04 April, 2024 Digital News Archive

Governments need to take record-keeping seriously in the digital age

By Stephen Bush

Science

Geoengineering a cooler Earth: The benefits and hazards of a radical response to the climate crisis

By William Reville

Financial services counting on AI for a productivity boost

By Sid Venkataramakrishnan

Technology

Truth Social valued on virtual hot air, not fundamentals

By Karlin Lillington

TV & Radio

Patrick Freyne’s favourite TV shows of 2024: An Irish national treasure, bickering hitfolk and the best actor of her generation

By Patrick Freyne

Consumer Tech

Out-Apple-ing the MacBook? Samsung’s €2,000 Galaxy Book 4 Pro

By Ciara O'Brien

Tech clean-up: not every threat is digital

By Ciara O'Brien

Restaurants

A swanky new restaurant already filled with the D4 and south Co Dublin set

By Corinna Hardgrave

Film

Evil Does Not Exist review: Ryusuke Hamaguchi turns down the volume to more aggressively embrace the oblique

By Donald Clarke

EU’s green policies have been chucked under a tractor

By Jack Power

Music

Lyra debut album review: slick, cutting-edge pop from a powerhouse vocalist

By Lauren Murphy

Music

Vampire Weekend: Only God Was Above Us review – Utterly wild and terrific

By Tony Clayton-Lea

Five homes on view this week in Dublin, Mayo, Wexford, Laois and Donegal

By Elizabeth Birdthistle

Your Wellness

Why we strive for happiness but then often ignore it when it arrives

By Pádraig O'Moráin

What will €575,000 buy in Dublin and Co Galway?

By Elizabeth Birdthistle

Classic elegance with modern comforts at jeweller’s Blackrock home for €1.35m

By Kevin Courtney

Might Mainstream Renewable Power be sold?

By Cantillon

Seclusion and serenity: three country homes from €245,000

By Elizabeth Birdthistle

Spacious high-spec homes in Carrickmines from €770,000

By Miriam Mulcahy

Developer Johnny Ronan emerges as owner of Dublin city’s only private park

By Ronald Quinlan

Climate Crisis

Data centres are a serious threat to Ireland’s carbon budgets

By Hannah Daly

New asylum-seeker accommodation agency is under consideration

By Jack Horgan-Jones and Sorcha Pollak

Gaelic Games

Ciarán Murphy: Recalibration of GAA summer an improvement on times past

By Ciarán Murphy

Opinion

Why do the Irish love chicken fillet rolls so much? It’s not all about taste

By Finn McRedmond

Common GroundOpens in new window

United Ireland could cost €20bn a year for 20 years, says new study

By Mark Hennessy

Price of united Ireland: Bringing North’s welfare up to scratch presents cost challenge

By Mark Hennessy

Denis Leamy confident Munster will relish Northampton assignment

By Gerry Thornley

Service sector growth gains momentum in March

By Laura Slattery

Housing & Planning

Why a site in a sought-after area of Dublin remains derelict after 20 years of inactivity

By Ronan McGreevy

Rogue general in Libya serviced by several western companies in apparent breach of UN embargo

By Naomi O’Leary

Serving soldier investigated on suspicion of using leave to train troops in Libya last year

By Conor Gallagher

Sport

Controversy around LA Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani and his interpreter shows strange relationship US has with sports betting

By Dave Hannigan

Inflation has softened but prices are still growing

By Cantillon

Opinion

‘We elected a meme!’: How the meme president became a meme stock

By Rachel O'Dwyer

Social Affairs

Citywest hotel in Dublin was paid €53.6m to accommodate asylum seekers and Ukrainian refugees in 2023

By Sorcha Pollak

Activity of former Defence Forces members in Libya referred to Garda

By Conor Gallagher and Naomi O’Leary

Climate Crisis

The lessons from where turf extraction has ended

By Pádraic Fogarty

People

Michael Harding: Peabody, Charlie and Jack love each other despite all that’s going on in the world

By Michael Harding

Gaelic Games

Mark Jackson’s return puts spring in Garden County’s step

By Gordon Manning

Gaelic Games

Kilkenny’s Walter Walsh to miss opening rounds of the Leinster championship

By Gordon Manning

Courtney Brosnan excited by daunting challenge of facing France and England

By Mary Hannigan

Look inside: Jim Sheridan’s D4 home where Martin Scorsese, Brad Pitt and Bono hung out, for €2.5m

By Jessica Doyle

Social Affairs

Residents living near makeshift camps for asylum seekers in Dublin say homes ‘encircled’ by tents

By Colin Gleeson

Democratising access to crucial genomic data

By Olive Keogh

Silky Jack van Poortvliet offers Leicester different dimension

By John O'Sullivan

Business Today Newsletter

Libyan troops being trained by Irish firm a headache for Government and Garda

By Conor Gallagher

Your Wellness

How we can nurture our friendships to ensure long-lasting relationships

By Geraldine Walsh

In the News Podcast

The ex-Irish soldiers training a rogue Libyan militia

By Bernice Harrison

Listen | 25:11

Dublin

Former Baggot Street Hospital is surplus to requirements and on register for disposal, says HSE

By Martin Wall

Insurers return to profit as claims costs fall relative to premiums earned

By Ciarán Hancock

Fianna Fáil MEP accuses von der Leyen of ‘silence’ on genocide case against Israel

By Gráinne Ní Aodha, PA

Man for court charged with murder of Irish woman in New York bar

By Michael Fitzpatrick

Avolon delivers 12 new aircraft to customers in first quarter

By Ian Curran

Thursday’s Top Stories: Activity of ex-Defence Forces members in Libya referred to Garda; United Ireland could cost €20bn a year for 20 years, says new study

Donald Trump’s bid to delay hush-money trial denied by New York judge

Rights groups call for Garda report on racial profiling

By Ronan McGreevy

An Irish Diary

Where the streets have new names – Frank McNally on a French row with strong Irish echoes

By Frank McNally

Golf

‘Lots of us talk about LIV so I wanted to see it’ - Tommy Fleetwood on LIV Golf visit

By Ewan Murray

Work

Start-ups: Ignore the figures at your peril

By Olive Keogh

TV & Radio

Ripley review: Andrew Scott shines as the inscrutable anti-hero in this gripping psychological drama

By Ed Power

Google may introduce charge for AI searches

Disney wins out in historic boardroom battle

Middle East

Back-to-back strikes by Israel show tragic gaps in choosing targets

By Mark Landler and Adam Rasgon

Cannabis valued at €1.1m found in van arriving at Dublin Port from UK

By Ronan McGreevy

‘No silver bullet’ for Greencore as activist’s stake breaches 5% – Davy

By Joe Brennan

Irish companies involved in fewer mergers and acquisitions but values rise

By Ian Curran

Ireland U18s power past Italy to record first Six Nations festival win

Ireland’s global innovation ranking would climb significantly without GDP measure, council says

By Laura Slattery

PFH Group paid €18m in dividends before acquisition by Japanese tech giant Ricoh

By Ian Curran

Unemployment rises to 4.3% in March

By Eoin Burke-Kennedy

Smart Money

Bridging loans: would the return of this kind of finance help those who want to downsize to a smaller home?

By Cliff Taylor

Wet weather: major potato shortage looms due to persistent rainfall

By Ronan McGreevy and Vivienne Clarke

Jerry Hall, Philip Treacy, Don O’Neill, Hugh Wallace take part in Jack and Jill Children’s Foundation online art sale

Victim of fatal attack in west Dublin is named by gardaí

By Conor Gallagher

Your Money

Bank of Ireland online and mobile banking restored after outage

By Joe Brennan

Some €100bn in excess corporate tax could be saved in new sovereign wealth fund

By Eoin Burke-Kennedy

Opinion

Government has quietly shelved its plan to end direct provision

By John McManus

Education

Classroom Central: Teachers are leaving Ireland ‘in droves’

Munster’s Irish-qualified centre Antoine Frisch declares intention to play for France

By Nathan Johns

Economy

EU and US must better defend their economies against China, says trade envoy

By Jack Power

Noel Grealish becomes latest Independent TD set to back Simon Harris for taoiseach

By Cormac McQuinn

Africa

‘Climate champion’ fights to highlight South Sudan’s plight

By Sally Hayden

Divorced man no longer has to pay €385 monthly maintenance to ex-wife, judge rules

By Mary Carolan

Music

Forbidden Fruit 2024: Day-by-day breakdown and new acts revealed

Sinn Féin disputes findings of report suggesting united Ireland to cost €20bn annually

By Vivienne Clarke and Seanín Graham

Next Luas operating contract on track for €1.75bn

By Gordon Deegan

Former Dublin footballer Diarmuid Connolly’s assault charges hearing adjourned for seven weeks

By Tom Tuite

Corporate tax over-performance ‘coming to an end’ as receipts fall, McGrath warns

By Eoin Burke-Kennedy

Polish fears over defence and security ahead of local elections

By Derek Scally

Film

The First Omen review: Horror prequel is much better than it needs to be

By Donald Clarke

Announcement of special needs cuts felt like early April fools, TUI conference told

By Emmet Malone

Executive who felt ‘treated like a waitress’ at work function loses equality case

By Stephen Bourke

Ireland U19s beaten by France Under-20s in pulsating encounter

By John O'Sullivan

Two men allegedly ‘committed riot’ on O’Connell Street in Dublin last November

By Tom Tuite

Seventh worker at banking tech start-up wins unpaid wages claim

By Stephen Bourke

Gaza situation is ‘slow genocide that has been turned into a quick genocide’, TUI conference hears

By Emmet Malone

Asia-Pacific

Taiwan earthquake: Death toll rises to 10 with almost 1,100 injured, helicopters used in rescue

France v Ireland: Eileen Gleeson’s women aim to shock an expecting Metz crowd

By Mary Hannigan

Education

Many parents unaware special education staff do not need additional qualifications, conference hears

By Carl O'Brien

Stardust jury seek legal guidance after second day of deliberations

By Ryan Dunne

Irish man among three killed in helicopter crash in Swiss alps

By Fiachra Gallagher

Ukraine says Russia targeting rescue workers after deadly Kharkiv drone strike

By Daniel McLaughlin

An Irish Diary

Not All Greek – Frank McNally on Mohammad Syfkhan and the Irish bouzouki

By Frank McNally

Shares rise on optimistic comments from US Federal Reserve chairman

By Barry O'Halloran

Accenture global boss Julie Sweet accused of ‘shaming’ executive with ADHD

By Simon Foy

World

Nato allies aim to send more air defence aid to Ukraine but make no concrete pledges

Gardaí seize 10 firearms and €5m worth of drugs in series of operations across Dublin

By Fiachra Gallagher

Funding scheme worth €500,000 for outdoor swimming facilities announced

By Jade Wilson

Storm Kathleen: Risk of power outages and flooding in some areas as wind warnings issued

By Sarah Burns

Middle East

Biden tells Netanyahu Israel must reduce civilian harm in Gaza and suggests shift in US policy

Editorials

The exchequer returns show solid trends, but also underline the volatility of corporate tax revenues

Common GroundOpens in new window

Clare Daly hosts republican prisoners’ group in European Parliament

By Jack Power

Can’t agree on the potential cost of a united Ireland? The Germans may have the answer

By Mark Hennessy

Health

Consultants need to be more visible in Limerick’s ED to tackle trolley crisis, Donnelly says

By David Raleigh

Editorials

The latest events in the Middle East point to the risk of a dangerous escalation in Israel's war

British billionaire Joe Lewis avoids prison in insider trading case

By Joe Miller in New York

Alexis Mac Allister stunner helps Liverpool return to the top of the Premier League

Golf

Slow start for Power and Harrington in Texas Open as Maguire makes cut

By Philip Reid

Manchester United concede twice in last two minutes to lose to Chelsea

By David Hytner

LOI previews: Danny Rogers braced for visit of champions Shamrock Rovers

By Paul Buttner

Denise O’Sullivan on facing France: ‘We are not here to make up the numbers’

By Mary Hannigan

The roll of a lifetime

Local concerns and national politics

The pipes, the pipes are calling

‘Let’s stop shaming empty nesters’

Dublin to Wexford rail services