Councillor’s home attacked and €7,000 damage caused to vanKilkenny councillor Eugene McGuinness says intimidation of politicians putting ‘democracy on the line’Fri Jan 20 2023 - 14:43
Dublin councillors endorse hotel tax on all bednights in the city1 per cent tax would bring in a minimum of €12 million a yearThu Jan 19 2023 - 21:02
Priest and genealogist to attend burial of Irishman who died alone in EnglandBirmingham council issued appeal after death of John Joseph Gill (86) when no relative came forwardThu Jan 19 2023 - 18:23
TradFest 2023 to showcase young Irish talent in ‘a celebration of who we are’ New wave of musicians joined by legend Judy Collins and actor Stephen Rea in first big music festival of the yearThu Jan 19 2023 - 18:20
Irish man drowns trying to rescue daughter on Australia’s Gold Coast Irish consulate in New South Wales has been informed of drowningThu Jan 19 2023 - 11:40
Blind Irish Paralympian refused entry to restaurant with guide dogMartin Gordon said he was humiliated in front of his daughter by ‘house policy’Wed Jan 18 2023 - 18:26
Fatal genetic condition added to list of conditions now tested in newborn babies using heel prick methodLate diagnosis of severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) can lead to the premature death of childrenWed Jan 18 2023 - 13:59
Prince Harry autobiography Spare becomes Ireland’s fastest-selling non-fiction bookSpare sold more than 20,000 copies in its first week, beating the record previously held by Paul O’ConnellTue Jan 17 2023 - 16:29
Lifeboat rescues man who fell from cliff in Co CorkCrosshaven RNLI tasked with evacuating man who suffered serious leg injuryMon Jan 16 2023 - 13:13
Festival to honour the 1,500th anniversary of St Brigid ahead of new public holidayNew holiday takes place on first Monday after February 1st feast day and falls this year on February 6thMon Jan 16 2023 - 08:58
Ireland’s top hotels sell furniture and decor at auctionAntiques dealer Niall Mullen walks through the contents of an upcoming sale of the contents of several 5-star hotels.Sat Jan 14 2023 - 16:46
Trolley crisis: Waterford hospital ‘shows solution in plain sight’Hospital has avoided patients on trolleys by purchasing more bed capacity locally, says Dr Rob LandersSat Jan 14 2023 - 15:09
Thousands of items from some of Ireland’s top hotels to go on sale at auctionContents of five hotels, a pub and a nightclub will be sold on TuesdayFri Jan 13 2023 - 19:54
Irish book sales enjoy another record year with Colleen Hoover the queen of the Irish marketPrint book sales reached almost €170 million in 2022, the eighth successive year of growthFri Jan 13 2023 - 13:00
No surge in reported Covid-19 numbers provides boost to hospitals as trolley numbers decreaseThough figures are under-reported, cases are not translating into hospital admissions in the same way as previouslyFri Jan 13 2023 - 12:08
Freezing weekend in store following windy spellTemperatures to fall to minus 4 overnight on Sunday and Monday nightFri Jan 13 2023 - 08:35
Iranians in Ireland concerned over fate of jailed Tipperary manDemonstration outside Leinster House in support of Bernard Phelan (64), who was arrested in Iran in October but never chargedThu Jan 12 2023 - 18:22
Prince Harry’s Spare sells 10,000 copies in Ireland on its first dayTell-all memoir on course to have the highest first week sales of any non-fiction title in Ireland over the last two decadesThu Jan 12 2023 - 18:08
‘I always thought I’d live’ - poet Kevin Higgins writes final poem just days before he diesMr Higgins (56) was diagnosed with leukemia last summer and faced his death with trademark humourThu Jan 12 2023 - 17:26
Allegations of neglect against Dublin Zoo found to be untrue Report finds no substance to almost every complaint made by anonymous whistleblowerThu Jan 12 2023 - 05:00
James Webb telescope finds its first exoplanet, raising hopes it will discover life elsewhere in universeRocky planet is similar in size to Earth and may have an atmosphere, but is likely to be as hot as VenusWed Jan 11 2023 - 20:43
Skeleton of ‘Irish Giant’ to be removed from display at London museumHunterian Museum says manner in which Charles Byrne’s body was acquired was unethical and against his wishesWed Jan 11 2023 - 19:48
Micheál Martin did not have to apologise for Civil War executions, but Leo Varadkar shouldFine Gael needs to acknowledge that its political predecessor, Cumann na nGaedheal, left the darkest of legacies with its policy of executionsWed Jan 11 2023 - 05:00
John Lydon, former Sex Pistols frontman, to compete to represent Ireland in EurovisionSinger, whose parents came from Cork and Galway, goes up against five other acts hoping to perform in LiverpoolMon Jan 09 2023 - 17:05
Warning issued as heavy rain expected to hit Munster and Galway on TuesdayMet Éireann says heavy rain is expected in many places with the possibility of spot floodingMon Jan 09 2023 - 11:20
Ukrainians around Ireland gather to celebrate Eastern Orthodox ChristmasRussian invasion prompted some Ukrainians to celebrate Christmas on December 25th instead of the traditional date of January 7thSat Jan 07 2023 - 13:45
What is driving the ‘perfect storm’ of respiratory illnesses around the world?Lack of exposure to non-Covid viruses has seen a rebound in infection, says consultantFri Jan 06 2023 - 09:42
Sabina Higgins: Women have defeated the forces of ‘oppression and repression’ in IrelandPresident’s wife sends video message to mark 50 years of National Women’s CouncilFri Jan 06 2023 - 00:01
Mammoth production featuring 45 actors to bring Anglo-Irish Treaty to lifeRTÉ to stage six-hour reconstruction of the debates held in the lead-up to the Civil War a century agoThu Jan 05 2023 - 19:10
Shock as outstanding young GAA player is killed in a car crashColm Murray (20) died in a single vehicle collision on Monday night in Co WestmeathWed Jan 04 2023 - 16:10
BBC documentary’s Irish Famine ‘extermination’ claim ‘astonishingly irresponsible’, historians argueHistory Reclaimed, a group of so-called ‘anti-woke scholars’, has criticised an episode of Digging for Britain that focused on famine relief worksWed Jan 04 2023 - 13:18
Cold December the exception in record-breaking warm yearWarmest temperatures in Ireland for months of July and August recorded last yearWed Jan 04 2023 - 12:46
Keep children with respiratory symptoms home from school, CMO tells parentsSchools reopen on Thursday as health service comes under severe strain from flu and Covid-19Wed Jan 04 2023 - 11:10
Gardaí attend scene of a number of suspected stabbings at Hotel KillarneyFour injured males taken to hospital for treatment as two men arrested for questioningSun Jan 01 2023 - 22:32
Road deaths rose 13% last year following record low in 2021, figures showTotal of 155 fatalities in 2022 with number of pedestrian deaths almost doubling to 41Sun Jan 01 2023 - 18:16
Ireland’s first babies of 2023 welcomed minutes after midnightOne of the first newborns of new year, a boy named Harry, was born at 12.03am at the National Maternity Hospital, DublinSun Jan 01 2023 - 16:32
Ireland, Éire or the Republic? Official files show debate over name of the StateConstitution gives the name of the State as Éire or in the English language, IrelandSat Dec 31 2022 - 01:01
Crowds to return to Dublin for first New Year’s Eve festival since Covid-1940,000 people are expected to see Westlife, Gavin James and LyraFri Dec 30 2022 - 17:20
Family of Irishman who died in Birmingham last month foundJohn Joseph Gill (86) had no contact with any surviving relatives for 50 yearsFri Dec 30 2022 - 16:31
Ireland on course for record warmest year in 2022 Climate change is already apparent in consistently warmer temperatures, says Met ÉireannFri Dec 30 2022 - 13:17
Spiritual Wounds: A riposte to the idea that, after the Irish Civil War, nobody wanted to talk about itSíobhra Aiken’s Spiritual Wounds: Trauma, Testimony and the Irish Civil War draws on historical narrative, psychoanalysis and psychologyFri Dec 30 2022 - 04:55
‘What happens in the bedroom is not for regulation’: Top civil servant’s advice on 1992 condom billLegislation raised issue of ‘Church/State domination’ at sensitive time in Northern talks, Dermot Nally told taoiseachFri Dec 30 2022 - 00:05
Gordon Wilson snubbed by Paisley over Catholic church attendance to remember massacreWilson’s call for no loyalist reprisals following Enniskillen bomb atrocity made world headlines, and he was later appointed to the SeanadThu Dec 29 2022 - 00:25
Sinn Féin complained of ‘excessive’ policing after Garda Jerry McCabe killingParty’s vice-president Pat Doherty accused gardaí of harassing supporters while IRA was on ceasefireThu Dec 29 2022 - 00:01
Prince Andrew predicted the rise of Sinn Féin... and eight other curious tales from the State papersAn RTÉ camera crew who told Americans to “f*** off” and a British submarine that towed an Irish trawler backwards feature in this year’s releaseWed Dec 28 2022 - 05:15
Tension between Mary Robinson and government over role of presidencyThen president’s analysis of war in Somalia described as ‘somewhat emotional’ and ‘full of value judgements’Wed Dec 28 2022 - 00:01
Irish man dies after falling from train in ThailandPatrick Ward (45) fell down a slope during visit to ‘death railway’Tue Dec 27 2022 - 21:20
Appeal to trace relatives of Irishman who died in Birmingham last monthRemains of of John Joseph Gill (86), originally from Co Roscommon, have yet to be claimedTue Dec 27 2022 - 17:18
Thousands return post-Covid to Leopardstown for St Stephen’s Day festivalRace meeting was suddenly closed to the public last year because of escalating Covid-19 numbersMon Dec 26 2022 - 18:49
Sun lights up Newgrange burial chamber on winter solsticeThe sun has illuminated the burial chamber at Newgrange in the first public winter solstice since the end of the Covid-19 pandemic.Wed Dec 21 2022 - 17:49
