Quinn Insurance bosses challenge inquiry
Two former executives at Quinn Insurance have launched High Court proceedings to prevent an inquiry by the Central Bank into...
View ArticleEnergy drink ban demanded for under-16s
Nutrition experts have called for a ban on the sale of energy drinks to children under 16 after research showed...
View ArticleSecret government talks could be made public
The details of meetings between independent TDs and the main parties over the formation of a government should be published,...
View ArticleRelieved Drumm to be freed on bail today
David Drumm, the former head of Anglo Irish Bank, is to be freed on bail this morning after he was...
View ArticleVaradkar urged to explain hospital crisis
Leo Varadkar has been urged to make himself available for Dail questioning over the hospital trolley crisis when it resumes...
View ArticleOil price slump ‘will put brakes on growth’
The Irish economy will grow by 4.4 per cent this year and 3.5 per cent next year, driven by a...
View ArticleIreland must keep perspective despite crushing win over Italy
“A soothsayer bids you beware the ides of March.” – Julius Caesar Act 1, Scene 2 – William Shakespeare. When...
View ArticlePressure grows on Kelly over vulture funds
Alan Kelly, the environment minister, is under increasing pressure to explain why he did not draft legislation to protect tenants...
View ArticleStreet Politics
The news that 200 families in west Dublin could be made homeless after receiving eviction orders from a so-called vulture...
View ArticleAlan Dunne: Football saved me, but I regret not playing for Ireland
His life appeared perfect but it wasn’t. What the world saw were the trappings of fame, the nice car, the...
View ArticleRents in Dublin surpass the boom years
Rents in Dublin are higher than at the height of the property boom in 2007 after charges rose by 9...
View ArticleColm Cavanagh acts to temper Tyrone expectations
It was four years ago when Mickey Harte, Tyrone’s three-time All-Ireland winning manager, claimed that a team coming from Division...
View ArticleNama stays on course to meet debt target
The National Asset Management Agency will redeem €2.5 billion of senior debt this week, it revealed yesterday. The move will...
View ArticleAIB customer in legal win over data leak
The Department of Social Protection has been ordered to hand over the name and address of a civil servant who...
View ArticleIreland deceived me, but I can’t let it down
For some Irish citizens, our national character is best expressed by getting so drunk on a night out that we...
View ArticleEllahi given 13 years for raping woman with Down’s syndrome
A man who raped a young woman with Down’s syndrome has been jailed for 13 years after a judge described the...
View ArticleFacebook promises 200 extra jobs in Dublin
Facebook is to create 200 jobs at its international headquarters in Dublin in a sign of its continued commitment to...
View ArticleRoscommon rise is no fluke, but the result of clear vision
It was around the same time as the IMF shacked up here in 2011 that Roscommon football became a microcosm...
View ArticleJamie Heaslip: Champions not much better than us
Jamie Heaslip has downplayed the significance of Ireland’s decline, claiming that England, the new Six Nations champions, have been only...
View ArticleSense of Unity
Martin McGuinness, the deputy first minister for Northern Ireland, has called for a cross-border poll in the event that Britain...
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