Article Index

Scally report contrasts with political hysteria of early scandal

By Pat Leahy

Health

Sleeping disorders rising in line with obesity epidemic

By Kevin O'Sullivan

Economy

United Ireland would see living standards in Republic fall by 15%

By Eoin Burke-Kennedy

Social Affairs

Council seeks to remove mother and children from vacant house

By Kitty Holland

Three men released after no trace of drugs found on yacht

By Barry Roche

State in firing line if ban on Israeli settlement imports passes

By Simon Carswell

Obituaries

One of the first whistleblowers on sex abuse in Catholic Church

Obituaries

Respected advocate for the Irish and international aquaculture

Miriam Lord: Tánaiste keeps his papal kitten promise

By Miriam Lord

To ‘platform’ or to ‘no platform’? That is the question

By Eleanor Tiernan

Soaring health deficit causing alarm within Government

By Martin Wall

Cancer, renal and other healthcare investments to be delayed

By Martin Wall

Harris sought nearly €1bn in health capital funding to be brought forward

By Martin Wall

Pat Leahy: Labour must fight back to position of power

By Pat Leahy

An Irish Diary

Church services

UK constitutional crisis looms if Brexit talks founder

By Paul Gillespie

Music

This Album Changed My Life: Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen (1993)

By Niall Byrne

Culture

Colin Stafford Johnson: On My Culture Radar

By Shilpa Ganatra

History

The Times We Lived In: A Lady Lavery of great note

By Arminta Wallace

Diarmaid Ferriter: Role of women in the home remains enigma

By Diarmaid Ferriter

Lenny Abrahamson: ‘I was offered some very high-profile prestige movies’

By Donald Clarke

Art

Art in focus: My Comfort and Joy, by Seamus Harahan and Thomas McCarthy

By Aidan Dunne

Culture

Nicole Richie: Our new VBF

By Louise Bruton

Art

Robert Ballagh: ‘Betty was really good at assessing things. I don’t have that any more’

By Mick Heaney

Ban on ivory trade has art world thrown into a quandary

By Arminta Wallace

Music

New artist of the week: Versatile

By Niall Byrne

Europe

Kosovo’s murky politics cloud hunt for Serb politician’s killers

By Daniel McLaughlin

Annual watercolour showcase to run at new Phoenix Park venue

By Arminta Wallace

Podcast of the week: Wolf 359

By Sarah Griffin

Cliff Taylor: Government being pulled deeper into housing market

By Cliff Taylor

Music

Talk dirty: Jason Derulo and Peaches head up this week’s best rock and pop gigs

By Tony Clayton-Lea

Culture

Netflix rewrites the book on literate high school rom-coms

By Seamas O'Reilly

Newstalk’s Captain Sensible and Sid Vicious bicker on

By Mick Heaney

Social Affairs

More than 900 vacancies in child and family agency highlighted

By Aine McMahon

Media

Payout for staff stake ‘unlikely’ following Sunday Business Post sale

By Mark Paul

Dunnes Stores withdraws from talks to buy Donnybrook Fair

By Mark Paul

Scally report on cervical screening puts many previous reports to shame

By Susan McKay

Media

Sky Cinema eyes piece of the action with movies of its own

By Charlie Taylor

Transport

Former finance minister Charlie McCreevy steps down as Ryanair director

By Barry O'Halloran

Musgrave trebles its profits in the North

By Mark Paul

Local history round-up: playing games at wakes and women pirates

By Paul Clements

Pike no longer deemed to be the unacceptable foe

By Michael Viney

Which Dunnes Stores rival will pursue Donnybrook Fair?

Ireland’s prison gangs: ‘You hear a scream and suddenly a fella’s pumping blood’

By Conor Gallagher

Travel

Travelling through Kenya: Kissing giraffes and panoramic views

By Deirdre McQuillan

Roscommon’s great outdoors

By Tadhg Peavoy

‘How to write a book? It’s one word, one sentence, one paragraph’

By Una Mullally

The Saturday poem: The Descent into Limbo

By Matthew Sweeney

Stopping a negative state of mind

By Una Mullally

What’s hot and what’s not this week?

By Una Mullally

Small Victories: The True Story of Faith No More review

By NJ McGarrigle

‘Brendan Kennelly’s words raised my spirits’

By Ailís Ní Ríain

Roaring Lion and Alpha Centauri head ‘Irish Champions Weekend’ cast

By Brian O'Connor

Eye on Nature: Your notes and queries for Ethna Viney

By Ethna Viney

Nuance-ticklers and word nerds: celebrating the art of translation

By Frank Wynne

Your Fitness

Why I Love . . . Squash

By Jo Linehan

Mellow fruitfulness: comforting recipes for autumn

By Carmel Somers

In praise of older books: A Diary of Love by Maude Hutchins (1953)

By Julie Parsons

Sound off: The never-ending frustration of a certain airline

By Peter Broderick

Fintan O’Toole: Boris Johnson has stopped being funny

By Fintan O'Toole

Crash, Crisis, Crypto: a short history of investment banking

By Aifric Campbell

Drive your Plow over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk: much to admire

By Michael Cronin

Seán Moncrieff: The presidency isn’t about politics. It’s about poetry

By Seán Moncrieff

Food File: The weekly food news round-up

By Marie Claire Digby

Fashion

Marian Keyes: I’m in love with this gamechanger of a skin product

By Marian Keyes

Drink

Beer for all: ‘No beards, tats or check shirts required’

By Sorcha Hamilton

Interiors

Hugh Wallace: ‘Our farmhouses need saving, not the cities’

By Liz Dwyer

Kwame Anthony Appiah – The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity review

By Houman Barekat

David McWilliams: Dereliction is legalised vandalism for the property-owning classes

By David McWilliams

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: My sons take after me in their love of being surrounded by admiring females

By Ross O'Carroll-Kelly

Restaurants

Pi: The best pizza restaurant in Dublin. No contest

By Catherine Cleary

Travel

Suite sensation in Kilkenny

By Jo Linehan

Johnny Sexton and Leinster prepare hot welcome for Dragons

By John O'Sullivan

From TV3 to Virgin Media: 20 years of lights, cameras and survival

By Laura Slattery

History

Dublin tenement life: ‘I was born right there in 1939’

By Deirdre Falvey

In the City of Love’s Sleep review: autumnal love portrayed

By Jonathan McAloon

Social Affairs

Masked men and angle grinders: How not to repossess a property

By Jack Power

The Letters of Oliver Goldsmith review

By Claire Connolly

Bread and butter pudding, but better

By Vanessa Greenwood

‘My epitaph? Don’t rob these flowers

Fine art auctions and results

By Arminta Wallace

We don’t talk about ‘career men’, so don’t call me a ‘working mum’

By Jennifer O'Connell

Gaelic Games

Unfinished business brings McGrath back to Dublin fold

By Malachy Clerkin

The Sky Is Falling: Muddled and a bit barmy

By Donald Clarke

Fashion

Philip Treacy: ‘A hat is plastic surgery for the face’

By Deirdre McQuillan

Memories of a Persian kitchen

By Marie Claire Digby

Health

Orla Tinsley: It was important to live, even though I was dying

By Orla Tinsley

Crazy Rich Asians: The end of whitewashed casting choices can’t come too soon

By Tara Brady

Chimney sweeps, princesses, Cinderfella, hairdos and medieval details

By Sara Keating

The Dark Dark review: vibrant renditions of people on the brink

By Sarah Gilmartin

How can we get more seaweed in our daily diet?

By JP McMahon

Tell me more, tell me more: the story of Grease, 40 years on

By Tanya Sweeney

Lynn Ruane: ‘Having a baby at 15 stopped me when I could have begun to use heroin’

By Patrick Freyne

Bijou blooms add sparkle at Adam’s jewellery auction

By Arminta Wallace

Lake Success review: comic look at US psychosis

By June Caldwell

What are some of food’s best cameos in the theatre?

By Aoife McElwain

Drink

Orange wine? Yes, it’s strange but give it a go

By John Wilson

Gaelic Games

Centre cannot hold as Mayo football beset by turbulent times

By Malachy Clerkin

Travel

Apples lie at the core of Armagh, the Harvest County

By Mimi Murray

Obituaries

Actor best known for femme fatale roles in Carry On films

Brexit tug-of-war gathers steam with six months to go

By Colin Gleeson

Economy

Backhanded compliments on tax? We’ll take em’

By Charlie Taylor

Ulster bid to maintain early momentum in South Africa

By John O'Sullivan

Gaelic Games

Acid test for Dublin as they face their serial conquerors

By Seán Moran

World

Trump’s diplomatic chaos: Visiting Ireland? A new ambassador?

By Suzanne Lynch

Dyscalculia: Why maths doesn’t add up for some of us

By Carl O'Brien

Sideline Cut: Fundamental reform the only way forward for Irish football

By Keith Duggan

Ashley still owning the pitch at Newcastle but losing the middle ground

By Michael Walker

Rugby World Cup 2019: How much will it cost to follow Ireland in Japan?

By Gerry Thornley

Rugby World Cup 2019: Ireland on track to be big in Japan

By Gerry Thornley

Woman in her 70s dies after being hit by 4x4 in Co Galway

Science

EU Contest for Young Scientists opens in Dublin

By Kevin O'Sullivan

Rising star Oisín Murphy brings globetrotting run back home

By Brian O'Connor

Ronan O’Gara: The world's most interesting young coach

By Robert Kitson

McQueen’s ‘Widows’ so consistently funny that flaws hardly matter

By Donald Clarke

Heroic Springboks cling on to secure historic win over All Blacks

Development at St Anne’s Park halted: ‘I danced around the kitchen’

By Mark Hilliard

Sport

Gary and Paul O’Donovan are golden in Bulgaria

By Liam Gorman

Mighty mare Winx makes it 27 wins on the spin

Hundreds buy tickets for Roscommon GAA’s Dublin house raffle

By Ronan McGreevy

Health

‘Tact’ lacking in approach of some doctors to CervicalCheck women

By Martin Wall

World

Police in Mexico City chase mariachi gunmen after three shot dead

Tougher security needed to protect against African swine fever, Creed says

By Brian Hutton

Steve Hansen says New Zealand will learn lessons from defeat

Europe

Pope Francis urges ‘brothers and sisters’ of the Mafia to repent

Irish doctors on trial in UK over alleged insurance fraud

Argentina complete day of upsets with win over Wallabies

Wijnaldum and Firmino give Liverpool win over Spurs at Wembley

Wallabies lurch to a new low as player-fan tussle follows Pumas loss

Stage

Cock Cock... Who’s There? review: The darkest parts of net dating culture

By Sara Keating

Suspected cannabis growhouse found in Dublin restaurant

By Aine McMahon and Mark Hilliard

Sport

Cresser and Lusty take Liffey Descent after tricky race

Sport

Lewis Hamilton shoots the lights out to take pole in Singapore

Jürgen Klopp hails Liverpool’s best game of the season

Aidan O’Brien’s Kew Gardens a game winner of Doncaster St Leger

Donegal Orange Hall reopens after destruction in 2014 arson

EU should make UK an offer to end Brexit ‘paralysis’, Blair says

Man critically ill after being shot during Belfast ‘disturbances’

By Brian Hutton

Arsenal win again to heap more misery on Newcastle

Sané, Silva and Sterling see Man City stroll to victory over Fulham

Copy of 1916 Proclamation withdrawn after private sale for €100,000

By Brian Hutton and Mark Hilliard

Eden Hazard hat-trick helps Chelsea continue perfect start

Jack Harrison rescues a point for Leeds at Millwall

Science

Young Scientists lauded for ethical focus on climate change

By Kevin O'Sullivan

Golf

Pádraig Harrington gets back in the mix with 65 at KLM Open

Science

Nasa satellite to measure ice sheet changes fires into orbit

Barcelona ride their luck to sink Real Sociedad

Crowdsourcing a way out of Storm Florence floodwaters

By Jack Healy and Sheri Fink

Leinster hit half-century as Dragons put to the sword at RDS

By John O'Sullivan

Manchester United end Watford run to make it back-to-back wins

Murphy times run to perfection as Roaring Lion pips Saxon Warrior in thriller

By Brian O'Connor