One consultant doctor working for HSE earned more than €900,000 last year, report shows
Annual document says 11 employees, all of whom are consultants, were paid in excess of €500,000 each in 2025
Covid-19
The hosepipe snitches of suburban Ireland: It’s just not very ‘love thy neighbour’
Every country has its psychic hang-up. Is inter-citizen policing Ireland’s?
Father and son refused further appeal over Covid movement penalty notices
Supreme Court says there was no question of any injustice being visited on the appellants
UK wasted €11bn on defective or unused PPE during pandemic, Covid inquiry finds
Report criticises Tory government’s fast-tracked assessment of supplier offers made by contacts of ministers
Randox culls R & D jobs amid ‘post-Covid realignment’ of business
Northern Ireland-headquartered diagnostics group played a central role in Britain’s pandemic testing regime
Ryanair loses appeals against Italy’s Covid-19 aid to airlines in EU court
General Court finds that help was ‘compliant with EU law’ after case referred back for top EU court
Inquest hears of family’s ‘roars of sadness’ over mother’s death after surgery at Galway Clinic
Woman was transferred to University Hospital Galway after suffering three separate cardiac arrests
Ireland’s commitment to EU climate action under scrutiny during presidency of bloc
Campaigners urge Government to hold firm against pressures to ease environmental rules on industry
‘Our lives have changed unimaginably’: The people who quit city life for rural Ireland
Families who moved from city life share the freedoms, challenges and surprises of building a new life in the countryside
Michael O’Leary: ‘In 10 years’ time, Ryanair fares will be €45-€50 and I’ll be in a home for the bewildered’
Amid rising costs and industry turbulence, the Ryanair boss predicts a shake-out among European airlines
The weather is bliss, 300-plus days a year of sunshine. And beer on the plaza for €2
This year I’ve lived longer out of Ireland than in it. Will this gradually start to make me less Irish?
‘The US still has a frontier mindset that you can go and make something of yourself’
Wild Geese: Killian Moyles, Chicago
Facing the music: St Patrick’s Cathedral Choir School struggles to attract boy singers
A decline in the number of boy choristers at St Patrick’s Cathedral Choir School in Dublin has led to a recruitment drive
Number of people in emergency accommodation falls for first time since Covid
Homeless numbers remain 11% higher than a year ago
Loveholidays CEO: ‘Ryanair thought all online travel agencies were pirates. But not us’
Donat Rétif did not fly on an aeroplane until he was 20 – now he runs a package holiday firm worth €1bn-plus
Covid inquiry to conclude work before the end of the year, Cabinet told
The panel is examining pandemic responses across hospitals, the community and nursing homes, along with wider economic and societal impacts
How the lives of primary schoolchildren changed during and after Covid
Irish children became less accomplished in reading and maths after the pandemic, with the gap between poor and affluent children wider than before
Dublin and the east coast are bursting at the seams. Ireland needs another city
As we prepare for a reconfigured Ireland, the ideal place for a new city is the northwest – Sligo to be precise
Wellbeing report paints complex picture of economic progress and growing inequality
While younger people have benefited from strong employment, they have the lowest incomes and are less likely to own their own home
Irish children’s reading and maths got worse after pandemic, study finds
Gap between the reading scores of children in Deis versus non-Deis schools widened after pandemic, report says
A ‘miraculous transformation’: how Kim Jong-un fortified North Korea
Kim Jong-un used the pandemic to ruthlessly tighten his grip on the country. Then he energised its economy by leveraging Russia’s war in Ukraine
‘I remain a country boy at heart despite spending my twenties and thirties in the city’
Living in Kenmare I have rediscovered the joy and peace I felt at my grandparents’ country cottage
Let’s not make the same mistake as the UK. ‘Sensible’ degrees are overrated
Coding and accountancy were once trumpeted as secure careers, but AI is showing otherwise
Doctor found guilty of misconduct over Covid-19 posts on social media
Dublin GP Marcus de Brun also found guilty of professional misconduct over attendance and comments at a public rally during pandemic
Cannes First Look review: Minotaur – grim chronicle of a selfish, privileged class willing to look the other way
Andrey Zvyagintsev delivers a chilling thriller set in provincial Russia during the Ukraine war, but the political allegory can feel overdone
CarTrawler acquired by travel giant Expedia
Irish tech firm founded by two brothers in 2004 out of the family business
Hantavirus-hit cruise ship docks at Rotterdam port for disinfection
Dutch authorities have set up quarantine for the 25 crew members and two medical staff left on the MV Hondius
Dr Muiris Houston: Hantavirus is not new, so why has the recent outbreak caused such anxiety?
Dr Muiris Houston: There are key differences between the Covid pandemic and the MV Hondius outbreak
WHO declares global health emergency over Ebola outbreak
Health authorities warn outbreak may be significantly larger than currently detected
Common reason for disregarding Sweden’s Covid outcomes does not bear much scrutiny
The Swedes are not some obscure Amazonian tribe whose habits are alien to us
If MV Hondius isn’t the start of a hantavirus pandemic, it might prove the end of something else
Few forms of life embrace the cruising lifestyle with the same enthusiasm as the viral pathogen
History signals more hawkish central bank response to Iran war price shock
The central dilemma for central banks is whether to address the price shock head-on with rate hikes or try to wait for it to pass
Spain’s all‑night partying gives way to afternoon drinking and early nights
What began during Covid curfews has become a popular, permanent reset of Spanish social hours for many
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