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Grace
What lessons did Stacey Dooley learn while living in a convent? Nun whatsoever
TV review: The usually empathetic presenter just wasn’t on the sisters’ wavelength
Permission for 99 buy-to-let apartments in Dublin is challenged in High Court
Judicial review proceedings taken against An Bord Pleanála over Beaumont scheme
Remains of Bernadette Connolly found in UK after going missing in Dublin
Her family posted a message online to say that they received the tragic news
Sheelyn Browne: ‘Loss of Westport House was like somebody cut off my oxygen’
Despite the difficulty of moving on, the artist remains inspired by her famed ancestral home
Government comes under criticism in Dáil over health service scandals
Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald accuses Minister for Health of ‘sitting on his hands’
Speaking in mother tongues shows heritage is a class act
Embracing diverse languages inside the classroom gives all pupils a great advantage
No criminal charges following investigation into ‘Grace’ abuse case
DPP directs no charges despite Garda recommendation
Jason Bateman on his ‘wilderness years’, sobriety, success and Ozark
After forty years in the industry, the actor reflects on his biggest roles
The King’s Man: The best entry yet in the secret agent pastiche franchise
Push the barmy politics to one side and wallow in the imaginative absurdity
‘Proper mare’ Dorans Weir triumphs in Thurles
Five-year-old, ridden by Taaffe, beats Burn The Evidence by three and quarter lengths
Dublin Airport: ‘Oh my God, the relief. I made the flight by 35 minutes’
Christmas joy as siblings, parents and other family members reunite for festive season
Rod Stewart: ‘I’ve always loved Dublin, all my life’
The singer on changing social mores, lockdown tears and why he loves Ireland
Barretstown: ‘You gave me back my child, the child that was there before they got sick’
The Co Kildare camp is open again, to help children who are sick ‘feel a bit normal’
Barretstown: What Paul Newman did for Saoirse, Kitty, Julie and Isaac
The Co Kildare camp was set up by a man who ‘wanted to help kids who were sick feel a bit normal’
Green oranges, liver sausage, guavas: The foods Irish people abroad eat
To mark the start of Irish Times Food Month 2021, readers living abroad take us shopping
Repeated failings identified in management of the care of ‘Grace’
Commission finds woman placed in care despite criminal convictions of foster parents
Respect: Just a little bit of a great soul story
Aretha Franklin biopic follows familiar rhythms of the genre
Bravery medals for gardaí who tackled armed kidnappers
Two detectives helped free a family held hostage by gang at Cork house in 2005
Hurricane Grace crosses over Mexico’s Gulf shore
US National Hurricane Centre said Grace had maximum sustained winds of 125mph
The Irish Times view on Haiti’s torment: one disaster too many
A country which has faced more than its share of disasters
‘Painful days ahead’ as Haitians struggle to count lives lost in earthquake
Death toll from Saturday’s powerful 7.2 magnitude earthquake rises to 2,189
‘We are crying out for help’: Death toll in Haiti nearly 2,000 as survivors await aid
Haiti earthquake: People in Les Cayes without food, shelter and clean water, pastor says
Haiti braces for storm Grace as PM warns earthquake death toll could rise
Tropical depression could pass over areas already hit by Saturday’s quake that killed at least 1,297
Might Covid and 2020 mark a final rupture in history of Irish Catholicism?
Devotion has become fixated on Sunday Mass – but will many return to church when curbs fully lift?
Bella Mackie ‘It’s a fantasy, no woman is allowed to be like this anyway’
Bella Mackie talks about writing her darkly hilarious debut novel, How to Kill Your Family, that was partly inspired by her childhood love of true crime
Emmys: The Crown, Ted Lasso and The Mandalorian lead nominations
Streaming services take most nominations, with 130 for HBO+ and 129 for Netflix
Alan Mannus keeps Shamrock Rovers’ hopes alive after bruising night in Bratislava
Goalkeeper’s penalty save and follow-up stop limits the damage ahead of second leg in Tallaght
Britney Spears speaks at last: Will her day in court upend all we thought we knew?
After documentaries and theories, the singer today makes a bid to take back control of her life
The Handmaid’s Tale, once an urgent parable for our times, has become merely adequate
Season 4 review: Elisabeth Moss is the best thing about an only occasionally gripping series
Firewater in the hold: The Irish whiskey aged at sea off Clare Island
Carl O’Grady is hoping to make the island a tourist attraction for whiskey enthusiasts
What I learned growing up as a gay Jehovah’s Witness in north Cork
Jamie O’Connell: ‘I am still untangling the black roots of self-hatred imposed on me’
ITV ‘cautiously optimistic’ about recovery as ad sales rebound
ITV Studios report 9% lift in revenues to £372m as production largely continued despite pandemic
The genealogy butler: Helping you to trace your roots from home
Helen Kelly now offers remote consultations for those curious to travel back in time
Rosaleen McDonagh: ‘Traveller women who don’t have children are pitied’
Cerebral palsy meant two mighty and brutal forces of patriarchy had a tight grip upon my body
Rise of private primary schools: ‘Children are in charge of their learning’
Smaller classes and ‘wrap-around’ childcare comes at a cost: about €3,000-€11,000 a year
Smother: This is what an Agatha Christie-themed Glenroe looks like
TV review: Restrained Dervla Kirwan steals the show from melodramatic Seána Kerslake
Nanny state? After the mess here in Texas, I’d give my right arm to live in one
When the big freeze hit this laissez-faire part of the US, it was like the pandemic squared
Unbeaten Honeysuckle poised for a stiff test in Dublin Festival highlight
De Bromhead and Blackmore have another favourite with Minella Indo in Irish Gold Cup
Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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