Article Index

Poem of the week: This Music by Liam Aungier

By Liam Aungier

A magical pre-dawn vigil rewarded by sight of the rare goosander

By Paddy Woodworth

Browser: A family history weaved through Balkan landscape

By Martin Doyle

Gardening

The secrets to growing an exotic Irish garden

By Fionnuala Fallon

Fine Art & Antiques

Chinese artefacts and Irish furniture sell well in Durrow and Dublin

By Elizabeth Birdthistle

Social Affairs

Thinking Anew – Lead us not into temptation

By Michael Commane

Back to the future

Time to ditch plans for new runway?

Once in a leap year

Anti-Irish racism in Britain

Tax reform and the cost of living

Forming a government

The coronavirus and public health

Gardaí investigate alleged sexual assault on girl (15) in Dublin hotel

By Conor Lally and Shauna Bowers

Ireland

Photographs of the year: PPAI awards selection

Culture

In a Word: Suit

By Patsy McGarry

Diarmaid Ferriter: Topping the poll was the easy bit for Sinn Féin

By Diarmaid Ferriter

Martyn Turner

By Martyn Turner

Breda O’Brien: There is something particularly vile about Jean Vanier

By Breda O'Brien

Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael fear they are in a lose-lose scenario

By Pat Leahy

Cliff Taylor: Coronavirus means Ireland's economic outlook hangs in the balance

By Cliff Taylor

World

World health body raises coronavirus risk alert to ‘very high’

Miriam Lord: Leinster House plinth posturing has reached ridiculous proportions

By Miriam Lord

Shane Ross: ‘I lost a friendship with Mattie McGrath completely. He got totally personal’

By Simon Carswell

Could a high-speed rail link between Belfast and Cork sort out our housing mess?

By Joe Lynam

Asia-Pacific

Coronavirus: Communist Party mask has slipped as Chinese endure lockdown

By Peter Goff

Middle East

Election fever gives way to fatigue as Israel holds third election in a year

By Mark Weiss

Storm Jorge set to bring flooding, falling trees and power outages

By Sorcha Pollak and David Raleigh

Obituaries

Tommy Smith obituary: Grogan’s pub owner and patron of the arts

The best jazz gigs of the week

By Cormac Larkin

Film

Richard Stanley: ‘I’m the guy for the doomed project’

By Tara Brady

Art

The best art exhibitions of the week

By Gemma Tipton

The best trad gigs this week: From The Gathering to Kern

By Siobhán Long

So you want a Swedish-style welfare state? That'll be more tax please

By Pat Leahy

Stage

Steve Martin and Martin Short: ‘I have about 800 cousins coming to the Dublin show’

By Patrick Freyne

An Irish Diary

Church services

Gig of the week: Gavin James in Dublin

By Tony Clayton-Lea

Culture

Tim Burgess: On my culture radar

By Shilpa Ganatra

Brexit impact on Northern Ireland not as big as we think

By Paul Gillespie

Art

Art in focus: Bloodline by Andrei Molodkin

By Gemma Tipton

Kraftwerk: Düsseldorf’s electronic heartbeat

By Karl Whitney

Stage

Build it and they will come: the story of the Irish language in a disused airport

By Deirdre Falvey

The choice is yours: This week’s best rock and pop gigs

By Louise Bruton and Tony Clayton-Lea

The best classical music concerts in Ireland this week

By Michael Dervan

Soccer Mommy: no longer on the sidelines

By Ed Power

Business

Coronavirus rocks financial world as hopes for containment fade

By Colin Gleeson

Transport

Airline stocks bear the brunt of Covid-19 volatility

Business

Why the notion that building more houses will cure our housing woes is bogus

Matt Williams: Like on my Ryanair flight, Ireland were suffocated by England

By Matt Williams

Greek chicken pie

By Lilly Higgins

Spring zinger: Rhubarb and ginger cheesecake

By Vanessa Greenwood

Roast spice bag chicken, butternut squash, baby spinach and cashew nuts

By Paul Flynn

Cucumber, orange and black mustard seed raita

By Paul Flynn

Fintan O’Toole: Bernie Sanders’s former limitation is now his great strength

By Fintan O'Toole

After Tuam humbling and injury toll, can Tyrone turn the tide?

By Keith Duggan

Food

Sweet and sharp: Cheesecake is the perfect foil for tangy rhubarb

By Vanessa Greenwood

New Irish Writing: The Number by Sarah Gilmartin is February 2020’s winning story

By Sarah Gilmartin

Escape to the chateau: The Irish buyers with grand designs on French living

By Arlene Harris

Books for a big birthday are the gifts that keep on giving

By Bernadette Fallon

Football fan survey: Man United still top league among Irish fans

By Emmet Malone

Hilary Mantel: ‘Any nation that’s got warlords has got a Cromwell’

By Mia Levitin

Hunger: The ugly truth about the world’s oldest problem

By Breandan Mac Suibhne

Racing

Mullins boosted by Dettori riding True Self in $2.5m race

By Brian O'Connor

‘There’s an Irish client none of us wants to handle ... from the North.’ Enter Gerry Adams

By Lisa Dwan

Allianz Football League: Previews, throw-ins and verdicts

By Malachy Clerkin

Three Munster Academy players selected for Pro14 clash with Scarlets

By Johnny Watterson

‘We had spies there . . . I envy them.’ How the political world saw Sinn Féin’s meetings

By Fiach Kelly

Stage

‘We had the fear when we were asked to dance. Now the fear is leaving dance behind’

By Róisín Ingle

Design Moment: Safety pin, 1849

By Bernice Harrison

‘I found this little bird, is it a treecreeper? Readers’ nature queries

By Ethna Viney

TV & Radio

Hosts keep calm and carry on talking as coronavirus stories spread

By Mick Heaney

Football fan survey: Almost half of Irish adults say they support a club

By Emmet Malone

Maeve Higgins: I’m bad with money, but money is worse with me

By Maeve Higgins

My London house contents won’t fit into my Dublin home

By Helen O'Rahilly

Film

Harvey Weinstein’s conviction is good. But it hasn’t changed the world

By Jennifer O'Connell

Getting behind the rotten core of rugby with Dan Tuohy

By Gavin Cummiskey

Rachael English: ‘I totally understand why people do writing therapy’

By Róisín Ingle

Aston Villa’s Irish brigade: Tangled up in claret and blue

By Emmet Malone

Sea, Dart and good eats: make a move to Blackrock

By Tanya Sweeney

Bogged down: Bleak outlook for the west’s blanket peatlands

By Michael Viney

Football fan survey: Long road to the lower leagues in England

By Emmet Malone

Who will help sell your tired, unlovely home?

By Alanna Gallagher

Interiors

Pots of charm: 10 settings for mad hatter tea parties

By Alanna Gallagher

Drink

Four from natural winemakers who make wine fun again

By John Wilson

Children’s fiction round-up: Patience Agbabi’s book celebrates diversity

By Sara Keating

Fine Art & Antiques

Days of wine, candlelight and bicycles recalled in Durrow sale

By Elizabeth Birdthistle

Leeds divide the loyalties of Shels’ chairman Joe Casey

By Emmet Malone

There once was a girl who seduced her sister’s husband, and he hanged himself

By Lucy Sweeney Byrne

Independence Square: Good characters but gratuitous use of Kiev

By Philip O Ceallaigh

Art

‘Hello, I hear there’s someone in the house acting the bllcks’

By Patrick Freyne

New Irish Writing: February 2020’s winning poem by Clare Gallagher

By Clare Gallagher

Fine Art & Antiques

Irish women artists to show at $€X¥ in the snow

By Elizabeth Birdthistle

Football fan survey: Irish champions of attending Premier League matches

By Emmet Malone

Food

Three great recipes with a Malaysian flavour and an Irish twist

By Marie Claire Digby

Allianz Hurling League: Previews, throw-ins and verdicts

By Keith Duggan

Irish squad in the dark as clouds hang over Six Nations

By Gerry Thornley

People

The simplest message tends to win elections. Not policy, but marketing

By Seán Moncrieff

People

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘I’m like, Who’s Samuel Beckett?’

By Ross O'Carroll-Kelly

People

Why I’ve fallen out of love with American politics

By Amy O'Connor

Fashion

Spring fashion: Everything you need to know about this season's key trends

By Corina Gaffey

Restaurants

Dazzled by choice in a glamorous new Chinese restaurant

By Catherine Cleary

‘Fking n*er.’ A racist incident on Bachelors Walk

By Naakai Dzole Addy

Food

Paul Flynn: Spice bag roast chicken – it’s a bit bonkers but a lot of fun

By Paul Flynn

Culture

‘Aging, comfortable and stuck’: what happens culture when society gets old?

By Hugh Linehan

Watford’s survival looks in good hands with Pearson at the helm

By Michael Walker

Racing

Unbeatable, unbackable: What next for Faugheen the great?

By Malachy Clerkin

Sun Yang both casualty and culprit but China will move on

By Keith Duggan

Shels see off Pat’s to take first Dublin derby win of the season

Leeds goalkeeper Casilla given eight-game ban for racism

By Louise Taylor

Daniel Farke full of praise for Jamal Lewis after vital win

Man (50s) arrested following ammunition seizure in Dublin

Golf

Shane Lowry battles back to stay in the mix at Honda Classic

By Philip Reid

Health

Omega 3 supplements do not protect against cancer, researchers find

Friend warns Connacht need to be at their very best

By Linley MacKenzie

Middle East

Turkey asks Russia to step aside in Syria

Mayo v Kerry moved to Sunday afternoon due to Storm Jorge

Five Serie A matches called off due to coronavirus

Boy missing from Dublin home since yesterday found safe and well

Top UK civil servant quits accusing Priti Patel of ‘vicious’ campaign against him

GAA congress rejects black card and sin bin in hurling

By Seán Moran

Dublin may be on the road for All-Ireland quarter-finals

By Seán Moran

Europe

Pope Francis cancels engagements for third day in row

Tier 2 football championship will be named Tailteann Cup

By Seán Moran

Golf

Six players tied for the lead heading into Sunday showdown in Oman

Health

Coronavirus outbreak: WHO raises risk warning to ‘very high’

By Conor Pope

Leeds make light work of Hull to keep promotion drive on track

Ayew’s strike the difference as Palace see off Brighton

Ireland

Truck overturns on Co Galway road during Storm Jorge

By Sarah Burns

Allianz Football League: Tyrone v Dublin

France v Ireland in doubt as mass gatherings banned due to coronavirus

Economy

Corporate tax take cannot be relied upon in future, warns Donohoe

By Cliff Taylor

Social Affairs

Tullamore direct provision centre protest attracts about 25 people

By Gearoid Keegan

Ireland

Ireland’s first leap year baby born just after midnight in Dublin

By Sarah Burns

Europe

Greek police fire teargas to push back migrants at Turkish border

West Ham take big step towards survival with win over Southampton

Middle East

United States and Taliban sign Afghanistan peace deal

Chelsea rescue a draw at Bournemouth to stay fourth

By Ben Fisher

Storm Jorge lashes Ireland with severe winds and heavy rain

By Sarah Burns

West Brom slip up as Sam Morsy comes up trumps for Wigan

Leinster hurling championship set to expand from 2021

By Seán Moran

Ian O’Riordan: getting inside the secret of the Dublin Track Club

By Ian O'Riordan

Racing

Maximum Security swoops to take Saudi Cup

Cycling: Gurley and Boylan look to have secured Olympics spot

By Shane Stokes

Coronavirus: First death recorded in US, says Trump

Munster stay strong in the storm to see off Scarlets

By Declan Rooney

Invincibles no more as Watford crush Liverpool’s unbeaten hopes

Four arrested after drugs worth €455,000 seized in Dublin

Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds engaged, expecting baby

Holy Jorge! Tyrone beat Dublin at stormy Healy Park

By Ian O'Riordan