The Irish Times

For sale: 4,000-year-old canoe could be yours for €2,400

Rev Conn Auld bought the canoe from some boys who were about to throw it on a bonfire

Sat Jan 15 2022 - 06:00

‘Tis yerself!’ Dáithí Ó Sé says through a mouthful of boxty and Tanora. He is the spirit of Ireland

Patrick Freyne: That’s how I imagine him, anyhow. He’s almost as compelling as The Circle

Fri Mar 19 2021 - 05:00

Cloch le Carn: Big Tom – Sex, drugs and rock’n’roll don’t get a look in

TV review: The Irish singer was like a Johnny Cash who knew his way around a Massey Ferguson

Wed Mar 25 2020 - 13:21

Níall Tóibín funeral told of ‘great actor, great comedian and great man’

Late star knew his demons and knew his gifts, says Mass celebrant Fr Brian D’Arcy

Mon Nov 18 2019 - 20:59

‘Narcissist’ Ivan Yates needs to feel the love

Radio review: Sometimes ‘excessive self-admiration’ is justified, says Newstalk presenter

Sat Nov 02 2019 - 06:00

Late Late Country Special: ‘I’m Ryan Tubridy and I eat dinner in the middle of the day’

Patrick Freyne on RTÉ’s annual reach-out to the ‘irradiated wasteland beyond Greystones’

Sat May 04 2019 - 11:14

Luna Connect: A new digital disrupter in the lending landscape

The lending software speeds up applications for loans through automated data gathering

Thu Mar 14 2019 - 06:00

Mass-goers tell Pope Francis: ‘Rock the boat, your holiness’

Mass-goers in Dublin and Cork on their relationship with God, Catholicism and the Pope

Sat Aug 18 2018 - 06:00

Fermanagh: on the brink of something very special

Every county in the province has won the Ulster Final – every county except Fermanagh

Sat Jun 23 2018 - 01:00

Archbishop urges voters to ‘think of two lives’

Rival doctors’ groups set out arguments on repeal as polling day approaches

Sat May 19 2018 - 18:01

City slicker Ryan Tubridy walks the country roads with ease

Radio review: Suprisingly, the RTÉ presenter is the ideal person to pay tribute to Big Tom McBride

Sat Apr 21 2018 - 05:00

Flannery urges end to silencing of Irish priests before papal visit

‘Ridiculous’ that six remain under sanctions given how pope has changed church’s culture

Mon Apr 16 2018 - 20:21

Does Ireland need a dedicated minister for loneliness?

Fianna Fáil senator praises creation of job by Theresa May but psychologist opposes idea

Thu Jan 18 2018 - 18:25

Eamonn Campbell funeral punctuated by song and laughs

Late musician’s favourite saying was ‘They won’t stop me singing till they put me in the ground’

Thu Oct 26 2017 - 18:01

Jimmy Magee was truly ‘a different class’, son tells funeral

‘Memory Man may be dead but his memory will live forever,’ says Fr Brian D’Arcy

Fri Sept 22 2017 - 17:32

Clerics who became fathers had ‘loving’ relationships - Fr Brian D’Arcy

Priest says actor Frank Kelly struggled with conscience over Fr Jack role in Fr Ted show

Sun Sept 18 2016 - 16:41

Two weeks ago in London, I got a call that changed everything

Every emigrant knows they will some day get that dreaded call from home

Mon Sept 05 2016 - 15:00

Why the Catholic right wants ‘cleanout’ in Maynooth

Teachings, rather than any ‘strange goings-on’, are main source of contention

Fri Aug 05 2016 - 01:00

Fr Seán Fagan ‘paid a high price’ for his beliefs, Mass hears

Marist priest ‘dared to imagine how Catholic church could be different’, funeral told

Tue Jul 19 2016 - 18:42

Fr Seán Fagan a ‘brilliant thinker’ who was ‘broken’ by Rome

Late priest was censured by Vatican until former president Mary McAleese intervened

Sun Jul 17 2016 - 14:01

Remembering Bruce Springsteen’s first Irish concert

The Boss’s gig at Slane Castle made the front page of ‘The Irish Times’ 31 years ago

Fri May 27 2016 - 19:02

Rome’s treatment of censured Irish priests a ‘great scandal’

Catholic bishops urged to develop more just and respectful process for dealing with cases

Mon May 23 2016 - 01:00

Appeal by ‘silenced’ priests fails to elicit Vatican response

Dissident theologians accuse church watchdog of heartless, unchristian attitude

Thu Apr 28 2016 - 17:54

Ministry of priests disciplined by Vatican to be discussed

Certain clerics suspended for perceived liberal views on issues such as women’s ordination

Thu Apr 07 2016 - 15:07

‘Spotlight’ illuminates ‘Boston Globe’ clerical sex abuse stories

Film bestows understated nobility on frustrating craft of investigative journalistm

Sat Nov 07 2015 - 01:00

Tributes paid to Derek Davis at humanist ceremony

Seán Davis speaks of ‘overwhelming sense of love’ for father

Mon May 18 2015 - 23:38

‘New Irish’ Christians gather to vote No in referendum

Church leader is using ‘Whatsapp’ to encourage congregation to vote against gay marraige

Sun May 17 2015 - 19:37

Radio: D’arcy’s room for improvement lies outside his comfort zone

Ray D’Arcy’s show lacks fizz but motor enthusiast Anton Savage is heading in the right direction

Sat Feb 28 2015 - 04:00

Fr Brian D’Arcy calls on RTÉ to suspend long wave radio closure

Emigrants have multiple ways of accessing radio through internet or TV, RTÉ says

Mon Dec 01 2014 - 22:29

Albert Reynolds remembered as ‘man of peace’

President, Taoiseach and John Major among dignitaries paying respects to former taoiseach

Mon Aug 25 2014 - 16:05

Longford meets Dublin 4 in remembering Albert Reynolds

People paid their respects to the late former taoiseach at Donnybrook church

Mon Aug 25 2014 - 01:00

Vatican lifts sanctions on silenced Irish priest

Pope Francis believed to have intervened directly in Fr Sean Fagan’s case

Tue Apr 29 2014 - 09:06

Legal life of the late Anthony Hederman was ‘a vocation’

Former judge and attorney general buried in Castleknock college cemetery

Wed Jan 15 2014 - 13:21

God’s Labrador and a turbulent priest

The attempted silencing of Fr Tony Flannery was tragic. The censure of Brian D’Arcy verged on the ridiculous

Sat Nov 23 2013 - 01:00