First day of school: ‘They are all so happy’Most new junior infants at St Olaf’s in south Dublin see school as part of an adventureWed Aug 30 2017 - 16:15
Bye bye, Bang Bang: a great Dublin eccentric gets his duePlaque erected to Thomas Dudley, a playful son of the city who always stuck to his gunsMon Aug 28 2017 - 19:52
Ukulele: The ‘child’s toy’ that conquered the musical worldIreland’s annual ukulele festival demonstrates the instrument’s phenomenal appealFri Aug 25 2017 - 16:53
Mrs Brown’s Boys ‘was getting like the civil service’Actor Rory Cowan is happy with his decision to quit hugely successful comedy showThu Aug 24 2017 - 20:18
Dublin city manager praises exposé of Liffey Boardwalk problemsOwen Keegan said he witnessed drug taking around the council offices in Wood QuayWed Aug 23 2017 - 19:47
Boost for women’s sports as camogie and women’s football finals deemed free-to-airGames join Olympics and World Cup as deemed to be ‘of major importance to society’Wed Aug 23 2017 - 17:56
Calls to remove only Confederate memorial on Irish soilMan arrested for attempted bomb attack on statue to Tuam-born Richard Dowling in USWed Aug 23 2017 - 15:44
Divers rescued after failing to surface off Dublin coastTwo men were swept away from their dive boat by strong tides at Dalkey IslandSun Aug 20 2017 - 22:00
Hurricane Gert aftermath pushes heavy rainfall across IrelandMet Éireann issues weather alert for 19 counties and warns of flooding riskSun Aug 20 2017 - 20:43
Five Roses: Where are they now?‘I know the Rose of Tralee drives the Irish crazy. But it is nice to be part of something bigger’Sun Aug 20 2017 - 16:00
New memorial for Irish killed in Battle of PasschendaeleMonument placed where nationalists and unionists together in Belgium 100 years agoSat Aug 19 2017 - 13:07
Death of Irishman in Birmingham treated as murderPhillip Leonard (34) died two weeks after an assault in the city centreFri Aug 18 2017 - 20:20
Gardaí issue appeal for Offaly teenager missing from homeCraig Boylan (16) last seen in his native village on TuesdayFri Aug 18 2017 - 15:15
Ronan McGreevy: An Irishman’s Diary on Fr Willie Doyle, who died in the trenches‘Even in this secular age, there is much wisdom, love and humility in his teachings’Fri Aug 18 2017 - 10:46
Hurricane Gert on its way as rainfall warning issued for westRain and heavy winds expected to add to an already exceptionally wet monthThu Aug 17 2017 - 12:45
Profoundly deaf Irishman swims English ChannelWesley Nolan swam for 16 hours to raise funds for Irish Deaf SocietyMon Aug 14 2017 - 21:56
Lorenzo the Magnificent lures RDS crowd away from main eventFlamboyant Frenchman commands 12 horses in mesmerising displayFri Aug 11 2017 - 20:19
Venezuela crisis: Pro- and anti-Maduro protesters in Dublin face-offWorkers’ Party hosts protest outside US embassy, Venezuelans rally opposite themFri Aug 11 2017 - 16:14
Nearly 1,000 cancers detected by BreastCheck in one yearHead of national screening programme says it is saving lives as 146,000 women screenedWed Aug 09 2017 - 20:24
Expatriates criticise Irish support for Venezuelan referendumInternational observers should visit country and ‘see human rights being violated’Wed Aug 09 2017 - 20:15
Irish diplomat ‘sold Nazis wine’ during second World WarHermann Göring listed as first of Count Gerald O’Kelly’s ‘many German clients’Sat Aug 05 2017 - 20:29
Luas Cross City works cause long delays on Dublin quaysDiversion around south-quay closure at O’Connell Bridge. North-south traffic flowingSat Aug 05 2017 - 17:02
Galway Races after dark: no city for old men and womenDoes race week really live up to its billing as ‘rag week for adults’?Sat Aug 05 2017 - 10:14
Galway girl triumphs at best dressed lady competitionAoife McCana wearing Ghost was the unanimous choice of the judges at Galway RacesThu Aug 03 2017 - 21:01
75 years a-going: Joe Fagan (91) still comes to the Galway Races for the ‘craic at night’Dedicated punter has attended the races at Ballybrit every year since 1942Wed Aug 02 2017 - 19:56
Music fans warned over ticketing sites after Brian Wilson scamPunter paid almost €1,000 for two tickets that did not exist for ‘Pet Sounds’ gigTue Aug 01 2017 - 16:40
Passchendaele dead remembered 100 years after start of horror battleFrancis Ledwidge commemorated in day to mark battle that cost 500,000 casualtiesMon Jul 31 2017 - 21:48
A tribute to ‘peasant poet’ Francis Ledwidge, by Lord DunsanyLedwidge’s patron penned a moving tribute to him in ‘The Irish Times’ after his deathMon Jul 31 2017 - 15:54
Francis Ledwidge has ‘peculiarly contemporary relevance’ in IrelandTrinity academic calls for greater understanding of poet killed in first World WarSun Jul 30 2017 - 21:20
Want a ticket to Electric Picnic? Help find this stolen houseWell-loved art installation Granny’s House stolen from festival site at StradballySat Jul 29 2017 - 20:50
Hundreds turn out to remember those who died while serving the StateCrew of Rescue 116 and 86 Irish soldiers among those remembered at Merrion SquareSat Jul 29 2017 - 15:02
Motorists driving through Dublin face huge disruption from Friday nightSouth quays will be closed to traffic for a week for road reconstructionFri Jul 28 2017 - 19:03
Cathal Mac Coille retires from Morning Ireland after 16 yearsFellow RTÉ presenter Rachael English praises Mac Coille’s ‘decency and kindness’Fri Jul 28 2017 - 14:59
Bertie Ahern: Dublin and London have wasted 12 monthsFormer taoiseach says Governments need to agree common border stanceFri Jul 28 2017 - 14:37
New stamp marks centenary of the death of Francis LedwidgeSlane-born poet and soldier was killed on the first day of the Battle of PasschendaeleFri Jul 28 2017 - 09:33
Uber banned from operating private car rides in Ireland‘Undesirable’ Limerick pilot programme is rejected by National Transport AuthorityFri Jul 28 2017 - 09:33
After a century, world-class astronomy returns to Birr CastleNew radio telescope will be able to detect the faintest signals from the universeThu Jul 27 2017 - 21:18
Kildare farmer captures mini-tornado on videoMichael Heffernan witnessed stunning images of hay being thrown aroundThu Jul 27 2017 - 14:44
Telegraph recovered from ‘Lusitania’ off coast of CorkMachine one of the most valuable finds from first World War’s most famous wreckWed Jul 26 2017 - 19:08
Ahern says verdict of history on him will ‘depend on who writes it’Centenary of Irish Convention conference addressed by two former taoisighWed Jul 26 2017 - 18:30
The Irishman who watched the atomic bomb drop on Nagasaki and survivedRAF medical centre in Suffolk to be named after Cork native Dr Aidan MacCarthyMon Jul 17 2017 - 01:00
Tragedy of Thomas MacDonagh’s family left orphaned after RisingThe children of the Easter Rising leader paid dearly for the price of Irish freedomSun Jul 09 2017 - 10:29
Why did Citizens’ Assembly take liberal view on abortion?For the first time, members of the assembly talk publicly about the processFri Jun 30 2017 - 01:00
Citizens’ Assembly members warn politicians over ‘delaying tactic’Members who voted in favour of more liberal abortion regime want issue put to a voteThu Jun 29 2017 - 13:14
Terry Wogan 'father of Ronaldo' sculpture joins host of questionable effigies‘Father of Ronaldo’ mocked but so too was tourist magnet Molly Malone statueTue Jun 27 2017 - 01:00
‘Forgotten Irish’ who built post-war Britain to be rememberedPlaque at London Irish Centre to recall a generation who left Ireland in the 1950sMon Jun 26 2017 - 10:16
Poet Francis Ledwidge commemorated by people of SlaneBritish soldier died on July 31st, 1917, the first day of the Battle of PasschendaeleSun Jun 25 2017 - 13:09
Revealed: the face of an unknown Dubliner who died 500 years agoPerfectly preserved skull allowed for rare facial reconstruction of medieval manFri Jun 23 2017 - 20:01
Drama centre at NUIG is Ireland’s favourite new buildingOne-time flax mill and munitions factory is public choice in Irish Architecture AwardsFri Jun 23 2017 - 17:05
Abbey Theatre to stage premiere outside Dublin for the first timeAdaptation of Ken Loach film Jimmy’s Hall to be debuted in Leitrim where it is setThu Jun 22 2017 - 19:50
