The Irish Times

Refusal of redress to man over sexual abuse irrational, court told

State Claims Agency told man he was not entitled to apply for ex gratia payment

Mon Oct 18 2021 - 21:47

I remember when even listening to a Church of Ireland service on the radio was a sin for Catholics

A warm welcome from the Church of Ireland has helped me relish religious diversity in Britain

Mon Sept 27 2021 - 00:00

‘I realised the book had helped people and that has been part of the healing’

Iconic sports books revisited: John Leonard on his story Dub Sub Confidential

Mon Jan 18 2021 - 06:15

No grand conspiracy to protect those responsible for mother and baby homes

Without such confidentiality there would be no Ryan, Murphy, Cloyne or Magdalene reports

Thu Oct 29 2020 - 00:01

What is it in the Irish character that compels us to secrecy?

RTÉ’s Redress: Breaking the Silence was a brave and often unwatchable documentary

Wed Mar 04 2020 - 12:01

Former Christian Brother jailed for sexually assaulting boy (14)

Edward Bryan pleaded guilty to indecently assaulting boy at Cork’s North Monastery in 1981

Tue Feb 18 2020 - 20:49

Fintan O’Toole: Gay Byrne held the key to Ireland’s locked room of secrets

There is no other country in which light entertainment could lead into such dark territory

Tue Nov 05 2019 - 00:05

20 ‘inspirational’ teachers shortlisted for new national award

New initiative aims to recognise contribution of the teaching profession to society

Mon Sept 16 2019 - 18:55

Proposals for large co-living complex gets go ahead in Dun Laoghaire

Bartra Capital welcomes approval of plan which sees residents sharing communal living space

Tue Jul 30 2019 - 16:33

Former Christian Brother charged with assaulting schoolboy

Edward Bryan (65) remanded on bail over incident at Cork school in 1981

Mon Jul 29 2019 - 18:23

Former orphanage reinvented as co-living space – called The Orphanage

Historic Dún Laoghaire institution to offer ‘five-star’ rentals at €1,500 per month

Wed Jul 03 2019 - 08:23

‘Shocking, shocking:’ Justice Sean Ryan on the abuses of children uncovered in his report

Interview: On the 10th anniversary of the report’s publication, Ryan looks back

Mon May 20 2019 - 06:00

Gavin Duffy calls for Derry to Kerry rail, road, broadband corridor

Four presidential hopefuls make pitch for nomination to Kerry County Council

Mon Sept 03 2018 - 16:05

Inside the extraordinary meeting between Pope Francis and abuse survivors

‘It was robust’ – eight survivors of clerical abuse met the pope at papal nuncio’s home

Sat Sept 01 2018 - 04:00

We all know a Tom Humphries, even if we don’t know we do

Fintan O'Toole: It would be easier if the men who do these things were not men but beasts

Sat Oct 28 2017 - 05:30

Roddy Doyle: ‘The work I’ve done? If I wasn’t me, I’d be impressed’

The Dubliner on the savagery of school, how being famous is easy in Ireland, and getting older

Sat Aug 26 2017 - 06:15

Pope phones Argentinian who spoke of abuse by Irish priest

President of Argentina a past pupil of same Christian Brothers school

Wed Aug 16 2017 - 19:48

South Dublin principal feels ‘betrayed’ by land sale

Clonkeen College head calls for State to take over school amid row with Christian Brothers

Fri Jun 09 2017 - 01:00

Diarmaid Ferriter: Tuam scandal was due to a unique obsession

Ireland’s long moral panic led to extraordinary and dehumanising situations

Sat Mar 11 2017 - 05:00

The life-long prisoners of State-funded, church-run institutions

Many women were born in State homes then sent to industrial schools and laundries

Wed Mar 08 2017 - 01:00

Rooms with a view could be the future of school design

Inchicore NS renovation and extension brings nature close to the classroom

Tue Oct 04 2016 - 00:00

Matt Williams: Ireland’s green dynamos prove impossible is nothing

Defence won game but signs of more expansive attack is the real cause for optimism

Mon Jun 13 2016 - 08:03

Fintan O’Toole: We should not replace one form of forgetting with another

Commemorating Rising should not be at the cost of amnesia about the failure of its ideals

Tue Mar 29 2016 - 01:00

Cardinal Pell: Church made ‘enormous mistakes’ over abuse

Pell’s evidence showed a man remarkably incurious about suspicions raised with him

Mon Feb 29 2016 - 10:15

Gaelic Catholic nationalism and corporal punishment in 1966

‘I thought he had finally managed to wrench my ear from its socket’

Tue Dec 29 2015 - 01:00

Former Christian Brother jailed for abusing two boys in Cork school

Edward Bryan (62) pleaded guilty to indecently assaulting boys while he was a teacher

Tue Jul 28 2015 - 15:45

President cites youth unemployment as Europe’s biggest challenge

Higgins says it would be ‘very wrong’ to marginalise young people

Thu Feb 05 2015 - 01:02

Stranger than fiction: when crime captures the imagination

Nicola White’s new novel ‘In the Rosary Garden’ was inspired by the Kerry Babies tribunal and the Ann Lovett case. We recommend some other real-life fiction from Ireland and abroad

Fri Apr 04 2014 - 01:00