Article Index

Independents a better bet than the Greens

By Michael McDowell

Education

Uncertainty faces 2,000 Leaving Cert students seeking college places abroad

By Carl O'Brien

Travel

Walk for the Weekend: Blarney Estate, Co Cork

By Tony Doherty

Martyn Turner

One in every 13 private vehicles is uninsured

By Jack Horgan-Jones

Africa

Coronavirus: ‘You can risk your life as long you are doing the right thing’

By Sally Hayden

Healthcare workers could be asked for fee towards new childcare scheme

By Jack Horgan-Jones

Service sector activity collapses to lowest on record

By Peter Hamilton

FF and FG give Greens a written commitment on 7% cut in emissions

By Jennifer Bray

Lockdown: It’s not about how we get out, it’s about how we stay out

By Tomás Ryan

Dublin 15 warehouse and office sells for over €1.95m

By Ronald Quinlan

Greens get written assurance on targeted 7% emissions cut

By Jennifer Bray

Education

Boarding schools highlight social-distancing challenges for Leaving Cert

By Carl O'Brien

Coronavirus: Tax take predicted to fall €14bn from impact of pandemic

By Eoin Burke-Kennedy and Harry McGee

Harris defends Ireland’s ‘slow and steady’ unwinding of coronavirus restrictions

By Paul Cullen

Lockdown easing: ‘To be able to get out again is great’

By Keith Duggan

Irish tech in use in Covid-19 drug trials

By Ciara O'Brien

Flattening the disease curve means steepening the unemployment curve

By Eoin Burke-Kennedy

Testing group raises $71m to help combat Covid-19

By Ciara O'Brien

Music

How are composers affected by lockdowns, wars and revolutions?

By Michael Dervan

No quick fix for Trump on reshoring pharma from Ireland

By Dominic Coyle

Film

Corneliu Porumboiu: From a whistle to a screen

By Tara Brady

Racing

Sporting Controversies: Wonderful devilment of Gay Future stroke still resonates

By Brian O'Connor

Books

Books to help kids cope with the crisis

By Lorraine Levis

Irish pharma deal hopes to significantly improve cancer treatment

By Dominic Coyle

Woman secures protection order against two sons

By Sarah Burns

Microsoft closes in on deal for new Dublin docklands offices

By Ronald Quinlan

French investor acquires Sandyford office block for €18m

By Ronald Quinlan

Books

Wow, No Thank You: the bawdiest humour, the biggest heart

By Estelle Birdy

TV & Radio

Jerry Seinfeld on lockdown: ‘We’re all sick of seeing other people’s houses online’

By Dave Itzkoff

‘If my wife discovered my affair, she might just have a nervous breakdown’

By Trish Murphy

John Maughan calls on GAA to ‘pull the curtain down’ on championship

By Ian O'Riordan

Property

What are my rights in relation to the installation of an electricity pole on my land?

QRE expands senior management team following buyout

By Ronald Quinlan

Residential

Residential property sales could fall 25% this year

By Marian Finnegan

Residential

Last three homes in Dublin Mountain foothills scheme from €530k

By Elizabeth Birdthistle

IRFU faces €10m loss if rugby does not resume this year

By Gerry Thornley

‘We cannot get sick here. It will spread.’ Norman lives with 19 others in Phibsborough

By Sorcha Pollak

Golf

Philip Reid: Border anomaly means Northern golfers can play courses in Republic

By Philip Reid

How strong leaders thrive in crisis

Mortgage approvals fall almost 10% in March

By Colin Gleeson

Róisín Ingle: There’s something in the early summer air – the beginning of the end

By Róisín Ingle

Food

Bitter-sweet 10th birthday for Dungarvan brewery

By John Wilson

‘I’m cut off from my partner, and I’m dying for a good... encounter’

By Michael Harding

Food

How can I tell if an egg has gone off? The 17 rules of food expiry dates

By Zoe Williams

Rory Smith: How tiki-taka returned to being an insult again

By Rory Smith

Time to give nurses a greater share of responsibility

By Mary McCarthy

Abroad

My pandemic wedding: ‘Every second was nerve-racking’

By Jennifer O'Connell in

Tax take tumbles, Airbnb job cuts, and Covid-19’s economic turmoil spreads

By Michael McAleer

Seán Moran: Social distancing points more and more to a summer of silence

By Seán Moran

Donald Trump says coronavirus task force to be disbanded

Motors

New M50 speed limits cannot be enforced, warns transport group

By David Labanyi

No certainty on rent collection in coming months – Ires Reit

By Peter Hamilton

Rugby issues guidelines for return to play; border anomaly adds to confusion for golfers

German government and states agree on way to ease Covid-19 lockdown

Utah police pull over 5-year-old boy driving to California

Markets

Asian shares gain on yuan fixing while oil falters

Hammerson scraps €459m retail parks deal with Orion

Ben Stokes: Playing without fans won’t diminish competitive edge

Eoin Morgan goes to bat for T10 format at Olympics

Rugby Australia director Wiggs resigns after six weeks in role

Airbnb to lay off 25% of its workforce

By Jack Horgan-Jones

UK scientist Ferguson quits Sage after breaking social distancing rules

Financial equality may have to wait in tennis tours merger

Share your story: How is lockdown affecting your love life?

Broken neck to captaincy: Sam Cane to lead All Blacks in new era

Ireland’s economy to contract by 8% this year, European Commission forecasts

By Peter Hamilton and Naomi O'Leary

Media

Paul Farrell is the new managing director of Virgin Media Television

By Laura Slattery

Coronavirus testing criteria broadened to include people with one symptom

By Sarah Burns

PTSB seen returning to loss amid surge in loan charges

By Joe Brennan

Racing

Racing in Germany will restart at Hanover on Thursday

Food

Quick and easy chocolate chip cookies

By Mary Jewell

Accountancy scheme will take in 150 September apprentices

Sinn Féin councillor on Cork County Council resigns from party

By Barry Roche

Revolut is the most hyped fintech in Europe. Can it grow up?

Government faces political battle over any changes to Covid-19 payments

By Pat Leahy, Cliff Taylor and Vivienne Clarke

Motors

Dacia gets the boot in with affordable Logan

By Neil Briscoe

Asia-Pacific

Coronavirus: Taiwan keeps its borders shut despite success

By Kathrin Hille

Historic Bridgemount House in Mayo badly damaged by fire

By Tom Sheil

Asia-Pacific

South Korea’s spy chief denies Kim Jong-un had heart surgery

By Edward White and Kang Buseong

Warning issued over liquid nitrogen following theft

By Barry Roche

When a scientist’s love life is bigger news than Covid-19 deaths, something is wrong

By Jennifer O'Connell

Transport

Dalata hopes hotels will be able to reopen ahead of July target

Over 70s can go for a drive within 5km of home, department confirms

By Ronan McGreevy

Dáil electronic voting review recommends installing extra cameras for €50,000

By Jennifer Bray

Create your own karaoke night with surprisingly little tech

By Ciara O'Brien

Judge restrains father from contacting disabled son in foster care

By Mary Carolan

John McManus: Is reopening hairdressers a risk worth taking?

By John McManus

More than a third of Irish FDI is ‘phantom’ investment – CSO

By Eoin Burke-Kennedy

Bundesliga gets green light to resume later in May

By Ed Aarons

Irish second World War veteran honoured by Dutch government

By Barry Roche

Am I the only one who thinks Adele looked better before?

By Tanya Sweeney

UK due to start easing lockdown on Monday, says Boris Johnson

By Sebastian Payne

Haircuts, Penneys and recession - what we’re searching for on Google during the lockdown

By Conor Pope

Oireachtas

British showing ‘bad faith’ by refusing to allow EU open Belfast office after Brexit

By Marie O'Halloran

Belarus invites foreign leaders to pandemic-defying military parade

By Daniel McLaughlin

Settlement talks intensify in row over waste company operated by Shane Byrne

Germany adds emergency brake to new easing of lockdown

By Derek Scally

Education

Covid-19: Survey shows just 15% of Leaving Cert students want exams to go ahead

By Carl O'Brien

Woman who fell in Dunnes can keep €102,000 damages

By Mary Carolan

Coronavirus: Hairdresser group calls for salons to open next month

By Jack Power

Can Nest Wifi help solve your patchy, unreliable broadband? Probably

By Ciara O'Brien

Dublin pub owner says survival depends on wage subsidy scheme

By Ciarán Hancock

Rockubot uses UV-C light to remove bacteria from your home

By Ciara O'Brien

Stockpiling boosts profit at top diabetic drug company

Traffic volumes up more than 10% since lifting of restrictions began

By Ronan McGreevy

England cricketers could face nine-week quarantine away from families

By Ali Martin

Bounce-back may bring UniCredit near 2021 profit target

Justin Rohrwasser: The Patriots’ surprise draft pick with a Three Percenters tattoo

By Dave Hannigan

Digicel debt restructuring amounts to default, says Moody’s

By Joe Brennan

GAA says no intercounty matches to take place before October

GM to restart production as BMW warns of long-term Covid impact

Obituaries

Leading fashion journalist and Dublin historian

Music

Florian Schneider, Kraftwerk cofounder, dies aged 73

By Ben Beaumont-Thomas

Racing

John Oxx fears for Irish racing if no restart in May

By Brian O'Connor

US supreme court justice Ginsburg takes part in oral arguments from hospital

Covid-19: Challenge by Waters and O’Doherty ‘doomed to failure’, court told

By Aodhan O'Faolain

Share your story: Has your healthcare been put on hold since Covid-19?

New website to check accuracy of Covid-19 information

By Sylvia Thompson

Coronavirus: Community infection numbers ‘not falling as much as we would like’

By Jack Horgan-Jones

Covid-19 could force cancellation of 2021 Australian Open

Man (88) fatally stabbed in supermarket in Wales while wife waited in car

Africa

Coronavirus: South Africa’s race-based relief fund faces court challenge

By Bill Corcoran

Transport

Avolon expects to defer aircraft rents for most airline customers

By Barry O'Halloran

Cartrawler set to fall under control of UK firm TowerBrook

By Joe Brennan

Manchester City will let Leroy Sané contract run into final year

By Ed Aarons

Health staff to be charged €90 per week for childcare under new Government scheme

By Martin Wall

‘People’s habits change quickly... that’s what keeps me awake at night’

By Dominic Coyle

Oireachtas

Coronavirus worse than ‘9/11, Sars, volcanic ash cloud, foot and mouth combined’

By Marie O'Halloran

Bord na Móna to review operational needs over planning decision

By Barry O'Halloran

Questions raised as to why GAA players can’t train in small groups

By Malachy Clerkin

Bewley’s on Grafton Street to close permanently with loss of 110 jobs

By Ciarán Hancock

Media

Tyrone journalist wins Pulitzer for Boeing Max crashes coverage

By Gerry Moriarty

Markets

European shares hobbled by record recession forecast

By Eoin Burke-Kennedy

Phil Hogan warns of risks to Irish economy due to slowing international trade

By Naomi O'Leary

Coronavirus: France’s stark comparison with Germany hits hard

By Lara Marlowe

Coronavirus: Putin backs plan to ease lockdown despite rise in cases

By Henry Foy

Northern Executive hoping to publish plans to ease lockdown

By Gerry Moriarty

Brussels becomes increasingly jaded with UK’s Brexit drama

By Naomi O'Leary

Transport

Uber to cut 3,700 jobs due to coronavirus hit

By Dave Lee

Oireachtas

EU aid of €500bn are loans and ‘must be paid back,’ says Taoiseach

By Marie O'Halloran

Trump reverses decision to wind down coronavirus task force

By Suzanne Lynch

Formula One gets the green light to hand out prize money

By Christian Sylt

World

Captured US mercenary claims Trump ordered plot to abduct Maduro

By Tom Phillips and Julian Borger

Couple arrested over break-in at home of man (75) in Cork

By Barry Roche

World

Coronavirus: Worldwide death toll passes 258,000

Asylum seekers appeal for safe housing after Covid-19 outbreak at Co Kerry centre

By Colin Gleeson

Crosaire Blog

Crosaire No 17256 by Crossheir – Wednesday, May 6th, 2020

By Lorna Kernan

Bundesliga set to take the plunge despite early hiccups

By Andy Brassell

Miriam Lord: Ministers without seats populate Kildare Street twilight zone

By Miriam Lord

Migrant election candidates say they were racially abused during campaign

By Kitty Holland

Neutral venues a no-go for Villa as Premier League faces cancellation

By David Hytner

Mayo student’s parents raise questions over circumstances surrounding death

By Jack Horgan-Jones

Blast from the past

An Irish Diary

Bittersweet surrender – Frank McNally on the Irishwoman airbrushed out of a wartime victory portrait

By Frank McNally

Inner space

Forming a government

Talking and walking

White Irish in England half as likely to die from Covid-19 than minorities

By Colin Gleeson

There’s safety in numbers?

‘Cheap shots at politicians’

Special powers and oversight

The Leaving Cert – media speculation is not helping students

The Occupied Territories Bill

The politics of climate change