Article Index

Home front: Helping the homeless, and the joy of a jukebox

By Deirdre Falvey and Alanna Gallagher

Gardening

Top tips for making the ultimate compost

By Fionnuala Fallon

Design Moment: Thermos vacuum flask, 1892

By Bernice Harrison

Fine Art & Antiques

Shackleton sledge makes over €163,000 in London sale

By Elizabeth Birdthistle

Fringe theatre: Eight ways to try tassels and swags

By Alanna Gallagher

Property

How six Malahide neighbours got the green light for six new homes

By Arlene Harris

Fine Art & Antiques

Out-of-this-world offerings from Christie’s in its Deep Impact online sale

By Elizabeth Birdthistle

An Irish Diary

Church services

Property

Take me to churches: Two properties for less than €215,000

Bedroom bliss: how to choose the right bed

By Alanna Gallagher

Metabolic age

Social Affairs

Thinking Anew – Words that do not hurt but heal

By Gordon Linney

Financial Services

Aircoach profits down due to driver intake and wage pressures

By Gordon Deegan

Editorials

The Irish Times view on Facebook’s troubles: logging off

TV licence advertisement

‘Housing – how to fix a broken system’

GM crops – emotion and facts

Noonan Services Group profit rises by 128 per cent to €11.56m

By Gordon Deegan

Children’s hospital and accountability

Politics

Miriam Lord: Peter Casey likes to remind us ‘he hasn’t gone away’

By Miriam Lord

Irish citizenship law

Responding to climate change

Nurses, midwives and strike action

Brexit – the clock is ticking

Editorials

The Irish Times view on Sinn Féin: adjusting to the post-Adams era

In a Word: phrase

By Patsy McGarry

Social Affairs

Zappone to increase Scouting Ireland funding to improve safeguarding

By Jack Power

Unspoken Northern Irish settlement now under threat from Brexit

By Noel Dorr

Courts

Three women secure barring orders against adult sons

By Sarah Burns

Ireland and Belfast agreement secure US support ahead of Brexit

By Suzanne Lynch

Obituaries

Rosemary Mariner obituary: trailblazing US navy pilot

Martyn Turner

Disappointment as electricity interconnector plans cut off

By Francess McDonnell

Wexford accountant’s ‘unmitigated failures’ left trail of financial destruction

By Peter Hamilton

Obituaries

Jeremy Hardy obituary: Comedian who put politics at the heart of his humour

Obituaries

Max Abrahamson obituary: One of the most remarkable lawyers of his generation

Diarmaid Ferriter: American concern about the Border is legitimate

By Diarmaid Ferriter

Breda O'Brien: Pressure of mock exams reflects unhealthy society

By Breda O'Brien

Economy

Brexit uncertainty leaves business planning in a sorry mess

Company behind Pigsback.com acquired by Secret Escapes

By Charlie Taylor

Venture out for some great tunes: this week’s traditional highlights

By Siobhán Long

The French press and the price of proximity

By Ruadhán Mac Cormaic

Transport

Knock airport appoints contractors for €11.2m runway overlay

By Peter Hamilton

Books in brief: From ‘dissembling minx’ Jane Austen to jailed Markiewicz

Technology

Intel prepared to invest $8bn in new Leixlip development

By Mark Paul

Cliff Taylor: Children’s hospital cost overrun a symptom of deeper ailment

By Cliff Taylor

Fine Gael reputation for prudence takes a battering

By Pat Leahy

Technology

Will Intel Ireland get a €7bn 31st birthday present?

Bill Frisell: The ‘favourite guitarist of many people who agree on little else’

By Philip Watson

Poem of the week: 20/1/18

By Mark Granier

Adam Garcia: On My Culture Radar

By Shilpa Ganatra

Stage

Matthew Bourne: A showman from his head to his toes

By Christie Seaver

Local hero Damien Tiernan brings Waterford into focus

By Mick Heaney

Widmann, Znaider, Terfel: The best classical music concerts this week

By Michael Dervan

Ava Max: Our New VBF

By Louise Bruton

Reality TV: Vicky Pattison is selling her grief in ‘The Break Up’

By Jennifer Gannon

This Album Changed My Life: Bob Dylan – Bringing It All Back Home (1965)

The week’s best rock and pop gigs: From Post Malone to Ennio Morricone

By Tony Clayton-Lea and Louise Bruton

Suzanne Savage, Armon-Jones, Charlie Moon Quintet - The best jazz gigs this week

By Cormac Larkin

Art

Art in Focus: Gerard Byrne – Points of view in Waiting for Godot

By Aidan Dunne

Black Honey: a band who know how to make magic on a shoestring

By Brian O'Flynn

New Artist of the Week: Jafaris

By Niall Byrne

Podcast of the week: The Creep Dive

By Sarah Griffin

Film

The James Bulger film: ‘It challenges my own opinion. So you know it’s the truth’

By Donald Clarke

The Meming of Life: when Sunny Delight went slightly off-piste

By Seamas O'Reilly

Stage

The week's theatre highlights: Glasgow Girls and The Cripple of Inishmaan

By Peter Crawley

Art

The five best art exhibitions to visit this week

By Aidan Dunne

Jeff Bezos alleges ‘National Enquirer’ tried to blackmail him for ‘intimate’ photos

By Suzanne Lynch

McDonald’s tricky first year underlines Sinn Féin’s central problem

By Fiach Kelly

Europe

French journalists face former Isis torturer and accused killer in Brussels court

By Lara Marlowe

Film

Fintan O’Toole: Liam Neeson speaks the language of the lynch mob

By Fintan O'Toole

Seán Moncrieff: Cannabis oil seems to be taking Ireland by storm, but no one knows the dangers

By Seán Moncrieff

Environment

What’s this bird I spotted from a distance? Readers’ nature queries

By Ethna Viney

A Short History of Brexit by Kevin O’Rourke: erudite and highly readable

By Tony Connelly

Another Planet review: a pop star’s memoir of suburbia

By Andrew Gallix

Life & Style

What’s hot and what’s not this week?

By Una Mullally

Green bean, blood orange and radicchio

By Jess Murphy

Jammy banana tartlets: an easy and delicious last minute dessert

By Vanessa Greenwood

Where Reasons End review: Delicate and disquieting

By John Self

Racing

Racing in for the high jump in a no-deal Brexit

By Brian O'Connor

Siting children’s hospital at St James’s adds up to 5% to cost, study finds

By Paul Cullen

Poems about life forces, Magdalene laundries and birds, and reflections on Spain

By Martina Evans

Mouthful of Birds review: Eerie, disconcerting but beautiful

By Ellen Jones

Hospital controversy damaging public view of Government, Varadkar says

By Jennifer Bray, Gerry Moriarty and Fiach Kelly

Only maniacs and journalists stay up to watch the Oscars

By Donald Clarke

Diarmaid Ferriter: Wacky thinking about the Border isn’t new

By Diarmaid Ferriter

Crime & Law

Drug debts: First come bullets in the post. Then the family home is firebombed

By Conor Gallagher

Seven Signs of Life review: Bold, courageous and most welcome

By Paul D’Alton

Education

Class and education in Ireland: ‘Disadvantaged students cannot thrive’

Jennifer O’Connell: The three little words every woman wants to hear

By Jennifer O'Connell

Hesse – The Wanderer and his Shadow: Self indulgent and banal

By Michael Cronin

League of Ireland director welcomes Niall Quinn’s proposals

By John Fallon

Thinking of ideas for romantic meals? Try roast pork followed by lemon posset

By Jess Murphy

Queensland coast: Where the everyday and the strange come together

By Gemma Tipton

Black men and the American Dream: two very different perspectives

By Peter Murphy

Film

This is not a Liam Neeson obituary. It just reads like one

By Donald Clarke

Ashton’s perseverance and eye for a try convinces Jones to give him a chance

By Gerard Meagher

Graham Norton has launched a new gin made with Irish grain

By Marie Claire Digby

A Room of One’s Own (1928) by Virginia Woolf

By Rob Doyle

Bound for a Wellness Weekend in the west, I pack boiled eggs

By Catherine Conroy

Dutch boxer who fought Ali on road back from poverty in Bulgaria

Six great Irish love stories, six great romantic getaways

By Sandra O'Connell

‘Who would play me in a movie? Tilda Swinton’

By Una Mullally

David McWilliams: The policy that saved the rich and screwed the young

By David McWilliams

Jammy banana tartlets

By Vanessa Greenwood

Environment benefits from blooming interest in native flowers

By Sylvia Thompson

Perfect lemon posset

By Jess Murphy

The New Faces of Fascism: A conversation betimes profound and banal

By Eoin Ó Broin

Environment

‘Environmental vandalism’: The households who fly-tip

By Brian Hutton

‘We were all country convent girls’: the friends who changed my life

By Una Mullally

Your Fitness

Why I love…swimming in the sea

By Lisa Regan

Porchetta with pickled rhubarb

By Jess Murphy

Kerry to measure themselves against ‘standard bearers’ Dublin

By Seán Moran

You Know You Want This review: sex, shame and desire explored

By Sarah Gilmartin

Sweet memories: remembering the first time I ate bread and butter pudding

By JP McMahon

The Wolf and the Watchman review: chilling historical mystery novel

By Declan Burke

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘Fock England!’ they shouted passing actual England fans

By Ross O'Carroll-Kelly

50 books to keep you reading all year long

By Deirdre Falvey

Environment

There’s no antidepressant like a good view of the sea

By Michael Viney

Travel Bag: We check out the deals so you don’t have to

By Jo Linehan

Drink

London’s long line of family brewing comes to an end

By Sorcha Hamilton

Grano review: the best early bird in Dublin

By Catherine Cleary

Tracey Thorn: ‘There’s no such thing as closure’

By Shilpa Ganatra

Get exercised about activity holidays

By Jo Linehan

Bundee Aki: The steady partner in Ireland’s version of 'Lanigan’s Ball'

By Gerry Thornley

Ireland need to be wary of being blown off course in Edinburgh

By Gavin Cummiskey

An Post to deliver a €5m new look for mail and parcel businesses

By Ciarán Hancock

Gerry Thornley: Ireland's hurt to fuel a stormy response at Murrayfield

By Gerry Thornley

Richard Cockerill: the English terrier putting the dog back in Scottish rugby

By Tom English

All change at Dundalk and Cork for season’s curtain-raiser

By Emmet Malone

Your Fitness

Kerry O’Flaherty: ‘You have to set yourself realistic targets and goals’

By Sylvia Thompson

Castleblayney giddy at thought of two hurling worlds colliding

By Malachy Clerkin

Cannabis oil: The no-dope secret to rugby’s pain relief?

By Ian O'Riordan

Dan Mallory, the fiction writer who made up stories about his own life

By Amy O'Connor

Matt Williams: Scotland will test the mental strength of a wounded team

By Matt Williams

In Leitrim the show goes on and Séamus O’Rourke is at the centre

By Keith Duggan

Derry City’s Devine determined to reconnect the team to the town

By Michael Walker

UK transport department cancels ferry contract awarded to firm with no ships

Asia-Pacific

US and N Korea negotiators to meet again before second summit in Hanoi

Keith Duggan: England left us fragile – and then the Taoiseach took a blow

By Keith Duggan

Second woman accuses Virginia’s deputy governor of sexual assault

Asia-Pacific

Thai princess' party backs down on prime minister bid

Golf

Paul Dunne in the hunt heading into final round of Vic Open

Golf

Jordan Spieth among the leaders at a soggy Pebble Beach

Sumatran tiger killed by potential mate on first meeting in London zoo

Meath All-Ireland winner Frankie Byrne dies aged 94

By Seán Moran

Equestrian: Swail and McAuley climb Longines rankings

By Margie McLoone

An Irish Diary

Man and woman held after body found in Co Tyrone alleyway

Crime & Law

PSNI make arrest after man shot in leg in Derry attack

PAC ‘corroding public life in Ireland’, says former HSE chief

By Sorcha Pollak

Europe

Police clash with gilets jaunes protesters in Paris

Pogba’s brace steers United past Fulham and into fourth place

Racing

City Island comes home in style to justify favourite tag in Naas

Leeds strike late to salvage a point at Middlesbrough

Climate breakdown defining issue of our time, says NI Green Party

By Gerry Moriarty

BHA: No new cases of equine influenza in 700 tests so far

Solskjaer’s attention turns to PSG after United’s cruise at the Cottage

Government increases contribution to Global Fund by €15 million

By Sorcha Pollak

Gardaí renew appeal over Andrew Allen murder

Ireland grind past Scotland but miss out on a bonus point

By Gerry Thornley

The time I woke on the operating table

By Kate Johnson

Tens of thousands rally in support of nurses in Dublin

By Elaine Edwards and Martin Wall

Scotland 13 Ireland 22: Scotland player ratings

By Johnny Watterson

Liverpool get back on track to move three clear of City

Arsenal close gap to top four win win away to Huddersfield

Scotland 13 Ireland 22: Ireland player ratings

By Gavin Cummiskey

Real Madrid rekindle faint title hopes with derby win

Johnny Sexton failed HIA after ‘stamp on the head’

By Gavin Cummiskey

Politics

SDLP votes to endorse partnership with Fianna Fáil

By Gerry Moriarty

Wales’ unbeaten run rolls on as they see off Italy in Rome

Gregor Townsend refuses to lay any blame at feet of referee

By Gerry Thornley

TV View: No panic at the disco as Ireland get the job done

By Mary Hannigan

Henry Shefflin guides Ballyhale to another All-Ireland final

By John Fallon

Dundalk lay down a marker with President’s Cup win over Cork

Dan Martin fourth with one stage to go in Spain

By Shane Stokes

Cavani goes off injured days before PSG meet Man United

Ireland pass Murrayfield test but what did we learn?

By Johnny Watterson

Elizabeth Warren announces presidential bid for 2020

Kilcummin and Beaufort secure Kingdom domination in Croke Park

By Odhrán Crumley

St Thomas’s strike at the death to book an All-Ireland final spot

Kerry edge Dublin in breathtaking Tralee encounter

By Ian O'Riordan

Mayo make it three from three with Cavan win