Article Index

Mind the gap

Opinion

Justine McCarthy: CervicalCheck scandal did not die with Vicky Phelan

By Justine McCarthy

Abortion, gender identity may be excluded from curriculum by some schools, report warns

By Kitty Holland

Getting a grip

Children’s hospital

Wheel of fortune

Coats for dogs

For whom the road tolls

The passing parade

A great start to the day

Maid in Ireland

Residential Tenancies Board

Teaching – a crisis of recruitment

ECJ ruling on company ownership data

Unity debate – the element of choice

Bankers and the bonus culture

Protests in Iran – Mick Wallace is wrong

Ireland’s population ageing faster than anywhere else in Europe as births fall

By Paul Cullen

Crime & Law

Monaghan deaths: Victim may have been murdered by second man who was killed by car as he fled

By Conor Lally

Housing targets under major threat amid slump in homebuilding

By Eoin Burke-Kennedy

Books

Nightingale and cello, or Beatrice and the bird

By Mark Roper

Books

Flight: An intricate, moving study of character, family and friction

By Sarah Gilmartin

In the News

The many faces of Sean Quinn

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Advertising Feature

Diamonds that don’t cost the Earth

TV & Radio

Unapologetic, unrepentant and scornful, Seán Moncrieff hits his stride

By Mick Heaney

Olly Murs stays true to formulaic pop songs and nice guy clichés with new album

By Tony Clayton-Lea

Rebel Irishwomen: intriguing album helps to put the record straight

By Siobhán Long

Tori and Lokita: Dardenne brothers’ heart-rending tale of misused immigrants

By Donald Clarke

Eddie Jones - a compelling personality but far from a lovable coach

By Johnny Watterson

A fillet of ham is the centrepiece of an Irish festive spread

Food

AA’s Caribbean review: Street food made from scratch. Catch it before this food yard is shut down

By Corinna Hardgrave

Teo Gheorghiu: Roots - fresh explorations of personal histories

By Michael Dervan

Lady Chatterley’s Lover: Steamy? It’s not even NSFW

By Tara Brady

Maverick Sabre: Lonely Are the Brave - a fine reminder of the soul singer’s firepower

By Lauren Murphy

Economy

John FitzGerald: Government data needs to be easily accessible

By John FitzGerald

The Movie Quiz: Who gets swallowed whole at the end of Jaws?

By Donald Clarke

Don’t cry for Seán Quinn – even if he cannot stop doing it for himself

By Mark Paul

People

Hilary Fannin: I gradually lost any true sense of time or place and drifted into oblivion

By Hilary Fannin

Advertising Feature

Creative jobs are safe from the machines taking over, for now

Chinese community in Northern Ireland: ‘Someone comes and they open a takeaway, and they bring all the family’

By Luke Butterly

Three Minutes: A Lengthening – Snatches of home-movie footage, then a detective story unfolds

By Tara Brady

TV & Radio

Patrick Freyne: As a toad sits on his head, it’s clear Matt Hancock is inured to all humiliation

By Patrick Freyne

World Cup TV View: It’s all gone Pete Tong as Belgium and Germany hit the decks

By Gordon Manning

Belfast: A city of two halves moves towards post-pandemic economic regeneration

By Mark Paul

Violent Night: Part Home Alone, part Die Hard, part sentimentality. That’s not a recommendation

By Donald Clarke

Residential

What will €170,000 buy in France, Romania, Turkey, Thailand and West Cork?

By Elizabeth Birdthistle

Work

Work-life balance and other supports needed to recruit and retain younger talent

By Olive Keogh

Irish tool maker ATA acquires two businesses to bring annual revenues to €100m

By Ciarán Hancock

Life & Style

First Look: Dún Laoghaire Baths are finally set to reopen. It’s a breathtaking sight

By Deirdre Falvey

Residential

How to make housing more affordable, from VAT cuts to planning reform

By Jessica Doyle

Interiors

Five things to do around your home to get ready for Christmas

By Denise O'Connor

Gaelic Games

Well-travelled Cooke making the most of his second chance

By Seán Moran

Gaelic Games

Seán Moran: GAA considers underage revamp and raising maximum suspension to five years

By Seán Moran

Business Today Newsletter

Rónan Kelleher happy to get stuck into the ‘nitty-gritty’ at Leinster

By Gerry Thornley

Derailing Government housing plans; unpaid leave at Intel; and watching Sean Quinn’s tears

By Úna McCaffrey

Your Wellness

HIV stigma: ‘We need to address the myths, misunderstandings and attitudes that continue to fuel it’

By Sylvia Thompson

Big Tech

Kanye West suspended from Twitter after posting swastika inside Star of David

Donald Trump: US court reverses appointment of special master in blow to former president

Morning Sports Briefing

Germany and Belgium crash out of World Cup; Munster look to close gap on Edinburgh

US manufacturing company Technimark to double Longford plant size

By Colin Gleeson

Serbs keen to focus on football not geopolitics as they meet Swiss again

By Nick Ames

Ryanair passenger numbers up 10% in November

By Colin Gleeson

Desert Outtakes: Harry Maguire the punchline in Ghanaian parliament

By Gordon Manning

Asia-Pacific

Teacher’s Pet case: Podcast subject Chris Dawson sentenced to 24 years for murder of wife

By Ben Doherty

Twitter dangles incentives in attempt to lure advertisers

By Hannah Murphy

Fashion

At this time of year, there’s no age limit on glitter

By Laura Kennedy

People

‘The typewriter demands you focus - it’s just paper, ink and your imagination’

By Joanne Hunt, Bryan O'Brien and Leo Molloy

Ireland

Gardaí introduce new drug driving test under Christmas road safety campaign

By Barry Roche

The Cure at 3Arena: Wizened goths, stylish millennials and a giddy sugar rush of hits

By Éamon Sweeney

More than 1.3 million people to receive State Christmas bonus from next week

By Simon Carswell

Ireland

Temperatures to drop further next week as winter starts to bite

By Sarah Burns

Former Adare Manor chief executive Colm Hannon dies

By Colin Gleeson

Covid: Only 12 nursing homes reported no confirmed or suspected cases in pandemic

By Sarah Burns

Blackstone limits withdrawals at $125bn property fund

By Antoine Gara and Sujeet Indap

Drink

John Wilson: Two good-value wines from Lidl that would go down a treat this Christmas

By John Wilson

Fifth Indiana Jones movie: First trailer and title released for 80-year-old action hero’s final outing

By Adrian Horton

Asia-Pacific

‘The people of China want a future’ - Irish man at Shanghai lockdown protests

By Kate McDonald

A View from Qatar: ‘The games were none the worse for a lack of pints’

By Mike Cronin

Stage

The Weir: The Abbey stages an atmospheric revival of Conor McPherson’s 1990s play

By Sara Keating

Big Tech

Musk’s experiment in chaos management at Twitter 2.0

By Richard Waters

Looking for some Christmas reading? Here are the best sports books of 2022

By Malachy Clerkin

Economy

State’s domestic economy contracts as cost-of-living challenges mount

By Eoin Burke-Kennedy

Jewellery thief demanded diamonds during €120,000 robbery

By Eimear Dodd

Formula One cancels 2023 Chinese Grand Prix due to Covid-19 restrictions

Crime & Law

‘We are no longer an attractive job’: Senior garda warns of resignations in north Dublin

By Mark Hilliard

Nando’s sees Irish restaurants hit sales in excess of pre-pandemic levels

By Colin Gleeson

‘Union guy’ Biden puts economy before principles

By Martin Wall

AIB investor payouts may exceed €1bn in coming years

By Joe Brennan

TV & Radio

Harry & Meghan’s Netflix teaser: A minute long and it still fits in a pop at Kate

By Jennifer O'Connell

Century

Execution of four prisoners by Free State government was ‘murder’ - Taoiseach

By Ronan McGreevy

Court approves €3.5m interim settlement for woman over alleged birth injury

On The Money Newsletter

When it comes to pension reform, delay comes at a cost

By Dominic Coyle

Oireachtas

Convert Dáil car park into ‘green space in the centre of the city’, Eamon Ryan says

By Jack Horgan-Jones and Tim O'Brien

Supreme Court dismisses State’s appeal against €7,500 damages to asylum seeker

By Ellen O'Riordan

Ireland

‘I wish I didn’t have this story to tell’: Bereaved families join Christmas road safety appeal

By Barry Roche

Father-of-seven stabbed to death in ‘random killing’ after parking without permission

By Eoin Reynolds

Europe

While condemning Qatar’s LGBTQ stance in public, Germany begged for a gas deal in private

By Derek Scally

Solicitor awarded €105,000 for ‘nasty fracture’ from beer garden slip

Haiti, on the brink, focuses minds as O’Brien pleads for more time on Digicel debt

By Joe Brennan

Man jailed for 18 years for attempted murder of two gardaí

By Fiona Magennis

Tesla hands over first ‘badass’ electric truck to PepsiCo

Government on track for record end-year surplus as tax boom continues

By Laura Slattery

Africa

Death in Sierra Leone: When protest turned to tragedy, the state offered money but no remorse

By Sally Hayden

Wicklow sex abuse priest has time in jail extended

By Declan Brennan

Intel may seek up to 100 redundancies and unpaid leave scheme

By Jack Horgan-Jones and Emmet Malone

Truck driver awarded €40k for constructive dismissal by haulage firm

Intel unpaid leave offer unusual in private sector

By Cantillon

Play therapy to tackle trauma will be offered in Ballymun primary schools next year

By Kitty Holland

No scientific case exists for refusal of apartments planned for Raheny, developers say

By Gordon Deegan

Fully funded abortion services to be set up in Northern Ireland three years after laws liberalised

By Seanín Graham

US Letter: Treatment of mental illness moves towards involuntary committals

By Martin Wall

Africa

South Africa’s ruling ANC wrestling with ‘Farmgate scandal’ report

By Bill Corcoran

World Cup Group H as it happened: South Korea go through at the death

By David Gorman

Dramatic late goal against Portugal sees South Korea into World Cup knockouts

By Andy Hunter at Education City Stadium

Wrights of Howth family members go to High Court over access to locked storage unit

By Aodhan O'Faolain

Ten hours of conversations between murder accused Gerard Hutch and Dowdall admissible in trial

By Alison O'Riordan

Europe

Diplomatic end to Ukraine war urged but Moscow suggests West must accept occupation

By Daniel McLaughlin

Middle East

Israel’s Netanyahu signs deal with far-right religious party to form government

By Mark Weiss

Climate Crisis

Little hope of action to cut cost of public electric car charging

By Tim O'Brien

Are we worrying too much about corporation tax receipts?

By Cantillon

Buyers swoop on shopping centres in Drogheda and Cork

By Ronald Quinlan

Ireland’s ageing population: ‘We should be anticipating potential problems and intervening’

By Paul Cullen

Graham Dwyer appeal: Still ‘overwhelming’ evidence to preserve murder conviction, court told

By Paul Neilan

InfoWars website founder Alex Jones files for bankruptcy

By Steff Chávez in Chicago

Luis Suárez left in tears as Uruguay beat Ghana but are knocked out of World Cup

By Gavin Cummiskey

Racing

Facile Vega gets jumping career off to a start at Fairyhouse

By Brian O'Connor

Racing

Honeysuckle aiming to extend unbeaten record with fourth Hatton’s Grace victory

By Brian O'Connor

Kevin Kilbane: Not to blow my own trumpet, but I did a comprehensive man-marking job on Messi

By Kevin Kilbane

Leinster can continue their unbeaten start as pacesetters face off at RDS

By John O'Sullivan

An Irish Diary

Origin Unknown – Frank McNally on the pitfalls of asking people where they are ‘from’

By Frank McNally

Boxing

Chisora v Fury: a depressing fight that says much about the abject state of boxing

By Donald McRae

Ireland wing Mack Hansen returns to Connacht team determined to kick on

By John O'Sullivan

Education

Adult education tutors protest in long-running dispute over public service contract

By Emmet Malone

Dublin

East Wall protesters block traffic again, with organiser promising wider disruptions

By Conor Gallagher

Renewed worries over US rate rises dampen markets

By Mark Paul

Qatar looking to use World Cup as springboard for 2036 Olympics bid

By Sean Ingle

Golf

Tom McKibbin and Gary Hurley in the top 20 at South African Open

Use independent investigations not probes by sporting bodies to protect athletes, judge says

By Mary Carolan

Crime & Law

Gardaí investigating Monaghan deaths probe murder victim’s past sexual offences

By Conor Lally

Eddie Jones to learn England fate next week after RFU review

By Duncan Bech, PA England Rugby Correspondent

KBC Ireland starts closing current accounts as BoI deal gets final nod

By Joe Brennan

TV View: When you end up nearly feeling sorry for Luis Suárez, this is no ordinary World Cup

By Mary Hannigan

Switzerland go through and Serbia go home after five-goal World Cup thriller

By Nick Ames at Stadium 974

Editorials

The Irish Times view on the Sean Quinn programmes

Dublin

Lord Mayor stands by decision to move live crib as Mansion House lights up for Christmas

By Conor Pope

Editorials

The Irish Times view on the North and South project

Aboubakar stuns Brazil with Cameroon winner but sent off for celebration

By Jamie Jackson at Lusail Stadium

French film star secures court judgment against several entities he claims defrauded him out of millions

By Aodhan O’Faolain

High Court judges divided about consent orders in personal injuries settlements

URC: Munster win on the road with inspired bonus point win over Edinburgh

By Alan Lorimer

Politics

Everything on the table ahead of Border poll, Mary Lou McDonald tells Late Late Show

By Conor Pope