The Irish Times

Council removes Maureen O’Hara statue at sculptor’s request following criticism

Installation taken down in Glengarriff, west Cork within 48 hours

Sun May 22 2022 - 11:16

Clock stops on EU plan to scrap daylight savings time

Contentious move to abolish mandatory seasonal clock changes ‘not top priority now’

Fri Mar 26 2021 - 17:18

Baarack the overgrown Australian sheep shorn of his 35kg fleece

Rescuers relieve wandering animal of enough wool to make 61.3 jumpers

Thu Feb 25 2021 - 09:57

Man was charged more than €60,000 for one beer

Australian journalist claims to have drunk most expensive beer ever in Manchester

Fri Sept 06 2019 - 11:55

USB found in frozen seal poo in New Zealand reunited with owner

In strange twist, owner helped collect faeces sample from rare seal a year earlier

Tue Feb 12 2019 - 07:35

USB stick found in defrosted seal poo in New Zealand

Do you recognise the footage?

Tue Feb 05 2019 - 13:14

Man on digger smashes new hotel on day of completion

Travelodge hotel attacked in Liverpool as seen in viral video footage

Tue Jan 22 2019 - 11:27

Photo of an egg becomes most popular Instagram post ever

More than 23 million people liked the post, beating record held by Kylie Jenner

Mon Jan 14 2019 - 10:25

Bluefin tuna sells for €2.7m at Japanese market

Kiyomura Corp, a company that runs a sushi chain, paid for the 278kg fish

Sat Jan 05 2019 - 11:14

John Bruton back in a cabinet? No, ‘it was a small room’

Ex-taoiseach’s choice of location for Brexit interview prompted flurry of reaction online

Sat Dec 15 2018 - 14:45

Leaning Tower of Pisa leaning less than before, experts say

The tower has leaned to one side ever since it began to take shape in 1173

Thu Nov 22 2018 - 11:22

#dogsatpollingstations trends on Twitter as pooches visit the polls

Voters share pictures of their pets as they arrive to take part in election and referendum

Fri Oct 26 2018 - 14:42

Lioness kills father of her cubs at Indianapolis zoo

Keepers had never noticed any aggression between lions held together for eight years

Mon Oct 22 2018 - 10:30

Teenager baked grandfather’s ashes into biscuits

US student distributed the sugar biscuits with several classmates, police said

Thu Oct 18 2018 - 08:51

Koalas arrive in UK in bid to protect species from extinction

Five southern koalas travel from wildlife park in Adelaide to English safari park

Fri Oct 12 2018 - 11:08

Croke Park’s hawk eyes keep stadium scavenger free

Harris’s hawks are flown to keep birds from carrying food packaging outside of grounds

Fri Sept 07 2018 - 13:55

Random acts of decency at the Kindness Café earn diners a free lunch

Customers pledge acts of kindness at Swords pop-up in return for complimentary food

Fri Aug 10 2018 - 18:55

Stinging Lion’s mane jellyfish in Irish waters is larger this year

Several swimmers in the west have received hospital treatment for Lion’s mane stings

Tue Jun 26 2018 - 05:00

Driver fined after caught watching TV show on UK motorway

The man was watching his favourite show on his mobile phone while travelling on teh M6

Tue Jun 19 2018 - 15:36

Sonia O’Sullivan: How to make the best of long-haul flights

Light stretching, window seats and bringing your own food make for a better experience

Thu May 17 2018 - 06:45

Long and winding musical road drives locals demented

Strategically laid ‘rumble strips’ sing out regional anthem if hit at correct 60km/h speed

Tue Apr 10 2018 - 16:22

‘Waste is Delicious’: Producing food with stuff other folks throw away

Crooked carrots, anyone? Beer from stale bread and soap from orange peel sell fast in Netherlands

Thu Mar 29 2018 - 16:54

Good Friday pub opening divides opinion in the west

One Connemara publican says: ‘This change alone is not going to save the rural pub’

Wed Mar 28 2018 - 01:00

Jaywalker fined for ‘sexism in a public space’

Conviction causes public debate in Belgium

Wed Mar 07 2018 - 09:47

Plans to dim Fastnet Lighthouse cause upset in west Cork

Battery-powered LED beam due to replace three diesel generators

Wed Feb 14 2018 - 01:00

Facial recognition for cows in focus as Irish start-up Cainthus gets backing

Cargill takes minority stake in Dublin-based machine vision company focused on agtech

Thu Feb 01 2018 - 11:34

Grumpy Cat wins €571k over company’s copyright breach

Coffee owners countersued and said Grumpy Cat had not held up deal to promote ‘Grumppucinos’

Thu Jan 25 2018 - 09:50

‘I made my shed the top-rated restaurant on Trip Advisor’

Prankster fools ratings site with fake web page, fake food and fake reviews

Thu Dec 07 2017 - 10:12

Plane forced to land after wife discovers husband’s affair midflight

Woman ‘blew her top’ on Qatar Airways flight after unlocking phone with sleeping husband’s thumb

Wed Nov 08 2017 - 16:27

30 years of gifs: dancing babies, DJ cats, popcorn-eating stars

Gifs are gifts that keep giving. Here we chart their rise and rise in this their 30th year

Mon Sept 18 2017 - 15:29

‘I say, you fellows’ – An Irishman’s Diary on Billy Bunter

Mon Sept 11 2017 - 00:01

British man given restraining order after row over ‘foreign’ cockerel

‘Multi-millionaire’ acquitted of harassing neighbours over bird ‘crowing all day’

Thu Sept 07 2017 - 19:36

Did it give you a giggle? A pound coin gag wins funniest joke award

Top 15 jokes voted the funniest at the Edinburgh Fringe 2017

Tue Aug 22 2017 - 12:05

A call from a ‘quack’ and a lethal dose of whiskey and mustard

In 1904 a ‘tramp’ named Thomas Coyne learned Mary Carrol was ill and insisted he could cure her

Sun Aug 20 2017 - 09:00