Article Index

No Monster Club: People Are Weird | Album Review

By Tony Clayton-Lea

What’s on Sunday: Miranda O’Driscoll's The Lie of the Land

Pop Corner: Of course Giorgio and Kylie wouldn’t let us down, silly

By Ailbhe Malone

Lisa Lambe: Hiding Away | Album Review

By Joe Breen

Sunken Treasure

By Donal Dineen

Cormac De Barra and Anne-Marie O’Farrell: Duopoly | Album Review

By Siobhán Long

What’s on Wednesday: Ólafur Arnalds and Pillowman

Justin Kauflin: Dedication | Album Review

By Cormac Larkin

Marika Hackman: We Slept at Last | Album Review

By Lauren Murphy

Grounds for Invasion: Dying Stars | Album Review

By Jim Carroll

What’s on Saturday: This Is How We Fly and Love Sensation

On the record: Jack White banana’d

By Jim Carroll

What’s on Monday: Spring Ting and Home

The Dø: Shake Shook Shaken | Album Review

By Jim Carroll

BadBadNotGood/Ghostface Killah: Sour Soul | Album Review

By Jim Carroll

What’s on Thursday: Jape and Paddy Keenan

Vijay Iyer Trio: Break Stuff | Album Review

By Cormac Larkin

Stage

Rebel Yell: the Cork renaissance?

By Lauren Murphy

After care aftershock: what needs to be done to assist care-leavers

By Wayne Dignam

Credit unions moving more into mortgage business is not going to resolve housing market blockage

Kate Holmquist: We need to make divorce quicker, cheaper and a more dignified process

By Kate Holmquist

Strauss-Kahn combative in final day on stand in pimping trial

By Lara Marlowe

CPE Bach: Symphonies | Album Review

By Michael Dervan

Nick Clegg brings splash of Lib Dem yellow to jaundiced voters

By Mark Hennessy

Wake-up call: How to really listen

By Sarah Green

North Carolina Muslim killings spark wider debate about religious hatred

By Simon Carswell

Ticket Stubs: Do adjust your steamy sets

By Una Mullally

Pelo Malo (Bad Hair) review: Straight and narrow

By Tara Brady

Love Is Strange review: a same sex marriage torn apart

By Tara Brady

Jamie Dornan in Fifty Shades: ‘Christian not my kind of guy’

By Tara Brady

Canine rhetoric draws verbal shoot-out at the Dáil corral

By Michael O'Regan

What’s on Friday: Eddie Reader and Jesse Rose

Gender disparity at top of Foreign Affairs highlighted

By Ruadhán Mac Cormaic

Liffey Celtics look to overtake Women’s Premier League leaders Montenotte Hotel

Stage

Reunions and all that jazz #monkeymagic

By Emily Longworth

Draghi’s severe warning forces Greeks back to drawing board

By Arthur Beesley

Pat Carey criticises FF over same-sex marriage campaign

By Mary Minihan

Coppinger denies calling gardaí ‘dogs’ in heated Dáil exchanges

By Michael O'Regan

World

Caution urged as Ukraine peace agreement deemed fragile

By Suzanne Lynch

Peter Agnew rolls back the years with Avoca

By Johnny Watterson

HRT increases ovarian cancer risk, says study

By Mark Hennessy

Fifty Shades: Women on fun night joined by uncomfortable men

By Patrick Freyne

More funding needed to support growing pool of sailors in Olympic pathway

By David Branigan

Puncture scuppers Sam Bennett’s effort on the fifth stage of Tour of Qatar

By Shane Stokes

Jackie Tyrrell confident Kilkenny’s new faces will make the grade

By Ian O'Riordan

A Philadelphia Story review: A very different romantic punch-up

By Donald Clarke

Ards edge towards Ulster title, Leinster too close to call

By Mary Hannigan

Middle East

Rachel Corrie’s family loses wrongful death appeal in Israeli supreme court

By Peter Beaumont

Sexton worries: What if outhalf suffers another concussion?

By Gavin Cummiskey

Fianna Fáil aims to double Dáil seats at election

By Fiach Kelly

Analysis: Child Bill the outcome of detailed consultation

By Stephen Collins

Familiar look to Cody’s Kilkenny despite absentees

By Seán Moran

Wild Geese: Ivan Mulcahy, founder of Mulcahy Associates

By Caroline Madden

Property

More than 200 apartments planned for Harold’s Cross convent and orphanage

By Olivia Kelly

Call for salaries of new Garda graduates to be reviewed

By Marie O'Halloran

Employees on zero-hour contracts being treated ‘like the navvies in England’

By Marie O'Halloran

PAC to investigate spending of €50m on Thorton Hall

By Martin Wall

History

Cartoons for the Cause – An Irishman’s Diary about the ‘Lepracaun’ magazine

By Frank McNally

Ireland v France: Heat of battle will be the ultimate test for returning players

By Gavin Cummiskey

Ireland U-20s facing a daunting assignment against champions France

By John O'Sullivan

Brendan Maher and Tipperary ready to go to war again

By Seán Moran

Willie Walsh in all-out bid to get Aer Lingus deal off ground

By Barry O'Halloran

Accents

Seven tips for conducting an effective job interview

Rowing: Injuries disrupt Don McLachlan’s Ireland plans

By Liam Gorman

Social Affairs

Traveller group rejects priest’s claim on young or arranged marriage

By Kitty Holland

Gardaí, PSNI checking ports and airports after shooting at wedding

By Conor Lally and Gerry Moriarty

Protests

Pope on families

Middle East

Cairo court releases al-Jazeera journalists pending retrial

By Michael Jansen

Eamonn McCann and God

Putin’s ‘dream’ is for Russia and Ukraine to form new ‘Eurasian union’

By Colin Gleeson

Sharing the roads and footpaths

‘These islands’

Tackling homelessness

Marriage referendum

No gushes of joy at Tullow

By Mark Paul

Planet Business

By Laura Slattery

Farming & Food

Another Goodman with a steak in the business

By Mark Paul

How to stand out from the growing pile of CVs

By Charlie Taylor

“Shave or Dye” makes its way to the boardroom

By Mark Paul

Petrobras chief’s banking past fuels market concerns in Brazil

By Tom Hennigan

JD Wetherspoon shows the locals how it’s done

By Mark Paul

Farming & Food

A McTroll burger and cheesy chips, please, Mr McDonagh

By Mark Paul

Numbers game: looking inside the great Lotto machine meltdown

By Eoin Burke-Kennedy

American industrial designer making his mark on the world

By Davin O'Dwyer

People

Polyamory: ‘People think it’s like a swingers’ party’

By Tanya Sweeney

Your Fitness

Conor Pope: ‘I’ll swim a mile, and it won’t kill me’

By Conor Pope and Dominque McMullan

People

Dating apps Antidate and Bumble let women take control

By Tanya Sweeney

Food

Give Me Five: Valentine’s Day steak and chips

By Lilly Higgins

Education

Non-religious patrons to run four new primary schools

By Joe Humphreys

The Kanye doth protest too much

By Una Mullally

TV & Radio

Patrick Freyne on ‘Taking New York’

By Patrick Freyne

KBC Bank Ireland to create 100 new in retail move

By Pamela Newenham

New York Times journalist David Carr dies aged 58

Irish Life interested in taking majority ownership of GloHealth

By Ciarán Hancock

Bill Cosby accused of drugging and assaulting two more women

Laurence Goodman jnr sets up new housebuilding venture

By Mark Paul

Food

Food File: the weekly food news round-up

By Marie Claire Digby

Ireland paid interest of €1 billion to IMF last year

By Ciarán Hancock

Ryanair needs consent before share sale

By Barry O'Halloran

Amanda Knox engaged to Seattle musician Colin Sutherland

Man charged over 2014 murder of man in Athlone

Media

Irish radio offers ‘less variety than ever’, says advertising group

By Laura Slattery

Fierce fighting in Ukraine leaves 25 dead ahead of ceasefire

Elderly to pay more for nursing home care

By Paul Cullen

Iceland convicts bad bankers and says other nations can act

Media

Trinity Mirror prints public apology for phone hacking

The Morning Sports Briefing

By Patrick Madden

Asia-Pacific

Myanmar says 47 soldiers killed in clashes with rebels near China

Technology

UPC Ireland sees rise in broadband, phone subscribers

By Charlie Taylor

US faces worst droughts in a thousand years, scientists say

Ireland’s World Cup prospects will be hit by lastest Fifa rankings

By Emmet Malone

Sale of Don McLean’s ‘American Pie’ lyrics could reach $1.5m

Sligo lecturers concerned over plan to demote job titles

By Lorna Siggins

Ex-Tory treasurer Lord Fink admits using Swiss trusts to avoid taxes

By Mark Hennessy

Technology

Internet founding father warns of “information black hole”

Manchester United are ‘miserable’, says Paul Scholes

Donegal cancer surgeon to resign over lack of resources

Cases ‘should have been taken’ against tax evasion at HSBC

Greek PM yields to EU pressure and agrees to talks with lenders

By Suzanne Lynch and Arthur Beesley

Sam McBratney guesses why his Guess How Much I Love You has sold 30 million copies

By Sam McBratney

Social Affairs

Stop Out-of-Control Drinking campaign criticised over Diageo link

By Rachel Flaherty

German economy posts strong fourth quarter growth

Environment

Almost half of Ireland’s water supply is lost through leaks

By Rachel Flaherty

Markets

European stocks jump to 7-year high on latest GDP numbers

Euro zone economy jumps 0.3% on back of German spurt

the worst nightmare

By Celia de Freine

Poetry with punch: a personal story about a national disgrace

By Celia de Freine

Moving on

By Celia de Fréine

In a word

By Patsy McGarry

Ireland’s momentum starting to build ahead of game that could dictate Six Nations fate

By Gerry Thornley

Middle East

At least 19 killed in attack on Shia mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan

People

Hilary Fannin: This is a bad weekend for scared, superstitious singletons

By Hilary Fannin

A Q&A with Audrey Magee about The Undertaking

Obama to encourage companies to share cyber threat data

Golf

Michael Hoey fails to kick on in Thailand Classic

Cocaine worth €40,000 seized in Roscrea, Co Tipperary

By Niamh Towey

Three more people arrested over Jobstown protests

By Rachel Flaherty

Food

Dine out at Dine In Dublin

By Marie Claire Digby

Abroad

Finding a place to call home in Hanoi

By Megan Vine

Centre-right governments have no interest in seeing this new left-wing Greek government succeed

By Noel Whelan

Pat Carey says speaking out as gay man may help others of his generation

By Ciarán D'Arcy

TV weatherman Fred Talbot (65) found guilty of indecent assault

Oil prices hit $60 for first time this year

No increased payments for nursing home scheme, Minister insists

By Paul Cullen

Quinns cannot cross-examine liquidator, High Court rules

Man jailed for south Dublin car-jacking of woman and children

Man sentenced for bloody fistfight that ended on Garda car bonnet

Ian Keatley returns for Munster to face Cardiff Blues

Africa

Boko Haram attacks village in first lethal attack in Chad

Munster welcome back Keith Earls and Ian Keatley

How marriage came to be about love rather than strategy

By Sinead O'Shea

Dublin-headquartered Shire faces fresh scrutiny over tax

Army bomb disposal team make safe second pipe bomb in Cork

By Barry Roche

Airlines and DAA drop challenge to Dublin Airport charges ruling

By Barry O'Halloran

Ousted CEO Dalton Philips leaves Morrisons early

Chemicals account for 58% of value of Irish exports in 2014

By Eoin Burke-Kennedy

New licence prompts fall-off in driving test cheats

By Ciarán D'Arcy

Abroad

How a note reunited an emigrant couple after 54 years apart

By Cathal Kenna

Target man Johnny Sexton eager for first contact

Teachers and pupils ‘profoundly saddened’ by schoolboy’s death

Ireland women determined to overturn odds in Six Nations against France

By Gavin Cummiskey

Man accused of murdering parents to appear in court

By John Fallon

Care assistant stole almost €1,000 from disabled clients

Aer Lingus cites ‘compelling logic’ of IAG deal

By Barry O'Halloran

Martyn Turner

By Martyn Turner

Chef jailed for biting man’s face in Donegal

By Stephen Maguire

Major conference announced in Ireland for Gallipoli centenary

By Ronan McGreevy

Wikipedia editing class to build knowledge of Irish role in WWI

By Ronan McGreevy

Ability to cope with beefy brigade will dictate endgame

By Liam Toland

Education

Unions reject proposal to split junior cycle assessment in two

By Joe Humphreys

Life & Style

Nine Valentine's messages you won't read on a Hallmark card

Andy Carroll out for remainder of the season

Date set for trial of New York banker accused of raping Irish student

By Rob Crilly

Sex offender ordered not to have Tinder, Facebook profiles

By Gordon Deegan

Environment

New buildings in Dun Laoghaire must adopt low energy standards

By Tim O'Brien

Police can fly with Boston Tapes, but can not examine the contents

By Alan Erwin

Wales prop Samson Lee forced out of Scotland tie

What’s on around Ireland this weekend

By Rachel Flaherty

Michael O’Flynn to keep development properties in deal with Carbon

By Barry O'Halloran

Connacht braced for vital Scarlets test

By John O'Sullivan

Belvedere have too much for Monkstown at Donnybrook

UCC make Sigerson Cup semi-finals

Daughters of Charity cannot be sued over adoption process

An Post worker loses action alleging bullying and harassment

By Mary Carolan

Irish show jumping stallion Cruising cloned

By Margie McLoone

Sam Bennett claims stage win Qatar

By Shane Stokes

Ireland players will look to impress for Leinster against Dragons

By Gavin Cummiskey

Minsk ceasefire on shaky ground as separatists pound Ukrainian troops

By Daniel McLaughlin, In Slovyansk and eastern Ukraine

Diego Costa interview: Chelsea’s saintly sinner fights his corner

By Dominic Fifield

Major security planned for funeral of man shot at Fermanagh wedding

By Conor Lally

Education

Single mother who left school at 15 elected TCD SU president

By Joe Humphreys

Ireland’s swashbuckling under-20s turn it on against France

By John O’Sullivan at Dubarry Park

World

Argentina’s president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner charged

By Tom Hennigan

Micheál Martin supports Carey’s decision to speak publicly about his private life

By Mary Minihan

Matt Williams: Scrum will be key and that should simply sadden us

By Matt Williams

‘Everyone’s a little bit racist,’ FBI director tells students

By Simon Carswell

Ulster eventually get the job done against Treviso

Asia-Pacific

Japan should copy apartheid race policies, says education adviser

By David McNeill

More teetotallers in Britain as binge drinking drops

By Mark Hennessy

Aer Lingus board backs IAG takeover

By Barry O'Halloran

Hackers hit Dutch government websites

By Peter Cluskey

ThyssenKrupp reports profit for first quarter of financial year

Guerin’s family ask for flyover naming idea to be dropped

By Ronan McGreevy

Louis van Gaal still dancing around formations as United struggle for rhythm

By Jamie Jackson

Ireland lose their way in the dark at Ashbourne RFC

By Gavin Cummiskey

Wenger prays Gabriel can swiftly scale language barrier

By David Hytner

Ireland’s grit and determination light up night but France still prevail

By Gavin Cummiskey

Golf

Form man Jason Day makes his move at Pebble Beach Pro-Am

Tim Sherwood favourite for job with Aston Villa

By Stuart James