‘This isn’t about race or colour. This is about our community’: Locals protest at sale of Citywest HotelSaggart area residents say they are against the permanent loss of the biggest hotel in Ireland as there are no similar facilities locallyWed Jun 18 2025 - 22:55
What are the new rules around organ donation in Ireland and what if I want to opt out?Changes introduced via the Human Tissue Act 2024 shifts the presumption about a person’s organ donation wishesTue Jun 17 2025 - 17:26
President Higgins has ‘no intention’ of remaining silent while democracy ‘under threat’ Michael D Higgins uses last Bloomsday speech in office to denounce treatment of people in Gaza and decry ‘dangerous authoritarianism’ in USSun Jun 15 2025 - 19:53
Warm and dry weather set to return after weekend deluge in parts of countryTemperatures expected to reach 21-degree high on Monday before rising to 23 later in weekSun Jun 15 2025 - 15:07
New €60m sonar system aims to protect transatlantic cables, gas pipelines in Irish watersSonar being purchased by Defence Forces will be used to detect ships or submarines seeking to interfere with vital undersea infrastructureSun Jun 15 2025 - 13:25
People Before Profit TD Paul Murphy detained in Egypt by the authoritiesMr Murphy is among 50 Irish activists participating in the Global March to Gaza from EgyptFri Jun 13 2025 - 20:00
Russian embassy denies ‘pathetic’ accusation Moscow is deliberately targeting Ukraine civiliansEmbassy accuses Simon Harris of ‘anti-Russian propaganda’ after Tánaiste condemns wave of drone and missile attacks Thu Jun 12 2025 - 18:10
Air India crash live updates: More than 240 dead as one passenger survives plane crash near Ahmedabad airport, say local policeThere were 53 British passengers onboard plane that crashed into residential buildingThu Jun 12 2025 - 17:06
Annie McCarrick: False leads and setbacks over three decades in search for American woman The arrest of a man on Thursday is the first in connection with the woman who disappeared on March 26th, 1993Thu Jun 12 2025 - 12:47
Annie McCarrick murder: Man (60s) arrested and Garda search operation under wayGardaí are conducting a search operation at a residence in Clondalkin, Co DublinThu Jun 12 2025 - 09:29
Woman (30s) charged over St Stephen’s Day Dublin hit-and-run in which couple killed Anthony ‘Anto’ Hogg (40) and Georgina Hogg Moore (39) were killed near Whitestown in DublinThu Jun 12 2025 - 08:01
Transport officials warned Minister of State not to attend Tesla eventSeán Canney advised ministers should not meet ‘individual car manufacturers’Thu Jun 12 2025 - 06:00
Gardaí arrest two over hit-and-run that killed husband and wife crossing roadAnthony ‘Anto’ Hogg (40) and Georgina Hogg Moore (39) were killed near Whitestown in DublinWed Jun 11 2025 - 17:55
Catherine Corless ‘so relieved’ excavation of Tuam mother and baby home will finally begin on Monday The Bon Secours-run institution has admitted it did not treat the bodies of dead children properly Wed Jun 11 2025 - 17:28
Ireland weather: Met Éireann issues thunderstorm warnings with flash flooding and lightning damage possibleWarnings issued for most of Ireland, with some counties affected from tonight Wed Jun 11 2025 - 14:43
Former death row inmate Sunny Jacobs never let tragedies define her, funeral hearsAnti-death penalty advocate and her 31-year-old carer died last week in a house fire at her isolated Connemara cottageTue Jun 10 2025 - 16:10
People Before Profit activists quit party over possibility of Sinn Féin-led governmentDublin City Council member Madeleine Johansson is one of some 30 Red Network activists who have left People Before ProfitTue Jun 10 2025 - 11:20
Robert Pether’s wife shocked by his emaciated condition after he spent four years in an Iraqi jail Engineer, who lived in Co Roscommon, was released on bail having spent four years in an Iraqi jail after a contract disputeFri Jun 06 2025 - 10:54
The life and tragic death of Sunny Jacobs: how a US death row survivor ended up in ConnemaraA house fire in Co Galway this week claimed the life of the anti-death penalty campaigner who spent five years on death rowFri Jun 06 2025 - 10:46
The Celtic Tiger was a time of vulgarity and gross incompetence, but at least we got things doneGovernment should be asking how so many homes, roads and crucial facilities were build in the 2000sFri Jun 06 2025 - 06:00
Spring 2025 was warmest and sunniest on record, Met Éireann saysMonths of March, April and May characterised by a lot of dry and sunny weatherThu Jun 05 2025 - 15:10
Death row survivor Sonia ‘Sunny’ Jacobs found ‘tranquility’ in Connemara before death in house fireJacobs spent five years on death row in Florida for murder she did not commitWed Jun 04 2025 - 20:09
Woman who died in Connemara house fire named as former US death row inmate Sunny JacobsUS citizen, who had conviction overturned after almost 17 years in prison, died along with man in his 30sTue Jun 03 2025 - 14:53
Tributes to two Irish women who died after competing in separate marathon eventsOlivia Touhy and Ellen Cassidy (both 24) died at the Edinburgh and Cork city half marathonsTue Jun 03 2025 - 11:42
Woman killed in road traffic collision in Donegal The woman (70s) died after a collision near Milford on FridayTue Jun 03 2025 - 09:37
The truth behind the Normans and Ireland: ‘They abolished slavery’Historians give their view on plans to mark the 1,000th anniversary of William the Conquerer and what was more an English than a French invasionMon Jun 02 2025 - 17:20
Antenna made by Irish company found in Russian bombs in Ukraine Taoglas says it is unable to stop ‘nefarious’ use of its equipmentFri May 30 2025 - 06:00
‘I came here for protection’: John Magnier complains about ‘unfair’ treatment in courtJudge says billionaire businessman and defence barrister are both ‘decent and honourable gentlemen’Thu May 29 2025 - 18:49
Ireland weather: Temperatures could reach nearly 20 degrees over bank holiday weekend but rain and wind also forecastShowers and heavy rain expected on Saturday, turning noticeably cooler laterThu May 29 2025 - 16:12
‘Are you trying to rile me? You’re doing a good job,’ John Magnier tells Barne Estate’s barristerBillionaire businessman says he is being treated like a parrot, having to repeat the same points over and overWed May 28 2025 - 20:25
John Magnier tells Barne Estate trial that money does not mean much to him except as a way ‘to keep score’Billionaire businessman says he left school at 15 and left ‘legal jargon’ to the experts Wed May 28 2025 - 15:27
‘Disproportionate’ level of paperwork leaves little room for seating at John Magnier’s Barne Estate caseJohn Magnier recounts details of €15m deal with Richard Thomson-Moore for sale of Tipperary lands and its subsequent collapseTue May 27 2025 - 20:19
Bloodstock billionaire John Magnier was told ‘one word, John: greed’ on why his €15m Tipperary land deal failedMr Magnier took the stand to give evidence regarding the sale of historic Barne Estate Tue May 27 2025 - 18:41
‘I’d never seen anything like it’: Irish Liverpool fans witness parade crashJack Trotter was ‘in agony’ after being hit while out celebrating Liverpool’s Premier League title winTue May 27 2025 - 16:05
John Magnier’s case over alleged €15m Barne Estate sale begins todayBarne Estate in Tipperary is mainly fertile tillage land with 12-bedroom mansionTue May 27 2025 - 09:49
Fontaines DC at Guinness Storehouse: A match made in heavenSupport for Palestine and Kneecap evident from both Fontaines and LankumMon May 26 2025 - 17:10
‘Devastating blow’ as Russians destroy Ukrainian warehouse containing aid donated from Ireland‘Seeing it deliberately targeted and reduced to ashes is heartbreaking,’ says charity directorMon May 26 2025 - 12:27
Hecklers ejected from Dublin event as Bernie Sanders refuses to call Israel’s actions genocideUS Senator says actions in Gaza are ‘horrific’ events unfolding and does not want discussion of Israel ‘bogged down’ by wordSun May 25 2025 - 13:24
Athy, the town of the plaques, gets ready to welcome US senator Bernie Sanders ‘We’re a midlands town. We have got to sell ourselves however we can’Sat May 24 2025 - 09:55
Irish revolutionary Madeleine ffrench-Mullen to be honoured with plaque at childhood homeFfrench-Mullen with her lover Dr Kathleen Lynn founded St Ultan’s Hospital for children in DublinSat May 24 2025 - 07:30
Celtic Tiger baby boom has turned to bust as fertility rates decline There are 20,000 fewer children being born every year in the State compared to during the Celtic Tiger yearsFri May 23 2025 - 13:45
Metallica in Dublin: Band announce two shows at Aviva Stadium in June next year No Repeats Weekend gigs will see different setlists and guests on each of two nightsThu May 22 2025 - 09:07
Ireland’s population outperforms increasingly ageing EUIreland’s rate of population growth is almost four times EU average of 0.4 per cent, according to EurostatWed May 21 2025 - 18:15
Book of Leinster goes on display in Trinity College DublinCaoimhe Ní Ghormáin, an expert in medieval Irish manuscripts, and John Gillis, who led the conservation, talk about the Book of Leinster. Video: Ronan McGreevyWed May 21 2025 - 08:11
The ‘Wikipedia of the age’: Restored 900-year-old Book of Leinster manuscript goes on first public display in DublinThe 12th-century Book of Leinster contains the origin story of the Irish peopleWed May 21 2025 - 06:00
Ireland’s Norman heritage to be celebrated more than 850 years after arrival European-wide initiative to celebrate group’s far-reaching impact on western civilisationTue May 20 2025 - 19:31
Smartphones for children ‘not a human right’, public meeting on a ban in primary schools is toldSchools in North Dublin hoping to implement collective ban on primary school children owning smartphones Fri May 16 2025 - 19:03
‘My life is back’: Dublin’s Mater hospital marks 20 years since Ireland’s first lung transplantMedics and former patients gather on Friday to acknowledge lives saved and improved as a result of the complex surgery Fri May 16 2025 - 18:10
Death of Garda Kevin Flatley: Gardaí warn of ‘completely inaccurate’ misinformation circulating over incidentAlleged eyewitness accounts have ‘no basis whatsoever in fact’Wed May 14 2025 - 10:39
‘Very satisfying, but madly fortunate, to have won’: student Oscar Despard on his University Challenge victoryCelebrations at Dublin’s Bretzel Bakery as president sends congratulations to captain of Christ’s College, Cambridge, teamTue May 13 2025 - 15:45
