31 July, 2026 Digital News Archive

AI is accelerating cyberattacks. Can defenders keep up?

By Frank Dillon

OpenAI’s Irish boss meets church leader on future of AI

Ireland’s AI strategy: Attracting investment and talent

By Danielle Barron

Drink

Two €10 wines from an innovative Languedoc maker

By John Wilson

Microsoft paid $6.5bn tax in Ireland – more than anywhere else

By Killian Woods

AI’s background benefits cover everything from mortgages to lawnmowing

By Frank Dillon

Training investment critical for realising AI gains

By Edel Corrigan

Ensuring AI technology is used in ways people can trust

By Emmet Ryan

Driving innovation and trust: AI-powered financial services

By Sandra O'Connell

AI should be measured on business outcomes not activity metrics

By Edel Corrigan

Employment impact depends on how technology is adopted

By Danielle Barron

Remember that GenAI is a tool – it’s not about miracles

By Barry McCall

‘The boom is taking off again’: Irish builders at the heart of Europe’s data-centre growth

By Paul Colgan

The Counter Ruck Podcast

It’s not just Kobe McDonald, the AFL has snatched up a top Irish rugby talent

Listen | 15:37

Sunny bank holiday weekend but rain will hit parts of the country

By Katie Mellett

The sound of staying connected

AI Focus Special Report

From AI assistants to AI agents

By Barry McCall

Human touch will be crucial in managing the new hybrid workforce

By Sandra O'Connell

AI retail revolution is about invisible efficiencies, not flashy technology

By Edel Corrigan

McCabes Pharmacy secured €58m in sale to German-owned healthcare group

By Killian Woods

Unlocking healthcare potential through AI and data

By Danielle Barron

AI and the law: Useful assistant or costly liability?

By Emmet Ryan

Can AI make buying a second-hand car easier?

By Neil Briscoe

Film

The Sacrifice review: No mistaking the quiet despair in reissue of Tarkovsky’s last film

By Donald Clarke

Film

The Movie Quiz: What is the name of Quentin Tarantino’s fictional cigarette brand?

By Donald Clarke

People

Vittorio Angelone: ‘People in the South never have to assert their Irishness’

Nothing simple about politics of EU

Fancy a Belfast take on Chester cake?

Airports operator DAA seeks new chief executive

By Barry O'Halloran

People

‘There is nostalgia to the ice-cream van - it says it’s not all doom and gloom’

Brian Shields: ‘I spent years watching patients struggle with conditions that had poor or no solutions’

By Conor Healy

Asia-Pacific

Hong Kong’s revival contrasts with crackdown on last remaining independent bookshops

By Denis Staunton

Education

Losses rise to €1.19m at online grinds school backed by Brian O’Driscoll and Caelan Doris

By Mark Tighe

Letter of the Day

Long-term renting offers a lasting solution to Ireland’s housing problems

Asia-Pacific

The field marshal remaking Pakistan’s place in the world

By Humza Jilani in Islamabad

TV & Radio

A week of deep emotions in Ireland: It started with unbridled joy, ended in unvarnished grief

By Mick Heaney

Ireland’s first long-range military radar systems to be in place next year

By Martin Wall

Sex work should be decriminalised to reduce HIV transmission

Sexuality education must be rolled out from preschool

Abandon the milk jug and pour straight from the carton

Racing

Willie Mullins can buck the trend with Thread Of Gold in Galway feature

By Brian O'Connor

No surprise Patrick Collison donated $7m to group opposing California wealth tax

Early Edition Podcast

Metrolink property deals, Grinds 360’s losses and All Together Now

By Aideen Finnegan

Listen | 11:21

Social Affairs

Church services

The new curse is having to continually read about Mayo

Remembering Glen Hansard: A nation will miss you

Opinion

Pussy Riot’s Maria Alyokhina has a warning for Ireland and the rest of Europe

By Lara Marlowe

Transport

‘Incredibly dangerous’ but ‘the only way I can get to work’: what readers think of e-scooters

By Jack Brady

MetroLink spends €2m per home on Dartmouth Square houses

By Killian Woods

Opinion

My brother was put in the cell beside me. ‘Prepare yourself for the worst,’ he said

By Caoilte Breatnach

Gaelic Games

There’s another county living through an All-Ireland famine

By Gavin Cooney

Shamrock Rovers aiming to go 10 points clear at the top as they travel to Drogheda

By Gavin Cummiskey

Gaelic Games

Galway’s Kate Geraghty aiming to cash in on lessons learned in All-Ireland final

By Paul Keane

BeautyOpens in new window

Refusing visas to Gaza students: humanity and common sense should apply

Economy

How Musk transformed Twitter from communal town square to right-wing conspiracy hub

By Eoin Burke-Kennedy

Opinion

Mary Robinson transformed what it meant to be president – and former president

By Dermot Hodson

The best fake tan products, tried and tested

By Simone Gannon

Science

Ancient smallpox DNA recovered from mummies by TCD researchers

Business Today Newsletter

Two men appeal convictions for their part in attack on gunman Tristan Sherry

In the News Podcast

Did model scout Daniel Siad take Jeffrey Epstein’s secrets to the grave?

By Bernice Harrison

Listen | 22:56

Ireland nabs largest share of Microsoft tax payments and PTSB debate lingers

By Dominic Coyle

Aer Lingus loses €34m in first half ahead of planned cuts in staff

By Barry O'Halloran

Financial Services

Bank of Ireland upgrades forecasts following ‘excellent’ first half

By Joe Brennan

Companies rethinking approach of pushing staff to just use AI more

By Andrew Hill and Emma Jacobs

Property firm told to stop demanding tenants disclose financial information on HAP forms

By Stephen Bourke

Franco Baresi, former AC Milan and Italy defender, dies aged 66

By Alvise Armellini and Tommy Lund

Are you a Westlife fan? We’d like to hear from you

Teacher who falsified letters regarding experience suspended from register

By Stephen Farrell

Books

Nero New Writers Prize launched

By Martin Doyle

Anthropic’s Claude AI models hack into 3 outside groups during testing

By Cristina Criddle

Cork Kabin Studio musicians prepare for Belfast Fleadh collaborations in Ed Sheeran project

By Ellen Clusker

Markets

Scottish commodities firm becomes listing on Dublin’s ‘springboard’ stock market

By Joe Brennan

‘She hadn’t wanted to die’: How Dublin resident was convicted of daughter’s murder after family suicide pact

By Karen McHugh in Reykjavík

School tech supplier gets injunction over alleged ‘commercial sabotage’

Gaelic Games

Kobe McDonald could be in line for huge financial rewards with move to Australia

By Jonathan Drennan

On The Money Newsletter

Travel insurance for older people: fewer choices and more restrictions

By Olive Keogh

Louth man (22) who fought for Ukraine sentenced by Russia to 14 years in prison

By Darragh Mc Donagh

Boy (17) torched two homes and three cars in drug intimidation campaign, court told

By Tom Tuite

Euro zone inflation rises to 2.9% in July

By Delphine Strauss

Social Affairs

Over 11,000 people had welfare payments cut for failing to engage with employment services

By Ken Foxe

‘We couldn’t just stay home’: On night patrol with volunteer army fighting Bordeaux wildfires

By Naomi O’Leary

Middle East

Israel may have to choose between an unpalatable deal or incurring Trump’s wrath

By Mark Weiss

Politics

New Northern Secretary ‘deliberately’ avoids answering united Ireland question

By Freya McClements

Health

Ultrasounds carried out for HSE by third-party staff without required qualifications

By Shauna Bowers

Woman (70s) in critical condition and five others injured after Donegal crash

Ceuta: Why Spain has EU’s only border in Africa

Economy

Irish households held €175bn in cash deposits in June as Government readies savings scheme

By Eoin Burke-Kennedy

Racing

Former IHRB security boss reaches agreement with trainers over damages and costs

By Brian O'Connor

Franco Baresi was not only the captain but the moral heart of great Milan team

By Jonathan Wilson

Chelsea given suspended transfer ban but points deduction removed after appeal

Montebello House developer appeals rejection of Killiney apartment plan

By Gordon Deegan

Ian Brady appointed chief executive of financial planner Fairstone Ireland

By Stephen Conneely

Middle East

Gaza deal: What is Donald Trump’s Board of Peace?

By Chris Cameron

Housing & Planning

Number of children living in emergency accommodation rises to 5,600

By Katie Mellett

Woman who helped run Dublin brothel gang jailed for three years

By Isabel Hayes

‘You will live in squalor’: Trump revives Red Scare rhetoric ahead of US midterms

By Keith Duggan

Martin O’Neill faces tough task to unite club with Celtic’s frustrated fanbase

By Michael Walker

Inside Politics Podcast

The spiralling projected cost of the Metrolink brings the NCH to mind

Listen | 59:37

Thousands of music, Mayo and Glen Hansard fans descend on All Together Now

By Niamh Browne

Judgment expected in October on challenge to new legal aid payment model

By Fiachra Gallagher

Athletics

These are rare and precious times for Kate O’Connor

By Ian O'Riordan

Murdered postman Barry Daly adored his children and spoke of growing old with partner, court hears

By Olivia Kelleher

Church volunteer unsuccessful in employment complaint over sale of ‘fake relics’

By Stephen Bourke

Golf

‘We could have sold out 12 times over’: Ryder Cup tickets sell out for Adare Manor

By David Gorman

In pictures: Festival-goers arrive for All Together Now

Berlin Pride attack sharpens debate over home-grown Islamist extremism

By Derek Scally

Garda killer Aaron Brady has sentence for recording witness interview increased

By Fiona Magennis

Environment

El Niño could cause Ireland to have unseasonably warm autumn

By Caroline O'Doherty

Public wake for Glen Hansard to take place next week ahead of funeral

FAI postpone moving all competitions to ‘summer’ schedule until at least 2029

By Gavin Cummiskey

Markets

European stocks close lower after earlier hitting record high

By Joe Brennan

Roadworks firm fined €1.2m over breaches that led to death of father and two children in Donegal crash

By Conor Pope and Stephen Maguire

Live Updates

Trump says Israel ‘very happy’ with Gaza disarmament agreement

By Hugh Dooley and Jack Brady

Italy suspends EU Schengen free-travel pact with Spain over Ceuta crisis

By Sam Jones in Madrid and Angela Giuffrida in Rome

Husband jailed for three and a half years for sexual assault and coercive control of wife

By Claire Henry

Middle East

Iran strikes tankers under US escort as Trump insists war is going well

By William Christou in Beirut

Rathwood rescue plan saving 62 jobs confirmed by the High Court

By Fiachra Gallagher

Reward offered for information about murder of journalist Lyra McKee in Derry

By Rebecca Black

State must pay costs in landmark female genital mutilation case

By Fiona Magennis

Golf

Beth Coulter wins Women’s Irish Challenge on professional debut

By David Gorman

An Irish Diary

Twin Reeks: Frank McNally on a new, virtual reality Croagh Patrick and the real (but changing) thing

By Frank McNally

Aer Lingus executives fastening their seat belts for a bumpy ride ahead

By Barry O'Halloran

Criminal cases face further disruption after solicitors extend withdrawal of services

By Mary Carolan

Life & Style

Have you seen the greenest place in Ireland? Where is it?

By Conor Healy

Racing

Thread Of Gold bags another big prize at Galway

Editorials

Infantino's reckless move sparks football schism

Editorials

Nama, one of the last legacies of the crash, is no more

Golf

Charley Hull doubles down on caddie prank after strong start to Women’s Open

By Ewan Murray

Infantino’s World Cup plot leaves him deserted by allies and with his credibility detonated

By Gavin Cooney

Boxing

Michaela Walsh seeking back-to-back Commonwealth golds after semi-final win

By Michael Scully

‘Significant’ fish kill in Cavan river being investigated by several official bodies

By Katie Mellett

Tusla held in contempt of court over noncompliance with secure care orders

By Fiachra Gallagher

Dry Cleaning at All Together Now 2026: Shin-kicking post-punks kick off the weekend with a flourish

By Ed Power

Pico Lopes sees red as Shamrock Rovers are held by Drogheda United

By Barry Landy