‘Results get worse and worse and nothing is said but the funding just goes on’
When he grabbed hold of a pen, John Coghlan was sure what his scribbles would reveal. Still, he wanted to...
View ArticleCredit Suisse refused Anglo pleas for loan
A global investment bank ignored pleas from Anglo Irish Bank officials to help the troubled lender boost its bottom line with...
View ArticleRonan plans new offices for Ballsbridge site
Johnny Ronan, the property developer, has lodged plans to knock down office blocks on a Ballsbridge site that once sold...
View ArticleTipperary must overcome mental scars to edge ahead of greatest rivals
When Tipperary defeated Kilkenny in Thurles last March, they did more than just win a match; they made a big...
View ArticleCampaigners lose fight to keep up posters
Dublin city council has won approval to remove posters erected by a campaign group that is seeking to amend the...
View ArticleKPMG partners leave firm after tax arrests
Four senior partners at KPMG’s Belfast office have left the company, months after they were arrested in connection with suspected...
View ArticleGoogle spirits billions through its Irish HQ
Google transferred €10.7 billion via its Irish office, through the Netherlands to Bermuda in 2014, a practise which allows it...
View ArticlePity the party with all the power — but no idea
Richard Bruton wants you to snap out of it. Unnerved by a succession of opinion polls showing a fall in...
View ArticleRobbie Henshaw: I’ve let people down in Connacht with Leinster move
All week voices from out west have asked why the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU) did not do more to...
View ArticleJohnny Sexton fit to face England but Ireland lose trio to injury
In the story of Ireland’s 2016 RBS Six Nations Championship campaign, Mullingar threatened to transform itself from a footnote to...
View ArticleVote is the most important ‘since partition’
Martin McGuinness told his Sinn Fein colleagues that Friday’s vote would be “the most important moment since partition” at their...
View ArticleGender quotas are making our politics progressive
On Friday, a total of 551 candidates will contest the election — 388 men and 163 women, a breakdown of...
View ArticleFears over rookie female TDs ‘misplaced’
More than 70 per cent of the women running for the Dail have previous election experience, according to a new...
View ArticleBurton: Sinn Fein offers workers ‘a large, fat zero’
Joan Burton claimed that Sinn Fein and the Social Democrats were offering workers “a large, fat zero” as she unveiled...
View ArticleIreland has first diver at Olympics for 68 years
Ireland will be represented in diving at the Olympics for the first time in 68 years thanks to the so-called...
View ArticleMcDonald’s heckler revealed as top banker
Mary Lou McDonald has said that the anonymous “small business owner” who confronted her over Sinn Fein’s tax policies had...
View ArticleBosses trim fat to survive cut-price battle
Irish businesses are increasingly worried about competition and discounting by competitors, in a sign that the market for small firms...
View ArticleKenny on defensive over ‘whingers’ gaffe
Enda Kenny will come under further pressure today to apologise after he labelled voters in his own constituency “whingers”. The...
View ArticleFilm festival pays tribute to Murder she Wrote star
Angela Lansbury was presented with an award by the taoiseach at the Audi Dublin International Film Festival last night (Alan...
View ArticleThousands of teachers given exam tax break
Teachers who work as superintendents and examiners for the Leaving and Junior Certificate exams are to benefit from an exemption...
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