LettersLetters to the Editor, January 5th: On driving change from within Israel, submarine attacks and dry observations
BooksHow the West misjudged Russia’s dissidents and helped shape Putin’s rise as Soviet Union fellBy Seamus Martin
Tuarascáil‘Cuisle na hathbheochana’ ag bualadh go tréanBy Ciarán Mac Giolla Bhéin, Uachtarán Chonradh na Gaeilge
BusinessHow Uisce Éireann repaired leaks on a third of Dublin’s water supply in just over 24 hoursBy Barry O'Halloran
USTrump’s second term: the president who refuses to be ignoredBy Michael Grynbaum and Stuart Thompson
OpinionHave you given up alcohol yet? Planned your career pivot? Try the stoics’ approach insteadBy Laura Kennedy
PoliticsPost-Connolly alliance seeks long-term change to left-wing politicsBy Andrew Hamilton in Galway
Social AffairsTusla paid private firms €36m to house children in an unregulated systemBy Kitty Holland
Politics‘It’s been difficult trying to juggle being a new parent and a first-time TD’By Marie O’Halloran
AbroadI am an Irish therapist in Trump’s America: As my clients grow more anxious, I prepare to leave By E.R.J. McKay
Early Edition PodcastPodcast – 4 stories in 10 minutes: Why workplace accidents are rising, and moreListen | 05:25
Gaelic Games‘Now we have to win it’: Dingle squeeze past Ballyboden to make All-Ireland date with St Brigid’sBy Stephen Barry
SportThe force is strong with Luke Littler even if wins risk making him Darth Vader of darts By Mary Hannigan
RugbyLeinster fizzing with interpro momentum ahead of familiar La Rochelle challengeBy John O'Sullivan
Opinion‘Every 10 years, US likes to pick up some crappy little country and throw it at the wall’By Daniel Geary
Global BriefingThe US attack on Venezuela threatens Chinese interests in more ways than oneBy Denis Staunton
AmericasHow would Donald Trump tap ‘tremendous’ wealth from Venezuelan oil?By Malcolm Moore in London and Myles McCormick and Jamie Smyth in New York
Financial Services‘Down to the wire’: ECB’s digital euro project faces decisive vote in 2026By Olaf Storbeck
Big TechEU readies tougher tech enforcement in 2026 as Trump warns of retaliationBy Barbara Moens and Stefania Palma
SportCan anyone dethrone Luke Littler? He has already sown the seeds of his (eventual) defeatBy Jonathan Liew
WorldUS ‘has no right’ to take over Greenland, Danish PM says after latest Trump threats By Deborah Cole
In the News Podcast‘I did a Hyrox after six weeks training with no previous gym experience’By Bernice HarrisonListen | 24:15
FilmFour new films to see this week: Saipan, Menu-Plaisir: Les Troisgros, Peter Hujar’s Day and Song Sung Blue By Donald Clarke and Tara Brady
Financial ServicesBridgepoint agrees to buy former KPMG restructuring unit Interpath at £800m valuationBy Colin Gleeson, Laith Al-Khalaf and Ellesheva Kissin
Asia-PacificXi Jinping says Irish novel The Gadfly sustained him during traumatic teenage yearsBy Denis Staunton
IrelandSchool closures in parts of Ireland as Met Éireann forecasts more freezing conditionsBy Caroline O'Doherty
PeopleJesy Nelson says her twin daughters may never walk after diagnosis of rare conditionBy Alexandra Topping
PoliticsSenior civil servants resist plan to scrap Dublin Airport passenger cap, Minister saysBy Harry McGee
SportLamar Jackson is a once-in-a-lifetime talent. And the Ravens are still going backwards By Oliver Connolly
CourtsSchoolteacher Enoch Burke to be brought to High Court office for potential action By Ray Managh
SoccerMalachy Clerkin: Trump is showing Fifa what a shameful mistake its bogus peace prize wasBy Malachy Clerkin
Ireland‘It gives us a bit of hope’: Venezuelans in Ireland react to Maduro’s capture by US By Hosanna Boulter
IrelandState paid nearly €1.4m for tract of land to expand Glen of the Downs nature reserve By Ken Foxe
CourtsTruck driver remanded on charge of dangerous driving causing death of woman before Christmas By Keith Falkiner
EnvironmentClimate change impacts continue with 2025 proving Ireland’s second-warmest yearBy Ronan McGreevy
EuropeEU gives stuttering response to US action in Venezuela as Greenland threat resurfacesBy Jack Power
The Women's PodcastSuzie Miller: The woman behind Prima Facie, the sell-out play starring Jodie Comer By Suzanne BrennanListen | 51:32
PoliticsLate Fianna Fáil senator Mary White remembered as ‘force of nature’ by TaoiseachBy Cormac McQuinn
CourtsTeenager drove on wrong side of N7 dual carriageway and hit over 200km/h, court hears By Tom Tuite
Crime & LawMan killed in Co Donegal assault named as businessman and former election candidateBy Stephen Maguire
AmericasVenezuela’s acting president strikes conciliatory tone with US after Trump warningBy Patricia Torres in Caracas, Tom Phillips in Cúcuta and Tiago Rogero in Rio de Janeiro
An Irish DiaryStepping out: How the wondrous benefits of walking have been brought to bookBy Paul Clements
Social AffairsMore than 600 disability issues identified in Leinster House accessibility auditBy Darragh Mc Donagh
HealthInfant formula sold in Irish supermarkets recalled by Nestlé over food poisoning concerns By Caroline O'Doherty
SoccerRuben Amorim leaves United with one of the worst stats records. But it wasn’t why he was sackedBy Ken Early
BusinessEU vote on Mercosur trade deal with South American nations takes place on FridayBy Jack Power
Nicolás Maduro court appearance - as it happenedLive: Maduro pleads not guilty at US court; Rodriguez sworn in as Venezuela’s new president
Americas‘I am a decent man. I am still president of my country,’ Nicolás Maduro tells US judgeBy Tom Hennigan
SoccerWilfried Nancy was never the answer, but he’s not to blame for the mess at CelticBy Ewan Murray
TV & RadioLynley on BBC One: Ken Loach does Agatha Christie on the creepy Norfolk coast, but it’s funBy Ed Power
IrelandWatchdog raises concerns with EU over X sexually explicit images created by Grok AIBy Caroline O'Doherty
RugbyChampions Cup: TV details, kick-off times and team news with Leinster and Munster in actionBy David Gorman