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Why Ireland is under pressure in a battle over European trade
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After 25 years the Mercosur deal is reaching crunch time. The trade deal which would permit free trade between the EU and the South American countries...
What was the greatest Irish sporting moment of 2025?
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The 2025 roll call of Irish sporting heroes is long and notable for the variety of sports that saw stunning feats of excellence.Golfing great Rory McI...
Looking back on the biggest political stories of 2025
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What were the big political stories of 2025? Were there issues we were obsessed with at the time and now can’t quite remember why? And were there an...
Crime 2025: The stories that made the headlines
15 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
One of the most shocking stories of the year was the disappearance of Kerry farmer Michael Gaine, whose dismembered body was found on his farm almost ...
Will Australia’s social media ban for children come to Ireland?
11 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Australia became the first country in the world to impose a social media ban for children aged 16 and under.Welcomed by parents there but c...
What’s gone wrong with the M50 and can we fix it?
11 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The M in M50 stands for motorway – multiple lanes, fast speed limits and easy access to a network of national roads. More than 30 years ago it was d...
How a Government advice video on 'moving back home' went viral for all the wrong reasons
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Department of Housing is an unexpected source of top tips for young adults on how to behave. “Help out around the house”, it advises, “Set h...
Murder in Edenderry: How suspected drug debt led to deadly arson attack
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Gardaí have opened a double murder investigation after a young boy, Tadhg Farrell (4) and his great-aunt Mary Holt (60) were killed in a suspected pe...
Syria’s disappeared: Leak of Assad torture photographs reveals fate of thousands
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A leak of documents, including photographs, from the regime of Bashir al Assad has laid bare the bloody inner workings of his regime.More than 33,000 ...
Why the push for peace in Ukraine is failing
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The latest round of Ukraine-Russia peace talks have been the most complex and lengthy since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia began in Febr...
Is arming the gardaí with Tasers a good idea?
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Uniformed gardaí are being issued with Taser guns as part of a six-month trial.It has long been a point of pride in Ireland that the police force are...
Is Trump starting a war with Venezuela?
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a major military operation that began in September, the US administration continues to put pressure on Venezuela with navy warships massing in the ...
Why Irish landlords are selling up and leaving the rental market
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
New figures from the Residential Tenancies Board are stark: the number of eviction notices issued by landlords in the third quarter of this year incre...
Will Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch enter the Dublin Central by-election
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Gerry Hutch, also known as The Monk, is eyeing up the Dáil seat left vacant by the resignation of Paschal Donohoe.Already it is believed that the con...
Hong Kong fire: how unheeded warnings may have lead to disaster
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
By Friday, the death toll in the Hong Kong apartment complex inferno had reached 128 with many more people unaccounted for.A blaze that began in one 3...
Will plan to rename Dublin Airport after Seán Lemass fly?
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ireland has been slow to name its airports after people. Streets and housing estates, yes, but as Ronan McGreevy points out, the State is more incline...
‘There’s an impression in society that it’s a man’s disease’: Heart attacks and the risks for women
27 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Heart disease is the leading causes of death of women in Ireland but yet, many of us still consider it a male illness.Cardiovascular disease claims mo...
Why online scammers love Black Friday
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Black Friday – a Thanksgiving shopping extravaganza imported from the US – isn’t just one day any more. Retailers, both online and in the shops,...
Ireland ‘flying blind’ financially, and a new name for Dublin Airport?
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is an episode of our new sister podcast, Early Edition. It's in your feed this morning because -as a listener of In The News, we thought you migh...
Are Denmark’s hardline immigration rules coming to Ireland?
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Denmark’s immigration laws have evolved over the past 20 years but the intention underpinning them is the same: only asylum seekers who have been in...
How fat jab Mounjaro is making Ireland the world’s fastest-growing economy
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Pharma giant Eli Lilly manufactures the ingredients for its weight-loss drug Mounjaro and its diabetes drug Zepbound in Kinsale, Co Cork.The Irish Fis...
Defence Forces Tribunal demands names, and nursing homes want immigration rules relaxed
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We're happy to share an episode Early Edition, a new podcast from The Irish Times that brings you four of our top stories in under ten minutes. F...
Good year for the Criminal Assets Bureau, bad year for blinged-up criminals
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2024 the Criminal Assets Bureau seized assets and money totalling just over €17 million and sold 20 houses that had been bought with the proceeds...
FIFA World Cup: Can Republic of Ireland qualify for 2026?
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
So now we know, the World Cup play-off fixtures have been announced: Republic of Ireland will play Czech Republic away on March 26th, and if they win,...
Why Trump caved to Maga pressure over Epstein files
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Epstein files are a vast cache of documents which include legal files, witness testimonies and flight logs, collected during an extensive US Justi...
What will Paschal Donohoe's departure mean for government?
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There has been a sense for some time that Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe’s next move was never going to be to some other role in Leinster Hous...
John Mackey murder: How an Irish pensioner was killed for his groceries
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Like a whole generation of young Irish men, John Mackey emigrated to the UK in the 1950s in search of work.At 87 and living alone in north London, the...
Introducing 'Early Edition', a new podcast from The Irish Times
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We're happy to share an episode Early Edition, a new podcast from The Irish Times that brings you four of our top stories in under ten minutes. F...
What’s behind Belfast’s Irish language revival?
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For generations, Irish speakers north and south of the Irish Border have fought to keep their language alive. And today, what was once dismissed as a ...
New housing plan promises 300,000 new homes. Can it deliver?
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In hard hats and high-vis jackets, Taoiseach Micheál Martin, Tánaiste Simon Harris and Minister for Housing James Browne looked the part at Thursday...
How Sudan became a killing zone
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Few conflicts have caused as much horror and devastation to people’s lives as Sudan’s civil war. And yet, the country’s ongoing death and destru...
What we know so far about the alleged plot to destroy Galway Mosque
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Last Friday, two men appeared before Portlaoise District Court as part of a Garda investigation into an alleged terrorist plot by an extreme right win...
COP30: Will this be the year for real change?
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On Monday, the COP30 climate summit officially opened in the Brazilian city of Belém at the gateway to the Amazon rainforest.Brazilian organisers hav...
Is it time to change the way we buy houses?
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For most people, the process of buying a house can be quite disheartening. The lack of housing supply across the country means houses often sell for w...
Food Month: Ireland’s top restaurants, and what’s on the menu
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Every November, Irish Times restaurant critic Corinna Hardgrave looks back at her year to produce a list of the top 100 restaurants across the country...
Why Donald Trump is rattled by socialist Zohran Mamdani's NYC victory
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On Tuesday New Yorkers elected socialist and Democratic Party candidate Zohran Mamdani as mayor. Mamdani, the city's first Muslim and African-born may...
How Ivan Yates’s links to Fianna Fáil have landed him in hot water
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On Saturday, the story broke that broadcaster and former Fine Gael politician Ivan Yates had provided interview and debate coaching to Fianna Fáil pr...
A Sick Man: DJ Carey and his cancer con
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On Monday afternoon, in a packed courtroom at Dublin’s Circuit Criminal Court, former Kilkenny hurler DJ Carey was sentenced to five and a half year...
Could a drawing help identify woman’s body found in Co Cork?
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There are many things An Garda Síochána know about the woman whose skeletal remains were found in 2021 during the construction of a greenway in Co C...
Saipan: Will 2002 World Cup movie open old wounds for Irish football fans?
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Saipan: it’s the one word that can, even 23 years later, cause a row and Irish football fans still divide into two camps.When it comes to events in ...
Remembering May McGee: The ‘hero housewife’ who fought to make contraception legal in Ireland
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the early 1970s Mary ‘May’ and Seamus ‘Shay’ McGee were parents to four young children. On her second and third pregnancies, May had experi...
How Russia’s hybrid war is spreading fear across Europe
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In early September, worshippers gathering for dawn prayers at several locations across Paris discovered a gruesome and spiteful scene – bloodied pig...
Inside Afghanistan: What is life really like under Taliban rule?
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Journalist Khadija Haidary left her home in Afghanistan in October 2024 after spending three years trying to survive as a working woman in a Taleban-c...
Bloody Sunday: Not guilty verdict in Soldier F murder trial
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A Belfast court delivered a not-guilty verdict on Thursday in the trial of a former British Army paratrooper accused of the murder of two young men in...
Tik Tok thieves versus Ireland's organised crime gangs
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Crimes carried out by a loose syndicate of about 60 teenagers spread across north and South Dublin, who are more interested in capturing their joyridi...
Tear gas and riot gear: How Gardaí put a stop to the Citywest riots
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In chaotic and violent scenes reminiscent of the street riots in Dublin city centre two years ago, around 1,000 protesters outside the Citywest IPAS c...
Virginia Giuffre memoir: Will the British royal family finally drop Prince Andrew?
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On Tuesday, almost six months after she took her own life, the posthumous memoir of Virginia Giuffre went on sale. ‘Nobody’s Girl’, which was co...
Louvre jewel heist: how the robbery that outraged France unfolded
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Shortly after 9.30am on Sunday, when the Louvre in Paris had just opened its doors to visitors, alarm bells started to ring out through the halls of t...
Inside the call centres where Irish victims are top targets for investment scammers
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Scam call centres are paying up to €1,200 per person for the contact details of potential Irish victims.And once they have a name and number, it’s...
Drug debts and buried bodies: the trial of Ruth Lawrence for double murder
17 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Eleven years after the bodies of Anthony Keegan (33) and Eoin O’Connor (32) were discovered buried on Inchicup Island, Dublin woman Ruth Lawrence (4...
Why has Irish swimmer Shane Ryan signed up for the 'Steroid Olympics'?
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Irish Olympic swimmer Shane Ryan can now take all the performance-enhancing drugs he wants as part of his training plan.And if anabolic steroids, huma...
How one woman lost all her money through a romance scam
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The number of people falling victim to online fraud, and in some cases losing their life savings as a result of being scammed, is skyrocketing. Banks ...
Will this ceasefire finally end the war in Gaza?
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On Monday, more than two years after the conflict in Gaza began – a war which has killed tens of thousands, including an estimated 20,000 children –...
Has Michael D Higgins changed the presidency for ever?
13 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Michael D Higgins will shortly finish his two terms as President of Ireland, having served 14 years as head of State.In 2011 he said his tenure would ...
Will Jim Gavin controversy do lasting damage to Micheál Martin’s leadership of Fianna Fail?
10 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It was Micheál Martin’s worst week in the job as leader of Fianna Fáil and it began on late on Sunday evening when the party’s campaign for the ...
Budget 2026: Your questions answered
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
So now we know what’s in Budget 2026 but for most people, what’s not so clear is what’s in it for them.As he has done every year on the day afte...
What's in the Budget for you?
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What is in Budget 2026 for you? Not a lot, probably - as expected, Ministers Paschal Donohoe and Jack Chambers have delivered a much tighter package t...
How Big Tobacco is going after illegal cigarette sellers in Ireland
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s budget day and one thing we can almost certainly expect in Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe’s spending announcements is an increase in th...
How Jim Gavin's presidential run ended in disaster for Fianna Fáil
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Fianna Fail’s presidential candidate Jim Gavin's sensational withdrawal from the presidential race has plunged Fianna Fáil into crisis. There’s ...
Investigation: How doctors sanctioned abroad are still free to practise in Ireland
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How can it happen that a doctor who has been sanctioned or even struck-off in one country can simply move to another and continue working?Shouldn’t ...
MetroLink gets the green light: When will it arrive?
03 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The long-awaited MetroLink line, which will finally connect Dublin Airport to the city by rail, has been approved by An Coimisiún Pleanála, three ye...
'93 injuries on her body': Why the family of Kelly Lynch believe her death is suspicious
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The body of 23-year-old Kelly Lynch was found in a canal in Monaghan on the morning of St Patrick’s Day 2024.For 30 hours, her mother Julieanne had ...
Presidential election: where the candidates went wrong in Monday's debate
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Is Europe already at war with Russia?
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Irish Times is continuing to develop its podcast offering and would like to invite some of our current listeners to take part in a research study ...
No cause of death: Where next for the Daniel Aruebose investigation?
29 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On September 17th, partial skeletal remains of a child were discovered on waste ground in north Dublin following an extensive search by gardaí.While ...
Billionaire John Magnier and the €15 million property deal what never was
27 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When the owners of the 751-acre Barne Estate in Tipperary put the property on the market in 2023, billionaire businessman John Magnier thought he had ...
Drone attacks: Gaza aid flotilla comes under fire
26 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The aid flotilla which is attempting to break Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza has been attacked by drones in international waters off the coast of G...
Temple Bar stabbings: How safe is Dublin city?
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Last weekend, over the course of 24 hours, two men were stabbed and seriously injured in separate incidents in Dublin’s city centre.An English touri...
Presidential election latest: attacks on Jim Gavin, Catherine Connolly's Hamas comments and Heather Humphrey's identity
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Catherine Connolly, Jim Gavin, Heather Humphreys have secured their nominations for the campaign which will run for a month until the election is held...
Why were Irish language speakers protesting on the streets of Dublin?
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Last Saturday, an estimated 25,000 people travelled from across the island of Ireland to gather in Dublin and march through the streets of the capital...
What did the Gardaí buy from an Israeli spyware company?
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Last year An Garda Síochána made payments totalling €278,000 to an Israeli company, Cognyte, which manufactures sophisticated surveillance softwar...
Daniel Aruebose: Body found in north Dublin search for vanished boy
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Gardaí searching for a child who went missing when he was three years old have found human remains at a site in Donabate, north Dublin.Confirming tha...
Eoin Hayes 'blackface' controversy: What can the Social Democrats do with him?
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On Tuesday, Social Democrats leader Holly Cairns returned to the helm of her political party for a think-in dominated by the controversy over TD Eoin ...
Jair Bolsonaro's conviction: Will the disgraced former president of Brazil really do time?
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, Brazil made history when its supreme court convicted the country’s former far right president Jair Bolsonaro, and seven other defendants,...
From Gaza to AI, Pope Leo is taking the papacy in a different direction
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As Pope Leo XIV turns 70 we look back at his first months in office, the messages he has been giving to his flock of 1.4 billion Catholics and what th...
Deep debt, political chaos, riots: Can Macron get France back on track?
12 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In June 2024 French President Emmanuel Macron took a political gamble – and lost heavily.Hoping to strengthen his centrist alliance he dissolved the...
Charlie Kirk: Assassination of conservative activist leaves America in turmoil
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At just 18 committed Christian and college drop out Charlie Kirk established Turning Point USA, an organisation with a mission to spread conservative ...
Violent threats to Irish politicians: how real is the risk and what can be done?
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
An escalating series of threats made to Tánaiste Simon Harris in recent weeks went from an online threat to kidnap his children to co-ordinated bomb ...
RFK Jr: Will Trump stand by America’s vaccine-skeptic health chief?
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Earlier this year, US president Donald Trump sent shock waves across America’s medical and scientific community by appointing Robert F Kennedy jnr, ...
Tom Phillips: How a fugitive took his kids and hid for years in the New Zealand wilderness
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Phillips, a fugitive father who spent four years hiding in New Zealand’s remote wilderness with his three children was shot dead on Monday by po...
Sophie Toscan du Plantier: Could a new DNA technique finally identify her killer?
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Could new technology help to finally reveal who killed Sophie Toscan du Plantier? After prime suspect Ian Bailey’s death last year, Sophi...
Why everyone's watching The Traitors: “Crazy witchfinding bullshit. That’s why it’s fun"
05 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nearly half of everyone watching Irish TV on Sunday evening tuned in for the scheming, lying and game-playing on The Traitors Ireland. It’s a hit.RT...
Missing, feared dead: unanswered questions as Gardaí search for vanished Dublin boy
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Gardaí are attempting to unravel several conflicting witness accounts of what happened to a boy who went missing four years ago and is feared de...
The rise of Farage: can Keir Starmer do anything to halt Reform?
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Britain’s Labour Party returned to Westminster from a summer recess defined by anti-migrant protests, and during which, Nigel Farage’s ...
Meadow's Law part 2: How a scientific breakthrough exonerated "Australia's worst female serial killer"
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kathleen Folbigg was convicted over the deaths of her four babies in 2003 in a case that shocked Australia.In 2023 a judicial review found that the ba...
Meadow's Law part 1: How an Australian mother was wrongfully jailed for killing her four children
01 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kathleen Folbigg was convicted over the deaths of her four babies in 2003 in a case that shocked Australia.The first three were treated as cases of Su...
Evictions, random rules and overcrowding: Brazilian students on the reality of renting in Dublin
29 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Brazilian couple Gil Rudge (39) and Natalia Bonadia (36) rented a room in a shared apartment from Eduardo Gonzaga’s company, Leevin Ireland.All was ...
Presidential race: will GAA legend Jim Gavin run for Fianna Fáil?
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Despite all the talk over the summer, the names that came and went, the speculation and supposition – there is still only one name confirmed for the...
Will dodgy box users ever face consequences?
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast was first published in June 2025. The use of so-called 'dodgy box' technology to illegally stream television is widespread. Last week Mar...
How the race for total AI domination is revisiting the worst of human history
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the space of a few short years, generative AI has exploded into our daily lives, impacting the way we learn, work and understand the world around u...
The new IRB: How a shadow 'government' is operating under the radar in Ireland
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For years the Irish Republican Brotherhood – the IRB – was remembered annually in a curious ceremony at Dublin’s Mansion House when its self-sty...
Sally Rooney, Palestine Action and a row over the freedom to protest
22 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The arrest of more than 500 people at a Palestine Action rally in London on August 9th did more than raise the profile of the little-known anti-war ac...
Tattle Life: How a gossip website ended up in court
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode was originally published in June 2025. Tattle Life is a gossip site that many will have never heard of until a landmark defamation trial ...
Three Irish emigrants on the highs and lows of returning home to Ireland
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the 12 months leading up to April 2024, 30,000 Irish citizens who had been living abroad returned to Ireland. A similar number of Irish emigrants r...
Is The Rose of Tralee 'uncancellable'?
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Rose of Tralee is one of the biggest events in Ireland’s cultural calendar.It pumps millions of euro into the local economy and pulls in well ov...
An Irish doctor speaks out about his time working in Qatar
18 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2021, GP Paddy Davern returned to Ireland after eight years working as a doctor in Qatar. Four years on, the Tipperary man is still struggling to c...
Is Ireland heading towards an opioid addiction crisis?
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The prescription of pain medication among Irish patients, including highly addictive opioids, is rapidly rising, according to new research.The use of ...
What happened to Martha Nolan O’Slattara? The Irish entrepreneur found dead in New York
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, in the early hours of Tuesday, August 5th, Martha Nolan-O’Slattara was found unconscious on a boat at an exclusive yacht club in the Hamp...
Why is Binyamin Netanyahu defying public opinion to expand the war in Gaza?
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu has continued to defend his government’s plan to escalate the war in Gaza, despite widespread internationa...
Why Limerick City has refused a €30 million gift from billionaire JP McManus
11 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the heart of Limerick city sits a newly-built six storey landmark, offered as a gift by JP McManus to Limerick City and County Council. The billion...