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Enda Kenny urges Fianna Fáil to back minority option Enda Kenny repeated his invitation to Fianna Fáil to join his party and Independents in a partnership government. Photographs: The Irish Times

Acting Taoiseach repeats call for partnership administration

  • Miriam Lord: Talks spring a leak
  • Stephen Collins on the only option
 Michael Healy-Rae: has come across as one of the most sensible voices during this entire palaver. Photograph: RollingNews.ie Miriam Lord Nobody in charge, and the whole lot speaking in riddles
Pope Francis hails women’s movement in statement on family Pope Francis restated the church’s position that there are “absolutely no grounds” to equate gay unions to heterosexual marriage. Photograph: EPA
  • Religion & Beliefs
  • 01:00

Pontiff call for compassion towards ‘imperfect’ Catholics

  • Editorial comment: In praise of family
  • Pope wants less judgmental church
How best laid plains for FG-FF pact went up in smoke Mood music failed to hit right note for Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny and Fianna Fáil chief Micheál Martin. Photograph Barbara Lindberg.
  • Politics
  • 01:00

Fine Gael soundings on deal with FF all very well – but they were talking to wrong people

  • FG-led minority government only option
  • Letters: Forming a government in a hung Dáil
Archbishop of Canterbury learns father was Winston Churchill’s secretary The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby and his biological father, Anthony Montague Browne. Photograph: Guardian
  • UK
  • 10:45

DNA tests show Justin Welby’s biological father was Sir Anthony Montague Browne

First part of Sir Anthony O’Reilly art collection sold Anthony O’Reilly: Sale of Anthony O’Reilly’s artworks begins. Photograph: The Irish Times
  • Fine Art & Antiques
  • 08:31

Family collection of 45 artworks ‘amassed over a lifetime’and valued at up to £400,000

Grand National preview: Saint Are can trump Many Clouds Many Clouds ridden by Leighton Aspell on his way to winning the Crabbie’s Grand National at Aintree last year. Photograph: Clive Rose/Getty Images
  • Racing
  • 01:00

Same players but different finishing order may be outcome in ‘classiest renewal’ to date

  • Ruby Walsh sidelined after inury
  • Douvan a ‘banker’ in Mullins UK title bid
What the Panama Papers tell us about Ireland The offices of Mossack Fonseca:  More than 11 million documents from the files of the Panama-headquartered law firm  were leaked this week. Photograph: Reuters/Carlos Jasso
  • Financial Services
  • 09:20

What links Putin, Flannery, and a Cavan man called ‘Paudie’?

  • Technology and investigative journalism
  • Panama Papers: Extensive coverage
Determined McIlroy throws down gauntlet to Spieth Jordan Spieth lines up a putt on the 7th hole during Round 2 of the 80th Masters Golf Tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club. Photo: Nicholas Kamm/Getty Images
  • Golf
  • 00:37

Northern Irishman posts a battling 71 in difficult conditions to get to three under

  • Lowry shows grit to hang tough
  • Day two: As it happened
  • Five Masters meltdowns
  • Woosnam calls time on Masters career
Nurses, teachers, gardaí who feel undervalued and underpaid Primary school teacher Graham Fitzpatrick, from Kilmainham, Dublin: “I take home €947.27 a fortnight . . . Over the last couple of months, I had to borrow money for the rent on a number of occasions.”  Photograph: Alan Betson
  • People
  • 05:00

The ‘emergency’ two-tier pay system is in danger of becoming a post-recession norm

  • Generation Emigration: Irish Life Abroad
Syria at war: A town near Homs left reeling after Isis occupation A Syrian government forces recruit sits near a destroyed building in al-Qaryatain, a town in the province of Homs in central Syria, after Syrian troops regained control from Islamic State on April 3rd. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
  • Middle East
  • 03:00

Islamic State has been driven out of Al-Qaryatain – a ruin ‘where nothing is left’

  • Migrant crisis: Extensive coverage
O’Brien waives $20m dividend from Digicel Group Denis O’Brien: Since Digicel’s IPO was pulled, he has faced the threat of stiffer competition in the Caribbean. Photograph: Dara MacDónaill/The Irish Times
  • Technology
  • 01:00

Billionaire promises company lenders not to take payments until business improves

Northern Ireland football bridges divide after dark days of Troubles The Northern Ireland team observe a minute’s silence for the Buncrana Pier  victims. Photograph: Kevin Scott/Presseye/Inpho
  • Irish News
  • 01:00

Team no longer linked with sectarianism as it eyes first tournament in 30 years

Liam Neeson: on iconic roles, Irish pride, and the influence of Ian Paisley... The 63-year-old Ballymena man is to receive an Outstanding Contribution to Cinema award at the Iftas tonight at the Mansion House
  • People
  • 06:00

Ahead of receiving an industry award at the IFTAs, Liam Neeson on the journey that saw him play Michael Collins, a Jedi and God

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Yanis Varoufakis: traces the origins of Europe’s crisis to 1971 in his new book. Photograph: milos bicanski/getty images
Varoufakis Ex-Greece finance chief delivers history lesson in book
 
Banks are still not operating normally and the increasing flow of credit which normally accompanies a reviving economy is absent. Photograph: PA
Cliff Taylor Mind the growth gap – Ireland without a government
 
Michael Collins. Liam Neeson ably plays the sexiest Irish revolutionary of them all taking on the English (boo!) as well as Alan Rickman’s almost traitorous De Valera (boo!) in Neil Jordan’s only slightly inaccurate historical biopic from 1996, Michael Collins (yaay!).
IFTAs The Big Fella: Patrick Freyne meets Liam Neeson
 
Primary school teacher Graham Fitzpatrick, from Kilmainham, Dublin: “I take home €947.27 a fortnight . . . Over the last couple of months, I had to borrow money for the rent on a number of occasions.”  Photograph: Alan Betson
Breaking point The undervalued young nurses, teachers and gardaí
 

Sport

Connacht’s Tom McCartney. Photograph: James Crombie/Inpho Tom McCartney enjoying being part of Connacht crusade
  • European Cup

Former Auckland hooker was coached by Schmidt, Lam and Nucifora in New Zealand

Many Clouds ridden by Leighton Aspell on his way to winning the Crabbie’s Grand National at Aintree last year. Photograph: Clive Rose/Getty Images Grand National preview: Saint Are can trump Many Clouds
In what’s been a tumultuous Premier League season, Leicester City have been the most unbelievable storyline. Nick Potts/PA Wire. Premier League: What’s changed since opening day?
  • On Athletics: Amateurs posing the biggest doping threat
  • St Pat’s fight back to earn draw against resilient Sligo

Life & Style

The 63-year-old Ballymena man is to receive an Outstanding Contribution to Cinema award at the Iftas tonight at the Mansion House Liam Neeson: on iconic roles, Irish pride, and the influence of Ian Paisley...
  • Patrick Freyne

Ahead of receiving an industry award at the IFTAs, Liam Neeson on the journey that saw him play Michael Collins, a Jedi and God

Paul Martin: ‘It’s a little bit like showing a pedigree dog at Crufts; you have to understand the rules if you want to win a medal at Chelsea.’ Photograph: Richard Johnston Dundalk designer choreographs his entry to Chelsea Flower Show
‘Mr October’ with a floral crown by Fiona Haser Bizony of Electric Daisy Flower Farm. Image reproduced courtesy of Alma Haser Sustainable flowers and community blossoms
  • Irish-run orphanage the unlikely beneficiary of classic car sale
  • Meat is madness: why it leads to global warming and obesity

Culture

RSAG: ‘I use Take by Propellerhead. It’s a quick and easy way to get down some ideas on the fly, and it’s free.’ Out of the studio and on to your phone: the apps musicians use
  • Una Mullally

From something as simple as Apple’s Voice Memo to the Animoog synthesiser, here’s what 10 Irish musicians love having to hand

Agent Desmond Elliott, left, lunching with client, writer Adam Diment, and actress/ model Suzie Mandrake. Photograph: Getty Images Agent Desmond Elliott, left, lunching with client, writer Adam Diment, and actress/ model Suzie Mandrake. Photograph: Getty Images All shall have prizes, or at least be longlisted
Patrick Deeley, left, as a boy with his family The Hurley Maker’s Son by Patrick Deeley review: The making of a poet
  • A Time of Torment by John Connolly review: Cut to the quick
  • Hennessy Literary Awards: Winning ways with words

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Diarmaid Ferriter: Can Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil put national interest first?

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Breda O’Brien: abortion – we can do better than women in prison and dead babies in bins

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Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: doing a hard sell on Inchicore as an estate agent

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Róisín Ingle on . . . Thinking outside the inbox

Business

Denis O’Brien: Since Digicel’s IPO was pulled, he has faced the threat of stiffer competition in the Caribbean. Photograph: Dara MacDónaill/The Irish Times O’Brien waives $20m dividend from Digicel Group
  • Technology

Billionaire promises company lenders not to take payments until business improves

Ian Read, Pfizer chief executive, said the Treasury move was accompanied by ‘much unfortunate rhetoric’ Pfizer chief lashes out at US crackdown on Allergan deal
Brian O’Cathain, Petroceltic chief executive, speaks at a company meeting.  Photograph: Sara Freund / The Irish Times High Court confirms examiner for Petroceltic
  • US government pushes ahead with battle to unlock iPhones
  • Number of new cars licensed up 30.1% in first quarter

Opinion

Breda O’Brien: abortion – we can  do better than women in prison and dead babies in bins Breda O’Brien: abortion – we can do better than women in prison and dead babies in bins
Derek Scally: Warning that EU has declined into  bloodless, technocratic creation Derek Scally: Warning that EU has declined into bloodless, technocratic creation

Irish Times Video

€4.6 million for Ranelagh home with 'the most photographed garden in Ireland' 2:53 €4.6 million for Ranelagh home with 'the most photographed garden in Ireland'

45 Sandford Terrace, Sandford Road, Ranelagh owned by the ‘queen of Irish gardening’ Helen Dillon and her husband, antiques dealer Val Dillon has come to the market with a price tag of €4.6 million through Sherry Fitzgerald. Video: Bryan O’Brien

Frank Flannery and the Mossack files 1:39 Frank Flannery and the Mossack files
Dublin celebrates 1916 3:20 Dublin celebrates 1916
  • Ireland’s first rapid HIV test launched in Pantibar
  • Gravedigging, cremation and more: Conor Pope visits Glasnevin Cemetery

Generation Emigration

Richard Pine in Greece: Here my weekly shop costs €75; in Ireland that would barely put the butter on the bread Ireland is my old flame, but I’m in love with Greece now
  • Generation Emigration
  • Richard Pine

Life in a bankrupt state with a refugee crisis is not barrel of laughs, but Corfu is home

Rachel Rothwell: ‘The “home” that you carry with you abroad will always differ from the island you return to.’ The meaning of ‘home’ changes when we move abroad
Stephen McKenna: “I miss plenty about home but the sunshine and the fact that I don’t have to pay tax means I get to live the kind of lifestyle that most people only dream of.” Dispelling myths about life in UAE
  • Living in London is isolating when you’re broke
  • View from abroad: How to fix the Irish health service

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Pope Francis calls for compassion towards 'imperfect' Catholics1:06 Pope Francis calls for compassion towards 'imperfect' Catholics
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