BooksSophie: The Final Verdict – compelling collection of circumstantial evidence about Toscan du Plantier murder By Ray Burke
Advertising FeatureCan Budget 2025 advance eco-ambitions, simplify taxes and satisfy voter demands?By Daryl Hanberry
MusicThe Music Quiz: Which band’s orchestral ballad was rejected as the title track for the Bond movie Spectre?By Tony Clayton-Lea
FilmThe Substance: Demi Moore’s spectacularly disgusting body horror is a two-finger rebuke to the beauty industryBy Donald Clarke
MusicJamie xx on new album In Waves: ‘It has definitely ended up sounding more like one of my DJ sets’By Shilpa Ganatra
BooksJacqueline Wilson: ‘I wanted to show even for women whose marriage breaks up in middle age that, actually, it’s not over’By Jessica Doyle
Your WellnessJohn Brennan on dyslexia: ‘Society views people on how they’re doing in school’By Jen Hogan
Commercial PropertyLandmark Dublin 4 office block returns to the market at heavily discounted €2.15mBy Ronald Quinlan
Commercial PropertyRestrictive rent control must be relaxed to bring in funding for new homes By Colin Richardson
Commercial PropertySubstantial stud farm in the heart of the Curragh up for auction at €4.7mBy Ronald Quinlan
Commercial PropertyDublin 8 apartment portfolio at €10.5m offers buyer 6.16% net initial yieldBy Ronald Quinlan
Commercial PropertyWell-known solicitor pays more than €2.85m for Johnny Ronan’s Fitzwilliam Square Georgian building By Ronald Quinlan
Commercial PropertyIrish and UK investors in €49.5m deal for Cork’s Blackpool Shopping Centre By Ronald Quinlan
Crime & LawGardaí anticipate more Irish drugs gang arrests after encrypted messaging platform infiltratedBy Conor Lally
RugbyGraham Rowntree dismisses ‘innuendos’ about Munster captaincy after confirming Tadhg Beirne’s appointmentBy Gerry Thornley
SportWith less experience but plenty of X-factor, Connacht should be fun to watch this seasonBy Gerry Thornley
Budget 2025Opens in new windowEnergy credits and welfare lump-sums would be part of €1.5bn cost-of-living budget packageBy Jennifer Bray, Jack Horgan-Jones and Cormac McQuinn
PoliticsPoliticians speculating on November election ‘doing serious damage’, says Ceann ComhairleBy Cormac McQuinn
PeopleThe counsellor told me I needed to have more fun, but that takes talent, and I worry I’m a wet lettuceBy Céire Sadlier
Commercial PropertyFrench investor snaps up Johnny Ronan’s office investment for €11m By Ronald Quinlan
EducationIrish principals condemn ‘vacuous’ OECD review which missed ‘severe deprivation’ in some schoolsBy Emmet Malone
BusinessMeasures to improve working conditions leading to crisis in food sector, report findsBy Colin Gleeson
WorkYour work questions answered: ‘I’m getting bombarded with out-of-hours requests. Can I expect retribution if I quietly quit?’By Jack White
HealthHSE awarded €500m worth of tenders to external companies in past eight years, figures showBy Harry McGee
Ireland‘My IP address reads as being in Croydon’: Sky customers blocked from RTÉ and other Irish channelsBy Conor Pope
ResidentialLook inside: South-facing Crampton-built home in Ballsbridge for €4.25mBy Elizabeth Birdthistle
HealthIncreasing health budget every year not sustainable, Robert Watt to tell Oireachtas committeeBy Martin Wall
Top Stories of 2024‘I’m trying to build a social life, but how can I when my parents call to see me all the time?’By Trish Murphy
Crime & LawHuman trafficking: 53 victims identified in Ireland in 2023, with ‘stark increase’ in female victimsBy Jack White
Business Today NewsletterCentral Bank's fresh housing warning, BT Ireland on the block and where it all went wrong for Press UpBy Peter Flanagan
Middle EastHow did hundreds of pagers suddenly explode? Experts point to two types of attackBy Mehul Srivastava
IrelandYour top stories on Wednesday: Ireland ‘needs 52,000 new homes’ a year; nine killed, thousands hurt as Hizbullah pagers explode
Inside Politics NewsletterDáil returns but maybe not for long as evidence points to November electionBy Harry McGee
USFirst picture of wreckage of Titan sub after implosion revealed at public hearing By Gloria Oladipo
MusicRóisín El Cherif: An intimate, moving evening from a formidable voice for Palestine in IrelandBy Cian O'Connell
BusinessEmployers who force staff back to office are dinosaurs, says expert who coined ‘presenteeism’
HealthHealth service must move away from traditional Monday-Friday model, says HSE chief By Martin Wall
Crime & LawDrugs worth €16m seized and 11 arrested as gardaí expand major gangland operationBy Conor Lally
EducationTwo new veterinary colleges to almost double number of such graduates each yearBy Carl O'Brien
PoliticsLeinster House barricades, road closures, restricted-access as Dáil starts new termBy Conor Pope
DublinRedevelopment of historic Dublin site from O’Connell Street to Moore Street finally approvedBy Olivia Kelly
PoliticsFree contraception for 16-year-olds amounts to State giving licence for underage sex, says Aontú's Tóibín By Cormac McQuinn
BusinessPress Up takeover: London-based lender formally takes control of hospitality groupBy Ciarán Hancock
IrelandDiscovery of woman’s body after ravine fall in remote west Cork a ‘miracle’, inquest hearsBy Olivia Kelleher
SoccerTotò Schillaci’s joy was infectious and he was loved in Ireland, despite that goalBy Mary Hannigan
Middle EastBeirut pager detonations the latest instalment in how war is waged By Hannah McCarthy in Beirut
EconomyPricing pressures in Irish economy now on par with Celtic Tiger era, fiscal council warns By Eoin Burke-Kennedy and Ian Curran
OpinionBarry Andrews: Ignore the negativity. Michael McGrath’s new job is a win for IrelandBy Barry Andrews
PoliticsPension tax relief rises to cover pots of up to €2.8m by 2029 under Cabinet plansBy Jack Horgan-Jones and Cormac McQuinn
OireachtasWho’s using the Leinster House bike shed? Five things to look out for in the new Dáil termBy Harry McGee
FilmSmall Things Like These: new trailer shows Cillian Murphy struggling with internal conflict in a darkened New RossBy Ella Sloane
EducationChildren’s exposure to harmful online content a ‘public health crisis’, says MinisterBy Carl O'Brien
EuropeHungary and Poland bolster river defences as flood’s death toll and damage riseBy Daniel McLaughlin
CourtsPart-time farmer pleads guilty over effort to burn furze on mountain to clear it for sheepBy Barry Roche
Middle EastLebanon explosions: Hizbullah faces huge dilemma over response to attacksBy Michael Jansen
HealthOmbudsman disappointed over delays in finding non-nursing home accommodation for under-65sBy Conor Pope
CourtsStudent charged with attempted abduction of boy from Dublin apartment building refused bailBy Tom Tuite
Middle EastWalkie-talkies explode across Lebanon, killing 14, in second wave of device detonationsBy Mark Weiss
Your FamilyParty is over for Tupperware as brand ubiquitous in Irish kitchens files for bankruptcyBy Conor Pope
An Irish DiaryBeetlemania – Frank McNally on Edgar Allan Poe, Cavan stereotypes and the storytelling insects of Fishamble Street By Frank McNally
IrelandMV Shingle sinking: Ship with infamous past to become exploration ‘magnet’ for scuba diversBy Tom Shiel
Farming & Food‘Everything is against you’: Farmers at National Ploughing Championship call for budget supportsBy Ellen O'Riordan
OireachtasApple taxes: ‘Dublin-Shannon bullet train’ among ideas TDs advance for €14bnBy Marie O'Halloran, Jack Horgan-Jones and Jack White
IrelandLimerick village mooted to host asylum seekers lacks services, says MinisterBy Ellen O'Riordan
OireachtasHundreds of mice used every day in Botox testing ‘suffer horribly’, TD claimsBy Marie O'Halloran
Social Affairs‘It gives us hope’: Cork mother and baby home survivors welcome rejection of apartments plan for siteBy Barry Roche
HealthNursing homes should enter market with ‘eyes open’, says HSE chief, ruling out blanket bailoutsBy Martin Wall
EducationMastering your digital footprint: how to build a professional online presenceBy Shauna Bowers
Big TechIreland’s tech regulators and gardaí to brief Ministers on improving online safetyBy Cormac McQuinn
EducationStudents perform best with regular homework tasks of up to 15 minutes, research showsBy Carl O'Brien
Gaelic GamesBrian Cody: ‘Of course I enjoyed being manager, but the game goes ahead and I can’t say I miss it’By Gordon Manning
Your WellnessI’ll never forget the day I was diagnosed with Parkinson’s. I’ll never forget that feeling of utter hopelessnessBy Gary Boyle
Advertising FeatureCognizant brings digital innovation to the forefront as it becomes Impact Ambassador for the Pharma Industry Awards for the third time
