Article Index

On Brexit, England sees Ireland as both schemer and doormat

By Eleanor Tiernan

Obituaries

Bishop Laurence Forristal: High-flyer brought to earth by church cover-ups

Nepotism and corruption enemies of debt-crippled Jordan

By Michael Jansen

Technology

Irish-founded Stripe accused of failing to give back to San Francisco

Technology

Government had ‘open door’ policy towards NBP bidder, TD claims

By Eoin Burke-Kennedy

Business

Despair as last-minute hopes for Brexit deal seem to crumble

By Colin Gleeson

An Irish Diary

Church services

Economy

France faces growing threat of skills shortages

Pat Leahy: Ireland had better get used to minority governments

By Pat Leahy

Concession Road: Where the Border fuels business

By Peter Murtagh

Your Money

Just 33 affordable mortgages drawn down in Dublin city

By Fiona Reddan

Transport

Doyle hotels report no adverse impact from Brexit

By Ciarán Hancock

Business

Patients paying heavy price for HSE delays in approving cheaper drugs

Music

New artist of the week: Hobo Johnson & the Lovemakers

By Niall Byrne

Music

Something in the water: what makes Icelandic music so creative?

By Tony Clayton-Lea

History

The Times We Lived In: They’re in the Army now

By Arminta Wallace

Music

This Album Changed My Life: Alice Coltrane – Journey In Satchidananda (1971)

By Niall Byrne

Obituaries

James Prior obituary: Cork-born entrepreneur, property investor and Chelsea fan

Martyn Turner

The Haunting of Hill House proving to be a real horror show for Netflix

By Seamas O'Reilly

Lady Gaga: Our New VBF

By Louise Bruton

Higgins stays above the fray as presidential non-contest limps on

By Harry McGee

Still plenty of water in the well of the Troubles era for writers to draw on

By Diarmaid Ferriter

Art

Art in Focus: The Village Funeral by Daniel MacDonald

By Aidan Dunne

Romero’s example should encourage Catholics to cherish all life

By Breda O'Brien

Podcast of the Week: Wild Thing

By Sarah Griffin

Joe Duffy’s Educate Together spat is pure Liveline panto

By Mick Heaney

Art

Tractor shed or landmark of Irish modernism?

By Gemma Tipton

Miriam Lord’s Week: Toaster police pop up at Leinster House

By Miriam Lord

Humble offices and tech behind Democrats’ $1.4bn war chest

By Suzanne Lynch

Europe

Spain in quandary over exhumation and reburial of dictator

By Guy Hedgecoe

Abroad

The Scottish Clearances: A History of the Dispossessed review

By Ewen Cameron

What We’re Teaching Our Sons review: Lessons from our fathers

By Sarah Gilmartin

From Indian brunch on Baggot Street to miracles in Cork

By Marie Claire Digby

City break? Czech out Prague

By Sylvia Thompson

The Vogue review: Secrets unearthed in shadowy grandeur

By Paraic O'Donnell

The bird man of Tacumshin

By Paddy Woodworth

Your Fitness

Why I Love . . . Hiking

By Jo Linehan

Aisling’s ideal home: ‘Conservatories? They’re very Protestant’

Fine Art & Antiques

Auctions and fairs: what’s coming up in art and antiques

By Arminta Wallace

Environment

Seals and struggle: the changing fortunes of Ireland’s offshore islands

By Michael Viney

Dermot Bannon: ‘I’d love a hoover that works via wifi’

By Tanya Sweeney

The couple serving up award-winning ramen in Belfast

By Marie Claire Digby

Best use for fallen apples? Make warm autumnal pies with them

By JP McMahon

Get crafty with Kilkenny's makers and creators

By Gemma Tipton

Fine Art & Antiques

Red hot rubies to feature in Dublin jewellery sale

By Arminta Wallace

Killing Commendatore review: a Japanese Gatsby in a subconscious Wonderland

By Eleanor O'Reilly

Drink

Wines from independent producers to try (while you still can)

By John Wilson

Insta-renovators: meet the new wave of interiors influencers

By Liz Dwyer

‘Bookstores are one of the most important elements of any high street’

By John Keane

Fintan O’Toole: Here’s how post-Brexit Ireland could turn out

By Fintan O'Toole

Drink

Try a ‘food beer’ with your Sunday roast

By Sorcha Hamilton

Fashion

‘Spare the wench. Marian Keyes gave me a good steer on a party dress’

By Marian Keyes

Sostrene Grene, the great Danish concept taking flight in Ireland

By Elizabeth Birdthistle

Unsheltered: Intertwined narratives connect the 1870s to Trump era

By Seán Hewitt

Pear-fectly delicious: four fantastically fruity meals

By Carmel Somers

Film

‘Touch Me Not’: ‘We want you to question preconceived ideas about intimacy, sexuality, body’

By Tara Brady

David McWilliams: Under the bonnet of Trump’s purring economic engine

By David McWilliams

Ambition and Achievement by Fergal MacCabe: Rescuing architect Frank Gibney

By Frank McDonald

Bank holiday scares and all that jazz

By Jo Linehan

Bressie: ‘I’d say, “Don’t cry,” but then I’d go upstairs and be upset’

By Patrick Freyne

‘You grew up in south Dublin, but it’s like you arrived from space an hour ago’

By Ross O'Carroll-Kelly

Poem of the week: The Sitting by John Kelly

By John Kelly

Fashion

The man who wants to make every day a good hair day

By Laura Kennedy

Soak it up: How to take advantage of the rising tide of bathtub elegance

By Ally Bunbury

‘Sounding like a missionary on climate change does not work’

By Lorna Siggins

Poetry round-up: Kate Tempest, the phenomenon, is back

By Caitriona O'Reilly

Frank McDonald: ‘It took me years to accept who I am. I’m still working on it’

By Frank McDonald

Renting a video together was like updating Facebook to ‘in a relationship’

By Jennifer O'Connell

Restaurants

Camerino Bakery: A great-value cafe for lunch in central Dublin

By Catherine Cleary

I was smuggled into Ireland: Vanessa’s journey from Congo to Dublin

By Vanessa Manunga

Sean Moncrieff: In life, you’re going to your debs. Over and over again

By Seán Moncrieff

Leinster now holding the whiphand as masters face off

By Gerry Thornley

Environment

Eye on Nature: Your notes and queries for Ethna Viney

By Ethna Viney

Ten key investments for the home that are always worth splurging on

By Tanya Sweeney

The Story of Home: The house on Marvel Avenue

Linda Anderson’s Cuckoo: a timely reissue

By James Doyle

Fine Art & Antiques

No deal is highly unlikely in this Border-straddling ‘Brexit auction’

By Arminta Wallace

First Look: Inside the Devlin hotel in Ranelagh

By Marie Claire Digby

The Guilty Feminist: Fifth-wave feminism from an unlikely torchbearer

By Rosita Sweetman

Ambition: Why is it still a dirty word for women?

By Jennifer O'Connell

Europe

On the Poland-Ukraine frontier, ‘frictionless border’ is a joke

By Derek Scally

Eimar O’Duffy: the forgotten Irish author with a phantasmagorical vision

By Kevin Gildea

In praise of older books: Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson (1980)

By Julie Parsons

Life & Style

Index: What’s hot and what’s not this week

By Una Mullally

The House on Vesper Sands: a delicately and skilfully crafted Victorian thriller

By Jane Casey

‘Life is really tough, and you don’t fight it by being coddled’

By Caroline O'Donoghue

Baking: Tarting up a classic pear dessert

By Vanessa Greenwood

Fashion

Step into style this winter with these new leather boots

By Deirdre McQuillan

A far-right hurricane threatens to blow Brazil over the edge

By Vincent Boland

Munster on the cusp of a complete performance

By John O'Sullivan

Simon Zebo looking to thwart Ulster on their trip to Paris

By Gerry Thornley

Connacht braced for a difficult assignment

By Linley MacKenzie

Anatomy of a try: Hickie’s wonder score kick-started the Leinster era

By Gavin Cummiskey

From Borat to O Brother, Where Art Thou?: The presidential candidates’ cultural lives

By Shilpa Ganatra

Motherfoclóir, Brexit and the birth of my daughter

By Darach Ó Séaghdha

Film

Angry white men: Michael Moore takes on Donald Trump

By Donald Clarke

Racing

Gosden looks poised for a bumper ‘Champions Day’ at Ascot

By Brian O'Connor

Lost Leads: ‘A broken engagement and murderous revenge on Eyre Square’

By Dean Ruxton

European Rugby Previews

By John O'Sullivan

Gaelic Games

Weekend GAA Previews

By Malachy Clerkin

Gaelic Games

Unseemly feud a sad finale to Cora Staunton's glorious Mayo career

By Keith Duggan

Crime & Law

Is Boston Police’s soft approach the answer to the Garda’s problems?

By Conor Lally

Toulouse are back but the aristocratic aura is gone

By Gerry Thornley

Katie Taylor: ‘This is going to be my toughest fight to date as a pro’

By Michael Dorgan

Trials of the enigmatic Danny Cipriani: What will happen next?

By Johnny Watterson

Saudi arrests over Khashoggi death ‘good first step’, says Trump

Tánaiste accuses Brexiteers of ignoring NI violence risk

By Denis Staunton and Simon Carswell

‘Rule me. Oh yeah, rule me good, you big dirty royal’

By Patrick Freyne

Fifty years on from Black Power salute: Has anything changed?

By Keith Duggan

Jimmy Reardon: Ireland's original running pioneer

By Ian O'Riordan

A cautionary tale: The life and death of one-armed striker Jimmy Hasty

By Michael Walker

Bram Stoker festival: Everything you need to know

By Deirdre Falvey

Education

DCU students campaign against deportation of ‘model citizen’

By Carl O'Brien

Student Hub

DCU deportation protest, Michael Moore takes on Trump

By Éanna Ó Caollaí

‘King of Tory Island’ Patsy Dan Rodgers dies aged 74

By Stephen Maguire

Golf

Brooks Koepka takes big lead into final day at CJ Cup

Science

Europe, Japan send spacecraft on treacherous trip to Mercury

Asia-Pacific

At least 60 dead as train crashes into crowd in India

Irish eventers off the pace in France ahead of cross-country

By Margie McLoone

Abroad

Living abroad? Have your say on who you want to be President

By Ciara Kenny

Mary Robinson warns hard border may disrupt NI peace process

DUP accused of dragging unionism ‘into the gutter’

By Gerry Moriarty

Khashoggi died in consulate ‘fight’, says Saudi Arabia

Real Madrid crisis continues as they lose at at home to Levante

Darragh Lenihan heads Blackburn winner against Leeds

Case of Bray boy facing deportation ‘not tenable, just or fair’

By Sarah Burns

Barkley banks late point for Chelsea amid high drama at the Bridge

‘Remain’ Ulster Unionist MEP says Brexit result must be respected

By Gerry Moriarty

Out-of-sorts Munster claim five points against 14-man Gloucester

By John O'Sullivan

Mourinho back in the spotlight after Stamford Bridge melée

Drink

Fancy a nightcap?

By Robert Simonson

Castres complete comeback win with 14 men to break Exeter hearts

Hundreds of thousands march in support of second Brexit vote

Munster’s Tommy O’Donnell suffers suspected broken leg

By John O'Sullivan

Lewandowski double helps Bayern Munich end losing run

Premier League round-up: Spurs squeeze past West Ham

Miserable return for Joe Hart as Manchester City bury Burnley

Celtic move to second spot after thriller win against Hibs

Dublin institution Nico’s to close after more than 50 years

By Conor Pope

Chris Ashton stars as Sale blow Connacht away

By Linley MacKenzie

Golf

Sergio Garcia makes his move to go four clear at Valderrama

Freddie Burns repays coach’s faith as Bath and Wasps settle for draw

Edinburgh blitz Toulon to claim bonus-point win at Murrayfield

Racing

Gosden takes back British Flat trainers’ championship from O’Brien

Liverpool back to winning ways as Salah sinks Huddersfield

Ulster come ready to party but Racing’s beat proves too much

By Gerry Thornley

Saracens leave it late to secure bonus-point win over Lyon

Simon Zebo apologises for taunting celebration

By Gerry Thornley

Khashoggi mourners demand ‘true justice’ for reporter’s death

World

Afghans vote in elections despite threat of militant attacks

Crosaire Blog

Crosaire No 16779 by Crossheir – Saturday, October 20th, 2018

By Lorna Kernan