BusinessGovernment uses bumper corporate tax receipts to pay for €1bn health overrunBy Eoin Burke-Kennedy
FilmScala!!!: This was my local cinema. It showed everything from the highest art house to the lowest exploitationBy Donald Clarke
TV & RadioMarty Morrissey’s flamboyant good cheer provides an unexpected highlight of the weekBy Mick Heaney
MusicJoseph Branciforte & Theo Bleckmann: LP2 – the aesthetic is minimalist, the music more multidimensionalBy Philip Watson
MusicMarika Hackman: No Caffeine is an early highlight and whatever her inspiration was, it worksBy Lauren Murphy
BooksThe Vast Extent by Lavinia Greenlaw: Essays exploring intersections between arts and sciencesBy Jessica Traynor
Asia-PacificAs bears return to China from zoos around the world, some ask if panda diplomacy era is overBy Denis Staunton
WorkThe union boss targeting Ireland’s tech sector: ‘It’s particularly hard work when Amazon won’t respond to a phone call’By Emmet Malone
Crime & LawFrontline gardaí to be equipped with overdose reversal drug as part of pilot projectBy Conor Gallagher
Housing & PlanningDublin industrial site set to be redeveloped for thousands of homes 3km from city centreBy Olivia Kelly
WorkSmall business: ‘It’s so easy for the hidden price increases just to hit you from nowhere’By Ellen O’Regan
MusicThe Line: Red Blood Cells & Righteousness – A disarmingly interesting, immersive albumBy Siobhán Kane
MusicSprints: Letter to Self – Confessional album deals with experiences of struggleBy Tony Clayton-Lea
RugbyOwen Doyle: We’ve seen the type of clearout on Jack O’Donoghue before - Ralston should have seen redBy Owen Doyle
EconomyDisastrous UK policies teach a valuable lesson on privatising essential servicesBy John FitzGerald
SoccerRotherham faithful travel to Fulham more in hope than anticipation for FA Cup tieBy Dominic Booth
OpinionDoes Jeffrey Donaldson have the political imagination to end the Stormont stalemate?By Diarmaid Ferriter
GolfRory McIlroy’s softened stance towards LIV the result of sportswashing at its finestBy Johnny Watterson
IrelandDefence officials recommended scrapping LÉ Eithne to avoid repeat of ‘LÉ Aisling situation’ involving warlordBy Jack Horgan-Jones
Gaelic GamesCork looking to new generation to help bridge the gap to all-conquering LimerickBy Paul Keane
Business Today NewsletterHealth spending overruns, SME caution, and the CWU’s attempts to get Amazon on the phoneBy Úna McCaffrey
HealthStephen Donnelly interview: ‘No one could answer my questions about health service productivity when I came into this job’By Paul Cullen
USJeffrey Epstein’s associates: Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, Stephen Hawking feature in court papers
IrelandFriday’s Top Stories: Oscar Pistorius released from jail, Dublin industrial site set for thousands of homes
EnvironmentFalse teeth, vintage dolls and a bag of weed - just some of the items found on Irish beaches in 2023By Ronan McGreevy
CourtsBlanchardstown shooting: Man (18) charged with murder of Tristan Sherry on Christmas EveBy Conor Gallagher
FilmAmerica Ferrera: ‘There are lots of people who need Feminism 101, whole generations of girls’By Carlos Aguilar
MediaFintan O’Toole: Irish Times columnist wins US journalism award for ‘incisive’ political commentaryBy Mark Hilliard
BusinessClimate change is already impacting travel bookings in Europe, says agentBy Philip Georgiadis
Politics‘That’s history to me, I was born in 2005’: meet the young candidates seeking your vote this JuneBy Cormac McQuinn
CourtsMan (38) guilty of assault after ‘trying to throw airport security out of plane’ during ‘leg room’ rowBy Tom Tuite
Art‘Too many eyes do not wear out the art’: the philanthropist who brought Warhol to DublinBy Ellen O’Donoghue
Middle East‘It’s a daily struggle’: Half of residents in Gaza at risk of starving, UN warnsBy Liam Stack, Gaya Gupta and Abu Bakr Bashir
HealthOnly six a day on trolleys at Limerick ED, Donnelly says, in contrast with INMO numbersBy Mark Hilliard
Middle EastIsrael-Hizbullah hostilities: Region north and south of Lebanon border now a ghost townBy Euan Ward, Roni Rabin, Hwaida Saad and Michael Levenson
Ukraine WarRussia using North Korean missiles in Ukraine and seeking more from Iran, US saysBy Daniel McLaughlin
Crime & LawJason Hennessy snr: A promising boxer who stayed away from gangland crime until later in lifeBy Conor Gallagher
PoliticsUK government ‘overindulged’ DUP and must restore Stormont with or without them, says FarryBy Seanín Graham
CourtsMother ‘abandons’ baby by discharging herself from maternity hospital, court hearsBy Gordon Deegan
Media‘Maestro’ photographer Henry Wills who recorded life in west of Ireland dies aged 71By Tom Shiel
HealthFive flu deaths recorded over Christmas as virus levels hit a high for this winterBy Paul Cullen
Social AffairsHSE physiotherapist found to have committed professional misconduct over Covid-19 remarksBy Fiachra Gallagher
An Irish DiaryBring back gallivanting. Few were quite as good at it as Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton By Alison Healy
Middle EastHumanitarian crisis in southern Gaza city of Rafah worsening, say PalestiniansBy Mark Weiss
Social AffairsHomeless figures hit new record with more than 4,000 children in emergency accommodationBy Shauna Bowers and Jack Horgan-Jones
SoccerAir of nervousness permeates Newcastle as the team heads to Sunderland for northeast derbyBy Louise Taylor
EuropeDutch researchers say persistent fatigue in patients with ‘long Covid’ has identifiable biological causeBy Peter Cluskey
IrelandMan and two women killed in three separate crashes around IrelandBy Mark Hilliard, Anne Lucey and Conor Pope
USBiden accuses Trump of sacrificing democracy for power in first re-election campaign event of 2024By James Politi in Washington