Charlie McGeever ready to make up for summer of lost promise
He doesn’t look back in anger but Charlie McGeever, the manager of the Tipperary minor football team who will contest...
View ArticleWounded Afghan veteran enters Stormont
An Afghanistan veteran who lost both legs and was partially blinded in a Taliban bomb has become the latest member...
View ArticleKilkenny exposing rivals’ mediocrity
All the secrets of the summer were on show the very first night of the season. We just didn’t recognise...
View ArticleJoe Schmidt the man to achieve global glory
He had come straight from training and yet his clothes were clean and pressed. A confident, calm man, he purposefully...
View ArticlePaddy Andrews no longer the silent assassin, Declan O’Sullivan says
Declan O’Sullivan, Kerry’s five-time All-Ireland medal-winner, insisted yesterday that Paddy Andrews, the Dublin forward who won the man-of-the-match award in...
View ArticleTyrone give Mickey Harte a new two-year deal
There was mixed news for Mickey Harte, the Tyrone manager, last night after he was reappointed on a new two-year...
View ArticleTD rejects ‘false imprisonment’ charges
Paul Murphy, the Socialist party TD, has said he will plead not guilty to charges of false imprisonment of Joan...
View ArticleUlster Bank restructure may mean job losses
Ulster Bank is set to restructure its Irish operations to build a “a stronger and simpler bank”. Under the new...
View ArticleAge of Auction Politics
There is a crisis of leadership in this country. Instead of taking tough decisions and standing by them, there is...
View ArticleDublin singer hopes his unusual sales pitch pays off
First home taping was killing music, then video killed the radio star. Then the internet massacred the lot of them....
View ArticleWomen are not trusted with their own bodies, Keyes says
Ireland treats women as “second-class citizens” who can’t be trusted to make decisions on abortion for themselves, one of the...
View Article‘Time to move on’ as GAA clears British army
The British army is to field a GAA team for the first time. The Irish guards are to become the...
View ArticleIreland praised for tackling tax avoidance
The OECD has said Ireland is an “exemplary case of adapting and adopting” the organisation’s efforts to stop multinational tax...
View ArticleA room at the Merrion? Worth €120,000
Revenues at the Merrion, one of Dublin’s top luxury hotels, were up last year as the company benefited from the...
View ArticleIBRC inquiry ‘delayed until after election’
The Commission of Inquiry into the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation (IBRC) may not publish its findings until after the general...
View ArticleLeaders urged to find ‘critical’ solution
Enda Kenny has urged all parties in Northern Ireland to get Stormont “back on track”. Talks aimed at saving power-sharing...
View ArticleFairytale Budgets
The pre-budget guessing game is in full swing. Leaks suggest that there is a bit of something for everyone: a...
View ArticleChanging the abortion law has become an artform
Politicians don’t like artists much. This is probably true in all countries, but it is certainly true in Ireland. The...
View ArticleJust for starters . . . technology entrepreneurs surge ahead
In San Francisco a couple of Irish brothers have had a big week. John and Patrick Collison, who hail from...
View ArticleIreland leads way with plan to save bees
Ireland’s motorways and railways are to be “rewilded” to create bee highways in an attempt to save the insects from...
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