Article Index

The bald facts of the matter

Education

Secondary school principals forced to drop subjects in face of teacher shortages

By Carl O'Brien

Harry on back

Cutback plans for RTÉ

Delivering the goods

Briquettes – a shrewd investment

Cameron’s return

Religion and State-funded schools

Safety on the roads

Charities and the housing crisis

US House of Representatives backs legislation to avert threatened shutdown of government

By Martin Wall

The Israel-Hamas conflict

Motors

Renault’s Austral oozes Frenchness and likeable oddness

By Neil Briscoe

Cartoon

Martyn Turner

By Martyn Turner

Food Month

Jess Redden’s lentil, spinach and coconut dal recipe

By Jess Redden

An Post repays €30m loan to State in full

By Ciarán Hancock

Books

The Psychosis of Whiteness by Kehinde Andrews: Reflections on racism marred by belligerent polemic

By Niamh Jiménez

Cyprus Confidential

Roman Abramovich had significant investments in Ireland before sanctions

By Colm Keena

TV & Radio

RTÉ stars to be hit by €250,000 salary cap

By Laura Slattery and Pat Leahy

Sport

GAA applies for planning permission for training facility at Spawell

By Gordon Manning

Transport

Tonnes of soil removed from Dublin Airport because of discovery of ‘forever chemicals’

By Mark Hilliard

Sport

Manchester City unveil record-breaking season revenue of more than £712m

Music

Vince Clarke on his debut solo album: ‘It was a shock when my record company suggested they would release the music’

By Tony Clayton-Lea

Film

Saltburn: Barry Keoghan is excellent as a Scouser among malign poshos at Oxford

By Donald Clarke

The London office market is becoming harder work

By Helen Thomas

Your Wellness

‘The reason pancreatic cancer isn’t talked about so much is because there are very few survivors to advocate for it’

By Sylvia Thompson

Dublin 4 office with potential for high-end residential seeks €2.1m

By Ronald Quinlan

Offices at Central Quay near full occupancy following latest letting

By Ronald Quinlan

Fully fitted penthouse offices at Carrickmines Park seeking €2.9m

By Ronald Quinlan

Sigmoid Sports inks deal for new golf training facility in Sandyford

By Ronald Quinlan

In the News

Abramovich, Chelsea and Cyprus – how a small European country powered the Kremlin’s financial machine

By Sorcha Pollak

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M7 Real Estate seeks €12 per sq ft for upgraded industrial facility in Malahide

By Ronald Quinlan

1.8-acre holding next to Dublin Airport seeking €2.75m

By Ronald Quinlan

Residential

Nod to the nautical at sophisticated Dún Laoghaire home for €795,000

By Jessica Doyle

Historic childhood home of the 1st Duke of Wellington for sale at €3.1m

By Ronald Quinlan

Food

Irish chefs share their favourite patisserie recipes

By Ali Dunworth

Opinion

Suella Braverman lived down to everything that was expected of her

By Kathy Sheridan

Rugby

‘Oiled up’ Finlay Bealham ready to hit the road again as Connacht head to South Africa

By Linley MacKenzie

Rugby

Gordon D’Arcy: Welsh rugby has further to sink before it bottoms out

By Gordon D'Arcy

Ministers hail sea-change in housing supply

By Eoin Burke-Kennedy

Private Irish investors closing in on €16m deal for Dublin’s Dawson Hotel

By Ronald Quinlan

Pricewatch

Christmas online present shopping: 19 of the best Irish websites for clothing and jewellery

By Conor Pope

Attorney General to urge Supreme Court to rule new judicial appointments system constitutional

By Mary Carolan

Rugby

‘I hope to see it again’ - Leinster coach Robin McBryde likes the look of a 7-1 bench split

By Johnny Watterson

State’s efforts to cut emissions under threat as demand for electricity surges

By Barry O'Halloran

Gaelic Games

The challenge for Mohill is to try to advance to a first Connacht decider

By Gordon Manning

Opinion

Where is the outcry by the Irish for the Israeli children held hostage by Hamas?

By Dana Erlich

Property Clinic

Can the owners’ management company of my apartment building be held to account by a third party?

By Aisling Keenan

Gaelic Games

Seán Moran: The uneasy thoughts of the eternal All Star selector, as big week arrives

By Seán Moran

Business Today Newsletter

‘The death knell’: how tycoon behind Chrysler Building, Brown Thomas and Arnotts was forced out

By Sam Jones

Economy

Martin Wolf: Controlling debt is just a means, not a government’s end

By Martin Wolf

Residential

What properties sold for in Galway city

Opinion

As David Norris discovered, it matters a lot who is appointed to the Supreme Court

By Michael McDowell

People

Róisín Ingle: When red storm warnings rage it’s worth remembering the words of Joan Baez

By Róisín Ingle

Your Wellness

‘I came to resent my parents as I grew older and now I feel guilt about inheriting their wealth’

By Trish Murphy

Media

Kevin Bakhurst interview: ‘The RTÉ Player needs to be top of the class’

By Laura Slattery

Housing on target, Mainstream restructuring and how the Brown Thomas owner lost control

By Peter Flanagan

Editorials

The Irish Times view on Kevin Bakhurst’s RTÉ plan: still facing an existential challenge

Inside Politics Newsletter

UK inflation drops sharply as PM says pledge has been ‘delivered’

Breakthrough for Irish citizens in Gaza provides boost for Government

By Jack Horgan-Jones

Food Month

Jess Redden’s lentil, spinach and coconut dal: healthy and easy to make

By Jess Redden

Wednesday’s Top Stories: Leaked Abramovich documents raise fresh questions for Chelsea FC, RTÉ reforms to include salary cap

Tullow cuts full-year production forecast for second time

By Eoin Burke-Kennedy

Advertising Feature

Oroko Travel’s out of the ordinary winter sun holidays

Americas

Brazil swelters in heatwave as health warnings issued across country

Irish economy expected to shrink this year for first time in over a decade

By Eoin Burke-Kennedy

Sports Briefing

Mary Hannigan: Stephen Kenny must be feeling if it wasn’t for bad luck, he’d have no luck at all

By Mary Hannigan

Climate Crisis

Global greenhouse gas concentrations hit record high in 2022

By Kevin O'Sullivan

AIB sheds most remaining crisis-era problem loans to Cerberus for €100m

By Joe Brennan

Crime & Law

Investment frauds soar in Ireland with some victims losing life savings

By Conor Lally

Dublin house prices decline by 1.9% as higher interest rates deter buyers

By Eoin Burke-Kennedy

Golf

Rory McIlroy’s resignation from PGA Tour policy board will cut out Major distraction

By Philip Reid

Politics

RTÉ crisis: All funding options for broadcaster on table including household levy, Martin says

By Jack Horgan-Jones

Former Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech joins Belfast Giants ice hockey team

Oireachtas

‘Words are not enough’ in face of ‘impending genocide’, Holly Cairns tells Dáil

By Sarah Burns

New Web Summit boss dismisses suggestion of Paddy Cosgrave’s influence on company

By Ciara O'Brien

Irish banks abandon Revolut rival plan after series of delays

By Joe Brennan

Fexco to open new headquarters in Singapore

By Ian Curran

New system for appointing judges reduces role of government to ‘rubber stamp’, Supreme Court told

By Mary Carolan

Oireachtas

Aid to Palestine and trade with Israel should be tied to conditions in future - Taoiseach

By Sarah Burns

Irish exports slump 6% in 2023 amid global trade slowdown

By Ian Curran

Education

Trinity invites public to help choose new name for library

By Carl O'Brien

Car seen travelling at ‘phenomenal speed’ before being involved in fatal M50 crash

By Sonya McLean

Innovation

Sports data company Orreco wins Irish Times Innovation of the Year award

By Michael McAleer

Inside Politics

Spain’s turbulent politics : ‘Phrases like coup d’etat are floating around’

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Data-protection commissioner Helen Dixon to leave role

By Ian Curran

Paul Hyde given suspended sentence and €6,000 fine over failure to declare property interests

By Barry Roche

Champions Shamrock Rovers see just one player named on PFAI team of the year

By Nathan Johns

Work

South Dublin Chinese takeaway delivery driver sacked after seeking raise on €5 an hour

By Stephen Bourke

Travel

The trip began with a sublime bang: Paul Flynn’s food-fuelled road trip to New England

By Paul Flynn

Planning delays hitting green energy projects and efforts to meet emissions targets, says Ryan

By Barry O'Halloran

‘They targeted the hospital directly’: Irish surgeon’s family trapped in Gaza, unable to reach border

By Vivienne Clarke

Mazars Ireland to rebrand and expand US footprint through networking partnership with Forvis

By Ellen O’Regan

Ireland voices concern over release on bail of sole suspect in killing of Pte Seán Rooney in Lebanon

By Hannah McCarthy and Conor Gallagher

Athletics

UK ultra marathon runner handed 12-month ban after using car during a race

By Sean Ingle

Politics

Veteran MEP Deirdre Clune becomes latest Fine Gael grandee to announce retirement

By Pat Leahy

Golf

Jonathan Caldwell fails to secure card for next year’s DP World Tour

By Philip Reid

Residential

What will €450,000 buy in Dublin and Kildare?

By Elizabeth Birdthistle

Source of mystery humming sound in Omagh ‘difficult to pinpoint’, council says

By Freya McClements

Supreme Court to hear urgent appeals from Tusla over special care orders for vulnerable teenagers

By Ellen O'Riordan

Shortage of firefighters and lack of training an ongoing safety threat, conference told

By Emmet Malone

Social Affairs

Child sexual abuse counselling service warns of closure unless further funding provided

By Ronan McGreevy

O’Brien says Cyprus expected to act in unison with EU on Russian sanctions

By Tim O'Brien

Fresh financial blow to Irish Life Health customers as prices rise again

By Conor Pope

Significant increases in Naval Service pay announced in bid to get ships back at sea

By Conor Gallagher

Media

Irish Times journalists recognised with 10 wins at Irish Journalism Awards

By Sorcha Pollak

Money laundering mother cannot use children as ‘a shield’ for criminality

By Gordon Deegan

High Court judgement calls into question drug-driving prosecutions

By Conor Lally

Fear and fury as German Jews debate October 7th response

By Derek Scally

Sport

Virat Kohli hits record century as India beat New Zealand to reach World Cup final

Golf

Jon Rahm hoping to dominate again in Dubai but Rory McIlroy will take home the big prize

By Philip Reid

Woman’s family settles six High Court actions over her death

Global markets boosted by cooling inflation data but Euronext Dublin sees loss

By Ellen O’Regan

Former jail governor fails in sexist discrimination complaint against Irish Prison Service

By Stephen Bourke

Hopes grow in Israel of possible deal with Hamas to release hostages held in Gaza

By Mark Weiss

Two boys (12) arrested on suspicion of murder after man stabbed in England

Twenty-three Irish departing Gaza after opening of Rafah crossing into Egypt

By Arthur Beesley in Cairo, Ronan McGreevy, Vivienne Clarke and Hannah McCarthy

Murder accused ‘out of his head on tablets’ at time of fatal attack, jury hears

By Paul Neilan

Ukraine-Russia war: Kyiv says troops secured foothold in occupied Kherson ‘against all odds’

Legal executive denies lying about loaning Michael Lynn €80,000 when ‘he was stuck for money’

By Eimear Dodd

Spain’s Sánchez headed for investiture victory amid unrest over amnesty deal

By Guy Hedgecoe

Education

‘One second over and you’re disqualified’: Students compete in Ireland’s first ‘three-minute thesis’ final

By Carl O'Brien

‘We were praying every day,’ Colombia host Brazil as support shown for Luis Díaz Sr after kidnapping

By Luke Taylor in Bogotá

Politics

Amendment on wider role for new directly elected Limerick mayor rejected by TDs

By Cormac McQuinn

An Irish Diary

A ‘spectacularly productive’ historian – Brian Maye on Trinity provost FSL Lyons

By Brian Maye

TV & Radio

RTÉ strategy includes disinformation correspondent and possible new teenage drama

By Conor Pope

Stardust survivor describes people lying on stairs after ‘giving up’ due to fire’s smoke

By Kitty Holland

Scene resembled ‘a horror movie’ after man’s arm pulled into combine harvester, court hears

Crime & Law

Boston-bound plane forced to return to Shannon after incident

By Conor Pope

Woman can seek court orders requiring council to procure emergency site for caravan

By Ellen O'Riordan

Cycling

Cycling Ireland increases number of riders in squad for cyclocross World Cup

By Shane Stokes

Claims that atrocities in Gaza and Ukraine are ‘staged’ is another dangerous social media theory

By Naomi O’Leary

Crime & Law

False passports charges too serious to be heard at District Court level, judge says

By Barry Roche

Warm Egyptian welcome for Martin ahead of meeting with Israeli officials

By Arthur Beesley

‘I just made it to Egypt now. I am exhausted’: Irish citizens leave Gaza and cross to safety at Rafah

By Colin Gleeson, Hannah McCarthy in Jerusalem and Fiachra Gallagher

Lakeland Dairies to close three production sites, cutting 78 jobs

By Ellen O’Regan

Director of Irish-registered firm must sue in Norway, not Ireland, court rules

Oireachtas

Motions calling for removal of Israeli ambassador and ICC referral defeated in Dáil

By Sarah Burns and Cormac McQuinn

Sunak says he will change law after supreme court rules against Rwanda policy

By William Wallis, Anna Gross and George Parker in London

People

Grief constantly takes on different shapes and forms. It is never quite what you expect

By Molly Furey

Starmer loses eight frontbenchers in Commons vote calling for ceasefire in Gaza

Editorials

The Irish Times view on the latest house price figures: a tough market for first-time buyers

Israeli troops enter main hospital in Gaza as they search rooms and basement for Hamas fighters

By Mark Weiss

Climate Crisis

Agriculture is cutting its emissions but more momentum needed, conference told

By Kevin O'Sullivan

Unions to meet on Friday to consider pay talks invitation

By Emmet Malone

Chelsea’s new boy Cole Palmer clearly capable and in control

By David Hytner