Ryanair heiress Danielle Ryan lends €1.3m to luxury empire
Danielle Ryan, the entrepreneur and Ryan dynasty heiress, and Richard Bourke, her husband, ploughed €1.3 million in loans into their...
View ArticleNew Year, new era: the stars who can lift Ireland out of its winter of...
Ian Madigan’s tears of joy seem an age ago. The Leinster out half, soon to be Bordeaux Bègles player, melted...
View ArticleLes Kiss fears backlash from ‘dangerous’ Munster
Les Kiss, Ulster’s director of rugby, expects to meet “a dangerous beast” in Munster, who will attempt to end a...
View ArticlePlayers to blame for dire Munster run, Tomas O’Leary says
Tomas O’Leary, the Munster scrum half, says the province’s players have let down their coaching staff. Munster have lost five...
View ArticleSlim pickings for a licence to thrill
Let’s all calm down a bit about the prospect of Aidan Turner becoming the next James Bond , OK? Here...
View ArticleArmy feared calls to send troops over border
Army chiefs feared that the British and nationalists would call for Irish troops to be sent over the border in...
View ArticleStardust payouts kept away from taoiseach
The taoiseach’s department wanted to eschew responsibility for the compensation scheme for victims of the Stardust disaster over fears it...
View ArticleTop ministers fought South Africa trade ban
Two senior Fine Gael ministers resisted attempts by the government to impose a ban on importing fruit and vegetables from...
View ArticleFitzGerald backed workers during South Africa fruit strike
Garret FitzGerald viewed the management of Dunnes Stores as “bloody-minded” and the government had not found them “easy to deal...
View ArticleMembers of police authority announced
Noel Brett, a former road safety boss and Bob Collins, an ex-RTE director-general are among eight appointees to the state’s...
View ArticleCar insurance premiums rise by 26 per cent
Insurance premiums have risen by 20 to 50 per cent for one in three Irish motorists in the past year,...
View ArticleVictims left homeless as waters keep rising
Hundreds of householders and business owners were still unable to return to their homes and premises last night after unprecedented...
View ArticleWe must stop writing in Irish, said diplomat
A top diplomat urged the government to abandon the use of Irish in letters to foreign leaders and heads of state....
View ArticleMinisters deny snubbing flooded families
Government ministers were forced to defend the taoiseach yesterday amid criticism he has not visited stricken families affected by Storm...
View ArticleEuropean Court of Human Rights court halts deportation of Isis suspect
The European Court of Human Rights has stopped Ireland from deporting a Middle Eastern man accused of being a recruiter...
View ArticleLabour stalwarts back second term for Higgins
Joan Burton and Brendan Howlin have become the latest senior Labour figures to hint that Michael D Higgins could seek...
View ArticleMinimum wage increase ‘will not cost jobs’
The increase in the minimum wage, which comes into effect today, will not slow the rate of growth in job...
View ArticleBanking inquiry throws down the gauntlet
After roughly thirty individuals named in the banking inquiry made requests to amend its report, the committee have defended their...
View ArticleGlenroe creator Wesley Burrowes dies at 85
Wesley Burrowes, the creator of some of the most popular dramas on Irish TV, died yesterday, aged 85. In a...
View ArticleGardai: Lucky that shooting did not escalate
It was fortunate that no one else was killed when a convicted drug dealer was shot dead in west Dublin...
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