Article Index

ESB to keep discharging water from Parteen Weir

By Kathryn Hayes

Editorials

A symbolic advance in Saudi Arabia

Martyn Turner

Chelsea players have a right to feel betrayed by their manager

By Daniel Taylor

Gaelic Games

Team-mates and rivals united in farewell salute to Alan Brogan

By Ian O'Riordan

Ministers reject part of HSE plan over medical card fears

By Fiach Kelly, Martin Wall and Paul Cullen

Oldest Irish society in US opens door to female members

By Simon Carswell

Music

Belfast opera director lands a tricky new job in Norway

By Michael Dervan

Life & Style

Michael Harding: For years I thought of angels every time I saw snow

By Michael Harding

Data protection reform increases Ireland’s role

By Pamela Newenham

Bishop ‘scapegoated’ by clerical abuse report, funeral told

By Patsy McGarry

Letter from Mao Zedong to Attlee goes under the hammer

Support grows for keeping North’s ‘peace walls’

By Gerry Moriarty

HSE plan to tackle rapid rise of healthcare provision costs

By Paul Cullen and Martin Wall

Tyre retailers critical of new recycling levy

By Neil Briscoe

Oil up 3% as market supports stop slide to 11-year low

Bishop Dermot O’Mahony was ‘a man of great integrity’

By Patsy McGarry

Stocks rise ahead of Fed decision

Star Wars: Force awakens in Berlin church for Sunday Mass

By Derek Scally

Multinational moves could prompt major losses in tax

By Cliff Taylor

London briefing: Is it worth it for Shell and BG to do a deal?

By Fiona Walsh

Legendary Walter de Silva leaves VW without a top designer

By Neil Briscoe

Work resumes on €300m Greystones harbour development

By Tim O'Brien

Transport

Betfair shareholders urged to back merger with Paddy Power

By Barry O'Halloran

Clarity needed to determine if HSE plan built on sand

By Martin Wall

US property giant poised to snap up One Spencer Dock

By Jack Fagan

The Paris summit is a small step forward on climate change

By Martin Wolf

Road Test: Golf GTE to revive the Volkswagen faith

By Michael McAleer

World

Lack of women in paid work holding back global development

By Ruadhán Mac Cormaic

Mr Justice Peter Kelly to be next president of High Court

By Colm Keena

Rob Kearney simplifies next step for struggling Leinster

By Gerry Thornley

Leinster urged to reclaim obsessive mindset

By Gerry Thornley

Single authority for Shannon not possible, Taoiseach says

By Marie O'Halloran

Indoctrination or education?

An Irish Diary

An Irishman’s Diary on Noël Browne’s radical vision

By Brian Maye

New Zealand confirms alternative flag

Bankruptcy Bill to cut term from three years to one

By Marie O'Halloran

John Halligan moves Bill allowing assisted end to life

By Michael O'Regan

A secular Christmas?

Farming & Food

ABP says it intends to notify competition authority of Slaney deal

By Eoin Burke-Kennedy

Unsigned letters

EPA says mild winter accounts for lower greenhouse gas emissions

By Harry McGee

Angela Merkel’s Irish portrait

An almost empty Dáil

Councillors and political standards

Mathematics and education

Miriam Lord: What is Enda cooking up for January?

By Miriam Lord

The price of alcohol

Single people financially penalised

Bankruptcy and the law

The Eighth Amendment

COP 21 agreement on climate change

A loan scheme for third-level fees?

Fifa ethics committee reminds me of Spanish Inquisition – Blatter

By Owen Gibson

Gaelic Games

Cabinet aims to get hurling on Unesco list

By Stephen Collins

I say! An bhfuil aithne agat ar an Chúigear Cróga?

By Mícheál Ó hAodha

Mo leithscéal don Nollaig

By Alan Titley

Deireadh ré Robinson

By Seán Ó hÉalaí

AIB shareholder meeting will clear way for IPO in 2016

By Ciarán Hancock

Lig sinn i gcathú

By Mícheál Ó Ruairc

Opinion

Niall Holohan: Election of 20 women in Saudi Arabia is not meaningless

By Niall Holohan

Roddy L’Estrange: Struggling Vinny suffers rough justice

By Roddy L'Estrange

Irish market a global leader for returns

By Colm Lauder

Tell Me About It: I’m in love with an older, married woman but we have different needs

By Trish Murphy

Food

Lilly Higgins’s Christmas Special: Bread Sauce

By Lilly Higgins

Kildare barracks on 50-acre site for €2m

By Jack Fagan

Denis O’Brien’s docklands warehouse for rent

By Jack Fagan

People

New to the Parish: ‘Ireland is the hardest move I ever made’

By Sorcha Pollak

Record high 2015 Arctic temperatures having ‘profound effects’

Dalata acquires landmark Tara Towers Hotel for €13.1m

By Charlie Taylor

Dublin 6 shop for rent in busy retail area

By Jack Fagan

Farming & Food

Relishing the challenge of exporting more

By Kirstin Campbell

Student Hub

A-Z guide to College (Part I)

Film

Star Wars review: New faces, old stories, star turn from the skellig

By Donald Clarke

Conor McGregor’s Croke Park dream has not got time on its side

By Malachy Clerkin

Ires Reit acquires 442 apartments from Nama

By Charlie Taylor

Racing

Bid to lure Coneygree to Leopardstown for Lexus Chase

By Brian O'Connor

Rugby World Cup, Conor McGregor in top Google searches

By Ronan McGreevy

Messaging start-up Slack forms $80 million venture fund

The Morning Sports Briefing

Conor Murray keen to stay at Munster after contract ends

By John Fallon

Varadkar: No reviews on medical cards next year

By Ciarán D'Arcy

Opinion

Kathy Sheridan: Why Hugh McElvaney expects to top poll and probably will

By Kathy Sheridan

Opinion

Lian Bell: #WakingTheFeminists still waiting for the Abbey

By Lian Bell

Racing

Clonmel card rescheduled due to waterlogged track

Carrick-on-Shannon coping with second major flood in six years

By Ronan McGreevy

Farming & Food

Profits rise at Starbucks UK as taxes decrease

Malin to invest up to €30m in Poseida Therapeutics

By Charlie Taylor

Families 10% worse off since crisis despite gains in last budget

By Pamela Newenham

North Korea sentences Canadian pastor to hard labour for life

Media

TV3 award for ‘Irish Times’ journalist Harry McGee

By Aine McMahon

People

How to keep clutter to a Kondo minimum

By Aoife Valentine

Racing

Coneygree ruled out for St Stephen’s Day due to injury

Gordon D’Arcy: Winning team must first learn how to lose right

By Gordon D'Arcy

Markets

Shares climb, dollar dips as Fed prepares to ease up rates

New, higher fish quotas for Ireland welcomed by fishermen

By Lorna Siggins

China forecasts economic growth of 6.8% in 2016

Euro zone inflation revised up to 0.2% last month

Trump and Bush clash in Las Vegas over Muslim ban

By Simon Carswell

Student Hub

Lobsters, Nescafe, and cigarettes

Drink

Take it home: Irish pale ale and a fresh and pure wine

Travel

A Walk for the Weekend: Iconic views above the Conor Pass near Dingle

By Tony Doherty

Books

Best adapted screenplay? Please! Let’s hear it for the movie tie-in novel

By Ed Power

Bristol considering legal action against English Rugby Football Union

By Paul Rees

Six things to watch as the Fed raises interest rates

By Cliff Taylor

Seanad electoral system ‘bizarre and elitist’, says Crown

By Michael O'Regan

Japanese women lose case over keeping surnames

Irish firms are the second biggest users of social media in EU

By Charlie Taylor

Transport

Watch: truck crashes into Dart level crossing gates

Gardening

This Week in the Garden: Limb-lifting and path clearing

Appeal for witnesses after fire at ATM in Celbridge

Amelie Mauresmo returns to Andy Murray’s coaching set-up

Plan for Ireland to be fossil fuel free by end of century

By Harry McGee

Irish internet users turning to mobile broadband

By Charlie Taylor

Property

Decorate your Christmas with garden foliage

By Fionnuala Fallon

Hutchinson Group to create at least 40 jobs in NI

By Francess McDonnell

The Force awakens and manages to freeze Elsa out

By Conor Pope

IFA elects Bergin as national chairman after marathon meeting

By Eoin Burke-Kennedy

IFA may have to face more embarrassing disclosures

By Eoin Burke-Kennedy

Toulon’s Samu Manoa ruled out of Leinster return game

Middle East

Gunmen kidnap at least 26 Qataris in Iraqi desert, say officials

Pep Guardiola to make decision over future next week

Technology firm Asavie to create 106 jobs in Dublin

By Pamela Newenham

M50 junctions to get new layout to improve traffic flow

By Olivia Kelly

Taoiseach says ‘zero cuts’ in medical card numbers

By Michael O'Regan

Sporting Advent Calendar #16: Irish men’s hockey team bridge long wait for Olympic dream

By Johnny Watterson

Dixons Carphone beats first-half profit forecasts

First rate rise in 9 years to test Fed’s new tools

HSE admits 2016 plan carries ‘substantial financial risk’

By Paul Cullen

Executions in US fall to lowest level in 24 years, report shows

By Timothy Williams

Michel Platini won’t attend Fifa ethics committee hearing

Judge refers abortion legislation to Northern Assembly

By Gerry Moriarty

China calls for unity to fight hacking and internet ‘arms race’

John Perry denies FG strategists expressed fears over controversies

Sergio Aguero returns to training ahead of Arsenal trip

Editorials

The symptoms of dysfunctionality within health services

Tourist visits to Ireland in 2015 rise to new record

By Tim O'Brien

Ghost estates: 19,000 families, individuals in unfinished projects

By Fiona Gartland

Gaelic Games

GAA to introduce blood testing from January 1st, 2016

Dolores O’Riordan pleads guilty to air rage offences

By Gordon Deegan

What does drug driving law mean for those on medication?

By Ciarán D'Arcy

Fed careful to nurture a recovery that needed it

Offbeat

Google Year in Review features same-sex marriage kiss

By Sorcha Pollak

Shannon levels dropping but slight rise in Athlone

By Ciarán D'Arcy

Brandon Skeffington: Mother urges mental health awareness

By Mark Hilliard

Civic reception in Dublin planned for Conor McGregor

By Tim O'Brien

Abroad

Counting down the days until I’m flying home for Christmas

By Áine Geoghegan

Culture

Nialler9's New Irish Music: 10 Irish songs that deserved more listens in 2015

By Niall Byrne

Your Money

Customers advised to throw away ‘unsafe’ hoverboards

Offbeat

A guide to surviving the office Christmas party

By Aine McMahon

US multinationals to create 14,000 Irish jobs over two years

By Eoin Burke-Kennedy

Man arrested in relation to shooting in Greystones

Student Hub

A knowledge economy or a spoofers paradise?

Man allergic to light died in night time road crash - inquest

By Louise Roseingrave

Moscow court rules German documentary on doping false

Education

Plan to increase access to third level for 1,500 poorer students

By Carl O'Brien

Nama expects over €1bn profit for 2015

Coach who sued over crash ‘unforgettably idiosyncratic’

By Mary Carolan

AIB to repay State €1.87bn after approval for reorganisation

By Ciarán Hancock

‘Largest facilitator’ of child pornography to be extradited

Undocumented migrants call for regularisation

By Sorcha Pollak

Food

Seasonal Select: tasting all the classic sounds of Christmas

By Aoife McElwain

Samaritans Ireland responds to call for help every minute

By Dan Griffin

Government expels TD after Ceann Comhairle row

By Michael O'Regan

Markets

Wall Street give up some gains as oil slumps ahead of Fed decision

Billing firm secures injunction against contractor

By Aodhan O'Faolain

Rollout of gas filling stations would help cut CO2, says utility

By Ciarán D'Arcy

Downton star pays tribute to ‘hero’ fiancé at his Cork funeral

By Olivia Kelleher

Books

Those That I Fight I Do Not Hate, a short story by Danielle McLaughlin

By Danielle McLaughlin

People

The Irish Times Women’s Podcast named Best New Podcast 2015 by iTunes

Macedonia open to name change to end Greek dispute

Film

Star Wars: The Force Awakens - in glorious a capella

By Ian Curran

Paul O’Connell could make Toulon debut as early as January

By Gavin Cummiskey

Woman awarded €500,000 after partner dies following operation

Go-ahead for alternative dispute system over defective implants

Strike action at Irish Life deferred to allow further talks

Ban building in flood plains, report recommends

By Tim O'Brien

Fed move signals first step in new economic cycle

By Arthur Beesley

Ryanair passenger scalded on genitals by tea settles claim

By Saurya Cherfi

Verdict of medical misadventure in death of eight-day-old boy

By Elaine Keogh

Warning of corruption in Flight MH17 criminal case

By Peter Cluskey

Education

One in five children going to school hungry, charity says

By Carl O'Brien

Italian masonic leader Licio Gelli dies aged 96

By Paddy Agnew

US Federal Reserve raises rates for first time since 2006

By Arthur Beesley

Postman faces €20,000 bill after row over 5c receipt

By Ray Managh

Middle East

Activists banned from speaking in Israel’s schools

By Mark Weiss

‘Right now’ is time for root-and-branch reform, Garda chief told

By Mark Hilliard

Starter homes from €240,000 to be built in Dublin plan

By Olivia Kelly

Monaghan council calls on McElvaney to step down

By Peter Hughes

Cameron showing flexibility on welfare, says Kenny

By Harry McGee

David Cameron under pressure to cut deal in Europe

By Denis Staunton

Markets

End of an era as Fed confirms 0.25% rise

Man jailed for eight years over ‘death ray’ targeting Obama

Arrests in Limerick over drugs haul described as ‘significant’

By Kathryn Hayes

Kenny cools early election talk with January Dáil return

By Sarah Bardon

Warren Buffett backs Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid

By Simon Carswell

Film

Star Wars: The Spire Awakens for Dublin premiere

By Ian Curran

José Mourinho takes training but Chelsea future remains fragile

By David Hytner

Ban on large diesel vehicle sales in New Delhi imposed

By Rahul Bedi

Your Money

Call for credit rating rules to match Bankruptcy Bill

By Conor Pope

Man arrested after hit-and-run involving Kildare councillor

By Colin Gleeson

Bookie who opened for Sunday betting to pay £100,000

Search for Spanish fisherman off Blasket Islands continues

By Barry Roche

FF leader criticises lack of funding for drug treatment

By Michael O'Regan

Pep Guardiola puts Manchester City on alert with decision on future imminent

By Ed Aarons

Marina Hyde: José Mourinho fast becoming much ado about nothing

By Marina Hyde