Louth profile: Battle royal looms in the Wee CountyFine Gael facing ‘internecine battle’ as Sinn Féin poised to make gainsThu May 22 2014 - 09:30
An Irishman’s Diary on why printed newspapers are hard to beatRead all about it!Mon May 19 2014 - 01:01
Yes, I said yes... Ulysses is a British novelTelegraph top 20 British novels features five Irish authorsTue Apr 15 2014 - 17:12
Building running stamina bit by bitIt’s easy to find excuses not to go running: putting the gear on and getting out the door is the hardest partTue Feb 04 2014 - 01:00
We write it, you read it: the pick of irishtimes.comCrime, sport, sex and animals reach the top, but talking-point stories have staying powerSat Dec 28 2013 - 09:16
Horse dies after being set alight in DublinDSPCA says ‘depraved’ incident is worst ever seenThu Nov 28 2013 - 17:12
Video: Let there be light... Norwegian town finally feels sun’s heatGiant mirrors erected to send sunlight to town during long, dark winterWed Oct 23 2013 - 11:17
‘Tiny Dancer’ Lily-Mae in remission, say thrilled parentsClaregalway girl (5) diagnosed with rare children’s cancer last yearFri Oct 18 2013 - 13:36
Former Irish Times journalist Seán Mac Connell diesJournalist had career spanning 45 yearsWed Sept 04 2013 - 11:05
Thousands of social welfare payments delayedDepartment says ‘processing issue’ has caused one-day delayTue Jul 16 2013 - 12:48
Political effin’ and blindin’: a short historyNorris has used ‘f-word’ in the Seanad previouslyTue Jul 16 2013 - 11:35
Time to bypass parish pumpREARVIEW: THERE IS A set of pedestrian traffic lights on a regional road in east Co DonegalWed Sept 28 2011 - 01:00
Close the loophole in speed casesREARVIEW: SO I GOT caught speeding again – the second time in a yearWed Sept 14 2011 - 01:00
Ensuring insurers use our data correctlyREARVIEW: REPORTS THAT insurance companies are in discussions with the Department of Transport in an effort to gain access to…Wed Aug 31 2011 - 01:00
Buses a matter of timeREARVIEW: THIS WEEK I tried to put a family member on a bus from Letterkenny, Co Donegal, to DublinWed Aug 17 2011 - 01:00
Smoking ban is for the kidsREARVIEW : IT USED to be one of my great pleasures in life when I smoked; cruising around, radio on, cigarette in handWed Aug 03 2011 - 01:00
A lesson in school transportREARVIEW: ON AN ALMOST daily basis, another Government minister is out saying something like “the country is broke, we have …Wed Jul 13 2011 - 01:00
Disability matters, so clamp space wastersREARVIEW: I’M NOT A fan of clamping, far from itWed Jun 15 2011 - 01:00
Who will take action on NCT-taxi corruption?REARVIEW: If taxi drivers want to regain the respect of their customers they need to root out the bad eggs themselvesWed May 18 2011 - 01:00
Time for a U-turn on new NCT rulesREAR VIEW: THE NATIONAL CAR Test is a bit like going to IkeaWed May 04 2011 - 01:00
When there's no such thing as a new carREARVIEW: I FIRST LEARNED to drive in my mother’s Renault 4 in the early 1990sWed Apr 20 2011 - 01:00
The time for car pooling is hereREARVIEW: I FILLED THE car from empty at the weekend and managed to get almost €100 worth of fuel into the tankWed Mar 30 2011 - 01:00
Another missed opportunity on State carsREARVIEW: CALL ME an old cynic but this new regime for ministerial use of State-provided cars holds about as much water as a…Wed Mar 23 2011 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryIT is 100 years this month since New York’s Triangle Shirtwaist fire, in which 146 souls, most of them girls and young women, …Tue Mar 08 2011 - 00:00
Winners must keep us movingREARVIEW: IT IS A LITTLE puzzling that issues concerning motorists have not come to the fore in the general election campaign…Wed Feb 23 2011 - 00:00
Shifting Gear in last-gasp effortREARVIEW: I REMEMBER watching Top Gear when I was a kid in the 1980sWed Feb 09 2011 - 00:00
The rank injustice of assessing taxis by ageREARVIEW: TAKING A TAXI in most European countries is a simple processWed Jan 12 2011 - 00:00
A need to review drivingREARVIEW: A STAGGERING 83 per cent of people had difficulty interpreting the meaning of signs conveying information like speed…Wed Dec 22 2010 - 00:00
Something to be said for MinisterREARVIEW: There’s a lot of negativity out thereWed Dec 08 2010 - 00:00
Funds must be diverted from vanity projects to road safetyREARVIEW: During the last recession road deaths soared in IrelandWed Nov 24 2010 - 00:00
Little cars won't save us moneyREARVIEW: If Brian Cowen turned up for a meeting with Olli Rehn, the European commissioner for economic and monetary affairs…Wed Nov 10 2010 - 00:00
'Taking care' won't stop road deathsREARVIEW: So the familiar and grim pattern of bank holiday road death announcements has played out on news bulletins, websites…Wed Oct 27 2010 - 01:00
Let's stop no car dayREARVIEW: SO CAR free day, or In Town Without My Car Day as it is now called, has yet again come and goneWed Sept 29 2010 - 01:00
Out of servicesREARVIEW: LAST FRIDAY, Minister for Transport Noel Dempsey opened the brand new M9 motorway, which links Dublin and Waterford…Wed Sept 15 2010 - 01:00
Collision courseREARVIEW: WE HAVE BEEN discussing the problem of young people dying on the roads for well over a decadeWed Sept 01 2010 - 01:00
Time to clamp down on the lawless world of cyclistsREARVIEW : WHEN IT comes to the enforcement of traffic laws, car drivers receive the majority of Garda attention.Wed Aug 18 2010 - 01:00
Is there a city bias? YesREARVIEW: The Government’s recent plans to save billions by prioritising certain infrastructure projects, has led to accusations…Wed Aug 04 2010 - 01:00
Drive to electrify public on electricsREARVIEW: The electric car hasn’t grasped the imaginationWed Jul 07 2010 - 01:00
Students need to learn to driveREARVIEW: As you read this, thousands of Leaving Cert students are finishing their dreaded exams and have now been churned out…Wed Jun 23 2010 - 01:00
Bringing expenses up to dateREARVIEW: The latest instalment of the expenses scandal got us thinking about the whole issue of travel and subsistence allowance…Wed Jun 09 2010 - 01:00
Funding rural transportREARVIEW: LET’S BE clear, no industry is worth saving if it costs livesWed May 26 2010 - 01:00
Making sense of speed camerasREARVIEW: THE introduction of a network of 45 speed cameras operated by a private company later this year, must be accompanied…Wed Apr 28 2010 - 01:00
Park and ride will help us glideREARVIEW: LET’S HOPE Minister for Transport Noel Dempsey’s announcement of €14 million in funding for bus priority and park-…Wed Apr 14 2010 - 01:00
Scrap motor tax and tax fuelREARVIEW: NEARLY ONE-THIRD of all new cars registered in 2010 so far were categorised in Band A compared to just 10 per cent…Wed Mar 24 2010 - 00:00
Learn about the light-up codeREARVIEW: IRISH MOTORISTS and cyclists have a strange relationship with lighting up their vehicles on the roadsWed Mar 10 2010 - 00:00
Laws, or more common sense?REARVIEW: THE SUGGESTION that a law be introduced making it illegal to smoke in your car when you have children in the back …Wed Feb 24 2010 - 00:00
No limit to rigid views on speedREARVIEW: IN AFGHANISTAN, we're told, the Taliban would have kite flyers, music fans, female scholars, Christians and others…Wed Feb 10 2010 - 00:00
'Unbalanced' development highlightedThe "unbalanced" nature of Ireland’s economic development must be addressed despite the economic downturn, a report on the west…Wed Jul 08 2009 - 01:00
