UK prime minister Boris Johnson: Several senior sources in Brussels and Dublin believe his political and diplomatic offensive is aimed primarily at a domestic audience. Photograph: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg Dublin refuses to engage with UK on plan for no-deal Brexit

Irish and EU leaders will not discuss how to manage Border until Britain leaves EU

Just 81 in-home childminders are on Tusla register Childminders are required to register if they are caring for seven school-age children or six mixed-age children. Photograph: iStock

Seven counties have no registered minders while Dublin has only nine

More than 1,000 women to get reviews of smear tests soon An aggregate report summarising the findings of the review of 1,051 women’s test history will be provided to the Minister for Health, Simon Harris. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill / The Irish Times

Each woman will get an assessment of their smear history compiled by RCOG

Court willing to approve €3m debt write-off for Frank McNamara and Theresa Lowe A High Court judge has said he would approve a debt write-off of about €3m for musical director Frank McNamara and his wife Theresa Lowe, the former RTÉ presenter. File photograph: Tom Honan

Judge first seeks clarification around discrepancies on musical director’s inheritance

Nathaniel Hone: A puzzle in the history of Irish art Nathaniel Hone the Younger, A View of Cliffs, Etretat, Oil on canvasPhotograph: National Gallery of Ireland

The exhibition Travels of a Landscape Artist has a nagging sense of what might have been

The Irishman who lived through rebellions, plague and fall of the Qing Dynasty Rev Frederick O’Neill and his wife Mrs Annie O’Neill (nee Wilson) outside their home in Faku in China in the 1930s. Photograph: Marion Young

Rev Frederick O’Neill set up a school in a region where girls generally didn’t receive at education at that time

‘The Border runs through my bus yard and I am in my worst nightmare’ Don Reddin on the Border, which runs through his bus yard, in Muff, Co Donegal. Photograph: Trevor McBride

Don Reddin says his Donegal-based bus firm faces deep uncertainty as a result of Brexit

‘WB Yeats would turn is his grave’: Croagh wind farm plan draws ire of locals Barney Moran and Eileen Gibbons. Ms Gibbons says ‘can you imagine the outcry if someone proposed putting giant turbines near the Lakes of Killarney?’. Photograph: Brian Farrell

Coillte says proposal for 10 ‘giant’ turbines on Sligo/Leitrim border is based on new guidelines

Maria Bailey resigns as chair of Oireachtas ethics committee Maria Bailey, a Dún Laoghaire TD, was stripped of her position as chair of the Oireachtas Committee on Housing.

Fine Gael TD was criticised for taking personal injury claim after falling from a swing

Searching for a quiet beer under the watchful eye of China's police A statue of Mao shaking hands with a Uighur villager in Hotan, southwestern Xinjiang, China. Photograph: Gilles Sabrié/New York Times

Foreign journalists cannot go out alone in Xinjiang, despite its status as ‘China’s safest province’

Fintan O’Toole: Ireland is not ready for unity but may have to take that step An anti-Brexit and anti-Border sign in the Bogside in Derry. File photograph

Regime change may be forced on us but we must handle it with skill and generosity

Driving the bus is easy, but how do I turn on Radio Nova? Niamh Towey drives a Dublin Bus at it makes a female recruitment bid. Photograph: Enda O’Dowd/The Irish Times

As Dublin Bus tries to recruit more women Niamh Towey takes a spin around the Broadstone depot

Italy’s PM in scathing attack on Salvini as he announces resignation Italy’s deputy prime minister, Matteo Salvini, gestures as prime minister Giuseppe Conte criticises him in a speech to the Senate on Tuesday. Photograph: Ettore Ferrari/EPA

Giuseppe Conte says his deputy prime minister is harming the nation for political gain

New Facebook privacy tool greeted with scepticism The new ‘off-Facebook activity’ tool will allow users to control data gathered by Facebook from other apps and websites. Photograph: Christophe Simon/AFP/Getty Images

Critics of social media giant say it is ‘hard to take anything company does at face value’

Looking for work experience and a qualification up to postgraduate level? Solas
Sponsored

Whether you’re a school leaver considering your future, or a worker looking to upskill, the country’s apprenticeship programme should be your first port of call

Sponsored by Solas

Latest News

Most Read

1 Court willing to approve €3m debt write-off for Frank McNamara and Theresa Lowe
2 Eight places that will pay you to move there
3 Nóra Quoirin: ‘It is not possible she would have willingly left with a stranger’
4 ‘Live or die moment’ for Huawei, warns founder Ren Zhengfei
5 Peter Fonda: Henry’s estranged son, Jane’s ‘sweet baby brother’, Bridget’s less famous dad
6 Paul Krugman: The world has a Germany problem
7 Fintan O’Toole: Ireland is not ready for unity but may have to take that step
8 Northern Ireland has become emblematic of the UK’s Brexit project
9 The Irishman who lived through rebellions, plague and fall of the Qing Dynasty
10 Merkel to urge Johnson to break Brexit deadlock
Real news has value SUBSCRIBE
No Child 2020 A special project looking at child welfare and children's issues