Primary school forced to close despite warning six months earlier of fire safety problems
Department of Education ‘suddenly very forthcoming once closure happened’
Kildare
A supermodel sandpiper popped up on the Clare shore in December
Eye on Nature: Éanna Ní Lamhna on kelp, Bootlace Fungus and Pelican’s Foot Shells
Status orange and yellow weather warnings in place as unsettled weather to last into next week
Warning of difficult travel conditions as heaviest rainfall in expected in southern and eastern areas
Procurement for Greater Dublin drainage scheme to begin 14 years after project announced
Cabinet also to hear how age-verification social media pilot for under-16s could start within weeks
Enniscorthy to get interim flood defences amid fears of further flooding in Leinster and Munster
Government ‘will do all we can’ to provide aid and prevention measures, Enniscorthy residents told
Poulaphouca reservoir may need to release held rainwater, increasing flood risk in Kildare and Dublin
Levels at State’s largest artificial reservoir have increased quickly in recent weeks
Photo essay: Foaling season begins at the Irish National Stud and Gardens in Kildare
Irish Times photographer Dara Mac Dónaill meets Toffee the foal, Talk of Freedom and Phoenix of Spain at the stud’s reopening
Born-Again Brigit - Birthday boy Frank McNally on the rebranding of February 1st
Unlike St Patrick, there is no historical record of her life, so her identity can be endlessly refreshed or reimagined
Four charged with alleged corrupt practices at Kildare and Wicklow Education Training Board
Accused include former chief executive Seán Ashe
St Brigid’s bank holiday weekend: From parades to workshops, there’s lots on to celebrate Imbolc
Live podcast shows, fire displays and free concerts part of festivities across country
John Magnier’s Coolmore seeking €1.475m for Kildare tillage farm
78.33-acre holding is well located near Maynooth and Kilcock and suitable for agricultural and equestrian use
From Portugal to Ireland: ‘There was some part of me that started to be a bit more awake’
Irene Dennehy moved to Ireland in the 1990s
‘It’s just stressful’: Workers facing two and three hour commutes into Dublin
TD missed start of Dáil debate calling for wider right to remote and flexible working as journey from Kildare took more than three hours
Why do one in 10 Irish youths believe the Holocaust is a myth?
Teacher says ‘nuance’ is lost online and some young minds are ‘struggling to decipher’ what algorithms put before them
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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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