<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Irish Times Feeds]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com</link><atom:link href="https://www.irishtimes.com/arc/outboundfeeds/sitemap-news-index/2026-08-01/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><description><![CDATA[Irish Times Feeds News Feed]]></description><lastBuildDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:47:53 +0000</lastBuildDate><language>en</language><ttl>1</ttl><sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod><sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency><item><title><![CDATA[Pope Leo is right. There is no such thing as a ‘just war’]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/08/02/pope-leo-is-right-there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-just-war/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/08/02/pope-leo-is-right-there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-just-war/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Brendan Butler]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Rite & Reason: As John F Kennedy put it: ‘Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind’]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 23:30:00 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/YPDDKCX4QAFHS4OZDOK5JTEPJQ.jpg?auth=5549412d1ecd21b1b11fa5b5d38781cfcf6891f1c71cb4e6bc3d2daa2cb306f8&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Pope Leo wrote that the ‘just war theory’ has too often been used to justify any kind of war. Photograph: Tiziana Fabi/AFP via Getty Images]]></media:description><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu">Tiziana Fabi</media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yealimi Noh three clear at AIG Women’s Open]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/golf/2026/08/01/yealimi-noh-three-clear-at-aig-womens-open/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/golf/2026/08/01/yealimi-noh-three-clear-at-aig-womens-open/</guid><description><![CDATA[Overnight leader Haerun Ryu slips back with costly bogeys]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 18:56:44 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/FCXTJFBLO2E6XQ7CUREMHVATVA.jpg?auth=e5c3b11a33c9bee4a064042a3659627e59e4a485827ccb8c6e0700cb3b4cbb5e&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Yealimi Noh during the third round of the AIG Women's Open at Royal Lytham & St Annes. Photograph: Luke Walker/Getty Images]]></media:description><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu">Luke Walker</media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gianni Infantino, Fifa and the week that rocked the football world]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/2026/08/01/gianni-infantino-fifa-and-the-week-that-rocked-the-football-world/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/2026/08/01/gianni-infantino-fifa-and-the-week-that-rocked-the-football-world/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul MacInnes]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Ultimately doomed plan for sale of commercial rights to World Cup caused chaos]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 18:00:01 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/NUMEZHGYPC2ZXNQAD47FXD6MYY.jpg?auth=18ec280c81d4410ae0e9e980e7d21634bf0cbd55e0a8b6701041395917aa1f28&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Fifa president Gianni Infantino. Photograph: Nick Potts/PA Wire
]]></media:description><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu">Nick Potts</media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bessborough researcher urges purchase of site and inquest into deaths of women and babies]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/08/01/bessborough-researcher-urges-purchase-of-site-and-inquest-into-deaths-of-women-and-babies/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/08/01/bessborough-researcher-urges-purchase-of-site-and-inquest-into-deaths-of-women-and-babies/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Barry Roche]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We still don’t know where 19 mothers and 859 infants associated with Bessborough were buried, Conall Ó Fatharta says]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:53:41 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/DC6UJANYYN3R2SMBXAYS6LXIC4.jpg?auth=1c49b4bd9d1210995bf24e107899141337d935c05688dbb0e0738715de2fa956&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[The former Bessborough mother and baby home in Cork. Photograph: Provision]]></media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christy Moore at All Together Now: A rousing Auld Triangle is dedicated to the late Glen Hansard]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/review/2026/08/01/christy-moore-at-all-together-now-a-rousing-auld-triangle-is-dedicated-to-the-late-glen-hansard/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/review/2026/08/01/christy-moore-at-all-together-now-a-rousing-auld-triangle-is-dedicated-to-the-late-glen-hansard/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ed Power]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Singer (81) crams a lifetime of emotions, activism and call-to-arms songwriting into boisterous 60-minute set]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:52:24 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/QNED4SLWZNFQRLMFLOVMGQDNOQ.jpg?auth=262e75fce1e6dc5f500360adda34c2ec6f239c9d60b83332ff8455e882b87314&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Christy Moore would blush at being described as one of Ireland’s best-loved songwriters. Yet this trenchantly boisterous set in a sweltering tent makes it clear how deeply his music is embedded in the Irish psyche. Photograph: Dan Dennison]]></media:description><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu">Dan Dennison</media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Law Society flags remaining issues in dispute over legal aid changes]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2026/08/01/law-society-flags-remaining-issues-in-dispute-over-legal-aid-changes/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2026/08/01/law-society-flags-remaining-issues-in-dispute-over-legal-aid-changes/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Olivia Kelleher]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Solicitors ask for ‘targeted corrections and adjustments’ in exchange for adopting new scheme on interim basis]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:20:42 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/N3DRMEWAT7RPYN5KPEOMQNIQH4.JPG?auth=84dda30d9f7e010178b468a0a9e41356313cead205f216b46639dd613b55f760&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Law Society president Rosemarie Loftus speaks to the media about the solicitors' dispute. Photograph: Collins Courts
]]></media:description><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gianni Infantino ‘has lost Uefa’s confidence’ after Fifa chief scraps World Cup sell-off plan]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/2026/08/01/gianni-infantino-has-lost-uefas-confidence-after-fifa-chief-scraps-world-cup-sell-off-plan/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/2026/08/01/gianni-infantino-has-lost-uefas-confidence-after-fifa-chief-scraps-world-cup-sell-off-plan/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Matt Hughes, Nick Ames]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Uefa: ‘We cannot keep going on with secret schemes’]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:02:39 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/UOKX243UIKHZRNK7W4YDVIH2C4.jpg?auth=718b62c33e5e3a1eeca9c5fb631606f3a3e08096a063731bed944e7242bf5146&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Uefa has criticised Gianni Infantino, alleging he has failed to deliver on pledges he made to improve transparency and accountability prior to becoming Fifa president in 2016. Photograph: Florencia Tan Jun/Getty Images]]></media:description><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu">Florencia Tan Jun</media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jon McConnell strikes gold at Commonwealth Games, Michaela Walsh takes silver]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/boxing/2026/08/01/michaela-walsh-settles-for-silver-after-defeat-in-featherweight-final-at-commonwealth-games/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/boxing/2026/08/01/michaela-walsh-settles-for-silver-after-defeat-in-featherweight-final-at-commonwealth-games/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Scully]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[McConnell earns split-decision win over Welshman Orlando Holley-Sotomi in Glasgow]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 14:50:52 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/RM757JN4OY7WECUYV5RH3KS2VU.jpg?auth=5871fdeeefe7dd22988ee91a6ad9ccf5e9a0dfa5a31bf3a77d676a4d82df1e2f&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Jon McConnell celebrates winning gold after defeating Orlando Holley-Sotomi of Wales in the men's light middleweight final. Photograph: James Fearn/Getty Images]]></media:description><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu">James Fearn</media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Top mountaineer Nirmal Purja among 11 confirmed dead after avalanche in Pakistan ]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/world/asia-pacific/2026/08/01/top-mountaineer-nirmal-purja-among-11-confirmed-dead-after-avalanche-in-pakistan/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/world/asia-pacific/2026/08/01/top-mountaineer-nirmal-purja-among-11-confirmed-dead-after-avalanche-in-pakistan/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Geneva Abdul]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Purja was killed leading an expedition of 10 other climbers on the world’s 12th-highest mountain]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 14:19:24 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/EALC4ANHMFJWBN4IDH2M2ZIOLU.jpg?auth=c09081694584a39f98b7c4892ad31ee9d3d33467fda33c15b71fd593ccc95219&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Nirmal Purja with his MBE medal during an investiture ceremony at Windsor Castle, England, in June 2022. Photograph: Andrew Matthews/POOL/AFP via Getty Images]]></media:description><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu">Andrew Matthews</media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Girl (10) who died in car crash gave ‘gift of life’ to four children through organ donation]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/08/01/girl-10-who-died-in-car-crash-gave-gift-of-life-to-four-children-through-organ-donation/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/08/01/girl-10-who-died-in-car-crash-gave-gift-of-life-to-four-children-through-organ-donation/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Olivia Kelleher]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Mourners gather in Cavan to remember Nell Saffron Raven and Irena Raven Mereacre]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 13:41:13 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/SNXVVBVUAJDKLJRIP5KQXORW4Y.jpg?auth=fc33b47ed1dbcb98bfc29fd7bfd0f4fe044c80191edd3b3cbab81a29cf8a0fa4&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Nell Raven (53) and her daughter Irena Mereacre (10). Photographs: The Anglo-Celt]]></media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spanish PM calls for urgent EU meeting after ‘selfish’ responses to Ceuta crisis]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2026/08/01/spanish-pm-calls-for-urgent-eu-meeting-after-selfish-responses-to-ceuta-crisis/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2026/08/01/spanish-pm-calls-for-urgent-eu-meeting-after-selfish-responses-to-ceuta-crisis/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sam Jones in Madrid, Lisa O’Carroll in London]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Pedro Sánchez condemns Italy and other member states after deadly mass crossing into Spanish enclave]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:37:28 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/TJHUG3QY3RKRPMD5JXSSHGXJ24.jpg?auth=6aa8e6a08800bcbc7e7c9eb5b13b1e511e65cce841e629afdedd2222a1dc628b&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Migrants return to Morocco from Ceuta on Friday. Photograph: Antonio Sempere/AP]]></media:description><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu">Antonio Sempere</media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Australia defeat Ireland in first international AFLW clash]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/2026/08/01/australia-defeat-ireland-in-first-international-aflw-clash/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/2026/08/01/australia-defeat-ireland-in-first-international-aflw-clash/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Muireann Duffy]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Over 9,000 turn out to see club team-mates turn rivals at North Sydney Oval]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:36:32 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/P4GEBSDV2RXXVULQ3XKLZOXPXQ.jpg?auth=a1ae0166d3c5641250ea9b8d46843e71307194a27f540d0d70b0986b4ef3d032&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Ireland captain Orla O'Dwyer in action during the AFLW international against Australia at North Sydney Oval. Photograph: James Wiltshire/AFL Photos via Getty Images]]></media:description><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu">James Wiltshire/Afl Photos</media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man and woman seriously injured after Co Laois crash as other driver leaves scene]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/08/01/man-and-woman-seriously-injured-after-co-laois-crash-as-other-driver-leaves-scene/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/08/01/man-and-woman-seriously-injured-after-co-laois-crash-as-other-driver-leaves-scene/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Katie Mellett]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Male driver and female passenger were taken to Tullamore for treatment of serious injuries]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 11:43:40 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/E3Y3E2XNGNDGLP7QZEM36SBLMU.JPG?auth=cda9e082529f7bf3aa7d5eff67a47d6be81e532a3f12f8af70c35ec6c1166bce&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Two seriously injured after two-car crash in Co Laois. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien]]></media:description><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu">Bryan O'Brien</media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pulp at All Together Now 2026: Common People remains the ultimate takedown of nepo babies]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/2026/08/01/pulp-at-all-together-now-2026-jarvis-cocker-radiates-rock-star-aura-and-dark-wit/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/2026/08/01/pulp-at-all-together-now-2026-jarvis-cocker-radiates-rock-star-aura-and-dark-wit/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ed Power]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Britpop’s supreme ironists send fans new and old back to their tents chuffed to have witnessed something special]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 11:04:08 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/XC4YLXBTAFAULB7OBK4RYZNEL4.JPG?auth=257fc785d4747074f5b0af13e07fbad0eb4e32a1009b58cd75029368b6f8ecbd&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker performs during the band's headline set on Friday night at All Together Now. Photograph: Enda O'Dowd]]></media:description><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu">Enda O Dowd
</media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Motorist caught driving at 172km/h as gardaí detect almost 1,600 speeding offences]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2026/08/01/motorist-caught-driving-172kmh-as-gardai-detect-almost-1600-speeding-offences/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2026/08/01/motorist-caught-driving-172kmh-as-gardai-detect-almost-1600-speeding-offences/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Olivia Kelleher]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Bank holiday roads policing operation sees 39 people arrested for driving under influence]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 10:37:02 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/UF5MBLVGPSE7YHZBKE4J4YSH4A.jpg?auth=858413c21bbe91fce55a7f831541c2c2957259f89405d4ac49e173d651560d10&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Garda vehicles on the Navan Road, Dublin. Photograph: Colin Keegan/Collins Photo Agency]]></media:description><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu">Colin Keegan</media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Galway ‘spiritual healer’ receives suspended prison term for sexually assaulting teenager on flight]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2026/08/01/spiritual-healer-receives-suspended-prison-term-for-sexually-assaulting-teenager-on-flight/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2026/08/01/spiritual-healer-receives-suspended-prison-term-for-sexually-assaulting-teenager-on-flight/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gordon Deegan]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Patrick Noone, a father of four from Galway, was travelling to Boston when he groped the 16-year-old girl, the court heard]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/LA3PYXOBTFEI3MSSOKRSOAI6PA.jpg?auth=5a4e13637f1a51b12f8e358e8d5b242089d6979f9997f3735b1e5cfbbb1a3e1f&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[The sexual assault took place on a transatlantic flight from Shannon to Boston on November 15th, 2023. Photograph: iStock]]></media:description><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu">Pollyana Ventura</media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man abused stepdaughter to ‘boost her confidence’, court told ]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2026/08/01/man-abused-stepdaughter-to-boost-her-confidence-court-told/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2026/08/01/man-abused-stepdaughter-to-boost-her-confidence-court-told/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Fiona Ferguson ]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Victim says she left school early in order to get away from family home ]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/A6SKAXHHABDZHKL2XIY5YMVPNY.jpg?auth=092ad3247dd7fca8bf43954ed3437b9fd775377a7d6eb24036568edafc3ee1f8&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[The now 20-year-old woman told the Central Criminal Court she had no option but to leave home. File photograph: ]]></media:description><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu">noel bennett</media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[At least nine dead as Russia hits Ukrainian capital Kyiv with ballistic missiles]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2026/08/01/at-least-nine-dead-as-russia-hits-ukrainian-capital-kyiv-with-ballistic-missiles/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2026/08/01/at-least-nine-dead-as-russia-hits-ukrainian-capital-kyiv-with-ballistic-missiles/</guid><description><![CDATA[Volodymyr Zelenskiy urges allies to provide more air defences after latest deadly strike on capital]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 08:22:25 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/EXROCIC2LCWR2LLCEVN66ZYB2Q.jpg?auth=eff4f7566ea273a26c3b21a47c47ae6aae82103b4563d4c3752080c3e1f30ac2&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Smoke rises over Kyiv. Photograph: Dan Bashakov/AP]]></media:description><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu">Dan Bashakov</media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woman with locked-in syndrome settles action against HSE and Beaumont Hospital with €3.7m interim payout]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2026/08/01/woman-with-locked-in-syndrome-settles-high-court-action-with-37m-interim-payout/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2026/08/01/woman-with-locked-in-syndrome-settles-high-court-action-with-37m-interim-payout/</guid><description><![CDATA[Lynsey Cribbin was 21 when she was brought to hospital with a headache and nausea in 2012 ]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/LYPISPIQTN67ZIJQ3XYYI6G74Q.jpg?auth=da8f3b435954f6fbe9826c05e2976cf99f1365867579878874af27a5c73e4e3c&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Lynsey Cribbin was 21 when she was first brought to Cavan General Hospital in 2012. Photograph: Alan Betson]]></media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Irish High Court refuses to surrender Limerick man facing human trafficking charges to Greece]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2026/08/01/greece-fails-to-extradite-limerick-man-facing-human-trafficking-charges/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2026/08/01/greece-fails-to-extradite-limerick-man-facing-human-trafficking-charges/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Bourke]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Accused alleged to have facilitated transportation of 66 adults and children towards Italy without life jackets ]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/FX7E6LOV5NE6HKSLB3LEHN7AFM.jpg?auth=a9de88e727ee47489786d3258aea5ea52f1b939fa648e007304270cb77e4ecdd&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[The accused's lawyers objected to extradition due to conditions in the Greek prison system. File photograph: Alan Betson ]]></media:description><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu">Alan Betson</media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ornua and Tírlan at loggerheads over US butter deal]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2026/08/01/ornua-and-tirlan-at-loggerheads-over-us-butter-deal/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2026/08/01/ornua-and-tirlan-at-loggerheads-over-us-butter-deal/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Richard Cantillon]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Tírlan, one of Ornua’s largest suppliers, has separately signed a deal with US retailer Costco  ]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 06:53:21 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/UUVW2TADZNDNFFZXHWMSI3XW2A.jpg?auth=d7f2396865dbd3af83e24c37ff053474871f7545fe823ffe1c032dd1deb54a80&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Kerrygold, the first Irish food brand to eclipse €1bn in annual sales, now faces competition in the US from one of its own suppliers. ]]></media:description><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu">Paolo Carretto</media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gianni Infantino’s proposal to sell off chunks of World Cup sensationally collapses]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/2026/08/01/fifa-scraps-proposal-to-sell-off-stakes-in-world-cup-after-widespread-backlash/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/2026/08/01/fifa-scraps-proposal-to-sell-off-stakes-in-world-cup-after-widespread-backlash/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Nick Ames]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Gianni Infantino abandons proposal as Uefa boycott threat and internal revolt pile pressure on president]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 06:23:33 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/MEIUQTQYK5GBVDLJJPPCZPWV4Q.jpg?auth=06bde165e922479d0e0583af206c0f15b53653cb23ff97422043e05c0af7cd2a&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Fifa president Gianni Infantino has said plans to sell off stakes in the World Cup have been scrapped after a furious backlash. Photograph: David Salazar/AFP via Getty Images]]></media:description><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu">DAVID SALAZAR</media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone agrees Irish house prices are overvalued. We’re in risky territory]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/08/01/cliff-taylor-almost-everyone-agrees-house-prices-are-overvalued-were-in-risky-territory/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/08/01/cliff-taylor-almost-everyone-agrees-house-prices-are-overvalued-were-in-risky-territory/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Cliff Taylor]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The more prices get out of line, the higher the risk if there is an economic shock from AI, the tech sector, the Middle East situation or something else ]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 06:07:00 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/H4T2MS6BQZFBXK66H3ABO4POWU.jpg?auth=0f1cfcb6102b21709a469ee785b7faa0ed29873db27c74e320decf2edbda6331&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Cliff Taylor]]></media:description><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ireland has become a colder house for artists like Glen Hansard]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/08/01/nobody-ever-had-to-tell-glen-hansard-to-stop-acting/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/08/01/nobody-ever-had-to-tell-glen-hansard-to-stop-acting/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Hugh Linehan]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It is not an accident that The Frames made their first post-Island record with financial backing from Whelan’s, the venue at the heart of the Dublin scene Hansard did more than anyone to birth]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 06:01:00 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/K6ZQ7JWNFVCENLFJBRMMGRACFU.JPG?auth=7ab2dc2a243d00eabc33eaaa602d3eda9f783feda7c5cce8906f268689e5746d&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Glen Hansard photographed in The Irish Times studio in December 2007. Photo: Bryan O’Brien / The Irish Times   ]]></media:description><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu">Bryan O'Brien</media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Irish ‘wine geese’ vineyards in Bordeaux under threat amid impact of wildfires and drought]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2026/08/01/irish-wine-geese-vineyards-under-threat-in-bordeaux/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2026/08/01/irish-wine-geese-vineyards-under-threat-in-bordeaux/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Naomi O’Leary]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Centuries-old French vineyards bearing the names of Irish founders hope to escape effects of wildfire smoke]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/QWYOYLCEOBFPRLXG4XUQSFLQOA.jpg?auth=bf065ba0005eab68791ee65f84d07c78607d18187ab56aac69c94a8d86fc8c4f&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Firefighters burn vegetation to create a fuel-free buffer zone in Marcheprime, west of Bordeau. Photograph: Aalain Jocard/AFP/Getty Images]]></media:description><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu">ALAIN JOCARD</media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘My son has opened a museum celebrating criminality. I wish people would stop asking if I’m proud’]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/podcasts/ross-ocarroll-kelly/my-son-has-opened-a-museum-celebrating-criminality-i-wish-people-would-stop-asking-if-im-proud/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/podcasts/ross-ocarroll-kelly/my-son-has-opened-a-museum-celebrating-criminality-i-wish-people-would-stop-asking-if-im-proud/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ross O'Carroll-Kelly]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It’s the opening night of Ronan’s new Irish Gangland Museum on Capel Street and the place is packed to the literally rafters]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:11:00 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/2AFSRKRDSREVXD5VP2CKVZ6UK4.jpg?auth=1f4384d2e4a4a0c2d75606be89bc2333d32b1f9e3639aa5536ad0fe616d41511&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Ronan O'Carroll-Kelly. Illustration: Alan Clarke.]]></media:description><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patrick Collison is yet another billionaire using his fortune to protect billionaires]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/2026/08/01/patrick-collison-is-yet-another-billionaire-using-his-fortune-to-protect-billionaires/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/2026/08/01/patrick-collison-is-yet-another-billionaire-using-his-fortune-to-protect-billionaires/</guid><description><![CDATA[The fact that someone can spend millions in this way is itself an argument for a wealth tax]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:00:01 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/VHFAVTA4U5C7FE2ZTPOGOKHXN4.jpg?auth=1f202b740bd44798a55898a19ef6a892873ae4e538e9e94222c2b3519c6cad0e&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[The Irish Times - Letters to the Editor.]]></media:description><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[How are Palestinians meant to supply Government with financial histories for student visas?]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/2026/08/01/how-are-palestinians-meant-to-supply-government-with-financial-histories-for-student-visas/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/2026/08/01/how-are-palestinians-meant-to-supply-government-with-financial-histories-for-student-visas/</guid><description><![CDATA[The restrictions in the visa system are fundamentally incompatible with the supporting of Palestinian access to education, and must be done away with]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:00:01 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/VHFAVTA4U5C7FE2ZTPOGOKHXN4.jpg?auth=1f202b740bd44798a55898a19ef6a892873ae4e538e9e94222c2b3519c6cad0e&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[The Irish Times - Letters to the Editor.]]></media:description><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ancient Irish volcano provides new clues to modern-day eruptions]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/science/2026/08/01/ancient-irish-volcano-provides-new-clues-to-modern-day-eruptions/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/science/2026/08/01/ancient-irish-volcano-provides-new-clues-to-modern-day-eruptions/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Caroline O'Doherty]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Research led by Trinity College reveals how magma moves and changes underground]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:00:01 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/PRN7KAWJIVDLHFN2SJQJT6ENQY.jpg?auth=bdd3e3ba87d21027dd806f96cb8560874874620074af6446f575b65e2f62b7e5&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Mike Scott of Trinity College Dublin at Carlingford Mountain, an ancient extinct volcano in Co Louth helping scientists understand current active eruptions. Photograph: Jack Beckwith]]></media:description><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu">Jack Beckwith</media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[No young person in any special school has participated in an equivalent transition year]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/2026/08/01/no-young-person-in-any-special-school-has-participated-in-an-equivalent-transition-year/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/2026/08/01/no-young-person-in-any-special-school-has-participated-in-an-equivalent-transition-year/</guid><description><![CDATA[It speaks to a lack of ambition for and a lack of confidence in these young people that they don’t deserve a similar programme]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:00:01 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/VHFAVTA4U5C7FE2ZTPOGOKHXN4.jpg?auth=1f202b740bd44798a55898a19ef6a892873ae4e538e9e94222c2b3519c6cad0e&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[The Irish Times - Letters to the Editor.]]></media:description><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why are patients being asked to avoid UHL’s emergency department?]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/health/2026/08/01/why-are-patients-being-asked-to-avoid-uhls-emergency-department/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/health/2026/08/01/why-are-patients-being-asked-to-avoid-uhls-emergency-department/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Shauna Bowers]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Almost 1,000 people attended the Limerick hospital over a three-day period last week, an ‘exceptionally high level of activity for any time of the year’]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:00:01 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/RHZ6WFHBNBWS5D4YNAQ2YTOTHM.jpg?auth=cfae68505b96b321b0f2bd1edf14a3d00780494434053272898694fbfe8f2203&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[More than 55,000 patients have visited the University Hospital Limerick emergency department this year, the highest number of emergency attendances at any hospital nationally]]></media:description><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Respecting sex workers’ agency does not diminish commitment to tackling exploitation]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/2026/08/01/respecting-sex-workers-agency-does-not-diminish-commitment-to-tackling-exploitation/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/2026/08/01/respecting-sex-workers-agency-does-not-diminish-commitment-to-tackling-exploitation/</guid><description><![CDATA[A balanced, evidence-based approach should distinguish between trafficking and consensual adult sex work]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:00:01 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/VHFAVTA4U5C7FE2ZTPOGOKHXN4.jpg?auth=1f202b740bd44798a55898a19ef6a892873ae4e538e9e94222c2b3519c6cad0e&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[The Irish Times - Letters to the Editor.]]></media:description><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Minister Noel Grealish attended ‘anti-woke’ conference addressed by Nigel Farage]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2026/08/01/coalition-minister-noel-grealish-attends-political-conference-dubbed-anti-woke-davos/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2026/08/01/coalition-minister-noel-grealish-attends-political-conference-dubbed-anti-woke-davos/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Horgan-Jones]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Department confirms attendance but says Minister of State for Agriculture present in personal capacity ]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:00:01 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/JJFKFCT6AZEWPJ3NAFO6MEVXCE.JPG?auth=ff7e68925819bb6bdb6cc6ee17f922566130891cece6034d4fe37f82a486cfd8&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[The Department of Agriculture said its Minister of State, Noel Grealish, was at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship conference in a personal capacity. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien 

]]></media:description><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu">Bryan O'Brien</media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gardaí trying to piece together Glen Hansard’s last movements after leaving west Dublin pub]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/08/01/gardai-trying-to-piece-together-glen-hansards-last-movements-in-west-dublin/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/08/01/gardai-trying-to-piece-together-glen-hansards-last-movements-in-west-dublin/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Hugh Dooley, Conor Gallagher]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Funeral at St Patrick’s Cathedral on Tuesday to follow public wake on Monday at Royal Hospital Kilmainham]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:00:01 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/KFXICOKYRFHTZGQ4KSZPCPLRAE.JPG?auth=d2045466a96c720de3411b8d8163e8a637765b16269d49af927c61031d9cd1a4&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Tributes from family members, fans and locals have been added to the area of the Lower Road in which Hansard was found on Wednesday morning. Photograph: Hugh Dooley]]></media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Precise renews rivalry with Blue Bolt in Deauville Group One  ]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/racing/2026/08/01/precise-renews-rivalry-with-blue-bolt-in-deauville-group-one/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/racing/2026/08/01/precise-renews-rivalry-with-blue-bolt-in-deauville-group-one/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Brian O'Connor]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Aidan O’Brien ahead of schedule to break his own world record for top-flight victories ]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:00:01 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/7ODWPYHH3FEVDATGGN2QVDNLNQ.jpg?auth=d0448ad3538189fa1e43e1c1d33dfdcc139a1932e11b86ae993738f1f240cfac&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Ryan Moore on Precise after winning the Coronation Stakes on the fourth day of Royal Ascot. Photograph: Henry Nicholls/AFP via Getty Images]]></media:description><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu">HENRY NICHOLLS</media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glen Hansard’s charm and humility]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/2026/08/01/glen-hansards-charm-and-humility-shone-through-in-our-interview/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/2026/08/01/glen-hansards-charm-and-humility-shone-through-in-our-interview/</guid><description><![CDATA[Oscar-winning musician is a great loss to all]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:00:01 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/6GVJTWXOI5FYPOLOK3JLHZZVVU.jpg?auth=2781af11b396c223ac2b1f05df19ecc2dafc39caa2ffa2f14069f0e5a11189ee&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Letter of the Day]]></media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Golf courses must plan ahead for the new normal of drought]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/2026/08/01/golf-courses-must-plan-ahead-for-the-new-normal-of-drought/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/2026/08/01/golf-courses-must-plan-ahead-for-the-new-normal-of-drought/</guid><description><![CDATA[Sustainable irrigation and water storage should form part of national blueprint]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:00:01 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/VHFAVTA4U5C7FE2ZTPOGOKHXN4.jpg?auth=1f202b740bd44798a55898a19ef6a892873ae4e538e9e94222c2b3519c6cad0e&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[The Irish Times - Letters to the Editor.]]></media:description><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Praise the Lord for my Millennium milk bottle]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/2026/08/01/bottling-it/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/2026/08/01/bottling-it/</guid><description><![CDATA[How many people still have them?]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:00:01 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/VHFAVTA4U5C7FE2ZTPOGOKHXN4.jpg?auth=1f202b740bd44798a55898a19ef6a892873ae4e538e9e94222c2b3519c6cad0e&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[The Irish Times - Letters to the Editor.]]></media:description><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Irish-American businessman behind online Irish language bookseller leaves €14m estate]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/08/01/irish-american-businessman-behind-online-irish-language-bookseller-leaves-14m-estate/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/08/01/irish-american-businessman-behind-online-irish-language-bookseller-leaves-14m-estate/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim O'Brien]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Tom Fitzgerald, who died in California in January 2024, established world’s largest online Irish language bookshop]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:00:01 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/TJ73DD4Q6VGAZC3DHM5GSGKLAI.jpg?auth=12c45956e0bcad23767c5d5162b46ac621c377ed1d3008b3db78d0e45ddcf350&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[In his will, Tom Fitzgerald stipulated that a charitable trust in his name should be set up. Photograph: Getty Images]]></media:description><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu">zimmytws</media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[France accepts that parents have a right to leisure. We should do the same]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/08/02/liz-carolan-we-need-to-stop-guilt-tripping-parents-for-wanting-a-few-hours-break-from-their-kids/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/08/02/liz-carolan-we-need-to-stop-guilt-tripping-parents-for-wanting-a-few-hours-break-from-their-kids/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Liz Carolan]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I felt guilty for using the kids’ club, but I shouldn’t have]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:00:01 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/L2S6AMS7WVC37L3FQXU2P2M5TY.jpg?auth=edd6495dc6707d25579720fb93ebea602270758c917359637d0531baf85ae3c3&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Employed parents are expected to work like they don’t have children, and parent like they don’t have jobs. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien/The Irish Times ]]></media:description><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu">Bryan O'Brien</media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[These crows may not survive because of how they look. Nature is red in tooth and claw]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/2026/08/01/these-crows-may-not-survive-because-of-how-they-look-nature-is-red-in-tooth-and-claw/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/2026/08/01/these-crows-may-not-survive-because-of-how-they-look-nature-is-red-in-tooth-and-claw/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Éanna Ní Lamhna]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Eanna Ní Lamhna answers your notes and queries on crows, bees and more]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/C2H75RLNV5F5LFXK2SPISVMJ2Y.jpeg?auth=1bf0ae6f305c9ea1b74e9bd455d1fc8b41d92114fc9bb1560fdcef54061fdbb4&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[It is not albinism, which is a complete lack of colour and would affect the bill and eyes too]]></media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple’s $5tn moment shows investors are questioning the AI race]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/your-money/2026/08/01/apples-5tn-moment-shows-investors-are-questioning-the-ai-race/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/your-money/2026/08/01/apples-5tn-moment-shows-investors-are-questioning-the-ai-race/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Proinsias O'Mahony]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The irony is that investors seeking shelter from expensive AI bets have turned to another expensive stock]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/W2Z2DKNHATAJFLHQLF6AB7BSRQ.jpg?auth=e92e4c1b68f3ecd91f9bd40504f4d2e93823170b16b42dfb83f79084f98c068e&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[The criticism that Apple was falling behind in AI has, for now, given way to appreciation for a company that has avoided the industry's spending arms race. Photograph: Eric Thayer/Bloomberg]]></media:description><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu">Eric Thayer</media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Promote Irish in schools, but remember we are part of Europe]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/2026/07/31/promote-irish-in-schools-but-remember-we-are-part-of-europe/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/2026/07/31/promote-irish-in-schools-but-remember-we-are-part-of-europe/</guid><description><![CDATA[In continental Europe, the average age at which children start learning a foreign language is between six and eight years old]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/VHFAVTA4U5C7FE2ZTPOGOKHXN4.jpg?auth=1f202b740bd44798a55898a19ef6a892873ae4e538e9e94222c2b3519c6cad0e&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[The Irish Times - Letters to the Editor.]]></media:description><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aughinish Alumina: Government should act urgently, enabled by emergency legislation]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/2026/07/31/aughinish-alumina/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/2026/07/31/aughinish-alumina/</guid><description><![CDATA[It is naive to think Ireland’s interests can be divorced from the outcome of Russia’s war in Ukraine]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/VHFAVTA4U5C7FE2ZTPOGOKHXN4.jpg?auth=1f202b740bd44798a55898a19ef6a892873ae4e538e9e94222c2b3519c6cad0e&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[The Irish Times - Letters to the Editor.]]></media:description><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘My legs started shaking, I couldn’t control myself’: John Maughan on watching Mayo close in on Sam]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/2026/08/01/my-legs-started-shaking-i-couldnt-control-myself-john-maughan-as-mayo-closed-in-on-sam/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/2026/08/01/my-legs-started-shaking-i-couldnt-control-myself-john-maughan-as-mayo-closed-in-on-sam/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gordon Manning]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Former Mayo manager on soaking up the joy of All-Ireland win: ‘There’s no script for any of this’]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/ATAJQX3NABGS7GLLVTTFJZYGD4.JPG?auth=d7db4ad870369561bcd7b813a0406080e47ca45d3f57b76b14cddcb46d96dac2&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[A huge crowd showed up at MacHale Park in Castlebar, Co Mayo, to welcome home the newly-crowned All-Ireland senior football champions last Monday. Photograph: Enda O'Dowd]]></media:description><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu">Enda O Dowd
</media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI will bring bankruptcies, bank failures and chaos in international financial sector]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/08/01/david-mcwilliams-the-first-victim-of-ai-is-the-economy-welcome-to-the-2030s/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/08/01/david-mcwilliams-the-first-victim-of-ai-is-the-economy-welcome-to-the-2030s/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[David McWilliams]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We are facing an era of mass deflation. If prices fall across the board, how will we repay all the debt we have accumulated? ]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/K2APABF4MJBOREPQO2RKIKLKHU.jpg?auth=7522f406fbc04f17f76d30f4608255ef78f400b709eff5f2435d10cf0e0d92d2&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[David McWilliams]]></media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[The walled town of Wexford: ‘Some people said to us that it must be like living in a prison’]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/2026/08/01/the-walled-town-of-wexford-some-people-said-to-us-that-it-must-be-like-living-in-a-prison/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/2026/08/01/the-walled-town-of-wexford-some-people-said-to-us-that-it-must-be-like-living-in-a-prison/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rosita Boland]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In the first of a four-part series on Ireland’s walled towns, we visit Wexford, where history is quite literally in people’s back gardens]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/7BC635VKCVD5RFOP7XUB23OPIE.JPG?auth=0c898f1a47084140042f00f96f3d5b0776270426c38d44e89afccc55bdef0290&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Paul Walsh, who leads tours for WexWalks, at part of Wexford town's medieval wall. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw]]></media:description><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu">Nick Bradshaw</media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mayo’s win was one of the most joyful national episodes since Republic’s foundation]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/2026/08/01/keith-duggan-mayo-people-around-the-world-will-remind-themselves-all-winter-it-was-real/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/2026/08/01/keith-duggan-mayo-people-around-the-world-will-remind-themselves-all-winter-it-was-real/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Keith Duggan]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[When winter arrives and the evenings close in, the people of Mayo will continue to remind themselves it was real]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/T56R6MTPOYWC2IAVQ7U7RIUK6I.jpg?auth=1b159137ae92a03720800336c7c3b484c2a7abec4161e6df52a7ff2022e764f7&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Mayo fans welcome the newly-crowned All-Ireland football champions home to Castlebar on Monday. Photograph: James Crombie/Inpho]]></media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 review: Is this the foldable phone you have been waiting for?]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/technology/consumer-tech/review/2026/08/01/samsung-galaxy-z-fold-8-review-is-this-the-foldable-phone-you-have-been-waiting-for/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/technology/consumer-tech/review/2026/08/01/samsung-galaxy-z-fold-8-review-is-this-the-foldable-phone-you-have-been-waiting-for/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ciara O'Brien]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Perfect balance between space of regular Fold mobile phones and compact nature of Flip ones]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/KBR52TSJKBB2FKDMIKDDTO6LMU.png?auth=3b15ae40fe77b7bde543b2eba40fb45952021b68a103600f51569762d9897c6c&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/png" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Samsung has unveiled the new Z Fold 8, which is a wider format aimed at content consumption]]></media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meet the people behind an Irish summer: ‘We start around 10.30 in the morning and finish at 2am’]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2026/08/01/meet-the-people-who-make-summer-happen-we-make-hay-while-the-sun-shines-and-hibernate-in-winter/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2026/08/01/meet-the-people-who-make-summer-happen-we-make-hay-while-the-sun-shines-and-hibernate-in-winter/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rosanna Cooney]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Be it a bean an tí, a Skelligs boat captain or a dancing barman, it takes a lot of effort by someone behind the scenes for the holidays to work]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/2XVPGYVEDZCPHNOLFXGWAKJUJU.jpg?auth=fbbd787d2c34381d4c302715aa9ac2e8dcd32b6708eb5aae870a03629d62f205&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Kai Fitzsimons, a beach lifeguard in Brittas Bay, Co Wicklow. 'You’ve got to be ready for anything.' Photograph: Bryan Meade]]></media:description><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu">Bryan Meade</media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conor McManus: Joy for Mayo tempered by heartbreaking farewell to my friend Stephen Gollogly]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/2026/08/01/conor-mcmanus-mayos-all-ireland-triumph-shows-every-county-the-blueprint-to-beat-kerry/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/2026/08/01/conor-mcmanus-mayos-all-ireland-triumph-shows-every-county-the-blueprint-to-beat-kerry/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Conor McManus]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The joy of ending a 75-year football famine is tempered by the heartbreaking farewell to Monaghan teammate Stephen Gollogly]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/6P7Y6FMHJBHZXF7CJL2HY3GQJE.jpg?auth=7b78ec1c79149ccaae29c075a7aedebeda737fcda7d800369739c18063c0fb39&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Conor McManus (right) says Stephen Gollogly (left) was "a warrior on the field but a brilliant footballer too". Photograph: Morgan Treacy/Inpho]]></media:description><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu">©INPHO/Morgan Treacy</media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘What was a beautiful habitat now is black soot’: Ireland’s wildfires devastate wildlife]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/environment/climate-crisis/2026/08/01/what-was-a-beautiful-habitat-now-is-black-soot-irelands-wildfires-devastate-wildlife/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/environment/climate-crisis/2026/08/01/what-was-a-beautiful-habitat-now-is-black-soot-irelands-wildfires-devastate-wildlife/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Colgan]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Mammals, small reptiles and amphibians losing shelter and food due to blazes in Tipperary, Wicklow and Waterford]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/SVWJTSZE5BHLJI34HRF2GNGO5I.JPG?auth=b52c1954bab5ea6428a1eb1dbf7011c36c34017fc080f4855f9b45983b3cacbe&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Damian Clarke, manager of Wicklow Mountains National Park, standing in the Featherbeds area of the Wicklow Mountains, in the remains of a peatland fire which has burned for the last 15 days. Photograph: Paul Colgan/The Irish Times]]></media:description><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu">Alan Betson</media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[ICG chief prepares to cast off on Bluefin deal in €1.21bn bid to take over ferry operator]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/business/markets/2026/07/31/icg-chief-prepares-to-cast-off-on-bluefin-deal-in-121bn-bid-to-take-over-ferry-operator/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/business/markets/2026/07/31/icg-chief-prepares-to-cast-off-on-bluefin-deal-in-121bn-bid-to-take-over-ferry-operator/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Brennan]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Share buy-backs and stock awards to chief executive Eamonn Rothwell among factors that have limited market liquidity]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/WBXYJ7IG3FHK7IL6LS73T5K724.jpg?auth=bf65f22e7da090f5c8cd8704b16a6d9baa9d4658ebae0574844953ad7be93384&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[MBO bid for Irish Ferries parent Irish Continental Group has been framed to allow principals take some money off the table. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill 
















]]></media:description><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu">Dara Mac Dónaill</media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dysfunction in Ireland a poor reason to not back Andy Burnham’s plan to devolve power]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/2026/07/31/dysfunction-in-ireland-a-poor-reason-to-not-back-andy-burnhams-plan-to-devolve-power/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/2026/07/31/dysfunction-in-ireland-a-poor-reason-to-not-back-andy-burnhams-plan-to-devolve-power/</guid><description><![CDATA[There are many cases of very effective devolved governance systems in continental Europe]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/VHFAVTA4U5C7FE2ZTPOGOKHXN4.jpg?auth=1f202b740bd44798a55898a19ef6a892873ae4e538e9e94222c2b3519c6cad0e&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[The Irish Times - Letters to the Editor.]]></media:description><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ladies football reaping the rewards of following men’s lead on new rules]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/2026/08/01/ladies-football-reaping-the-rewards-of-following-mens-lead-on-new-rules/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/2026/08/01/ladies-football-reaping-the-rewards-of-following-mens-lead-on-new-rules/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Muireann Duffy]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Players from All-Ireland finalists Galway and Kerry agree the game is faster and more exciting]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/PK4N4M7QGZGULISLUGH4DVCXH4.jpg?auth=f6d4c25e2e933a2d281a3f32bedaa448edf6baff33c476069178ef666b9773e1&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Síofra O'Shea scores a goal for Kerry in their All-Ireland SFC semi-final victory against Dublin at Semple Stadium, Co Tipperary. Photograph: Stephen Heaney/Inpho]]></media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pat Donlon obituary: First woman director of a national institution, librarian and academic]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/obituaries/2026/08/01/pat-donlon-obituary-first-woman-director-of-a-national-institution-librarian-and-academic/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/obituaries/2026/08/01/pat-donlon-obituary-first-woman-director-of-a-national-institution-librarian-and-academic/</guid><description><![CDATA[Leading light in culture who broke into male bastions and shattered negative stereotypes of feminist professionals]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/4RXJZHSQRJJRVA5ETYFRU2N644.JPG?auth=12ae836b44bd7ea1d959a6af3951fd03081fee71d4ccaf7a51c39a119d8ec42c&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Pat Donlon: Children’s books (and their illustrations) were among her lifelong passions. Photograph: David Sleator]]></media:description><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu">David Sleator</media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[A look at Dublin Bay’s ‘completely unique’ biosphere]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2026/08/01/a-look-at-dublin-bays-completely-unique-biosphere/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2026/08/01/a-look-at-dublin-bays-completely-unique-biosphere/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Enda O'Dowd, Dara Mac Dónaill]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In 2015, Unesco extended the reserve to the entirety of Dublin Bay, including Ireland’s Eye, which has 9,000 pairs of breeding seabirds across 11 different species]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/ABQCA7H2NJGEVJCIJ6XRETMARI.jpg?auth=ac0fc71582cead4c1ce8995cd3cdfe2a00c872af68355ad3954d4f83f8ab34a5&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[A bird colony on Ireland's Eye in Dublin Bay. Photograph: Enda O'Dowd]]></media:description><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu">Enda O'Dowd</media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arsenic 133 times above legal level found in Aughinish Alumina groundwater]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/environment/2026/08/01/groundwater-under-aughinish-alumina-contains-contaminants-up-to-4700-times-legal-thresholds/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/environment/2026/08/01/groundwater-under-aughinish-alumina-contains-contaminants-up-to-4700-times-legal-thresholds/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Conor Gallagher]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Water testing reports from Co Limerick refinery show more than half its wells and streams contain contaminated water breaching Irish rules]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/BXSBZHSC6JB67HWZ67X5FRYNMA.JPG?auth=abe7f3a4176b0f591c803265755d4d3eca7141352231d3c6b049bd81721b8759&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Aughinish Alumina refinery, Europe's largest alumina plant, on the Shannon estuary in Co Limerick. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw]]></media:description><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu">Nick Bradshaw</media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘A ticking environmental time bomb’: What lies beneath Aughinish Alumina in Co Limerick]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/environment/2026/08/01/a-ticking-environmental-time-bomb-what-lies-beneath-aughinish-alumina-in-co-limerick/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/environment/2026/08/01/a-ticking-environmental-time-bomb-what-lies-beneath-aughinish-alumina-in-co-limerick/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Conor Gallagher]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[An Irish Times investigation shows the Russian-owned Co Limerick industrial plant is consistently polluting groundwater]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/JVZPBA4KGZFOTAQWSAP5ZGBSZQ.jpg?auth=f811790390357b859742dd4be80d612186814142d922482474166a24c5917fa0&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[An Irish Times investigation found that more than half of all groundwater sources at Aughinish Alumina in Co Limerick are currently in breach of Irish and EU contamination limits]]></media:description><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to revive your tired late summer garden]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/gardening/2026/08/01/how-to-revive-your-tired-late-summer-garden/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/gardening/2026/08/01/how-to-revive-your-tired-late-summer-garden/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Fionnuala Fallon]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Ruthlessly cut out any vegetation that heatwaves have left withered and yellowing before judiciously filing in the gaps left behind]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 04:31:00 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/NA4VFBCLDZBUTKAKM5AOHSW2TY.jpg?auth=c9ffbee3df01efca0d5b742c4d3708632f2ee27c176b72bf60ce8792b08b27a8&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Be ruthless. Use a secateurs or scissors to cut away any faded flower stems or dead or badly discoloured leaves. Photograph: Getty]]></media:description><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu">Mkovalevskaya</media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comedian Alan Davies: ‘I talk about what my father did, and how I had him arrested’]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/stage/2026/08/01/comedian-alan-davies-i-talk-about-what-my-father-did-and-how-i-had-him-arrested/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/stage/2026/08/01/comedian-alan-davies-i-talk-about-what-my-father-did-and-how-i-had-him-arrested/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Laura Slattery]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In Think Ahead, the comic talks about being sexually abused as a child. ‘People laugh their heads off, then they go totally silent and listen’]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 04:29:00 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/B4UECG4ITBE57JDRSP7WK2FHCM.jpg?auth=56bc985e467ffda8102e235558ca90fb1e44a004cca1412b2d96865f841bbb45&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Alan Davies: ‘No grown-up wants to just have frivolity and superficial nonsense’]]></media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘We had to bring a live rooster to the healer. She used its blood to make a poultice’]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/stage/2026/08/01/we-had-to-bring-a-live-rooster-to-the-healer-she-used-its-blood-to-make-a-poultice/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/stage/2026/08/01/we-had-to-bring-a-live-rooster-to-the-healer-she-used-its-blood-to-make-a-poultice/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Dervan]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Kilkenny Arts Festival 2026: The Curing Line, Michael Gallen’s new opera, has grown out of his study of Irish folk cures]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 04:17:00 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/BLFIN7GUXFAODBFHTHDHKROWAY.jpeg?auth=8184fe0d088921868993ec19620b6561936de344f619d9dcd6d84b6e5099ef0e&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[The Curing Line: Michael Gallen and his co-director Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern during rehearsals. Photograph: Elektra Thomson]]></media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV: 10 of the best new shows to watch in August]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio/2026/08/01/netflix-prime-video-disney-apple-tv-10-of-the-best-new-shows-to-watch-in-august/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio/2026/08/01/netflix-prime-video-disney-apple-tv-10-of-the-best-new-shows-to-watch-in-august/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kevin Courtney]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Your guide to streaming, including Alley Cats, Lioness, Dark Matter, The Shards and the return of Ted Lasso]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 04:15:00 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/OFWXG62OLVRDBXM3WT6ALGN6UI.jpg?auth=f25fbd7c51cc6d034f2d1f4627d89ed3b1bc6227bce4de288c512144ee4fcdc4&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Tom Basden stars as Ponce with Diane Morgan as Olive in Alley Cats. Photograph: PA Courtesy of Netflix ]]></media:description><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu">Press Association</media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your husband is in an office wearing clean clothes and you are on a bus to Donegal wearing a nappy]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2026/08/01/your-husband-is-in-an-office-wearing-clean-clothes-and-you-are-on-a-bus-to-donegal-wearing-a-nappy/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2026/08/01/your-husband-is-in-an-office-wearing-clean-clothes-and-you-are-on-a-bus-to-donegal-wearing-a-nappy/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alice Ryan]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Amateur Breeders is a new short story by Alice Ryan]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 04:12:00 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/E3IQYEPRUHJCNY4UOOAQENAUVQ.jpg?auth=337f79b22b0917d8c6fed3c79c25c86890f3ec0607e2d62ce330469f004c3e99&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Photograph: iStock]]></media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mark Moriarty’s bank holiday barbecue: two of the simplest, tastiest recipes you can make outside]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/food/2026/08/01/mark-moriartys-bank-holiday-barbecue-two-of-the-simplest-tastiest-recipes-you-can-make-outside/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/food/2026/08/01/mark-moriartys-bank-holiday-barbecue-two-of-the-simplest-tastiest-recipes-you-can-make-outside/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Moriarty]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Remember the two golden rules of barbecue and you’ll have no problem with these easy recipes]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/7VAFX2AKSZBR5GSQQ5YGBAOJ4Y.jpg?auth=35c7e14efe5fe367de78158ec72095d1a21264a9d71f75371404c34da21dcc87&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Chicken and beef on the barbecue: your diners will be happy. Photograph: Harry Weir]]></media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your new favourite white wine might come from this lesser-known French region]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/food/drink/2026/08/01/your-new-favourite-white-wine-might-come-from-this-lesser-known-french-region/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/food/drink/2026/08/01/your-new-favourite-white-wine-might-come-from-this-lesser-known-french-region/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[John Wilson]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[John Wilson: Luberon is most associated with rich reds, but these whites prove its winemakers have many skills]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/GNW7FUZ7DRAOBETLDRAJGQG2FM.jpg?auth=6a1d48750912dcdbed452055f26f8165fe2cf1ebc2a4c1c8bb9be4f059d38dfa&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Whites from the Luberon region of France can be wonderfully fresh due to the altitude of the vineyards and cold winds from the north]]></media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Met Éireann says Ireland to see high temperatures this bank holiday weekend - but rain is on the way]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/08/01/sunny-start-to-bank-holiday-weekend-may-turn-to-cloud-and-rain/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/08/01/sunny-start-to-bank-holiday-weekend-may-turn-to-cloud-and-rain/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Conor Pope]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Met Éireann says temperatures will remain comparatively high as unsettled weather spreads on Sunday]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/5BJPNA62ERHWRI2J6FP6PTSUAE.jpg?auth=3efe0f1bb0bf33e7ac2e03ffd7a609fbe82585a6b076821bb88a96c1ee2846ab&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Thousands are expected at the Curraghmore Estate in Co Waterford, where the All Together Now festival is taking place this bank holiday weekend. Photograph: Enda O'Dowd]]></media:description><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu">Enda O'Dowd</media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[This extraordinary sale will undoubtedly be the most talked-about auction of 2026]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/fine-art-antiques/2026/08/01/this-extraordinary-sale-will-undoubtedly-be-the-most-talked-about-auction-of-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/fine-art-antiques/2026/08/01/this-extraordinary-sale-will-undoubtedly-be-the-most-talked-about-auction-of-2026/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sylvia Thompson]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Record-setting sale of Gerard Dillon’s Tea Party among the biggest surprises so far]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/OLDBJVXBTRA7DE5JEZTORLYAKA.jpg?auth=3340396a1afae49ce4326abe28fa9b62bc7a00dadcc1c6fb40a5e4027975abb1&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Tea Party by Gerard Dillon will be the most talked-about auction result of 2026]]></media:description><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu">Adam's Auctioneers</media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live in Dublin city and every night we read about tractors ]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2026/08/01/we-live-in-dublin-city-and-every-night-we-read-about-tractors/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2026/08/01/we-live-in-dublin-city-and-every-night-we-read-about-tractors/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Nadine O’Regan]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Nadine O’Regan: I’ve always known I was a city person. The fact that I was born in the countryside seemed for years a mistake of birth]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/ZCFYI4FEV5GY3F3IE2CMM7ND4Y.jpg?auth=367eafb94935e837d9c0e12e41764fefc82e71289a1a379932d88a84191bd852&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Imagine my surprise when a couple of years ago things started to tilt towards the countryside]]></media:description><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu">artedetimo</media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bank holiday barbecue: Mark Moriarty’s recipe for striploin of beef with tacos and salsa roja]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/food/recipes/2026/08/01/bank-holiday-barbecue-mark-moriartys-recipe-for-striploin-of-beef-with-tacos-and-salsa-roja/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/food/recipes/2026/08/01/bank-holiday-barbecue-mark-moriartys-recipe-for-striploin-of-beef-with-tacos-and-salsa-roja/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Moriarty]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Start with your barbecue on high to get the most out of this simple recipe]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 03:55:00 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/PZO5MUM4FVCOVASA6R4Y2TIWMU.jpg?auth=2fbac3e406b426ae1bcdfe5e7196b0c761c49dd0f821a514b9047b1c9ae551e2&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Barbecue bliss: striploin of beef with tacos and salsa roja. Photograph: Harry Weir]]></media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bank holiday barbecue: Mark Moriarty’s recipe for roast half chicken with barbecue chimichurri]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/food/recipes/2026/08/01/bank-holiday-barbecue-mark-moriartys-recipe-for-roast-half-chicken-with-barbecue-chimichurri/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/food/recipes/2026/08/01/bank-holiday-barbecue-mark-moriartys-recipe-for-roast-half-chicken-with-barbecue-chimichurri/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Moriarty]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It will be easy to ensure the chicken is cooked through when you start it in the oven]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 03:51:00 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/R5LIHKS42FEYHEMPP4HJOQY5QA.jpg?auth=1b1a9526ef946368e275beb673177d6100068942a40b8007b642ec0a3f40d3a4&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Roast half chicken with barbecue chimichurri. Photograph: Harry Weir]]></media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marilyn Monroe: a life of endless mystery and metamorphosis in books]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2026/08/01/marilyn-monroe-a-life-of-endless-mystery-and-metamorphosis-in-books/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2026/08/01/marilyn-monroe-a-life-of-endless-mystery-and-metamorphosis-in-books/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mei Chin]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As a foster kid who became a princess, the screen siren who would now be 100 is the embodiment of the American dream]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 03:46:00 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/MKBXB2JCMRFKZF3FWQCEP5R5LE.jpg?auth=ab5447595a0eb8c627041d0e429b22cbde8f7877e5711b348cbceed909aab90a&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Andy Warhol's screen print collection Marilyn Monroe, 1967, at the Andy Warhol Museum of Modern Art in Medzilaborce, Slovakia. Photograph: Joe Klamar/AFP/Getty]]></media:description><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu">JOE KLAMAR</media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jan Morris – A Life by Sara Wheeler: Biography races through writer’s contradictory 94 years]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2026/08/01/jan-morris-a-life-by-sara-wheeler-biography-races-through-writers-contradictory-94-years/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2026/08/01/jan-morris-a-life-by-sara-wheeler-biography-races-through-writers-contradictory-94-years/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Clements]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Rather than tackle all of Morris’s books, author summarises just one-third of total collection]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 03:33:00 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/VD22M2BSQVHPNPB7YGUCWURRK4.jpg?auth=13ee2ac0779522484b8d4b4fb8e69dda2d129a079dffd1f81366b580098c2090&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Author and historian Jan Morris in Criccieth, Wales, March 2018. She  died in November 2020 aged 94. Photograph: Tom Jamieson/The New York Times

]]></media:description><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu">TOM JAMIESON</media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Build up an extreme well of confidence’: Daniel Kraus on getting in the writing zone]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2026/08/01/build-up-an-extreme-well-of-confidence-daniel-kraus-on-getting-in-the-writing-zone/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2026/08/01/build-up-an-extreme-well-of-confidence-daniel-kraus-on-getting-in-the-writing-zone/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Martin Doyle]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In Angel Down, the author adopted a single-sentence structure to reflect the uncertainty of warfare]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 03:28:00 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/2O3F5PLNMRFDBLKKO4IHXBHT4A.jpg?auth=5d9e90b336872c61b7558089a38ea30d68e7afb6011ef91cd9139606b4c427de&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Novelist Daniel Kraus says he likes to take 'characters with whom readers would have no interest in sympathising and seeing if I can get them to do it anyway'. Photograph: TNS]]></media:description><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu">Chicago Tribune</media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Chorus of Ears by Denise Riley: Enjoy the company of an egregiously intelligent companion]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2026/08/01/a-chorus-of-ears-by-denise-riley-enjoy-the-company-of-an-egregiously-intelligent-companion/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2026/08/01/a-chorus-of-ears-by-denise-riley-enjoy-the-company-of-an-egregiously-intelligent-companion/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mícheál McCann]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Riley is one of our clearest thinkers]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 03:12:00 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/LUEVEHGPP2ANO4YQ7E3B36OLN4.jpg?auth=47fb48d78c13042c2455d19ede612f880e5f01469f7d9de78163a722f1d6d84c&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Denise Riley]]></media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Proust by Samuel Beckett: A fascinating glimpse of a Nobel laureate ‘in the making’]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2026/08/01/proust-by-samuel-beckett-a-fascinating-glimpse-of-a-nobel-laureate-in-the-making/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2026/08/01/proust-by-samuel-beckett-a-fascinating-glimpse-of-a-nobel-laureate-in-the-making/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Lordan]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Beckett’s youthful study illuminates the intellectual development of one of Ireland’s most formidable literary talents]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 02:56:00 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/E5XQOSKVYYPUSTZE5O3UDUR2NM.jpg?auth=7bb870b52d4a14b8f21134938c6fa7a3a8dae7f371cbe758f6b817e994fba8d7&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[While it may spark renewed interest among scholars of Marcel Proust (pictured), this reissued monograph will undoubtedly appeal most to Samuel Beckett’s own devotees. Photograph: Sygma/Getty]]></media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion in Irish Literature and Culture: Original and thought-provoking essays]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2026/08/01/religion-in-irish-literature-and-culture-original-and-thought-provoking-essays/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2026/08/01/religion-in-irish-literature-and-culture-original-and-thought-provoking-essays/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Eamon Maher]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Timely collection covers a range of topics from gothic fiction to poetry and women of the diaspora]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 02:50:00 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/AB3Y2G3XQRGQBPIACM7XKVAP6Q.jpg?auth=226cfbcc8e4c24c0cc8d853eef0f65817235e2e1a53ddc5d24570f93a7a011dd&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Religion in Irish Literature and Culture explores church domination and control, among other topics. Photograph: Getty Images]]></media:description><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu">johny007pan</media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Poems of Sylvia Plath review: Leaping virtuoso from the page, clear as a bell]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2026/08/01/the-poems-of-sylvia-plath-review-leaping-virtuoso-from-the-page-clear-as-a-bell/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2026/08/01/the-poems-of-sylvia-plath-review-leaping-virtuoso-from-the-page-clear-as-a-bell/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Martina Evans]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Authors tactfully focus on Plath’s vital hard-won poems, while their introduction affirms how she ‘taught readers to love poetry’]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 02:08:00 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/OGAMIA4MJVCPTOQKLLBHAUQYZQ.jpg?auth=ec5e78833fcd0e2ad2a4fd48fcc95242ec9bb9386c73913920ac05f87a09ed29&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Sylvia Plath with Frieda and Nicholas Hughes, her children with Ted Hughes, in 1962.]]></media:description><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poem of the Week: Teething Ring]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2026/07/25/poem-of-the-week-teething-ring/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2026/07/25/poem-of-the-week-teething-ring/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[ Rosamund Taylor]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A new work by Rosamund Taylor]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 01:38:00 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/WBG75LAPA5WJIJA47IGT2FG57Y.jpg?auth=72480c5a008b80f5404074f2fcc47b02ee8a038f4dcce7fd8cd43262f938b139&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[Rosamund Taylor. Photograph: Ger Holland]]></media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reviews in brief: Cold War Football, The Albany Trilogy and Five Noir Novels of the 1950s & 60s]]></title><link>https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2026/08/01/reviews-in-brief-cold-war-football-the-albany-trilogy-and-five-noir-novels-of-the-1950s-60s/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2026/08/01/reviews-in-brief-cold-war-football-the-albany-trilogy-and-five-noir-novels-of-the-1950s-60s/</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[NJMcGarrigle]]></dc:creator><description><![CDATA[New books by Tony Shaw, Alan McDougall, William Kennedy and Jim Thompson]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 01:06:00 +0000</pubDate><media:content url="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/GCNG4I6PFVCJVHXABSIVXHBP24.jpg?auth=9d4d2f8dd81f9eebafbdcd18cad18ce6ccc7eb0c0573605851949ba9abb24dbd&amp;smart=true&amp;width=1200&amp;height=800" type="image/jpeg" height="800" width="1200"><media:description type="plain"><![CDATA[The Albany Trilogy is a fitting tribute to the exceptional William Kennedy. File photograph: Bettmann Archive]]></media:description><media:credit role="author" scheme="urn:ebu">Bettmann</media:credit></media:content></item></channel></rss>