20% of 8-13 year olds talk to strangers online dailyNearly 70% of 8-13 year olds are on social media despite digital consent ageMon Sept 10 2018 - 08:44
Lithuanian and Korean to be taught in Irish schoolsSurveys show the number of Irish children able to speak a second language well below the EU normMon Sept 10 2018 - 07:48
Boy rescued from rocks at Dalkey, Co Dublin by coastguardChild (12) taken to hospital by helicopter when lifeboat could not reach himSun Sept 09 2018 - 18:37
Irexit party founder says ‘dung’ from EU ‘will help us grow’The new Irish Eurosceptic grouping will be officially launched in Dublin on SaturdaySat Sept 08 2018 - 01:00
Prof Marie Cassidy to retire as State PathologistFirst woman in role called sense of humour vital in ‘grim world’ of forensic pathologyFri Sept 07 2018 - 17:07
Antlers of extinct giant Irish Elk found at the bottom of a lakeMagnificent animal roamed the country 7,000 years ago and then died outThu Sept 06 2018 - 16:31
Ireland v Wales is first competitive match not shown on free-to-air TV in decadesIreland’s Uefa Nations League matches are not on list of protected sports eventsThu Sept 06 2018 - 14:10
Teenager found unconscious after organised fight in DublinGardaí investigating incident which occurred in Swords on SundayThu Sept 06 2018 - 08:47
Tourism revenue breaks record for first half of 2018, according to CSOVisitors spend in Ireland is up by 8.5% on the same period in 2017Wed Sept 05 2018 - 17:02
Trump blimp coming to Ireland for US president’s visitSix-metre-high installation was offered by organisers who flew it in London during Trump’s UK visitWed Sept 05 2018 - 15:36
Summer of 2018 among warmest and driest on recordMany parts of Ireland had the driest and sunniest summer for more than 20 yearsWed Sept 05 2018 - 15:09
Late Late Show will broadcast from London in OctoberProgramme aims to celebrate cultural links between Britain and Ireland despite BrexitWed Sept 05 2018 - 12:33
I miss comforting certainties of Catholic faith I grew up withRevisiting Knock wrenched me back to a more innocent ageTue Sept 04 2018 - 05:00
Inside the extraordinary meeting between Pope Francis and abuse survivors‘It was robust’ – eight survivors of clerical abuse met the pope at papal nuncio’s homeSat Sept 01 2018 - 04:00
Number seeking to contest presidential election swells furtherBusinessman Peter Casey joins fellow TV ‘dragons’ in race to secure nominationFri Aug 31 2018 - 01:35
Peter Casey: ‘Whoever wins it, it will not be President Michael D Higgins’Businessman and former ‘Dragons’ Den’ investor seeks presidential nominationFri Aug 31 2018 - 01:07
Who can blame Declan Rice if he feels more English than Irish?Choosing a country to play for is a complex issue for second- or third-generation IrishThu Aug 30 2018 - 18:17
Indian summer on the way - but after the weekendTemperatures are set to reach 20 degrees during a period of warm, settled weatherThu Aug 30 2018 - 10:39
Businessman Peter Casey wants to contest the presidencyDragons’ Den investor becomes 11th potential candidateThu Aug 30 2018 - 09:40
Government ‘constitutionally bound’ to hold presidential inauguration on Armistice DayTaoiseach spokesman says he is ‘committed’ to marking ArmisticeWed Aug 29 2018 - 16:00
Two gardaí injured after patrol car hits stray horse on motorwayOne officer sustains a broken arm and cuts to head after incident on N18 in LimerickWed Aug 29 2018 - 09:14
HSE accused of leaving brain injury patient in limbo over rehabPaul De Ferreira has been unable to move to a community facility because of fundingTue Aug 28 2018 - 01:01
Philomena Lee says pope must act on his promise to survivorsWoman whose story inspired the film ‘Philomena’ met the pontiff in 2014Tue Aug 28 2018 - 00:22
An early start for the faithful who make it to Knock shrine on timeDespite the rain, thousands turn out to greet the pope at the Marian ShrineMon Aug 27 2018 - 01:00
Pope tells survivors that those who cover up abuse are ‘caca’Pontiff used the Spanish word in a meeting with survivors of clerical sex abuseSun Aug 26 2018 - 11:30
Domestic abuse victims told their ‘reward would be in heaven’World Meeting of Families heard clergy were complicit in blaming victims for abuseFri Aug 24 2018 - 18:28
Fr Leo cooks extended metaphors in dispensing marriage truismsFilipino-American priest draws capacity crowd to his cookery demonstrationFri Aug 24 2018 - 17:53
Monty Python to missing ship: Michael Palin to feature at Dublin Festival of HistoryBroadcaster will discuss disappearance of HMS Erebus during an expedition to find Northwest PassageFri Aug 24 2018 - 12:18
Ryanair dispute ends following marathon talks with pilots’ unionShares jump after airline reaches agreement with Fórsa following strikesThu Aug 23 2018 - 20:32
Pope’s meeting with abuse survivors will be ‘sacred moment’, says ArchbishopEamon Martin says meetings with survivors are difficult because ‘they don’t trust us’Thu Aug 23 2018 - 16:33
Exclusion of LGBTI people from WMoF ‘wrong and anti-Christian’Former TV reporter Ursula Halligan calls on Church to ditch language on gay peopleThu Aug 23 2018 - 15:39
Pope in Ireland: It looks like it may lash rain during the Phoenix Park massNo rain for Pope’s parade in Dublin on Saturday, says Met ÉireannThu Aug 23 2018 - 11:25
New Rose of Tralee reflects on a week which she will never forget‘I’m very much half Zambian. It is half of who I am’Wed Aug 22 2018 - 10:33
Rose of Tralee 2018: Waterford Rose takes the crownStudent and part-time model Kirsten Mate Maher (21) wins the competitionWed Aug 22 2018 - 00:35
Rose of Tralee: Story of heroin addiction in contestant’s family kept secretBookies’ favourite Shauna Ray Lacey stunned audience with admission about parentsTue Aug 21 2018 - 20:09
Rose of Tralee: Contestant stuns audience with news parents were heroin addictsCarlow Rose Shauna Ray Lacey (24) says she was not ‘given the best hand of cards’ in lifeTue Aug 21 2018 - 07:51
Old IRA disappearances ‘off the scale’ compared with PIRAResearch calls into into question so-called moral superiority of old IRA, says historianMon Aug 20 2018 - 20:30
Memorial unveiled to the Irish who died at PasschendaelePlaque mounted recalling ultimate sacrifice of celebrated chaplain Fr Willie Doyle SJSat Aug 18 2018 - 19:17
Micheál Martin slates removal of history from core curriculumFianna Fáil leader vows to restore subject as core component in Junior Cert curriculumSat Aug 18 2018 - 18:14
Lemass’s legacy more complex than most assume, biographer claimsFormer taoiseach was an economic moderniser but not socially liberalFri Aug 17 2018 - 21:42
DUP and Sinn Féin accused of ‘abdication of responsibility’ over BrexitAbsence of Stormont institutions is a ‘disgrace’, claims Lisa ChambersThu Aug 16 2018 - 21:05
Ireland’s democratic legacy is taken for granted, academic suggestsCosgrave and de Valera deserve credit for preserving democracy in the new StateThu Aug 16 2018 - 14:21
US propaganda may have convinced Irish to enlist for WW1Nearly 10,000 Irish men joined British forces between August and November of 1918Tue Aug 14 2018 - 20:22
Women’s Council calls for gender quotas for local election candidatesJust 21% of all local councillors are women, Parnell Summer School toldMon Aug 13 2018 - 19:08
Ivana Bacik says #MeToo helped women like her speak outLabour Senator tells Parnell Summer School of being harassed as a waiter in LondonMon Aug 13 2018 - 18:59
Higher election gender quotas need to be considered ‘urgently’, Minister saysJosepha Madigan says 30% gender election rule should be examinedSun Aug 12 2018 - 17:23
The 14-year-old who was probably the youngest Irish serviceman to die in WW1Thomas Woodgate faked his age to join the RAF in 1918 just a month before he diedSat Aug 11 2018 - 16:18
Former senior civil servant remembered at funeral massSean Cromien came from humble origins to become Secretary to the Dept. of FinanceFri Aug 10 2018 - 15:03
Hats off on Ladies Day, though competing does not come cheapBest-dressed winner defends the peculiar Irish summer ritual of Ladies DayThu Aug 09 2018 - 20:51
Neil Jordan donates ‘vast’ archive to National Library of IrelandDonation comes with €2.2m tax break for film director who made Michael CollinsThu Aug 09 2018 - 14:04
