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Search for remains Co Dublin boy – the second child to vanish in a year – raises concerns about welfare of vulnerable children during Covid pandemic
Is cash making a comeback?
Gen Z is all about cash if #cashstuffing videos on TikTok with millions of views are anything to go by
By Joanne Hunt
Ryder Cup players and patrons often resist surrendering to their better angels
Over three days, both teams compete with a fiercely different mindset to what they are used to
Former chair of Enterprise Ireland wanted to stay on
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Corporate makeovers can be very expensive and they frequently misfire
Teachers should refuse to pass pickets of secretaries and caretakers
The unions have over 86,000 members between them. If they stopped working, the strike would soon end
Is CMAT’s claim about suicide during the economic crash accurate?
A noticeable increase in Irish male suicide from 2007 onwards ‘can be mapped directly’ against the economic crash
By Paul Colgan
Victory against Hungary cleared the path to Italia 90. Life would never be the same
Ireland are set to face the Magyars again, but it’s a world removed from the summer in Dublin 36 years ago
Deliver me from the banal evil of ‘hot desking’. I dream of a desk with carpeted walls
They’ve taken our walls, they’ve taken our permanent desks. Where does it end?
Foras na Gaeilge has driven Irish language growth in the North, says report
Report examines operation of all cross-border bodies set up by the Belfast Agreement
Cecelia Ahern: ‘If I talk to my dad about what’s on my mind versus what’s on his, it’s very different’
The author on growing up as Bertie Ahern’s daughter, why her very Irish-based fiction travels so well, and her enduring love of Malahide
By Cecelia Ahern
The longer Joanna Donnelly’s Drivetime interview goes on, the more we worry
On RTÉ Radio 1, the ambitions of the palpably sincere meteorologist can sound slightly delusional. Unusually, Cormac Ó hEadhra decides to ease off
By Mick Heaney
From fish and chips to baba ganoush: Corinna Hardgrave’s favourite takeaways around Ireland
Tried and tested over three years, these are the takeaways that stood out for our expert restaurant critic
Helm by Sarah Hall: This might make more sense as a series of short stories
There is no overall plot connecting the dozen or so temporally disparate narratives
By Emily Formstone
Letters to the Editor, September 5th: On flying the Tricolour, tradwives and the Normans
“A simple DNA test by one of de Valera’s descendants would immediately identify any Spanish ancestry”
Eileen Gleeson v FAI: what it’s about and why the repercussions could be huge
The former manager of the Republic of Ireland women’s team has launched a landmark case that could have consequences for sports far beyond soccer
Why first-time buyers should be wary of owning a fixer-upper
For first-time buyers, the costs of taking on a home needing lots of work can often be just too much
By Cliff Taylor
Hamnet author Maggie O’Farrell to set new novel in post-Famine Ireland
Land promises to be the award-winning and bestselling author’s most Irish novel yet
By Martin Doyle
Irish writers and Japan: Heaney, Longley and the perfect haiku
Former ambassador to Japan Jim Sharkey celebrates the positive influence of our literary tradition in fostering links with the country
By Jim Sharkey
Donohoe warns about over-reliance on corporate tax
The best news, analysis and comment from The Irish Times business desk
Special Garda operation sees number of Brazilians deported, including some in prison
Garda National Immigration Bureau operation is part of more aggressive approach over last two years
By Conor Lally
The modern Irish GP: How a new kind of doctor is reinventing general practice
Family doctors were traditionally male, but women now represent 52% of GP workforce
Ireland is in danger of ignoring the one big benefit of single-sex education
Single-sex schools are slowly being eliminated – they are too reminiscent of a darker time when Ireland was under the thumb of Rome. It’s a mistake
We are lecturers in Trinity College Dublin. We see it as our responsibility to resist AI
Even if all the known issues were magically resolved, we would still not want our students to use GenAI
By Clare Kelly, Katja Bruisch, and Caitríona Leahy
Ciarán Murphy: Intercounty selectors have never faced this level of scrutiny
Buck still stops with the manager, but in some cases their selectors pay first for bad results
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