Article Index

Smoking out a good investment in cigarette cards

By Elizabeth Birdthistle

Gardening

Ace of spades, forks, rakes and trowels

By Fionnuala Fallon

Editorials

The Irish Times view on Leo Varadkar in Washington: Walking the tightrope

Eight decorative ways to green your home

By Alanna Gallagher

Design Moment: Tara Brooch, 8th century

By Bernice Harrison

An Irish Diary

Church services

Modern greats at deVeres from Yeats to Joseph Walsh

By Elizabeth Birdthistle

Auction results: Strong price for Rasher, drop in Louis le Brocquy

By Elizabeth Birdthistle

Marrakesh in a Dublin suburb: Rathfarnham home goes global

By Alanna Gallagher

Jewel purpose

Social Affairs

Thinking Anew – Patrick’s message of redemption

By Fergal Mac Eoinín

Editorials

The Irish Times view on the New Zealand mosque murders: Horror in Christchurch

Shamrock bowl

Road markings – bottom to the top

Betting memories

Coppers

Soccer as metaphor

Pillars of the community

Lobbying Facebook

Trump visit could be as early as June, says Varadkar

By Suzanne Lynch and Frank McNally

Bloody Sunday

Nuclear energy in Ireland

Brexit – finding a way forward

Terror attack in New Zealand

Social Affairs

More than 230,000 passport applications received this year

By Aine McMahon

‘Brexit will be a doddle’ says Willie Mullins

By Simon Carswell

‘Nothing short of disastrous’: Cheltenham fears losing the Irish after Brexit

By Simon Carswell

Bloody Sunday justice postponed is inevitably justice denied

By Denis Bradley

New Zealand security services under scrutiny after mosque shootings

By David Bond and Jamie Smyth

Pelosi dilutes case for Trump impeachment with hard logic

By Suzanne Lynch

Martyn Turner

Dublin could only watch on as Westminster lurched from one crisis to another

By Fiach Kelly

Move to set up network of safe places for Muslim women in Dublin

By Peter Murtagh

Management company withdraws objection to ‘Salesforce Tower’

By Jack Horgan-Jones

Alfred Deignan obituary: Jesuit priest who spread gospel far and wide

Golf

Rory McIlroy blazes his way to share of lead after Sawgrass 65

By Ewan Murray

Carolee Schneemann obituary: Artist who pushed boundaries of feminist art

Racing

Willie Mullins wins Cheltenham trophy after it eluded him so long

By Simon Carswell

Gillian Freeman obituary: Novelist who explored homosexuality in her work

The relationship between Ireland and Britain will never be the same again

By Paul Gillespie

Media ‘invaders’ treated like returning redcoats

By Frank McNally

Brexit is really about escaping the emotional ordeal of Europe

By Diarmaid Ferriter

Miriam Lord: Tokens, Istanbul Convention and Independent women

By Miriam Lord

Breda O'Brien: More questions than answers about Islamic radicalisation

By Breda O'Brien

Bringing it all back home for St Patrick’s Day: this week’s trad highlights

By Siobhán Long

Could you find worse politicians than those in the North? Well, actually, yes

By Pat Leahy

On tax we are the undisputed leaders of the EU awkward squad

By Cliff Taylor

Matt Williams: Ireland need to win at all costs

By Matt Williams

New artist of the week: Franc Moody

By Niall Byrne

I’m in the mood for oud: this week’s best jazz gigs

By Cormac Larkin

TV & Radio

Borderline gloom as Pat Kenny gets northern exposure

By Mick Heaney

TV & Radio

Facebook and Google outages show up our reliance on their services

By Seamas O'Reilly

Art Magennis obituary: Cavalry officer decorated for bravery in the Congo

Stage

Sure Look It, Fuck It: A day in the life of a returning emigrant

By Amy O'Connor

Grounding of 350 Boeing aircraft causes huge logistical problems

By Joe Gill

Best classical concerts: Emily Anderson remembered

By Michael Dervan

History

The highs and lows of those early aviation years

By Una Mullally

Art

Art in Focus: Eamonn Doyle – i Series 07

By Aidan Dunne

Art

This week’s visual arts highlights: Tracking changes in Dublin’s Docklands

By Aidan Dunne

Film

Lucas Hedges: ‘Saoirse Ronan was the most beautiful person I had ever seen on film’

By Donald Clarke

Little Simz: Our New VBF

By Louise Bruton

Welsh fans expecting the incredible in Cardiff stronghold

By Gavin Cummiskey

New Zealand shootings: ‘I couldn’t save my friend. He was bleeding heavily’

By Caroline Davies

This Album Changed My Life: Mike and Lal Waterson – Bright Phoebus (1972)

By Niall Byrne

Stage

This week’s theatre highlights: Sure Look It, Fuck It and The Children

By Peter Crawley

Party on for Paddy’s Day: This week’s rock and pop highlights

By Tony Clayton-Lea and Louise Bruton

John Grant: On My Culture Radar

By Shilpa Ganatra

Murray and Sexton crucial if Ireland are to spoil Welsh party

By Gerry Thornley

TV & Radio

Podcast of the Week: The Explainer

By Sarah Griffin

Art

Do the Poolbeg towers really define modern Ireland?

By Sorcha O'Higgins

Film

Rose McGowan: ‘I am not defined by my rapist. I’ve talked about him quite enough’

By Jennifer O'Connell

Economy

He took down the elite at Davos – then he came for Fox News

By Patrick Kingsley

Economy

Exports soar despite negative outlook and Brexit threat

Fintan O’Toole: Don’t even feel a bit sorry for Theresa May

By Fintan O'Toole

Financial Services

Irish motor insurance returned to profit in 2017 after €757m of losses

By Joe Brennan

Twilight of the Elites review: An insight into France’s gilets jaunes

By Lara Marlowe

Can you identify this bird I saw in Ranelagh? Readers’ nature queries

By Ethna Viney

Cork’s big two brace for Munster Schools Senior Cup final battle

Your Fitness

Why I Love . . . Yoga

By Jo Linehan

Watercress: It may take the goodness out of milk but it makes an excellent purée

By JP McMahon

Abroad

Give it a lash: 100 questions to test your Irishness

By Eoin Butler

Africa

‘We must take that land’: The battle for South Africa’s farms

By Selam Gebrekidan and Norimitsu Onishi

Drink

Ireland’s favourite foods and the wines to go with them

By John Wilson

Charlie Savage review: Roddy Doyle is fluent in north-Dublinese

By Niamh Donnelly

In the Closet of the Vatican review: Incredible detailing of homosexuality in church

By Patsy McGarry

Life & Style

Billions of euro, thousands of workers: Is Dublin ready for ‘Brexodus’?

By Jennifer O'Connell

Moving Histories review: A fresh take on Irish women’s emigration

By Sinead McCoole

Challenging the myths around Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius

By David Capener

Movie studios shouldn’t worry about internet blowhards

By Donald Clarke

Life & Style

‘Newly arrived in Ireland, I learned a new skill – when to shut my mouth’

By Gemma Tipton

Browser reviews: Cultural confusion, human relations and true wit

Home-made choc ices

By Jess Murphy

Fruit cobbler

By Vanessa Greenwood

‘This is load-of-crap forestry, miles upon miles of it. Everything is dead in there’

By Susan McKay

People

‘Gout? What the fock is gout? And please don’t say it’s caused by rugby’

By Ross O'Carroll-Kelly

A thoroughly modern bolt-hole that’s all Irish inside

By Alanna Gallagher

M for Mammy review: Thoughtful and original debut

By Eilis Ni Dhuibhne

In the footsteps of St Patrick: A 10-walk tour of Ireland

By John G O'Dwyer

Lobster rolls

By Jess Murphy

Oyster and wild garlic gratin

By Jess Murphy

Brexit’s next step: Accept a ‘polished turd’ or ballot boxes loom

By Denis Staunton

Why not give a rescue hen a home?

By Shane Raymond

Straws in the wind of a storm that threatens us all

By Michael Viney

Fastest, highest, strongest: a new motto for the Tokyo Olympics

By Ian O'Riordan

People

Seán Moncrieff: I bore the anger out of people

By Seán Moncrieff

Drink

Five Irish IPAs to try – and not a green beer or sore head in sight

By Sorcha Hamilton

Poems of the week: Sylvia’s Books and Theft

By Mary Noonan and Thomas Dillon Redshaw

Derry Girls guide to Derry: Murals, cream horns and Sr Michael stout

By Freya McClements

‘My book is a tribute to the kindness I have experienced all my life’

By Rónán Hession

The Irish Times Books Podcast: with Kevin Breathnach and New Irish Writing’s Ciaran Carty

By Martin Doyle

Life & Style

Index: What’s hot and what’s not this week

By Una Mullally

Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide for the Future review

By Julie McDowall

Education

Why do so many Leaving Cert students skip the Irish exam?

By Carl O'Brien

The Red Word review: provocative treatise on rape culture

By Sarah Gilmartin

Abroad

The Irish women celebrating their 100th birthdays abroad

By Ciara Kenny

Fashion

‘Mr Lacroix sent me to see an astrologist who said I should move to America. So I did’

By Quentin Fottrell

Make Me A City review: A daring and unruly novel

By Seán Hewitt

Redefining cruise ship design, Irish style

By Alanna Gallagher

Best Irish products: Forget Tayto – 10 must-have Irish cult products

By Ali Dunworth

David McWilliams: Ireland’s Dunnes-loving, cheese-eating unsqueezed middle

By David McWilliams

New Daughters of Africa review: vast and nuanced collection

By Sally Hayden

Head north for a taste tour or rule the roost in Philadelphia’s hottest property

By Jo Linehan

A dessert to cheer up any St Patrick’s Day parade drowned rats

By Vanessa Greenwood

Clever kitchen in Cabinteely’s sunny southeast

By Deirdre Falvey

Saint Patrick Retold: The Legend and History of Ireland’s Patron Saint review

By Neil Hegarty

YA Fiction: Haunting dystopias and a return to boarding school

By Claire Hennessy

The Tibetan Book of the Dead (8th century), translated by Gyurme Dorje

By Rob Doyle

No Ordinary Joe: Schmidt's remarkable Six Nations record

By Gerry Thornley

Racing

Focus on horses’ welfare switches to Midlands National at Uttoxeter

By Brian O'Connor

Gonzaga aiming to add final flourish to epic Senior Cup campaign

By John O'Sullivan

GAA Allianz Football League weekend previews

By Keith Duggan

A stout defence of Fermanagh’s defensive game

By Malachy Clerkin

Women’s rugby needs a pathway to winning, says veteran prop

By Gavin Cummiskey

Corofin: A club founded on the right stuff

By Keith Duggan

Remember Minnie Plowden!: John O’Leary’s 1977 Hennessy Literary Award winning story

By John O’Leary

GAA Allianz Hurling League and All-Ireland club final previews

By Seán Moran

I was seven when Dad died. I thought I found him in our attic one summer

By Fionnuala O’Leary

In a Word . . . Wales

By Patsy McGarry

Gertrude, Dublin: Fab food from this daytime cafe turned evening restaurant

By Catherine Cleary

Not your average St Patrick’s Day dinner: Lobster rolls and oyster gratin

By Jess Murphy

People

Relax, our National Performance Anxiety Day will be over soon

By Jennifer O'Connell

Tradition of hate: A recurrent, sad feature of our football world

By Michael Walker

Money could replace tradition as they battle for the soul of rugby

By Keith Duggan

Man due in court on Saturday following firearm incident in Ballymun

Katie Taylor stops Rose Volante to secure WBO title

By Michael Dorgan

No-deal Brexit ‘now very unlikely’, says Coveney

By Lara Marlowe

Six Nations – Wales v Ireland: Wales player profiles

By Patrick Madden

Facebook under scrutiny over killer’s live-streaming of massacre

Angus Kernohan made his chance count in Grand Slam win

By John O'Sullivan

New Zealand will tighten gun laws following terrorist attack

By Will Ziebell

Two Allianz League matches called off due to weather

Crime & Law

Revenue dog ‘Kelly’ sniffs out €500,000 of smuggled cigarettes

Border village reopens as PSNI lifts security alert

By Brian Hutton

New Zealand killings: Man intended to ‘continue with attack’

Ireland face uphill task against Afghanistan in Test match

Holstein ensures Ireland will field team at European dressage championships

By Margie McLoone

Italy miss out on chance to end losing streak as France prevail

Bring the brolly as wet and windy St Patrick’s weekend forecast

By Brian Hutton

Andre Gray comes off bench to send Watford on their way to Wembley

Lewis Hamilton breaks track record twice to lead grid in Australia

Social Affairs

Ban rhetoric that dehumanises Muslims, says leading cleric

By Kitty Holland

Brexit talks focused on legal guarantees ‘not cash’, says DUP

By Amanda Ferguson and Denis Staunton

Galway take over in second half to beat Wexford

Donegal blitz Cork in the second half to keep promotion in sight

Europe

Bank burns, shops ransacked as Paris yellow vests regroup

Wales raise the roof to secure Grand Slam glory

By Gerry Thornley

Three men killed in road crashes in Mayo and Antrim

Donegal defeat edges Cork closer to relegation

Javier Hernández double completes remarkable West Ham comeback

Wales 25 Ireland 7: Wales player ratings

Norwich go four points clear with win as Sheffield United beat Leeds

Bale nets as Zidane gets off to a winning start at Real Madrid

Kilmarnock hold Rangers to frustrating draw

Ireland left with egg on their faces in Cardiff

By Gavin Cummiskey

Saturday night GAA

Luas Red Line services return to normal after tram crash

By Brian Hutton

Stephen Bennett hits 16 points as Waterford trounce depleted Clare

Kildare scrape home against Tipperary

Monaghan beat Cavan to move out of relegation places

Wales 25 Ireland 7: Ireland player ratings

By Gavin Cummiskey

Cork rally late on to beat Kilkenny in relegation playoff

Galway eye league final after derby win over Roscommon

Ford denies Scotland famous comeback win

Fermanagh still waiting for seat at top table

World

Ethiopian jet pilot asked to climb quickly before crash – source

Councillor beats TD in Fianna Fáil selection convention upset

By Fiach Kelly

Joe Schmidt: ‘The team will definitely turn up in Japan’

By Gerry Thornley

Children should be taught national anthem, says Leo Varadkar

By Suzanne Lynch

Division Three: Donal O’Hare seals it late on for Down

City still fighting on all fronts after FA Cup drama

TV View: Wales ruin the Paddy’s weekend party

By Johnny Watterson

Crosaire Blog

Crosaire No 16902 by Crossheir – Saturday, March 16th, 2019

By Lorna Kernan