Article Index

Irish Times view on the Madrid climate conference

US president Donald Trump relishing impeachment fight

By Suzanne Lynch

Climate change saga

Where are all the fairy lights?

No cheques, thanks?

Leinster put Europe on notice with Northampton demolition

By Gavin Cummiskey

UCD end Three Rock Rovers’s remarkable run in Irish Senior Cup

Munster mix the old with the new in victory over Saracens

By Gerry Thornley

McCay’s late strike completes Pegasus fightback against Pembroke Wanderers

By Mary Hannigan

Watering down the rainy-day fund

Feeder Schools Survey: what is the point?

Powerless local authorities

Fears for future of dementia centre

Obituaries

Appreciation: John Gilmartin

By Charles Lysaght

Lack of gender balance in the Dáil

Holding FG accountable for Dara Murphy

Gaelic Games

Conal Keaney points to collective spirit as source of success

By Seán Moran

A better way to measure school performance

By Aedin Doris, Donal O'Neill and Olive Sweetman

Ban on turf and other smoky fuels considered by Coalition

By Fiach Kelly

Here are 30 Irish websites to get this year’s Christmas presents from

By Conor Pope

Homeschooling: ‘It’s part of our everyday. It’s part of our family culture’

By Shauna Bowers

Stress and anxiety factors in homeschool numbers rising

By Shauna Bowers

Ex-Rehab chief Angela Kerins seeks mediation over damages

By Mary Carolan and Marie O'Halloran

Burglars’ secrets: ‘I love creeping around houses when people are in bed’

By Conor Lally

Health

Lives ‘at risk’ due to scant information, first responders say

By Shauna Bowers

Abuse redress: Christian Brothers pay €30m

By Carl O'Brien

Politics

Johnson to target Brexit-backing Labour voters

By Denis Staunton

New online support to help students learn Polish, Lithuanian and Portuguese

By Carl O'Brien

Students ‘losing out’ on tuition time due to dispute

By Carl O'Brien

Petty criminals shun burglary for lucrative drug dealing

By Conor Lally

Ruling may change way IRA cases are tried

By Conor Gallagher

Security alert for Dart getting 60-plus passenger texts monthly

By Brian Hutton

Trains and security: ‘I tried to pacify the situation’

By Brian Hutton

History

Why have thousands of archaeological sites ‘disappeared’?

By Mark Clinton

Irish Times view on the Trump impeachment

Life & Style

The gift of charity: from animal care to clean water

By Danielle Barron

On the UK canvass: Brexit tensions make for vicious election

By Simon Carswell

Housebuilding contracts for first time since 2013, survey finds

By Joe Brennan

‘There’s always something to be sorted – straight teeth, for instance’

By Tony Clayton-Lea

Books

An Irishman in Addis Ababa

By John Dillon

TV & Radio

I’m A Celebrity: Nadine Coyle earned €275k, and Andrew Maxwell trousered €60k

By Ed Power

Ken Early: United expose gaps made by City’s summer mistakes

By Ken Early

Property

What sold for €1.1m in Clontarf, Ranelagh Monkstown and Greystones

“It is a family business but not just the Ryan family, it's the Yamamori family”

Peter O’Mahony gives Billy Holland credit in lineout wars

By Gerry Thornley

Books

On Swift Horses: Secrets and lies in 1950s California and Mexico

By Dani Gill

Fashion

You’ll be stopped in your tracks by Lainey Keogh’s flamboyant style

By Deirdre McQuillan

Music

Hozier at 3Arena, Dublin: Everything you need to know

Fashion

Jen Nollaig: Ireland’s most Christmassy woman is back

By Deirdre McQuillan

McFarland demands better after Ulster escape to victory

By Michael Sadlier

Leinster and Ireland sweating on Sexton scan after positive weekends

By Gerry Thornley

Health

State right to take cautious steps towards prescribing medical cannabis

By Dr Muiris Houston

Your Fitness

Escape the pre-Christmas madness – get some free fresh air therapy

By Mary Jennings

Food

Creative canapes that are quick and easy to make

By Vanessa Greenwood

To vote, or not to vote?

Music

Fontaines DC come home: Vicar Street erupts in ecstasy

By Una Mullally

Chris Boyd says Leinster are operating at a far superior level to vast majority

By Gavin Cummiskey

Golf

Presidents Cup is one of sport’s great non events

By Brian O'Connor

Una Mullally: Chinese millionaires taking advantage of golden Irish visas

By Una Mullally

Work

Pilita Clark: Painful truth is that we are poor at workplace feedback

By Pilita Clark

Oil majors likely to court Eddie O’Connor’s Mainstream

By Joe Brennan

FAI is on the brink; news expected on extent of Johnny Sexton’s injury

By Ruaidhrí Croke

Kerry taps Goldman Sachs; Tullow CEO resigns; and Mainstream in play

By Dominic Coyle

Denis Staunton’s UK election diary: Polls indicate Tory majority

By Denis Staunton

Australia burns grasslands to minimise looming bushfire risk

TV & Radio

TV guide: 18 of the best shows to watch this week

By Kevin Courtney

Nearly 1,000 tourists stranded in New Zealand town following landslides

Irish skincare company Integumen raising €1.6m from share placing

By Charlie Taylor

Big European firms ‘dodging China-US tariffs by shifting supply chains’

Tesco shares jump on possible sale of Asian business

All in the Game: Marikar’s maverick Ballon d’Or picks

By Mary Hannigan

Tullow shares plunge to 20-year low as CEO quits amid guidance cut

By Joe Brennan and Charlie Taylor

Record number of domestic abuse incidents reported in North

By Freya McClements

Joshua v Ruiz does little to gloss over fight for rights in Saudi Arabia

By Sean Ingle

Film

Wonder Woman 1984 first trailer: Gal Gadot is back – this time with Kristen Wiig

Politics

Boris Johnson ‘broke his word’ over Brexit union pledge, says Arlene Foster

NTMA to borrow less next year as it focuses on paying down debt

By Joe Brennan

Farming & Food

Kerry enlists Goldman to help seal largest Iseq company deal

By Joe Brennan

Russia banned from major sporting events for four years

By Paul MacInnes

The Offload: Television backlash for Rory Best

By Gavin Cummiskey

FAI, Shane Ross and Sport Ireland called to emergency meeting

Lightning may have been to blame for Michael Healy-Rae fire, locals say

By Anne Lucey

Trinity College the highest entrant on FT’s business school rankings

By Charlie Taylor

Thefts of defibrillators over weekend is criticised

Transport

Ireland is EU’s largest importer of aircraft

By Eoin Burke-Kennedy

Added Time: Crisis at the FAI, Rory Best and Colonel Gaddafi

Work

This world is just not designed for women

By Andrew Hill

Angela Kerins damages case against Dáil adjourned until January

By Mary Carolan

Abroad

Irish woman and wife’s struggle to bring their baby home to Ireland

By Sinéad Deevy

Film

Golden Globes 2020: Saoirse Ronan nominated for best actress

By Donald Clarke

Equestrian: Darragh Kenny takes fourth in Paris

By Margie McLoone

Johnny Sexton to see a specialist with knee injury

By John O'Sullivan

You too could have your nest egg looked after by Goldman Sachs

By Laura Noonan

Man pleads not guilty to murdering Japanese national

By Alison O'Riordan

Woman dies swimming off Antrim coast

Have you been the victim of a burglary in Ireland?

Angling Notes: A Fine Line – gripping tales of a lifetime of wild brown trout fishing

By Derek Evans

China claims it has freed Uighurs and other minorities in Xinjiang

By Lily Kuo

Man found not guilty of attempted murder of love rival’s mother

By Eoin Reynolds

Transport

Ryanair again ranked among Europe’s worst polluters

By Eoin Burke-Kennedy

Jury sworn in for trial of man accused of murdering infant son

By Alison O'Riordan

Boris Johnson criticised after pocketing reporter’s phone

Weekend’s €6 million winning Lotto ticket was sold in Mooncoin, Co Kilkenny

By Sorcha Pollak

Film

Golden Globes 2020: full list of nominations

Raw sewage and rodents account for record food-safety closures

By Conor Pope

Financial Services

HSBC Holdings shuffles executive ranks ahead of restructuring

Finland’s Sanna Marin to become world’s youngest prime minister

Mainstream taps Rothschild for equity partner search

By Joe Brennan

Boy (12) who broke arm on escalator at Dublin store awarded €35,000

By Ray Managh

CEO hacked employee’s phone and downloaded ‘intimate’ images

By Gordon Deegan

Just Eat takeover battle hots up with fresh $6.5bn Prosus bid

Property

It used to be perfume, lingerie and fine wine. Now give me a dehydrator?

By Philip Judge

Lessons learned from man’s death have improved safety, inquest hears

By Sean McCárthaigh

Technology

Christmas tech: Five activity trackers to watch

By Ciara O'Brien

Politics

Goods moving between Britain and North will require checking - Coveney

By Patrick Smyth

Commuter hell or commuter well? We want to hear your stories

Workers to have legal right to tips paid by credit or debit cards, says Minister

By Martin Wall

Farming & Food

Rondo Food to close Co Wicklow plant with loss of 135 jobs

By Eoin Burke-Kennedy

Ruby Walsh: hard to stop concussed jockeys from riding and taking risks

By Johnny Watterson

Storm Atiyah: 2,000 homes still without power

By Shauna Bowers, Kitty Holland and Barry Roche

Financial Services

Tougher financial accountability rules come into force in UK

Advertising Feature

Whiskey wonderland: what we’re buying everyone this Christmas

Court seeks clarification before approving €2.9m debt write-off for Frank McNamara and Theresa Lowe

By Aodhan O'Faolain

Mount Trenchard direct provision centre must close, says Limerick charity

By Sorcha Pollak

Why Europe will side with the US over China for 5G

By Gideon Rachman

Open Orphan to merge with UK-based Hvivo in £30m tie-up

By Joe Brennan

Former Fed chair Paul Volcker dies

Health

Biggest mumps outbreak in a decade continues with 103 new cases last week

By Paul Cullen

Garda denies assaulting RTÉ cameraman at Dublin protest

By Declan Brennan

Keith Donoghue: TV deal means Irish racing playing second fiddle to the UK

By Brian O'Connor

US soccer star Megan Rapinoe wins Sportsperson of the Year

Commuter hell: ‘My daily commute is affecting my mental health’

Racecourses chairman frustrated over TV race clashes

By Brian O'Connor

Free wifi to be provided at all Irish racecourses in 2020

By Brian O'Connor

Advertising of e-cigarettes to be restricted, Harris says

By Paul Cullen

Woman with cerebral palsy in legal challenge over home care

St Andrew’s Resource Centre: Fighting exclusion, reducing inequality

By Dermot McCarthy

Rollercoaster year for Tayto Park as revenue rises but profit dips

By Gordon Deegan

Farmers blockade Tesco in ongoing row about beef prices

By Ronan McGreevy

Burnley fan, 13, ejected for alleged racist abuse against Spurs

Environment

Thunberg takes climate stance in solidarity with young indigenous people

By Kevin O'Sullivan

NBRU says nearly 1,000 anti-social incidents on Dublin Bus services

By Martin Wall

Firefighter jailed over fatal hit and run banned from driving

School secretaries to stage one-day strike in January

By Martin Wall

Revenue and profit speed ahead at Dublin Port Tunnel company

By Gordon Deegan

An Irish Diary

How an inexperienced Irishman led expedition from north to south Australia

By Norman Freeman

Hungarians rally against government’s bid to tighten cultural control

By Daniel McLaughlin

Daryl Murphy secretly served ban for taking cocaine on a night out

Markets

Tullow shares collapse and weak data from China impact markets

By Barry O'Halloran

Africa

EU-funded alternative to detention centres fails in Libya

By Sally Hayden

Farming & Food

Kerry food group faces challenge from IFF for DuPont unit

Serial rapist given 33 life sentences after UK rampage while wrongly free

Culture

Body & Soul announces it is to quit Electric Picnic

By Deirdre Falvey

New Zealand volcano eruption: Five dead, at least eight missing

Media

Amazon sues Pentagon over $10bn Jedi contract

At Kerry ceremony 2,000 new citizens told Ireland a place of openness

By Anne Lucey

Couple’s €75,000 defamation claim over being asked to pay restaurant bill fails

By Ray Managh

Technology

Brexit, climate change and the weather top Twitter trends

By Ciara O'Brien

The Irish Times view on the Ukraine-Russia peace talks: a deal – but not at any cost

Two arrested over 2018 Leixlip shooting of Clive Staunton

By Shauna Bowers

Harris says Murphy should pay back some of the expenses he claimed when in Dáil

By Fiach Kelly

UK campaign trail: Tories target marginal Welsh seat as Brexit ruptures party lines

By Simon Carswell

The Irish Times view on smoky coal ban: State must not back down

Johnson pockets reporter’s phone to avoid seeing photo of sick child

By Denis Staunton

Environment

New declaration could recognise legal right of children to healthy environment

By Kevin O'Sullivan

FAI staff want management to give clarity on potential job losses

By Emmet Malone

Media

Virgin Media staff vote for industrial action over planned redundancies

By Martin Wall

Doctor challenges decision to proceed with inquiry into patient's withdrawn complaint

Fishshack and Ouzos restaurants saved in court-approved rescue

By Barry O'Halloran

Boris Johnson’s phone stunt endorses dishonest, cold-hearted reputation

By Denis Staunton

Driver pleads guilty to fleeing scene of fatal hit and run

By Sonya McLean

Golf

Rory McIlroy: ‘morality’ played a part in Saudi Arabia snub

RTÉ director to say a seven-year wait for new broadcasting charge is ‘untenable’

By Fiach Kelly

Putin and Zelenskiy hold talks on Ukraine conflict in Paris

By Lara Marlowe

Owners of four crèches ordered to close will fight to continue operating

By Kitty Holland

Restrained Trump gives Saudi Arabia the benefit of the doubt

By Suzanne Lynch

Justice report finds no political bias in FBI investigation of Trump campaign

By Suzanne Lynch

EU backs initiative for legislation to punish human rights abusers worldwide

By Patrick Smyth

Life & Style

Former Irish Times journalist honoured by College of Surgeons

By Kitty Holland

GAA county board to auction home in London in bid to raise €1 million

By Ronan McGreevy

Crosaire Blog

Crosaire No 17131 by Crossheir – Monday, December 9th, 2019

By Lorna Kernan

Environment

Irish climate activist groups urge increase in EU 2030 target

By Kevin O'Sullivan

Arsenal stop the rot at West Ham with first league win in eight

By Jacob Steinberg

Lampard calls on Chelsea young guns to embrace European nights

By Jacob Steinberg