Tánaiste breaks the ice at French frozen food summitEamon Gilmore plays the role of economic diplomat while visiting ParisFri Mar 14 2014 - 01:00
Wire taps backfire on socialist governmentFrench prime minister admits he knew Sarkozy’s phone was tappedThu Mar 13 2014 - 01:00
Court retains use of Sarkozy’s datebooksFormer president had hoped to bar evidence in cases against himWed Mar 12 2014 - 01:00
History avenges France’s famous outcast empress Josephine de BeauharnaisAn exhibition in Paris celebrates the woman Napoleon divorced because she could not bear childrenWed Mar 12 2014 - 01:00
Sarkozy phone tapped in inquiry into suspected Gadafy linkPhones of former French president, his lawyer and two former ministers tappedSat Mar 08 2014 - 06:42
Presidential mistresses sue ‘Closer’ magazineValerie Trierweiler is awarded €12,000 while verdict in Julie Gayet case is awaitedFri Mar 07 2014 - 01:00
‘Sarko leaks’ scandal embarrasses French right prior to municipal electionsRecordings of former president made secretly by adviser denounced as ‘a kind of rape’Thu Mar 06 2014 - 01:00
French conservative leader denies impoverishing party to enrich his friendsTwo of Jean-Francois Copé’s closest aides allegedly raked in millions organising rallies for Sarkozy campaignSat Mar 01 2014 - 01:00
French entertainment workers protest at move to cut welfare regimeA special welfare arrangement stretching back to 1936 is under threatFri Feb 28 2014 - 01:00
Jacques Demy rides a new wave of interest all the way to CorkThe director is enjoying a comeback as an icon of French New Wave cinema, having fallen out of fashion by the time of his death in 1990Fri Feb 28 2014 - 01:00
New evidence in case of French billionaire accused of vote-buyingSenator Serge Dassault believed to have given away €7mThu Feb 27 2014 - 01:00
Ailing president (77) of Algeria seeks a fourth termMilitary factions jockey for power in the post-Bouteflika eraTue Feb 25 2014 - 00:59
Henri Cartier-Bresson: a perfect alignment of the head, heart and eyeA new exhibition of the work of the father of photojournalism shows how his work embodied the 20th centurySat Feb 22 2014 - 01:00
Francois Hollande honours Resistance heroesTwo women among the four whose remains are to be transferred to the PantheonFri Feb 21 2014 - 17:57
France and Germany seek to mend bridgesImproved relations credited to SPD presence in coalition and shift in Hollande’s policyFri Feb 21 2014 - 01:00
EU leaders meet to discuss Ukraine unrestFrench and German premiers to the forefront in call for targeted sanctionsThu Feb 20 2014 - 01:00
Body blows plus move to digital may render ‘Libération’ old newsFrench left-wing title was newspaper of the baby-boom generationMon Feb 17 2014 - 01:00
Third level: the view from abroadHow do the systems in other countries select, stream and educate students, and how do they pay for them? Our correspondents assess the degrees of differenceSat Feb 15 2014 - 01:00
More than a third of French voters agree with National Front ideasMarine Le Pen increases support for far-right but is more popular than her partyFri Feb 14 2014 - 01:00
Obama rolls out red carpet for Hollande as Franco-American relations get back on trackFrench president’s visit seen as olive branch after Syrian debacleTue Feb 11 2014 - 01:00
Kenny and Gilmore bask in praise for leadership on economyOECD chief praises State’s ‘amazing renaissance story’Sat Feb 08 2014 - 01:00
Taoiseach defends corporate tax policy at OECDKenny shrugs off French anger at loss of internet companies and backs efforts to close tax loopholesSat Feb 08 2014 - 01:00
Yahoo! move a blow to FranceTax, data secrecy and “ambiance” factors in Yahoo!’s move to IrelandFri Feb 07 2014 - 01:07
European parliament addresses Syrian hostage crisisGovernments of western hostages are finally working togetherThu Feb 06 2014 - 01:00
Uproar on French left as Hollande stalls family lawSocialists vow to circumvent government after move seen as placating protestersWed Feb 05 2014 - 01:00
‘French-style Tea Party’ takes to streetsCatholics, Muslims and the extreme right have united to protest at social policies including teaching of ‘gender theory’Tue Feb 04 2014 - 01:00
Have two mayoral candidates met their Paris match?Parisians have to choose between the deputy mayor and the flamboyant and combative woman who is hot on her heelsSat Feb 01 2014 - 01:00
The end of Yeats: work and women in his last days in FranceYeats had a late creative surge – including ‘one of the greatest ever death-bed utterances’ – before he died surrounded by his muses in France 75 years agoTue Jan 28 2014 - 01:00
Shades of the monarchy in Hollande's Trierweiler statementFrancois Hollande repudiated Valerie Trierweiler with one sentenceMon Jan 27 2014 - 01:00
Survey: Two-thirds of French people say there are too many immigrants in FranceSome facts and figuresThu Jan 23 2014 - 01:00
French National Front focuses on Islam in third phase of far-right strategyPolls show FN could win biggest percentage of vote in European parliamentary electionsThu Jan 23 2014 - 01:00
Renewal for ex-underage prostitute at centre of sex trialFranck Ribéry and Karim Benzema, whose trial began yesterday, are at risk of three years in prison and a fineTue Jan 21 2014 - 01:00
Inside Hollande’s love triangleThe French are entertained by the antics of President François Hollande, but will his new lover, Julie Gayet, become first lady, and will Valérie Trierweiler, his spurned former mistress, seek retribution?Sat Jan 18 2014 - 01:00
Hollande’s political future is likely to be decided by the economy, not his affairThe French are ‘interested, amused, even shocked’ by the president’s infidelity, but if he can secure a recovery it is expected that all will be forgivenSat Jan 18 2014 - 01:00
François Hollande’s new centrism wrong-foots right and leftThe shift in the French president’s policies has been praised by business management and the EU commissionThu Jan 16 2014 - 01:00
Hollande puts focus on affairs of the nation with economic plansUnder-fire French president promises to attack old chestnuts waste and fraudWed Jan 15 2014 - 01:00
French affair a trial for a wincing HollandeInstead of boudoir secrets, those at the yesterday’s press conference had to listen to the president droning on about spendingWed Jan 15 2014 - 01:00
Paris taxi drivers attack private chauffeurs as protest turns violentBattle between old and new economies evident in day-long strikeTue Jan 14 2014 - 01:00
French president to be questioned on his private lifeBorrowed apartment where Hollande and Gayet met linked to mafiaTue Jan 14 2014 - 01:00
France’s first lady hospitalised amid reports of Hollande affairValerie Trierweiler reportedly distraught over report about president and actor Julie GayetMon Jan 13 2014 - 01:00
Gossip magazine sells out as Hollande’s alleged affair fascinates French publicPresident threatens to sue ‘Closer’ after magazine publishes ‘dossier’ on alleged affair with actorSat Jan 11 2014 - 01:00
French National Front leader calls for the ‘explosion’ of EuropeRight-wing eurosceptics will do utmost to block next parliament, claims Marine Le PenFri Jan 10 2014 - 01:00
‘Newsweek’ broadside stirs Gallic pride as French ridicule journalist’s errorsPoliticians and media strike back over ‘French-bashing’ articleThu Jan 09 2014 - 01:00
Tyre executives released unharmed after “boss-napping”Communist trade unionists demand more severance pay as factory closesTue Jan 07 2014 - 20:02
Paris pursues comedian in ‘quenelle’ caseInterior minister’s crusade against Dieudonné dominates newsTue Jan 07 2014 - 01:00
Renaissance exhibition at Musée du Luxembourg in Paris the stuff of dreamsRenaissance artists found dreams a rich source of inspiration and self-expressionSat Dec 28 2013 - 01:00
All the Presidents’ menus: life as the top chef at the Élysée PalaceFried fois gras and stuffed fish were among French presidents’ favourites served up by chef Bernard Vaussion during his four decades at Élysée PalaceFri Dec 20 2013 - 11:27
Tour Montparnasse contaminated with asbestos5,000 employees who work in the tower at riskMon Dec 16 2013 - 01:00
What does the future hold for France?One of the euro zone’s biggest economies has 11 per cent unemployment, falling exports and significant budget deficits. How can the French turn this around?Sat Dec 14 2013 - 01:00
In the soupWith a high minimum wage and generous welfare system, France is tolerant of the poorSat Dec 14 2013 - 01:00
