

Editorials

The Irish Times view on the Apple tax case: Ireland back in the spotlight

Media

Government receives copy of RTÉ's ‘strategic vision’ for broadcaster’s future

By Colin Gleeson and Jack Horgan-Jones

Space

Frank Borman, astronaut who led first Apollo mission to the moon, dead at 95

‘I’ve asked the question’ - No decision made on Stephen Kenny’s future ahead of final Euro 2024 qualifier

By Gavin Cummiskey