Article Index

Design Moment: WG24 Lamp, 1924

By Bernice Harrison

An Irish Diary

Church services

Gardening

The new rock garden: petite plants are perfect for small space living

By Fionnuala Fallon

Fine Art & Antiques

Shock of the nude? Adam’s Irish Art sale majors in the human form

By Elizabeth Birdthistle

Fine Art & Antiques

‘Firsts’ for sale in Dublin include a Rolex ring watch, work by Hirst and Famine art

By Elizabeth Birdthistle

Speakers in the house: Eight of the best home sound systems

By Alanna Gallagher

Leonard and Hungry Paul by Rónán Hession: A simple pleasure

By Niamh Donnelly

Fine Art & Antiques

What’s coming up in the auction rooms?

By Elizabeth Birdthistle

Property

Two to convert: prominent properties that could be boutique buys

By Alanna Gallagher

Passport express

Thinking Anew – Taking stock of what God means to us

By Gordon Linney

Poolbeg chimneys

Editorials

The Irish Times view on political leadership: why politicians matter

Left holding the bag

Direct provision firms paid €72m last year as numbers surged

By Gordon Deegan

Misty-eyed tourists

The ham sandwich index

Matrimony – knot for everyone

Prioritising the basics in education

Occupied Territories Bill

Irish troops and the Golan Heights

Brexit – against the clock

Editorials

The Irish Times view on Fine Gael: moving into election mode

The new national children’s hospital

Obituaries

Rachel Ingalls obituary: Writer rediscovered after 30 years

Martyn Turner

Ulster out to dethrone Southern Kings in bid for seventh consecutive win

By John O'Sullivan

Jack O’Donoghue to make first start of season for Munster against Zebre

By Declan Rooney

Richmond, Virginia: a city still enslaved by its Confederate past

By Suzanne Lynch

Sport

Four defeats in 14 years: What does Katie Taylor need to do next?

By Ian O'Riordan

Taking voter temperature in Longford and Sligo: lukewarm for Varadkar

By Fiach Kelly

The British Army cannot justify killing defenceless people

By Nick Mazzei

Allianz Hurling League semi-final previews

By Seán Moran

Obituaries

Richie Ryan obituary: distinguished career in Dáil and EU

FG defends decision of European grouping not to expel Orban

By Fiach Kelly

Border to be discussed between Ireland and EU as Brexit pressure intensifies

By Pat Leahy, Patrick Smyth, Denis Staunton and Fiach Kelly

Health

Review of cervical cancer slides now expected to be six months late

By Paul Cullen

Dublin Fire Brigade orders fire safety review at Sandyford complex

By Jack Horgan-Jones and Niamh Towey

Fine Gael’s eulogies to Richie Ryan reek of revisionism

By Diarmaid Ferriter

Even invisible illnesses deserve to be recognised

By Breda O'Brien

Mozambique disaster exposes western double standards

By Ruadhán Mac Cormaic

Three of the best traditional music gigs happening this week

By Siobhán Long

Cliff Taylor: the pressure to get Brexit ‘done’ is really dangerous

By Cliff Taylor

The continued asphyxiation of the EU’s business by Brexit is unsustainable

By Pat Leahy

Stage

Shoplifters of the world unite: Charlie’s a Clepto is this week’s theatre highlight

By Peter Crawley

London designer bolthole, afternoon tea at Lismore Castle, five-star-plus Bali

By Jo Linehan

TOWIE series 24: still flaky after all these years, thank goodness

By Jennifer Gannon

Culture

Nao: Our New VBF

By Louise Bruton

Joe Duffy draws out another harrowing tale, knowing it is radio gold

By Mick Heaney

Podcast of the week: Heavyweight

By Sarah Griffin

World

No autonomous regional effort to heal Venezuela’s political strife

By Tom Hennigan

New Artist of the Week: Chai

By Niall Byrne

Art

Art in Focus – The Drenched Forest by Cecilia Danell

By Aidan Dunne

Culture

Celine Byrne: On My Culture Radar

By Shilpa Ganatra

Art

The rubble club: An Irish architect watches his life’s work disappear

By Frank McDonald

Celine Byrne is Madama Butterfly: the best classical and opera shows this week

By Michael Dervan

Film

Willem Dafoe: I look for chances to surprise myself. But I am not that much in control

By Donald Clarke

This Album Changed My Life: The Velvet Underground and Nico (1967)

By Niall Byrne

What Brexit Britain thinks now: ‘I’ll start speaking German. I don’t care any more’

By Patrick Freyne

Is Tarantino playing cybergames with his new film?

By Seamas O'Reilly

Obituaries

Sam McCready obituary: Dominant figure of Northern theatre

Picture This to John Grant: This week’s rock and pop gigs

By Tony Clayton-Lea

The best jazz gigs in Dublin and Galway this week

By Cormac Larkin

Abroad

London’s Irish pubs: all the lonely people, where they go to belong

By Niamh Linehan

Stage

Owen Roe: 'How can you study Beckett and not know anything about Laurel and Hardy?'

By Peter Crawley

Art

Mary Swanzy arrives in Cork, and the other best exhibitions this week

By Aidan Dunne

Keith Duggan: Mayo’s future is in safe hands

By Keith Duggan

Financial Services

Donohoe sees ‘no compelling case’ to regulate claims-harvesting firms

By Joe Brennan

Game of Thrones tapestry to journey ‘home’ to Bayeux

By Lara Marlowe

Time to accept Rice’s call and move on – Dere’s more to Oirland dan dis

By Keith Duggan

Short-term fixes drive direct provision system over long term

By Mark Hilliard

Life & Style

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

By Una Mullally

Poem of the week: The Shrew

By Patrick Cotter

Toasted millet ‘buck eyes’

By Jess Murphy

David Bailey didn't just capture the Swinging Sixties, he defined the Sixties

By Sean Sheehan

Africa

Cyclone Idai: Those who do least to cause climate change suffer the most

By Kevin O'Sullivan

Why We Get The Wrong Politicians review: Could we really be this useless?

By Paschal Donohoe

Your Fitness

Why I Love ... Circus

By Jo Linehan

Books in brief: From the ‘basket of deplorables’ to a 1950s Irish childhood

Property

Architect, engineer, technician or builder? Who to call when you plan to build

By David Capener and Emma Cullinan

Middle East

Trump’s backing over Golan Heights will come with a price

By Mark Weiss

Instructions for a Funeral review: Exquisite, truth-bending stories

By Danny Denton

Animalia review: powerful novel is imbued with nature and death

By Declan O'Driscoll

Drink

One brewery, five brands: Rye River’s beer journey

By Sorcha Hamilton

Arabs, A 3,000-Year History review: Too narrow in its focus

By Richard Pine

Bringing Soho style to an Irish shore

By Alanna Gallagher

Fintan O’Toole: Rise of Germany the great unintended consequence of Brexit

By Fintan O'Toole

The Ghost Factory review: A first novel that haunts for the wrong reasons

By Sarah Gilmartin

Food

How to make a great baked cheesecake? Don’t overcook it

By Vanessa Greenwood

Never Home Alone review: your house contains hundreds of invertebrates

By Paraic O'Donnell

New crime fiction: Scandi noir and secrets of the Irish super-rich

By Declan Burke

Spicy tofu bao

By Jess Murphy

Fashion

The clothes doctor: how to reimagine your wardrobe with clever fixes

By Catherine Cleary

Crownthorpe could come up trumps for trainer Richard Fahey at Naas

By Brian O'Connor

Another Burren, beneath the waves

By Paddy Woodworth

Middle East

Saudi’s crown prince keeps tight grip on power – despite the rumours

By Vincent Durac

Environment

Could this curious spider be a snake-back? Readers’ nature queries

By Eithne Viney

The Friends of Harry Perkins: A Very British Coup gets a sequel

By Declan Burke

Séan Moncrieff: We don’t hate the Brits the way we used to

By Seán Moncrieff

Ginger switchel

By Jess Murphy

Drink

Graham Norton: earthy, floral, spicy ... and that’s just his new gin

By John Wilson

Memories of the Future review: a playful memoir of an imagination

By Anne Haverty

Fashion

The man you need to see to get a great handbag at a knockdown price

By Deirdre McQuillan

Abroad

‘Malawi is facing a period of severe food shortages’

By Laura Quirke

History

The Famine changed everything – and nothing

By Una Mullally

Baked cheesecake with red berry glaze

By Vanessa Greenwood

A Hidden Landscape Once a Week review: Between the lines of UK rock journalism

By Eugene Brennan

David McWilliams: Europe is glued to energy-rich Russia

By David McWilliams

Emma’s choice: From Trinity graduate to trainee nun

By Louise Lawless

Hennessy 2019 nominees: First Fiction, Emerging Poetry, Emerging Fiction

By Ciaran Carty

Mike McCormack: It all started in the wild west of Louisburgh

By Mike McCormack

The Way We Eat Now: Food has become strange, intense, hysterical

By Catherine Cleary

Pianist in the rubble: A Palestinian-Syrian refugee’s journey through music

By Sally Hayden

Stage

LGBTQI+ nightlife: Genre-busting, gender-bending gas

By Stephen Moloney

Where two-wheels rule the roads

By Fiona Hyde

Valis (1981) by Philip K Dick

By Rob Doyle

Environment

Hospital flower ban: A bunch used to boost my little red cells

By Michael Viney

Culture

Peace, love and wilful misunderstanding

By Donald Clarke

Home Front: Great garden furniture and how to make your space flow

By Orna Mulcahy and Madeleine Lyons

Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board criticised over new whip limit rule

By Brian O'Connor

Mick McCarthy must squeeze every last drop from Ireland squad

By Emmet Malone

Weekend GAA Previews: Plenty at stake on football’s D Day

By Seán Moran

Dublin putting the building blocks in place for the summer

By Malachy Clerkin

Ken Early: Republican slogans strangely back in vogue in the sporting realm

By Ken Early

McCarthy and Ireland’s Euro 2020 assault begins in Gibraltar

By Emmet Malone

Brexit: Merkel praises May’s resilience but says Britain must decide path

By Derek Scally

Brexit: ‘All UK had left was the date. We’ve taken that from them’

By Denis Staunton

Europe

Ukraine's new NHS may not save ailing presidency of Poroshenko

By Daniel McLaughlin

Simmering Dutch-German rivalry set for another instalment

By Michael Walker

Abroad

Irish in Britain: ‘I’d like to stay. Britain is not Brexit’

By Ciara Kenny

Food

Vegan cooking made easy with spicy bao buns

By Jess Murphy

I’m remembering Fr Fehily hyped up to fever pitch after listening to his Hitler 45s

By Ross O'Carroll-Kelly

Jennifer O’Connell: Sex education has a long way to go to compete with porn

By Jennifer O'Connell

How head injuries finished the rugby career of Cillian Willis

By Gavin Cummiskey

Conor Pope’s day working in Ikea: ‘What the f**k are you doing in that yellow?’

By Conor Pope

Food

Gigi, Dublin: New Italian with retro vibe but bang up to date prices

By Catherine Cleary

Danger here! This Rock is on a bit of a roll

By James McDermott

Summit leaves May with mountain to climb

By Pat Leahy

The wonders of Sweden’s wild western way

By Patrick Hanlon and Russell Alford

Business

Anger about housing should not be directed at Ires Reit chief

Technology

Eir sued by Dutch provider of ‘DIY’ customer care service

By Mark Paul

Business

Ecocem prepares to pay dividends of up to €5m

By Mark Paul

Economy

The next Central Bank governor must keep telling politicians to take a hike

Uri Geller tells Theresa May he will stop Brexit telepathically

Q&A: What happens next with Robert Mueller’s report?

By Eileen Sullivan

Ruth Maguire (30) buried in her wedding dress in Belfast

Winx extends winning run to 32 on her penultimate start

Middle East

‘Total elimination’ of Islamic State caliphate announced

Golf

Paul Casey primed to defend title at Valspar Championship

Golf

Pádraig Harrington continues steady return in Kuala Lumpur

Environment

Three more Dublin Bus routes to be privatised from Sunday

By Colin Gleeson

Stephen Kenny: Ireland Under-21s to play on the front foot

Asia-Pacific

Christchurch’s Al Noor mosque reopens after terror attack

Waratahs end Canterbury Crusaders’ 19-match winning run

Pioneering midwife Philomena Canning dies

By Colin Gleeson and Kitty Holland

Taoiseach not keen to be associated with Conor McGregor’s ‘actions’

By Jennifer Bray

Some Brexiteers ‘still in the cake and eat it space’, Taoiseach says

By Jennifer Bray

Africa

Cyclone Idai death toll exceeds 400 in Mozambique

Crime & Law

Gardaí surrender alleged child porn facilitator to FBI

José Mourinho has turned down ‘three or four’ different jobs

Woman (40s) dies following house fire in Co Meath

By Elaine Keogh

Ireland Under-19s too good for Azerbaijan

Barbra Streisand: Michael Jackson’s alleged abuse ‘did not kill’ accusers

O’Neill praises Northern Ireland’s young stars after Estonia victory

‘A trade is something nobody can take away from you’

By Aine McMahon

Euro 2020 qualifiers: Gibraltar v Ireland

Courts

Man charged with assault on 73-year-old in Macroom

By Barry Roche

Matt Doherty named on right side of Ireland midfield for Gibraltar clash

Switzerland open Group D campaign with Georgia win

Crime & Law

ATM machine found in burnt-out van in Co Antrim

By Aine McMahon

Noel Fehily closes out riding career with winner at Newbury

DUP’s Jeffrey Donaldson calls for the Republic to rejoin the Commonwealth

By Jennifer Bray and Harry McGee

Jeff Hendrick’s goal saves Ireland’s blushes against Gibraltar

By Emmet Malone

Panama earn famous draw with Brazil

Europe

Luxury cruise ship carrying 1,300 people is evacuated off Norway

Gibraltar 0 Republic of Ireland 1: Ireland player ratings

By Patrick Madden

Full FAI statement as John Delaney leaves CEO post

Mick McCarthy happy to take the three points after ‘horrible’ game

By Emmet Malone

Ulster go second as they take down Kings

John Delaney steps aside as FAI chief executive

By Emmet Malone

Many EU states do not want UK to take part in European elections, Weber says

By Harry McGee

Fine Gael will not enter government with Sinn Féin under any circumstances, Varadkar says

By Jennifer Bray and Harry McGee

Mueller report findings will not be revealed for at least another day

TV View: Winds of change in Gibraltar as John Delaney bids adieu

By Mary Hannigan

Crosaire Blog

Crosaire No 16908 by Crossheir – Saturday, March 23rd, 2019

By Lorna Kernan