Article Index

Babyface - Return of the Tender Lover: The old smoothie is back

By Jim Carroll

Erykah Badu - But You Caint Use My Phone: Taking hotline bling to the max

By Jim Carroll

Eric Church - Mr Misunderstood: Going beyond the borders of country music

By Joe Breen

Baroness - Purple: Passionate metal with a lightness of melody

By Siobhan Kane

Editorials

Spanish elections: A four-horse race turns into the home straight

Oisín MacDiarmada - The Green Branch: A masterclass in fluid understatement

By Siobhán Long

John Abercrombie - The First Quartet: One of the great bands of the era

By Cormac Larkin

Sigma - Life: The feeling they are working to a script never quite abates

By Jim Carroll

Javier Perianes, Cuarteto Quiroga - Granados & Turina: The performances present both works in the best light

By Michael Dervan

Cage the Elephant – Tell Me I’m Pretty: Throwing sounds at the wall to see what sticks

By Lauren Murphy

John Coltrane/A Love Supreme – The Complete Masters: the perfect present for anyone who has ears and a heart

By Cormac Larkin

Band of Gold - Band of Gold: Super songs for all seasons

By Tony Clayton-Lea

Hanne Kolstø - While We Still Have Light: electro/pop self-therapy with healing power

By Tony Clayton-Lea

Patrick Freeman - Cherry Blossom Fall: The roughly recorded nature just adds to the charm

By Lauren Murphy

World

Friend of San Bernardino gunman charged with conspiracy

Martyn Turner

Fed rate rise comes too late to reverse economic inequality

By Simon Carswell

Your Money

EU to require parental assent to social media for children

By Mark Hilliard

Oireachtas

Election campaign in full swing for High Noon in the House

By Michael O'Regan

Google driverless car unit to be stand-alone business

Two Irish riders let down by Dynamo Cover find replacment teams

By Shane Stokes

Health

No ovarian cancer screening planned despite test data - NCCP

By Paul Cullen

Irish sailors battling hard at Olympic trials in Rio

By David O'Brien

US and Cuba take next step in ending decades of hostility

Middle East

Syrian government eyes peace dividend from New York meeting

By Michael Jansen

Long goal against Germany most memorable moment

By Malachy Clerkin

An Irish Diary

Neighbours in arms – An Irishman’s Diary about two veterans of the Indian Wars

By Frank McNally

Thomas ‘Slab’ Murphy awaits sentencing after conviction

Hilary Fannin: You can keep your perfect Christmas – I’m off for a bath

By Hilary Fannin

Health

Online help for people who may be suicidal ‘potentially harmful’

By Paul Cullen

Atlantic rower’s near-death experience never goes away

By Liam Gorman

Asia-Pacific

Nepalis leaving cool of Himalayas to build soccer stadiums in far-off Qatar

By Kieran Cooke

Loyalists reluctant to tell their stories, says NI playwright

By Peter Murtagh

Survey shows fewer issues for small firms

Leo Cullen calls on Leinster to show poise in heat of battle

By Gerry Thornley

Finlay Bealham’s confidence blossoms as big hits catch Pat Lam’s eye

By Linley MacKenzie

Kenny backs Cameron’s plea to European Union leaders

By Suzanne Lynch and Denis Staunton

Barristers endure 60% fall in fees since 2008, says Bar Council

By Colm Keena

Munster v Leicester: History favours province – but not form

By John O'Sullivan

Archbishop criticised for ‘vilifying’ clergy in abuse inquiry

By Patsy McGarryu

Good deeds

Karlin Lillington: Facebook’s age of consent rule not worth a click

By Karlin Lillington

Maths in schools and universities

Award-winning journalism

An almost empty Dáil

Ferry service to Inis Mór

Student loans and funding third level

Was bishop treated as a ‘scapegoat’?

Impaired driving and drug use

Time for a law to recall politicians?

Responding to flooding crisis

The Eighth Amendment

Planet Business

By Laura Slattery

Judgments: Key cases in brief

With rise of machines what is future for professions?

By Elizabeth Fitzgerald

Law must be updated to protect vulnerable surviving spouses

By Kathryn O'Sullivan

Culture

Going Out: The best of what’s on this weekend

TV & Radio

Don’t expect Bill Murray to be getting into the thieving spirit this season

By Emily Longworth

Paddy Power’s €8bn Betfair deal clears key competition hurdle

By Barry O'Halloran

Noonan: AIB re-privatisation could take 10 years or more

By Ciarán Hancock

Second-class republicans? Sinn Féin, feminism and the women’s hunger strike

By Maria Duffy

History

Bobby Sands on the 1980 hunger strike: ‘Fuair muid faic’ – ‘We got nothing’

From the archive: Documents reveal no major concessions

By David McKittrick and Fionnuala O Connor

From the archive: Starving to death – what it really means and how it was avoided

By David McKittrick

History

From the archive: Hunger-strike over

By David McKittrick

Timeline of the 1980 hunger strike

Food

Give Me Five: Tiramisu

By Lilly Higgins

Maggie Scull: Republicans and historians remain divided over hunger strikes

By Maggie Scull

Taoiseach to visit Irish troops in Syria during Middle East trip

By Harry McGee

History

‘A few lousy hours’: time pressure in the 1980 hunger strike

By Niall Ó Dochartaigh

Mike Murphy: ‘Gay Byrne telling me to f*** off was flabbergasting’

Commercial Property

Former AIB executive Fergus Murphy to join Clydesdale bank

By Ciarán Hancock

The Ticket Awards 2015 - and the awards for best music go to...

By Jim Carroll

The Ticket Awards 2015 - and the awards for best film go to...

By Donald Clarke

Commercial Property

Tetrarch to invest €25m in aparthotel near TCD

By Ciarán Hancock

Farming & Food

C&C chief aims to put the fizz back into the cider company

By Mark Paul

Men must be on board to help eradicate workplace gender bias

By Charlie Taylor

Cillian Murphy: ‘I like going to extremes’

By Tara Brady

Developers waiting to make a killing threaten recovery

By Arthur Beesley

Editorials

Outlook for 2016 remains positive

Friend of San Bernardino gunman arrested over earlier plot

State pension system unsustainable, report warns

By Dominic Coyle

Transport

Investor in talks to buy Irish airline CityJet

By Barry O'Halloran

Asia-Pacific

Beijing issues second pollution ‘red alert’ as smog expected

Transport

Ronaldo invests over €37m in Pestana hotel group

Ireland unlikely to sign up to any new European border patrol

By Suzanne Lynch

Noel Whelan: Migrants revitalise and renew us

By Noel Whelan

EU continues to flounder on finding definitive response to refugee crisis

By Suzanne Lynch

David Cameron’s welfare plan fails to win support

By Denis Staunton

Call for land tax to compel developers to build on vacant sites

By Arthur Beesley

Controversial US pharma boss denies fraud charges

Food

Ten of the best cookbooks this Christmas

By Marie Claire Digby

Charlie McCreevy timed his Sports Direct exit to perfection

By Mark Paul

The Morning Sports Briefing

Ireland still among top countries to do business - Forbes

By Charlie Taylor

Liam Toland: Coach can lead players to water but can't make them drink

By Liam Toland

Officers ‘should be disciplined’ over Heffron attack failings

Emergency coordinators hopeful worst of flooding is over

By Ronan McGreevy and Eoghan MacConnell

Joan Burton pledges €2 rise in minimum wage

By Sarah Bardon

Ocean Capital is still afloat

By Mark Paul

Ennis priest gives burglar a lift after finding him in wardrobe

By Gordon Deegan

Europe calls for release of Halawa from Egypt prison

By Ruadhán Mac Cormaic

Jason Day’s wife Ellie hospitalised by LeBron James collision

Sports Direct boss Ashley to review agency worker conditions

Vladimir Putin lambasts Turkey and hints at Russian role in Ukraine war

By Daniel McLaughlin

Africa

Libyan politicians sign UN peace deal to unify rival governments

By Patrick Kingsley

Obama seeks to reassure Americans anxious about terror threat

Sweden votes for three-year border controls

By Derek Scally

Riots in small Dutch town over building of refugee centre

By Peter Cluskey

It’s the pure life only from now on for Revlon’s former Irish boss

By Mark Paul

Identity of person in paper trail crucial issue in ‘Slab’ Murphy trial

By Daniel English

Golf

Rory McIlroy wins Association of Golf Writers’ Trophy

Gardaí investigating armed robbery in Louth

Vivier chugs along

By Mark Paul

Atomic banking deal for Daon

By Mark Paul

Saints eager to turn tables on Racing

Culture

Going out: best of what's on between now and the New Year

The gift of presents for expats

By Gráinne Ní Aodha

Offbeat

Woman sues girl (6) over skiing collision in Austria

Asking for It by Louise O’Neill is Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book of the Year 2015

Abroad

Ireland has work to do to include citizens living abroad

By Sarah Cantwell

I’m the Irish guy who writes for ‘Charlie Hebdo’

By Robert McLiam Wilson

Didier Deschamps: ‘not possible’ to pick Karim Benzema for Euro 2016

Rethinking the 1980/1981 hunger strikes

By Alison Garden & Maggie Scull

Golf

Rory McIlroy praises calming presence of new fiancee Erica Stoll

By Ewan Murray

Drink

Wines: The Sweetest Thing

By John Wilson

Pop Corner: Katy B has no notion of going home while Ed Sheeran’s going silent

By Ailbhe Malone

Sporting Advent Calendar #18: No winners as England come to the Aviva

By Emmet Malone

Star Wars: Only one man’s dressed as Darth Vader. Me

By Conor Pope

Credit Suisse gets appoval for Irish branch

The Seamus Heaney Centre in Bellaghy: a barracks turns into a beacon of hope

By Freya McClements

Eoin Reddan and Dave Kearney return for Leinster

World

World’s refugees and displaced exceed record 60m, says UNHCR

Les Kiss makes two changes as Ulster go for famous Toulouse double

Murder rate down, robberies and extortion up

By Ciarán D'Arcy

Three ways to fend off stress

The real cost of depression at work

By Douglas Jacobs

Pat Lam has 22 fit players for trip to play Newcastle Falcons

Bus Éireann staff to ballot for strike over Expressway fears

By Martin Wall

Transport

Irish airline ASL Aviation raises €100 million

By Barry O'Halloran

Four poems about sport

By Brendan Kennelly, Conor O’Callaghan and David Park and

Death of woman (75) hit by Garda car to lead to trial

By Louise Roseingrave

Galway’s Channel Mechanics in €2 million funding round

By Barry O'Halloran

My favourite children’s books of 2015 by the Book Elf aka Eileen Battersby

By Eileen Battersby

Adams response to Murphy conviction shows ‘SF not fit to govern’

By Sarah Bardon

Here’s the soundtrack to your house party

By Jim Carroll

‘If you had asked me five years ago to name 10 short story writers, I could have got stuck’

By Laura Slattery

EU summit: leaders pledge to accelerate refugee crisis plan

By Suzanne Lynch and Denis Staunton

Human rights body ‘deeply concerned’ about Halawa situation

By Ruadhán Mac Cormaic

Snoopy and Charlie Brown: The Peanuts Move review: Gets the flavour just right

By Tara Brady

FAI confirm Euro 2016 ticket allocations and team base

Billy Joe Saunders says no place in Traveller world for losers

By Johnny Watterson

Man convicted of raping woman with Down syndrome

Fed to raise rates again in March, poll suggests

Gaelic Games

Rena Buckley and Briege Corkery the first among equals

By Malachy Clerkin

EirGrid pays 83 staff average salaries of more than €100,000

By Pamela Newenham

Australia wins court challenge to tobacco plain packaging

TV & Radio

Television: Cry me a River and pay tribute to the Don – the small-screen year

By Bernice Harrison

TV & Radio

Radio: RTÉ’s empire strikes back. But where are the rebel voices?

By Mick Heaney

Abroad

Living back in Ireland this Christmas is a relief

By Sarah Maria Griffin

Pep Guardiola confirms he has decided his Bayern Munich future

Cameron targets protocol but not treaty change, says Kenny

By Denis Staunton

Gaelic Games

Briege Corkery and Rena Buckley named Sportswomen of the Year

A Christmas like never before

By Catherine Conroy

BlackBerry reduces losses, but handsets still struggle

Africa

Rwandans vote on presidential term limits

Vatican signals Mother Teresa of Calcutta to be canonised

By Patsy McGarry

Dublin pair plead guilty to selling drugs on ‘dark net’

Life & Style

So what’s hot and what’s not this week?

By Sarah Geraghty

Botswana Diamonds seeks £458,000 through placing

Almost one in eight living in Ireland hail from abroad

By Patsy McGarry

Ballymun modular homes will not all be ready for Christmas

By Olivia Kelly

Attorney General calls for review of defamation laws

By Mary Carolan

Roy Keane settles with Paddy Power over ‘Braveheart’ stunt

Ireland’s Viva makes shortlist to join Oscar-chasing pack

By Donald Clarke

Boy awarded €50,000 after dishwasher fire led to nightmares

Isis Pharmaceuticals changes its name

Adoption can proceed without consent of father, court rules

Markets

US shares head for biggest rout in three months as Fed glow fades

Court should consider implications of decisions - Kearns

By Mary Carolan

Euro 2016: Dublin and Belfast may host receptions for teams

By Ciarán D'Arcy

Middle East

Israel and Turkey reach preliminary deal to restore ties

By Mark Weiss

Man jailed for damaging €10m Monet appeals conviction

Teeling Whiskey Distillery has welcomed 25,000 visitors to date

By Ronan McGreevy

Louis van Gaal: ‘I’ve full confidence of board and players’

Apple tax criticism is ‘political crap’ - Tim Cook

By Simon Carswell

Former Fifa vice president extradited to Uruguay

Tax breaks for GPs could drive development of primary care

By Martin Wall

Eva Carneiro’s legal action against Jose Mourinho will continue

Offbeat

Roses or Quality Street? Take THE Christmas survey

Oireachtas

State faces UN sanction over direct provision payment for children

By Marie O'Halloran

Cian Healy on the bench for Leinster as he lodges late appeal

Homemade signs and elf costumes welcome migrants back

By Ian Curran

Fine Gael official denies ‘sinister corruption’ of party selection convention

Aran islanders urge Minister to guarantee ferry service

By Lorna Siggins

Opening for Ian McKinley as IRFU trial protective goggles

Commercial Property

Planning for Cork’s Capitol cinema redevelopment approved

By Barry Roche

Contracts signed for four new and three refurbished courthouses

By Tim O'Brien

Africa

African Union to send peacekeepers to Burundi

European leaders to speed up action on migrant crisis

By Suzanne Lynch

Motors

At lunch with Jeremy Clarkson

By Jeremy Paxman

Ukraine debt and EU sanctions anger Russia

By Daniel McLaughlin

Health

Europan Parliament backs report that denounces surrogacy

By Mark Hilliard

Obama defends strategy against Islamic State militants

By Simon Carswell

Hospital staff get three days’ leave to give up tea break

Kildare councillor dies after alleged hit-and-run

By Mark Hilliard

Gaelic Games

Corkery and Buckley take top women’s sport award

By Ian O'Riordan

Trusting nature of Faisal Ellahi’s victim made trial a daunting prospect

Clash will benchmark current crop of Munster players

By John O'Sullivan

Middle East

UN Security Council agrees Syria peace plan

Athletics: Welcome recognition for woman lost in joy of running

By Ian O'Riordan