Article Index

Q&A: How the proposed four-year ban will affect Russia

30: BMW 5 Series – Still slick and sleek enough to compete with rivals

Breast milk linked to preventing heart disease in premature babies

By Colin Gleeson

29: Dacia Duster – Second generation is a big value star

Some FG Ministers register concern as new penalty points scheme is approved

By Fiach Kelly

28: Ford Fiesta – The best small car on the market right now

27: Volkswagen Golf – Dying days of seventh generation

26: Mercedes-Benz S-Class – the true luxury car king

25: Lexus LC – Japanese take on the Italians and win

24: Mazda 6 – A premium package in the mainstream market

23: Toyota RAV4 – Now with real off-road muscle

22: Mercedes-Benz C-Class – A class act but not without flaws

21: Seat Ateca – Keen pricing, decent dynamics, and pleasing styling carry the day

20: Mazda CX-30 – A crossover that’s fun to drive (who knew it could be done!)

19. Hyundai Santa Fe – Good enough to scare the Germans

18: Lexus UX – The stylish option in the small crossover segment

17: Skoda Octavia – Still going strong as a new version prepares to land

16: Ford Focus – Well-engineered but starting to lose ground to rivals

15. Range Rover Evoque – Big surprise is that it’s fun to drive

14: Toyota C-HR – So good it could easily carry a Lexus badge

13: Hyundai Kona – Well priced compact crossover with futureproof options

12: Audi A6 – Avant estate is the best in a range still built around diesel

11: Peugeot 5008 – reliable lion is ideal for family motoring

Awesome, amazing, incredible

Tread softly

Calling out Transition Year

Converting convents for asylum-seekers

Swimming and planning

Taking its toll on the environment

Time for a citizens’ assembly on property tax

GP service in UK v Ireland

Speed is not the only problem

Have the children been asked?

Ryan report statistics

First steps to combat obesity

Treatment of Uighur people in China

The Oireachtas printer: how installation costs hit the ceiling

By Craig Hughes

Travel

Walk for the Weekend: Screig Mhór & Screig Bheag, Co Kerry

By Tony Doherty

Opinion

Why we are turning our backs on social democracy

By Paul Sweeney

Irish drug trade’s scale and severity laid bare by Europol

By Conor Gallagher

Report calls for replacement or overhaul of direct provision system

By Jennifer Bray

Opinion

Generation Z’s angst the same as parents’ yet different

By Orla Muldoon

Foyle: No election pacts in Derry where battle is within nationalism

By Freya McClements

Sarah Cullen joins planning team at Savills Ireland

By Ronald Quinlan

Staff refuse to operate €808,000 Dáil printer without ‘safety assessments’

By Pat Leahy and Harry McGee

Tipperary site with planning for 34 houses and creche guiding at €450,000

By Ronald Quinlan

Energy-efficient office development at Dublin Castle quoting €55 per sq ft

By Ronald Quinlan

Creche and retail investment opportunities in Castleknock

By Ronald Quinlan

Social Affairs

Abuse inquiry error is ‘embarrassing’ not damaging, academic says

By Simon Carswell

Irish criminals exporting drugs as far as Australia, says Europol

By Conor Gallagher

Education

Roddy Doyle says he would scrap Leaving Cert, which has become part of ‘utterly corrupt’ industry

By Mark Hilliard

Fashion

The stylish man's guide to winterwear

By Cillian McDonnell

Music

Young musicians make many new friends at NCH

By Michael Dervan

Martyn Turner

Grafton Street rental is 13th most expensive in the world

By Ronald Quinlan

Facebook Ireland staff log some of the highest salaries in the State

By Mark Paul

Sorry seems to be the hardest word for an Irish banker to say

By Ciarán Hancock

Former premises of landmark Plough pub seeks €650,000

By Ronald Quinlan

Nama receives €42m from sale of Dublin docklands office blocks

By Ronald Quinlan

Stripe’s Irish subsidiary reports 78% rise in turnover to €480m

By Charlie Taylor

Economy

Brexit-focused Enterprise Ireland opens office in Lyon

By Lara Marlowe

Books

What are people saying about the Border?

By Jude Collins

KPMG secures new offices at Park Place

By Ronald Quinlan

German fund pays €53m for Dublin 4 office block

By Ronald Quinlan

French real estate group pays €45m for Kilmainham Hilton hotel

By Ronald Quinlan

Racing

Apple’s Jade heads nine in hunt for Hatton’s Grace honours

FAI to unveil plan to boost number of referees by 1,000

By Emmet Malone

Books

Sloot: A wonderfully funny slice of delicious Dublinese

By Kevin Gildea

People

In the end we are all the same despite the oceans we must cross

By Michael Harding

Cushman & Wakefield introduces six weeks fully-paid paternity leave

By Ronald Quinlan

People

Grief doesn’t leave you. It lays bare your capacity to tolerate what is terrifying

By Laura Kennedy

Opinion

Kathy Sheridan: If Verona Murphy is elected on Friday, what will it tell us?

By Kathy Sheridan

Property

How can I get my terrace neighbours to share the cost of drain maintenance?

People

An Asian woman in Ireland: Some people assume I’m a ‘Thai bride’

By Polly Dennison

Gaelic Games

Kerrigan and Nemo well aware of Clonmel Commercials’ threat

By Paul Keane

Books

Who wouldn’t want to see an Anne Enright and Rusangano Family opera?

By Dani Gill

Connacht welcome returnees as Tom Farrell ruled out for up to six weeks

By Linley MacKenzie

Gaelic Games

Seán Gannon enjoying Eire Óg’s return to Leinster’s top table

By Paul Keane

Ulster coach McFarland wary of the potent threat Scarlets pose

By Daire Walsh

Born at 23 weeks: ‘What saved Sara was that she was over 500g’

By Liz Farsaci

Childhood obesity: How parents can learn to say no

By Jen Hogan

Baby steps when it comes to advances in preterm care

By Liz Farsaci

‘I’m tempted to run away and start all over again’

By Trish Murphy

Rowntree expects Saracens to ‘circle the wagons’ and show their class

By Declan Rooney

Intermittent fasting: what is it and are there any benefits?

By Crystal Martin

Ticking off for Sean Dunne; Grafton Street rents among world’s highest; and bankers on the bold step

By Dominic Coyle

Irish consumers warned about fraud on ‘Black Friday’

By Jack Horgan-Jones

Silver Lake makes $500m investment in Man City owner

Abroad

'Germans think an Irish breakfast has too much meat'

By Ann McKiernan

Gaelic Games

Seán Moran: Time to stop club players having their Christmas stolen

By Seán Moran

Transport

Irish Ferries owner reports rise in turnover to €308.8m

By Charlie Taylor

Three Ireland back in the black on market share upswing

By Mark Paul

Two White House budget officials reportedly quit over Ukraine aid concerns

Has the shadow of anti-immigrant politics reached Ireland?

By Harry McGee

Mourinho’s welcome party ends with a win, Gordon D’Arcy says focus on the clubs

By Patrick Madden

Denis Staunton’s UK election diary: Corbyn’s disastrous interview

By Denis Staunton

Babe Ruth baseball bat expected to fetch over $1million at auction

Insurer Laya to create network of health and wellbeing clinics

By Charlie Taylor

Gordon D’Arcy: Clubs still hold the key to transformation of Irish rugby

By Gordon D'Arcy

Asia-Pacific

Bodies of Vietnamese migrants repatriated from UK

Cancer survivor Max Taylor on cusp of remarkable Man United debut

Film

The Nightingale: A ‘hate the feckin’ English’ post-colonial revenge fantasy

By Tara Brady

Consultants will have to be paid more to stay in public system – Harris

By Martin Wall

Israel Folau raises Rugby Australia compensation claim to €8.6m

Twitter to remove inactive accounts in bid to free up usernames

Golf

Out of Bounds: light at the end of the tunnel for Irish Women’s Open

By Philip Reid

Life & Style

Rhodes D7: It’s clearly meant to be down to earth but the prices are cheeky

By Tom Doorley

TV & Radio

Dennis Quaid: ‘I didn’t go looking for someone younger’

By Martha Hayes

Life & Style

Gary Rhodes: I'm not going to try to take a British restaurant to Dublin

Man City owner sells 10% share to US private equity firm for €454m

By Jamie Jackson

Calls for Bruton to stop plans to import fracked gas to Cork

By Barry Roche

LinkedIn Ireland pays out $1bn in dividends as revenues rise

By Charlie Taylor

Racing

Horse Racing Ireland confirm Kemboy free to race again

By Greg Wood

Washout: Dublin is having its wettest month in four years

By Tim O'Brien

A one-pot chicken biryani that ‘fills the soul with joy’

By Kenneth Culhane

Environment

Irish coverage of climate change low by EU standards, study says

By Seán McCárthaigh

Gary Rhodes, television chef and restaurateur, dies aged 59

Free contraception scheme unlikely until at least 2021

Jeremy Corbyn reveals dossier ‘proving NHS up for sale’

By Frances Perraudin

Residential

Sound prospect on sought-after Dartry road for €2.5m

By Alanna Gallagher

How commercial drones became big business

Africa

Ebola services in Congo hit as civilians attack UN base over massacres

By Sally Hayden

Film

Charlie’s Angels: Nothing works. A terrible, terrible film

By Donald Clarke

Stage

Jonathan Miller, writer and director, dies aged 85

‘For the average beef farmer there just is not a living in it’

By Sarah Burns

Farmers’ protests: Government cannot increase beef price - Varadkar

By Pat Leahy

Lloyds Bank to cut chief António Horta-Osório’s pay by £220,000

Luis Enrique: I fired ‘disloyal’ Robert Moreno from Spain role

By Sid Lowe

Man arrested over New IRA mortar bomb find in Strabane

By Gerry Moriarty

Call to allow higher buildings in Dublin’s docklands from business leaders

By Jack Horgan-Jones

About 75% of people do not report workplace sexual harrassment in NI

By Gerry Moriarty

Two people taken to hospital after four-car pile-up on N7

By Tim O'Brien

Irish healthcare app founders get €28m from 3D4Medical sale

By Charlie Taylor

Gary Rhodes: How the original cheeky-chappie chef failed to conquer Ireland

By Marie Claire Digby

Trolley numbers: 654 patients waiting for beds, say nurses

By Martin Wall

Stage

Drama at Inish review: A fun if frictionless experience

By Peter Crawley

Cabinet agrees nominations for three judicial appointments

By Jack Power

Ireland is top AI talent hub in the EU

By Charlie Taylor

Sligo woman sentenced to four years for staging musician’s suicide

By Alison O'Riordan

Cabinteely residents fear intrusion from eight storey ‘tower’

By Tim O'Brien

Science

Small streams play a very big role in our clean water and biodiversity

By Sylvia Thompson

Referee appointments confirmed for European double-header

By John O'Sullivan

Sexual assault case against comedian Al Porter is dropped

By Tom Tuite

Farmer protests: Creed stands over ‘death threats’ claim

By Marie O'Halloran

Emery admits Arsenal confidence is low and Emirates has lost fear factor

By Nick Ames

Economy

US GDP growth revised up to 2.1% pace in third quarter

Woman who sued over caravan park fall loses damages appeal

By Mary Carolan

Ulster’s Will Addison to miss Harlequins games with four-week suspension

By John O'Sullivan

Dalkey woman awarded €54,000 over heating oil spill as neighbour cleared of lying

Farmers end Dublin blockade but warn of further protests

By Sarah Burns, Marie O'Halloran, Vivienne Clarke and Mark Hilliard

Dublin Zoo’s Emma Kiernan named Marketer of the Year

By Laura Slattery

Man convicted of raping a sleeping woman at Kildare house party

By Isabel Hayes

Advertising Feature

Oliver! It's clear we're going to go along

Ditch your console and play Stadia on computer

By Ciara O'Brien

Property

Tori Amos’s Kinsale home sells for more than a song

TV & Radio

Clive James, writer, broadcaster and TV critic, dies aged 80

Bank of Ireland resolves payments delay

By Mark Hilliard

At least 3,000 gardaí need to be trained to drive patrol cars

By Conor Lally

MEPs approve Ursula von der Leyen’s commission team

By Patrick Smyth

The Favourite helps Element Pictures to profits of €473,053

By Gordon Deegan

Transport

Ireland to get first flights to Shanghai next year

By Barry O'Halloran

Bosnia sack manager Robert Prosinecki ahead of Northern Ireland tie

Golf

10 years on: The night Tiger Woods hit a fire hydrant and his world turned upside down

By David Gorman

Taoiseach accuses TD of being ‘ambiguous’ on democracy

By Marie O'Halloran

Vikings helps Ashford Studios to profits of €2.14m

By Gordon Deegan

Larry Goodman firm accused of holding beef industry to ransom

By Marie O'Halloran

Boxing gym operator gets injunction against landlord

By Aodhan O'Faolain

Accumulated losses at Bloomberg PolarLake surpass $210m

By Charlie Taylor

State must act urgently to tackle climate change, committee told

By Conor Pope

Children’s hospital: Construction progress slower than expected

By Martin Wall

Markets

Global shares boosted on US-China trade deal speculation

By Peter Hamilton

Fourteen-year-old girl drowns after falling into Co Antrim river

By Freya McClements

State will pay €2.75m for Connemara airport

By Pat Leahy

Two arrested in Netherlands over alleged Christmas bomb plot

By Peter Cluskey

A golden year in the life: Sonia O’Sullivan’s unrivalled run of 1995

By Ian O'Riordan

Environment

White water, white elephant? Cost of planned Dublin rafting course doubles to €23m

By Olivia Kelly

Corbyn and Johnson clash over claim leaked documents show NHS for sale

By Denis Staunton

Mater Private Group company makes €23.4m loss under new owners

By Laura Slattery

Self-help guru Tony Robbins sues Buzzfeed in Irish courts

By Simon Carswell

US vaping slowdown will curb growth of e-cig business, says BAT

UK election: Leaked documents shed light on US’s post-Brexit priorities

By Denis Staunton

‘We’re heading towards turmoil’: UK’s young voters ponder uncertain future

By Jennifer O'Connell

Culture

Clive James: Few others did so many things so well

By Donald Clarke

Teach your kid to build a robot and take over the world

By Ciara O'Brien

Education

Harris criticises drinks industry role in educating schoolchildren about alcohol

By Carl O'Brien

Man loses High Court appeal over repossession of Dublin family home

By Mary Carolan

Patients moved from trolleys at Limerick hospital after fire inspection

By David Raleigh

Racing

Willie Mullins confirms Kemboy will defend Savill’s Chase crown over Christmas

By Brian O'Connor

Revenue surges at Thornton Waste to €78.12m

By Gordon Deegan

Taoiseach says Christmas general election would ‘build no houses’

By Marie O'Halloran

Co Meath man jailed for 2½ years for crash that killed his girlfriend

By Richard McCullen

Ireland U21 defender Liam Scales joins Shamrock Rovers from UCD

By Emmet Malone

Ukraine’s central bank accuses Zelenskiy-linked oligarch of attacks

By Daniel McLaughlin

An Irish Diary

Up the pole: The strange phenomenon of Stylites, ancient and modern

By Frank McNally

Venice is being lost to rising waters and depopulation

By Patrick Smyth

Semi Radradra signing a statement of intent from Bristol

By Paul Rees

Spain’s Socialists seek Catalan nationalist support to govern

By Guy Hedgecoe

Connemara farmer says small-scale beef farming now ‘deeply demoralising’

By Andrew Hamilton

New Bill aimed at dog owners who ‘simply do not give a damn’ what their pet does

By Marie O'Halloran

Man’s body discovered in residence off the Navan Road

By Colin Gleeson

Police release footage of last movements of murdered Bangor man

By Freya McClements

Farmers say they do not want right-wing figures at their protests

By Mark Hilliard

Digital experience stressed in ad for new RTÉ board member

By Laura Slattery

Chelsea remain in control of destiny despite letting chance slip in Valencia

By Jacob Steinberg

More than 20 men stopped on suspicion of buying sexual favours

By Conor Lally

Electric scooters ‘not eligible’ for use on Irish roads

By Olivia Kelly

Homicide review confirms shortcomings in Garda investigations

By Conor Lally

Farmers threaten to blockade supermarket distribution centres

By Mark Hilliard and Sarah Burns

Garda recoups €20m from criminals as email scams hit businesses, summit told

By Barry O'Halloran

Talks to reinstate Stormont to start on December 16th, Northern Secretary says

By Gerry Moriarty

Guiliani offered to work for Ukraine’s top prosecutor – reports

By Suzanne Lynch

Transport

KLM to begin daily flights between Cork and Amsterdam

America at Large: one of baseball’s biggest cheaters on top of his game in TV

By Dave Hannigan

Dara Murphy criticised within Fine Gael for delay in resigning

By Harry McGee

Social Affairs

Affordable childcare the key to gender equality in workplace, say experts

By Ronan McGreevy

Profit at Cork PepsiCo company loses fizz over higher costs

By Gordon Deegan

Gardaí issue appeal for missing Cork teenager

By Olivia Kelleher

Education

University of Limerick facing academic revolt over restructuring

By Colin Gleeson

Fianna Fáil to abstain on Eoghan Murphy no-confidence motion

By Pat Leahy

Right-wing extremism ‘arriving on our shores’, says Harris

By Conor Lally

Harvey Weinstein loses bid to dismiss sexual assault charges

Miriam Lord: How will the Dáil fill a huge void left by a huge void?

By Miriam Lord

Military pilots could receive €200,000 under loyalty scheme, says Minister

By Martin Wall

Crosaire Blog

Crosaire No 17121 by Crossheir – Wednesday, November 27th, 2019

By Lorna Kernan

Boil water notice issued in Cork affecting 9,500 people

By Colin Gleeson

Klopp outwitted again by old fox Ancelotti as Liverpool forced to wait

By Andy Hunter

Man died from inhaling own blood and teeth, murder trial hears

By Barry Roche

East Belfast: Can DUP staunch Alliance ‘surge’?

By Gerry Moriarty

Solskjaer: cancer survivor Taylor is an inspiration to the entire United team

Social Affairs

Funeral of Irish missionary Fr Michael Sinnott takes place

By Colin Gleeson