Article Index

This is the Kardashians’ world – we’re just following it

By Jennifer Gannon

Fine Art & Antiques

Design Moment: Little Trees, 1952

By Bernice Harrison

Poetry reviews: Kevin Higgins, Paul Muldoon and David Wheatley

By John McAuliffe

Fine Art & Antiques

Auctions: First edition of ‘The Happy Prince’ by Oscar Wilde fetches more than €30, 000

By Michael Parsons

Walking Backwards by Charlie Hill

By Brian Maye

How to survive in the kitchen this Christmas

By Carmel Somers

Nine eye-catching ways to set that Christmas table

By Alanna Gallagher

In a Word . . . Snowflakes

By Patsy McGarry

Thinking Anew – Bringing good news to the oppressed

By Gordon Linney

EU leaders warn next phase of Brexit talks will be far tougher

By Pat Leahy

An Irish Diary

Tidings of Discomfort and Joy – An Irishman’s Diary about miserable-but-uplifting Christmas songs

By Frank McNally

Editorials

Political donations: Amnesty’s defiance

Editorials

Brexit: now comes the hard part

Martyn Turner

Obituaries

A considerate, patient and shrewd chief justice

GP visit cards for carers a ‘vote-buying exercise’, say doctors

By Martin Wall

Discipline key as Connacht seek back-to-back wins against Brive

By Linley MacKenzie

Is Paul Ryan about to distance himself from Trump?

By Suzanne Lynch

Humanist group reported to Sipo over €10,000 donation

By Jack Power

Environment

Luas delays and overcrowding to continue ‘until March’

By Olivia Kelly

‘The laughter lines I could handle, but this feels like my body’s ultimate betrayal’

By Sarah Breen

GPs critical of Simon Harris over GP cards for carers

By Lorna Siggins

Poverty Safari: Understanding the anger of Britain’s underclass by Darren McGarvey

By Rosita Sweetman

Irish act Dúlamán to battle it out in final of ‘Germany’s Got Talent’

By Éanna Ó Caollaí

Suzanne Lynch: Is Alabama the beginning of the end for Trumpism?

By Suzanne Lynch

Human rights campaigners defend donations from abroad

By Colm Keena

Nobody beats Leicester twice – and that may hold true

By Gerry Thornley

Looking for a bridge to downsize

The truth about man flu

We cannot stand by and watch people become homeless

Shining a spotlight on hospital consultants

Six Cabinet Ministers say they are in favour of abortion proposals

By Sarah Bardon and Fiach Kelly

Obituaries

Show-business publicist who lived, and perished, by the sword

Ireland’s 3,194 homeless children prepare for Christmas

By Kitty Holland

Giving and taking the freedom of Dublin

Time to break the silence of the confessional

Micheál Martin says his party is ‘within reach’ of government

By Fiach Kelly

Miriam Lord: Leo dreams of a lie-in as new Luas is launched

By Miriam Lord

Going to the Bordello or the Ball? This week’s pop and rock highlights

By Tony Clayton-Lea

Transport

Ryanair pressure grows as cabin crew unions seek recognition

By Barry O'Halloran

An Irish Diary

Church services

Transport

Strike may go ahead unless Ryanair meets pilots

By Barry O'Halloran

Transport

Strike threat pushes Ryanair into about-turn on union recognition

By Barry O'Halloran

Something to smile about: Roddy Doyle is still our favourite Irish author

By Martin Doyle

‘The Prodigy helped me put my family life back together’

By Niall Byrne

‘Cat Person’ short story about bad sex stirs up fiery debate

By Seamus O'Reilly

Breda O’Brien: No one ever asks when the foetus is due

By Breda O'Brien

Snapshots of Cork street life in all its 1960s glory

By Mary Leland

History

Going is hard at Baldoyle racetrack

By Arminta Wallace

Courts

PR man wishes he was ‘1,000 miles away’ from Denis O’Brien case

By Peter Murtagh

Pat Leahy: Varadkar delivers on his leadership promise

By Pat Leahy

‘Next time we see Queen Elizabeth she might have a knife’

By Patrick Freyne

Áine Cahill: the pop queen Ireland is waiting for

By Louise Bruton

Miriam O’Callaghan has her work cut out with Shane MacGowan

By Mick Heaney

Just one single, and the buzz is already building about Whenyoung

By Niall Byrne

Diarmaid Ferriter: Ireland should learn from 1921 treaty to avoid future problems with Brexit deal

By Diarmaid Ferriter

Listen up: great podcasts about a janitor and music-making

By Sarah Griffin

‘I’d rather kids made street art than hang around corners taking ketamine’

By Shilpa Ganatra

Africa

ANC deeply split as it meets to elect successor to Jacob Zuma

By Bill Corcoran

Business

Irish nursing home group acquired for estimated €33m

By Peter Hamilton

Tunnel vision: Sky’s Scandi series heads for its last series

By Peter Crawley

The Ticket results: The year’s best TV

By Peter Crawley

Film

Irish Times films-of-2017 reader poll distorted by online campaign

By Donald Clarke

Cliff Taylor: Latest growth figures shorten odds on 2018 election

By Cliff Taylor

The Middle East has a new kingpin: Vladimir Putin

By Ruadhán Mac Cormaic

Finish the year on a musical high with Loah

By Louise Bruton

Smashing the imaginative limits of museums

By Terence Killeen

All hail King Kendrick and Queen Annie, rulers of our musical world

By Louise Bruton

Fine Art & Antiques

Stolen, found – an Old Master nativity with a colourful past

By Michael Parsons

Art

Caravaggio was readers’ favourite exhibition of 2017

By Aidan Dunne

David McWilliams: Why Ireland's growing economy isn’t making you richer

By David McWilliams

Financial Services

AIB and KBC in focus as thousands more tracker cases identified

By Joe Brennan

Lies, damned lies and the national accounts headline figures

How Scientology is trying to insert itself into Irish schools

By Conor Gallagher

Ireland is guilty of its own grand Brexit delusion

Commercial Property

Carechoice buying Meath nursing home from rival Barchester UK

By Barry O'Halloran

Cycle of life with a difference in inner city Dublin

By Patrick Freyne

Staying safe in snowy mountains

By Roisin Finlay and Heather Snelgar

Environment

My dad went rat catching and caught what look like pygmy shrews

By Ethna Viney

The Saturday Poem: A Visit, by Gerald Dawe

By Gerald Dawe

Tour Belfast’s street art for a different view of the city

By Jo Linehan

The blight of the Border and Brexit’s toxic threat

By Anthony Quinn

Let’s bake: Cranberry and white chocolate muffins

By Vanessa Greenwood

Having three boys under six makes you completely rethink your interior goals

By Liz Dwyer

Environment

Beluga sturgeon and the secrets of your Christmas caviar

By Michael Viney

2017: A stellar year for new poetry

By John McAuliffe

‘Don’t forget to leave a very, very large gin and tonic out for, ahem, Rudolph!’

By Ross O'Carroll-Kelly

Sean Moncrieff: Why are so many Isis fighters engineers?

By Seán Moncrieff

Choose wisely: Top craft beer picks at Lidl and Aldi

By Sorcha Hamilton

Anne Enright: Making arguments about gender will eat your head

By Anne Enright

The Dawn Watch review: a reminder of Joseph Conrad’s artistic greatness

By Ed O’Loughlin

‘Are you a real elf?’ asks a little girl. ‘Yeah,’ I lie

By Patrick Freyne

Her life looks enviable but she got nothing for Christmas

By Jennifer O'Connell

Your Fitness

Why I love to... play tennis

By Michelle Walshe

Sunningdale: The Search for Peace in Northern Ireland, by Noel Dorr review – God help the peacemakers

By Deaglán De Bréadún

The Travelling Cat Chronicles review: a touching story of friendship

By John Boyne

Financial Services

We need to talk about the real cost of AIB bailout

By Joe Brennan

Life & Style

‘Sorry Mrs,’ I say, as I fiddle muck off the udders

By Dominique McMullan

‘A bad tour with The Prodigy made me realise what was important’

By Mary-Kate Geraghty

Fashion

So many beauty promises are codswallop but I believe in 'hurty' facials

By Marian Keyes

Purple reigns as the Pantone colour of 2018

By Arminta Wallace and Bernice Harrison

Everything Must Go review: Jenny Fran Davis’s millennial meat market

By Sarah Gilmartin

Women & Power: A Manifesto review – a small but wonderfully potent call to action

By Susan McKay

Lose yourself in searing Seville

By Sophie Grenham

History

Oh, Jerusalem! Berlin exhibition encapsulates troubled past, sobering present

By Derek Scally

Property

We never grow up from our Christmas home . . . until it’s gone

By Tanya Sweeney

A tale of two fathers: ‘The way I miss my kids is indescribable’

By Sally Hayden and Ziad Ghandour

Fashion

Prada in Kildare Village: not like Milan, but neither are the prices

By Deirdre McQuillan

The best Irish-language books of 2017

By Pól Ó Muirí

Inside Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago: The Winter White House

By Suzanne Lynch

My motto? Work your head off and sleep at any price

By Una Mullally

Why does Camembert refuse to melt sometimes?

By Aoife McElwain

Maria Edgeworth letters illustrate devotion to Ireland and its people

By Susan Manly

Drink

Go off the beaten track for your wines this Christmas

By John Wilson

Property

Big Apple boudoirs and bathrooms: New York’s finest homes

By Polly Devlin

Bittersweet insights into Van Morrison’s Belfast

By Fintan O'Toole

Fintan O’Toole: UK voted for Brexit because citizens feel their country is ‘broken’. It can be fixed

By Fintan O'Toole

Fashion

What do you buy men who say they don’t need anything for Christmas?

By Laura Kennedy

Catalan crisis: museum row becomes flashpoint

By Guy Hedgecoe

A happy landing for Ryanair and its pilots?

Cycle series: North Kerry and the Coast Road

By Donnacha Clifford and David Elton

Life & Style

What’s hot and what’s not this week

By Una Mullally

New Ross Carroll-O’Kelly character: A frenemy for Honor

By Paul Howard

Foreign News by Aifric MacAodha review: a strong, original voice

By Cliona Ní Ríordáin

Survivors and victims of rock’n’roll excess from AC/DC to Iron Maiden and Queen

By Ronan McGreevy

Brownes of Tuam: Delicious new life in pub made famous by the Saw Doctors

By Catherine Cleary

Property

Social housing: ‘Let’s not make the same mistakes again’

By Hugh Linehan

Tuber belles

By JP McMahon

Election will determine the balance of power in Catalonia

By Guy Hedgecoe

Haven't sorted Christmas? Not to worry, hire it in

By Alanna Gallagher

The Irish Times/Sport Ireland Sportswoman of the Year Awards

By Ian O'Riordan

Johnny Sexton’s steady hand on tiller can steer Leinster home

By Gerry Thornley

Outstanding Achievement award for Mary Davis entirely fitting

By Ian O'Riordan

Twenty years a Tiger: Geordan Murphy ready for fresh challenge

By Gavin Cummiskey

Health

Do you think it’s possible you might be a jerk?

By Oliver Burkeman

Life & Style

Nature Diary: Robin associated with winter cheer

By Sylvia Thompson

Gaelic Games

Watching Dubs meet challenges of 2018 will be fascinating

By Keith Duggan

Paddy Mulligan’s bit-part in the shaping of Manchester United

By Emmet Malone

Leinster’s production line is rugby equivalent of Ajax in the 80s

By Gerry Thornley

Business

Give Me a Crash Course In. . .Facebook’s Irish taxes

By Mark Paul

Michael Walker: Old-fashioned values serving Dyche and Burnley well

By Michael Walker

Gardening

Take a leaf from this new crop of gardening books

By Fionnuala Fallon

Our favourite cookbooks for your favourite cook

By Marie Claire Digby

A bystander to action: warning signs of domestic abuse

Business

Brexit acrimony in London as talks move to phase two

By Colin Gleeson

Trump judicial nominee stumped by basic legal questions

Another failed WTO meeting proves the posturing has to stop

Are spiralling Dublin rents choking its economic growth?

By Fiona Reddan

Brexit: Britain likely to seek distinct trade deal with EU, says Hammond

Art

Berthe Morisot: the woman in vanguard of Impressionism

By Aidan Dunne

Asia-Pacific

Five years after the rape and murder of Jyoti Singh, nothing has changed in India

By Rosita Boland

Waterford Greenway proves popular among users, survey finds

By Barry Roche

Imperious Steve Smith puts Australia in driving seat in Perth

World

Canadian police investigate mysterious deaths of billionaire couple

Matic tips Scotland target Scott McTominay to make big impact for England

An Bord Pleanála defers decision on €160m Cork incinerator

By Barry Roche

Elderly male friends plan to marry to avoid inheritance tax

England coach refuses to criticise struggling bowlers

Here's why Chris Froome never passed the popularity test

By Ian O'Riordan

Parents of Milly Tuomey say: ‘We didn’t know the signs’

Crystal Palace score away from home at last to beat Leicester

Asia-Pacific

At least three dead after powerful quake hits Java

Nigel Farage claims he is ‘53, separated and skint’

Racing

Starchitect dies from winning position at Cheltenham

Health

Irish woman who became ill in Dubai is regaining consciousness

By Ciarán D'Arcy

Marcos Alonso free-kick edges Chelsea past Southampton

Four of the best for Matt Healy as Connacht thrash Brive

By Linley MacKenzie

Ryanair offers to meet pilot union before planned strike

By Irish Times reporters

Leinster defy Sexton departure to land momentous Exeter win

By John O'Sullivan

Arsenal back to winning ways thanks to Mesut Ozil strike

Dozens protest outside centre for asylum seekers in Killarney

By Anne Lucey

Mona McSharry sets another Irish record in Copenhagen

Austria’s conservative leader cements deal with far-right party

Cristiano Ronaldo inspires Real Madrid to Club World Cup

Relentless Manchester City far too good for Tottenham

Ovid’s exile from Rome revoked, 2,000 years later