25 September, 2025 Digital News Archive

New homes: Your guide to developments on the market across the country

By Jessica Doyle

Consumer Tech

AirPods Pro 3 review: Apple’s new design hugs my ears better than previous versions

By Ciara O'Brien

‘Let’s aim for generational impact’: New Ibec president invokes the spirit of Ardnacrusha

Financial Services

Bank of Ireland makes unlikely dash to IT winners’ circle

By Cantillon

Restaurants

Restaurant review: Surely Michelin will take note of this menu

By Corinna Hardgrave

Advertising Feature

Reshaping the way we experience spaces, from acoustics to eco-solutions

Five homes on view this week in Dublin, Meath and Waterford

By Jessica Doyle

Film

Brides review: Raw, compassionate chronicle of two teenage girls on a journey into extremism

By Tara Brady

The Morning Show is just like real life. Who hasn’t slept with a tech billionaire?

By Patrick Freyne

Three-beds with sea view and two-bed homes at Hawks Bay in Wicklow, from €430,000

By Elizabeth Birdthistle

Three- and four-bed homes qualify for first-time-buyer schemes in Athy, from €390,000

By Jessica Doyle

End-terrace home given high-spec makeover in Monkstown for €895,000

By Kevin Courtney

How Aer Lingus made its way onto pages of New York Times for the wrong reasons

By Cantillon

Selling agents’ outlook for new-homes market: Buyers find themselves in ‘fiercely competitive environment’

New three- and four-bed terraced homes at Cherrywood from €755,000

By Kevin Courtney

Advertising Feature

How carbon pricing is increasingly affecting European air travel

Technology

Is sovereign AI the answer for Ireland?

By Ciara O'Brien

Look Inside: Victorian four-bed with converted coach house and 'exceptionally large' bathroom in Clonskeagh

By Alison Gill

New homes in short supply while completions will ‘struggle’ to exceed 30,000 this year

By Ronald Quinlan

People

I love my robot hoover, Helen. She has shortcomings but she’d never show me an ad

By Emer McLysaght

Pharma lobbyists cash in on Brussels red tape rampage

By Jack Power

Cancer deaths to reach more than 18 million globally per year by 2050, study finds

By Ella Sloane

Opinion

I’m sorry if reading Shakespeare is getting in the way of your kayaking lessons

By Finn McRedmond

RTÉ could increase director general pay by €50,000 under new pay structures

By Jack Horgan-Jones and Martin Wall

Soccer

Katie McCabe is the best left back in the world, according to EA Sports FC 26

By David Gorman

Ciarán Murphy: It’s blatantly unfair to say Patrick Horgan didn’t do it when it mattered

By Ciarán Murphy

Media

RTÉ postpones Moriarty tribunal programme because of election

By Arthur Beesley

Oireachtas

Miriam Lord: Handbag at the Dáil for Maria Steen as her Áras run comes to an end

By Miriam Lord

Education

Special needs assistants aggrieved by ‘demeaning’ practice, union tells Oireachtas

By Sarah Burns

UCD pays close to €1m to Revenue over VAT underpayment

By Martin Wall

Loss of 520 retail units drives State commercial vacancy rate to record high

By Colin Gleeson

‘It’s a family record’: Mother of three claims world record for crossing Ireland

By Sarah Burns

Have a skill and you’ll never be without work

Budget 2026 plans are coming at wrong time in economic cycle, ESRI warns

By Eoin Burke-Kennedy

How a cyberattack brought Dublin Airport to a standstill

By Emmet Ryan

Housing & Planning

Former lord mayor Nial Ring told by council he cannot let Dublin rental property

By Colm Keena

Housing targets unlikely to be met as commencements slow, ESRI warns

By Eoin Burke-Kennedy

Ireland’s drugs budget rising every year in ‘unsustainable’ trajectory

By Shauna Bowers

Bulmers parent C&C faces slow sales growth without acquisitions, RBC analysts say

By Joe Brennan

Politics at the centre of mooted deal to create Europe’s third biggest bank

By Cantillon

Opinion

The campaign to free Bailey the support dog from prison sparks a useful debate

By Newton Emerson

Business Today Newsletter

AIL season preview: Clontarf looking strong but back-to-back titles a tall ask

By Gerry Thornley

Your Wellness

Inequities in care ‘shorten the lives’ of people with a lesser-known lung disease

By Sheila Wayman

Opinion

Trump’s contempt for the United Nations builds on a long American tradition

By Daniel Geary

Climate Crisis

The drivers of obesity that also come with climate impacts

By Sadhbh O'Neill

In the News Podcast

Dublin stabbings: What does the data say about knife crime on the streets of the capital?

By Sorcha Pollak

Listen | 22:15

Business Today: ESRI spending warning, C&C faces limited growth and the need for cyber security

By Conn Ó Midheach

Climate Crisis

As the seasons change nature becomes unpredictable

By Yvonne Buckley

Donegal pip champions Kerry with 10 All Star nominations

By Gordon Manning

Glenveagh home completions more than double in first half

By Joe Brennan

Environment

Some 1,700 premature deaths attributed to poor air quality per year, says EPA

By Caroline O'Doherty

Pepco Group’s revenue boosted by growth at core brand

Apartments and houses from €500,000 set to launch at Auburn Woods in Malahide

By Alison Gill

Inside Politics Newsletter

Ladies Gaelic Football Association chief executive Helen O’Rourke to step down

By Gordon Manning

Steen campaign flares and fizzles out

By Ellen Coyne

Work

Can you learn better leadership by working with horses?

By Margaret E Ward

Music

Self Esteem in Dublin review: A masterclass in pacing and performance that leaves the room buzzing

By Ruby Eastwood

H&M shuts more stores globally as cost-cutting boosts profits

By Henry Saker-Clark, PA Deputy Business Editor

Andy Burnham says MPs are urging him to challenge Keir Starmer for Labour leadership

By Eleni Courea

Sports Briefing

FAI get a chastening grilling in Leinster House

By Mary Hannigan

House of Guinness on Netflix: Like Succession with shillelaghs

By Ed Power

Mismanaged ‘skin infestation’ outbreak at Kilkenny nursing home risked spreading disease, Hiqa finds

By Shauna Bowers

Ryanair to refer Dublin Airport night flight rules to Europe

By Barry O'Halloran

Aircraft engine repair could create 2,500 jobs

By Barry O'Halloran

Chickenpox vaccine: who can get it, when and why?

By Shauna Bowers

Music

Ticketmaster commits to greater price transparency after Oasis sale

By Conor Pope

Slow Horses review: Dour, dumpy and depressed, is this the broken Britain of spy dramas?

By Ed Power

Bike-maker Giant seeks to revoke US ban over alleged forced labour

By Samson Ellis

Nicolas Sarkozy handed five-year prison sentence for criminal conspiracy in Libya trial

By Angelique Chrisafis in Paris

Children need to grow up and have ‘the talk’ with ageing parents

By Siobhan Maguire

Innovators to Watch

BatteryCycle wants to take the guesswork out of EV resale

By Olive Keogh

Apple asks EU to repeal sweeping Big Tech antitrust rules

By Mark Gurman and Edwin Chan

URC team news: Luke McGrath to lead champions Leinster in Cape Town opener against Stormers

Science

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies at 85: from Schrödinger’s catalyst to the final frontier

By Seán Duke

People

A woman gave birth in Denmark but an hour later the government took her baby

By Jeffrey Gettleman, Maya Tekeli and Amelia Nierenberg

Oireachtas

Former Rehab chief Angela Kerins submits legal bills of €2.1m to Oireachtas

By Martin Wall

Sport

Bronze for Dearbhaile Brady in 50m freestyle at Para Swimming World Championships

By Muireann Duffy

Craig Casey to captain Munster for URC opener away to the Scarlets

By John O'Sullivan

Sport

Philip Doyle and Fintan McCarthy qualify for A final at World Rowing Championships

By Muireann Duffy

Drones at Danish airports part of ‘systematic’ attack

By Richard Milne

Economy

Government advised to reconsider hospitality VAT cut

By Emmet Malone

Courts

Garda pleads not guilty to causing serious injury to Brazilian delivery man

By Tom Tuite

Books

John Boyne wins novel of the year in France

By Martin Doyle

Competitions

Win an autumn stay at Killashee Hotel.

Competitions

Win a luxury break in The Heritage.

Education

Hot school meals scheme: A vital resource or ‘low quality’ food?

Sport

Tipperary teenager reaches darts World Cup youth final

By Muireann Duffy

The Hack review: Great story of the British tabloid phone-hacking scandal is let down by wackiness

By Ed Power

Courts

Former election candidate for Irish People Party accused of harassing garda

By Olivia Kelleher

Company behind Ireland’s most expensive pub posts €5.95m loss

By Gordon Deegan

Ninety Championship appearances, 32 goals and 683 points: Patrick Horgan’s career in pictures

Jim Gavin ‘didn’t see’ bullying or sexism during Defence Forces career

By Cormac McQuinn

Moldova faces key parliamentary election, with EU bid at stake

‘It’s like Pittsburgh invaded Dublin’: NFL fans happy to tick off ‘bucket list’ city

By Jack White

Amazon to pay US regulators $2.5bn to settle Prime probe

The billionaire politician making a Trump-like comeback in the Czech Republic

GP’s online critique of public health advice during Covid-19 ‘alarmist’, inquiry hears

By Ella Sloane

Will Donald Trump’s promises to Arab leaders force a reckoning with Netanyahu?

By Michael Jansen

Provincial rugby preview: Predictions, prospects and players to watch as new season kicks off

By John O'Sullivan

Transport

Challenge to BusConnects plan expected to be resolved by removal of Malahide Road stop

By Olivia Kelly

‘We are playing for history’: Rory McIlroy says Ryder Cup win would leave lasting legacy

By Philip Reid

Global markets fall as hopes for further rate cuts fade

By Colin Gleeson

Education

Trinity provost links rise in applications from US students to altered political landscape

By Jack White

Merz calls on EU to use frozen Russian assets help Ukraine

By Anne-Sylvaine Chassany in Berlin

Median income of homebuyers almost 60% more than the average wage

By Colin Gleeson

Netanyahu’s plane avoids France on way to meet Trump in United States

By Neri Zilber in Tel Aviv

Bryson DeChambeau says 2023 loss lit a fire inside him. Now is his time to blaze a trail

By Philip Reid

Environment

Algal bloom on Lough Derg prompts call for multi-agency investigation

By Kevin O'Sullivan

‘We need more priests’: Catholic bishop welcomes 13 seminarians into training

By Patsy McGarry

Dublin

Sounds aloud: Teenage DJs encouraged to make some noise in Tallaght library

Scéal

Agus smúsach chomh maith

By Alan Titley

An Irish Diary

Missing in action: Renewed push to honour Finnish sailor who fought in the Easter Rising

By Alison Healy

Social Affairs

Irish Rail to remove gender titles from online train booking system

By Niamh Towey

Gaza flotilla on way to deliver aid expecting more ‘violent attacks’ at sea shortly

By Naomi O’Leary and Keith Duggan

Crime & Law

Significant additional resources required for national security, says commissioner

By Conor Gallagher

Music

Kneecap band member’s London court hearing moved to other side of city after flooding

By Mark Paul

Dublin

Barack Obama spread hope of ‘brighter days ahead’ as he became a freeman of Dublin

By Olivia Kelly and Kate Byrne

Editorials

UK's Labour should learn from Tory chaos

‘Famine slaughtered us’: The wounded Gaza medical evacuees in UAE hospitals

By Ismaeel Naar

Australia’s social media ban for teens praised at UN event

Editorials

The White House's war on science must be resisted

Courts

YouTuber becomes first person jailed over posting videos of asylum seekers online

By Tom Tuite

Trump Urges Erdogan to cut back on purchases of Russian oil

At least 50 reported killed in Israeli attack on Yemen

By Mark Weiss

‘I was hoping for Paul Mescal,’ tourist says after meeting Jim Gavin on campaign trail

By Cormac McQuinn

World

Taoiseach finds common ground with Canadian PM Mark Carney during Ottawa meeting

By Keith Duggan

Ryder Cup: Philip Reid previews Friday’s foursomes

By Philip Reid

Ryder Cup: Rory McIlroy to partner Tommy Fleetwood in opening foursomes

By Muireann Duffy

Budget 2026: Norma Foley to consider relief proposals for parents paying highest creche fees

By Jack Horgan-Jones