Leinster House repairs exceed original €8m budget‘It will cost what it will cost,’ according to Houses of the Oireachtas superintendentTue Jan 15 2019 - 02:00
Gardaí issue appeal over missing Galway manRobert Murray (25) from Salthill has not been seen since late last WednesdayMon Jan 14 2019 - 16:50
Winter returns: Ireland braces for incoming polar air massBalmy conditions not set to last, with temperatures due to plummet as low as –3Mon Jan 14 2019 - 16:00
Men who died on Mourne Mountains over weekend namedSean Byrne and Robbie Robertson both fell when high winds hit the mountain rangeMon Jan 14 2019 - 09:51
Butterflies, daffs and grass-cutting in January: has nature gone haywire?Temperatures for the winter to date have been well above normalFri Jan 11 2019 - 20:54
Cautious optimism as corncrake makes modest Irish returnBird, once a soundtrack to the early summer, now confined to limited number of areasFri Jan 11 2019 - 15:24
‘People’s Dáil’ called to mark centenary of parliament’s first meetingUnion head says democratic programme drawn up 100 years ago has been ‘ditched’Thu Jan 10 2019 - 20:53
Diary of events for 2019 commemorationsSpecial centenary Dáil sitting and War of Independence exhibition among events to watch out forTue Jan 08 2019 - 11:19
Soloheadbeg group says decision by President Higgins not to attend ‘a missed opportunity’Killing of two policemen in ambush started War of Independence and remains controversialMon Jan 07 2019 - 17:10
Taoiseach to make week-long visit to Mali and EthiopiaLeo Varadkar will view the work of Irish peacekeepers and NGOsSun Jan 06 2019 - 07:16
Hundreds attend Dublin shooting victim’s funeralPriest speaks out about the ‘evil’ created by violent murders during ceremonySat Jan 05 2019 - 16:06
2019 will be centenary central as Ireland remembers turbulent pastGovernment advised it should largely leave War of Independence centenaries to local communitiesSat Jan 05 2019 - 06:00
Dublin house raffle raises €1.4m for Roscommon GAADemand for tickets was ‘way beyond expectations’, organisers sayWed Jan 02 2019 - 19:55
Cyclists disappointed at scrapping of Bill setting ‘safe distance’ for overtakingProposed law to enforce minimum passing distance is shelved after AG voices concernsWed Jan 02 2019 - 18:09
Road deaths drop to a record low for 2018‘Serious concern’ at sharp increase in the number of pedestrian deaths on roadsTue Jan 01 2019 - 17:40
Abortion services: New counselling hotline goes liveMy Options will provide the names of GPs and hospitals offering abortion servicesTue Jan 01 2019 - 11:25
Near record temperatures and falls of snow mark 2018 as an exceptional weather yearThe beast from the east and summer drought characterise a topsy-turvy yearSun Dec 30 2018 - 12:40
State papers: Poet Thomas Kinsella sent Haughey his royalty pay slip for 4pKinsella told taoiseach Aosdána stipend was unfair on poets as none could live entirely off their artSat Dec 29 2018 - 12:01
State papers: Irish officials found no evidence Easter Rising got papal blessingCount George Plunkett claimed he met Pope Benedict XV in week before RisingSat Dec 29 2018 - 05:15
Armistice Day commemorations a source of tension in the Free State eraRoyal British Legion warned any flying of Union flag would be regarded as provocationSat Dec 29 2018 - 04:00
Number of social events and guests per department cut 10% due to austerityDinner at Dublin Castle for Mitterrand was an ‘exceptional’ occasion allowed to exceed the government limit on entertainment spendingSat Dec 29 2018 - 03:01
Hillery was pressurised to make State visit to the VaticanIt was hoped that visit would lead to reciprocal visit of Pope John Paul II to IrelandSat Dec 29 2018 - 02:17
State papers: MacSharry objected to additional support for Apple in CorkThen minister for finance said company’s record in Ireland was ‘very disappointing’Sat Dec 29 2018 - 02:12
‘Wasteful’ Dublin Millennium projects got chopped by ‘Mac the Knife’Memo from Ray MacSharry for 1988 event condemns plans of government colleagueSat Dec 29 2018 - 02:01
Gerry Conlon wrote to Haughey asking him to intervene in his caseThen taoiseach Haughey went on to raise the issue of the Guildford Four throughout 1988Sat Dec 29 2018 - 01:55
State Papers: Repatriation of Phoenix Park equestrian statue not permittedGough statue had been repeatedly attacked and ultimately bombed off plinth by IRASat Dec 29 2018 - 01:34
Anonymous letter claimed British knew of Enniskillen bomb plansState papers: Self-proclaimed operative sent Brian Lenihan letter six days after IRA bomb killed 12Sat Dec 29 2018 - 00:06
Patrick Kavanagh vowed to ‘break every bloody bookshop’ in Dublin over literary snubPoet told Fred Hanna he would ‘wreck the joint’ if his book wasn’t put in the windowFri Dec 28 2018 - 14:25
Plans for restoration of Mountjoy Square released for public submissionCity council plans to reinstate Georgian design of 200-year-old Dublin parkFri Dec 28 2018 - 00:01
Leopardstown Christmas Festival sees high demand and drama on opening day‘Unprecedented’ crowds enjoy unseasonal weather as Ellie Mac makes Grade One debutWed Dec 26 2018 - 19:59
Taken 50 years ago: A photo of Earth as it had never been seen before‘Grand oasis in the big vastness of space’: ‘Earthrise’ captured by Apollo 8 astronautMon Dec 24 2018 - 10:05
Van Morrison happy to be called musical geniusBelfast-born singer says he did not have a clue what he was doing when writing ‘Astral Weeks’Sun Dec 23 2018 - 20:53
Unauthorised demolition of semi-d leaves woman’s home exposedDemonstrators rally in support of Una Gildea over damage to her Dublin 8 houseSat Dec 22 2018 - 19:09
KBC bank branches attacked amid protest outside Dublin headquartersThree attacks on KBC offices in less than 48 hours amid Roscommon eviction controversySat Dec 22 2018 - 17:36
Dublin’s Long Stone pub to close its door after 264 yearsTownsend Street venue, popular with Trinity students, to be demolished early next yearFri Dec 21 2018 - 15:16
New crackdown on unaccompanied learner drivers to come into force‘Clancy Amendment’ allows gardaí seize vehicles driven by learner driversFri Dec 21 2018 - 12:02
Roscommon eviction: Flanagan says ‘violence is never justified’Three men working for private security firm hospitalised after melee at repossessed houseMon Dec 17 2018 - 21:03
Appeal after man suffers head injuries from serious assaultVictim discovered at a house in Kilcormac, Co Offaly on Saturday morningMon Dec 17 2018 - 15:08
Honoured at last: Irishman who escaped a German POW campTom McGrath’s son will receive medals his father won after escaping from Stalag XXAMon Dec 17 2018 - 01:00
Local authority housing lists lack transparency, report statesAbsence of consistency leading tenants to believe system subject to ‘political patronage’Fri Dec 14 2018 - 20:12
Teenager quoted €18,693.90 to insure a 14-year-old carQuote described as ‘outrageous’ and a tax on rural IrelandFri Dec 14 2018 - 18:34
Research finds gardeners have low level of exposure to controversial pesticideGlyposate exposure levels were just 1 per cent of accepted European norms, NUI Galway study findsFri Dec 14 2018 - 18:13
The weather outside is frightful and it's about to get worseSpot flooding expected as parts of the north and west to experience delugeFri Dec 14 2018 - 08:06
Human rights defenders memorial planned for Iveagh House groundsStatue will honour 3,500 killed for defending human rightsMon Dec 10 2018 - 00:41
Brexit: Tory MP backtracks over food scarcity in IrelandNo-deal remarks ‘taken out of context’, claims former cabinet minister Priti PatelSat Dec 08 2018 - 21:54
Nuns ‘haven’t gone away’ from maternity hospital, Shortall claimsSocial Democrats politician responds to comments by Dr Rhona MahonySat Dec 08 2018 - 17:57
Dr Rhona Mahony says nuns will not run new maternity hospitalHolles Street master says canon law ‘irrelevant’ to new facility at St Vincent’s campusSat Dec 08 2018 - 12:39
‘No evidence’ women were key in Sinn Féin’s 1918 election winUp to 70% of women eligible to vote in 1918 did not use franchise, research suggestsWed Dec 05 2018 - 22:23
Number of rough sleepers in Dublin rises 46 to 156 since springFr Peter McVerry compares homeless problem to a ‘runaway train with no brakes’Mon Dec 03 2018 - 20:55
Turning Apollo House into ‘cash cow’ is upsetting – trade union officialBrendan Ogle says there has been no ideological rethink in order to solve homeless crisisMon Dec 03 2018 - 20:27
