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The Mardyke in Cork city, where homeless man Timmy Hourihane was killed last weekend. Photograph: Daragh Mc Sweeney/Provision Homeless in Cork: ‘Everybody can list friends who have died’

Cork’s most vulnerable residents are scared after the killing of Timmy Hourihane last weekend

Katie de Gama: ‘I couldn’t have told you one fact about the Famine. I hadn’t ever heard of it.’ Photograph: Nick Bradshaw ‘You can be anything in Ireland now, except English’
Jean McConville, Ivor Bell and Gerry Adams. Irish Times photomontage Jean McConville’s murder, the Boston tapes, Gerry Adams and the Ivor Bell trial
David Reilly and Derek O’Driscoll have used an insidious brand of intimidation and control, all underpinned by lengthy criminal records and reputations for ultra violence, to rule Ballyfermot Crime kingpins of Ballyfermot: The men behind the Dublin City Council protection racket
‘The shame and stigma surrounding baby loss is still rampant’ I thought I knew something about miscarriage. But I hadn’t a clue
The Defence Forces’ Ordnance Corps at Casement Aerodrome in Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill Inside the bomb squad: Combating terrorist attacks and gangland devices
The Border on the M1/A1 Dublin to Belfast road as viewed from the northern side. Photograph: Charles McQuillan/Getty Brexit: A day in the life of an Irish Border crossing
Colin Healy, Richie Sadlier and Roy Keane at Ireland training in 2002. Photo: Tom Honan Richie Sadlier memoir: ‘The abnormal, especially when it came to sex, was normal'
Children of the Troubles: Desmond Guiney, Charles Love, Lesley Gordon, Julie Livingstone and Siobhan McCabe (top row); John Dougal, Dessie Healey, Brian Stewart, Peter Watterson and Patrick Rooney (middle row); and Michael McIlveen, Paula Strong, Clare Hughes, Angela Gallagher and Philip Rafferty (bottom row) Children of the Troubles: They took a child off the road, put a hood over his head and killed him
Fintan O’Toole: Greta Thunberg is a prophet, preacher, rulebreaker, avenging angel
Oughterard campaign leaders say the help of the far-right is not welcome. Photograph: Joe O’Shaughnessy How the far-right is exploiting immigration concerns in Oughterard
Michael O’Regan. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien Michael O’Regan: I have learned to talk about cancer
Stephen Cluxton lifts the Sam Maguire as Dublin celebrate beating Kerry in the All-Ireland senior football final replay, at Croke Park. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times Dublin put in a champion performance to make Irish sporting history
The closed Shamrock bar on the Killarney road in Newcastle West, Limerick. Photograph Liam Burke/Press 22 Irish pub closures: The slow death of the local bar
Earn more than you think while working less
John Gormley outside his home in Oak Grove, Derrinturn, Co Kildare. Photograph: Enda O’Dowd Ireland’s defective buildings: Not just a Celtic Tiger problem
Joe Schmidt: “I think the great days have been the ones where the players have done something a little bit special, and you’ve seen players grow.” Joe Schmidt at the Aviva Stadium: The pleasure, the privilege was ours
The family of ‘Ms P’ is suing the HSE over her death and over the horrific ordeal of being left in legal ‘limbo’ for weeks 'I didn’t just lose my daughter, I lost her baby and my grandchildren'
‘Whatever happens with Brexit in the end is likely to be bad news for Ireland, assuming of course there isn’t a second referendum and the UK decides to stay in.’ No-deal Brexit capable of derailing economy and reigniting Troubles
Dublin goalkeeper Stephen Cluxton saves a shot from Kerry’s Paul Murphy. Photograph: Morgan Treacy/Inpho Dublin’s drive for five just about stays alive as Kerry rise to the occasion
Dún Laoghaire rooftop view Dún Laoghaire’s continuing failure to reinvent itself
Circa 1955: taoiseach Éamon de Valera (1882 - 1975) with Frank Aiken (1898 - 1983). Photograph: Sean Sexton/Getty Images United Ireland: De Valera’s secret plan for unification
By 2031 more than a quarter of a million inhabitants in the State will be aged over 80 years, a departmental review found. Photograph: John Stillwell/PA Wire The old country: Get ready for an ageing Ireland
Edna O'Brien. Photograph: Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert/Getty Edna O’Brien: ‘I have a ferocity in me, but I’m also fearful’
Portrait of Daniel O’Connell. Photograph: Getty Images Daniel O’Connell, the greatest of all politicians
Playing a blinder: Cillian Murphy as Tommy Shelby. Photograph: BBC Cillian Murphy: ‘We all have contradictions within us’
Dublin Airport: Sean Mackessy, airfield electrical supervisor. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill Do bras set off the scanners? The secret life of Dublin Airport
Patients attend the Remote Area Medical Clinic which treats the poorest in America, those squeezed out by ‘the punishing health system’. Photograph: Suzanne Lynch Meet America’s uninsured: Tales from a divided healthcare system
Boris Johnson: his Brexit campaign statement that the UK sends “£350 million a week to the EU” is the subject of a prospective court case. Photograph: Steve Back/Getty Images Fintan O’Toole: Ireland can stop a no-deal Brexit. Here’s how
Lyra McKee's investigation into children who went missing during the Troubles – was due to have been published in 2020. Photograph: Jess Lowe/EPA Lyra McKee and her investigation into the mysterious murder of a unionist MP in 1981
Aisling Bea in This Way Up. Photograph: Adam Lawrence/Channel 4 Plan Bea: Aisling Bea on searching for laughter in sad places
It was the late 1970s before the Liffey Swim welcomed women, and women were finally put on an equal footing in 1991. Photograph: Joey Cleary The Liffey Swim: Dublin’s hardy annual has its 100th outing
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg leaves the Merrion Hotel after meeting the Oireachtas Communications Committee. Photograph: Tom Honan/The Irish Times. Ireland’s love affair with multinationals is set to change - but how can we adapt?
Paddy McKillen Jnr: Creating and gathering up Dublin’s hotspots. Paddy McKillen jnr, the mystery man of Dublin nightlife
The point was not to get to the moon but to return from its great desolation, to come back to this astonishing Earth. Photograph: SSPL/Getty Images Fintan O’Toole: They went to the moon; we discovered the Earth
France and me: The most rewarding relationship of my life
Ireland, 1984: A year of fierce debates and ‘mounting evils’
The ESRI is calling for increases in carbon and property taxes – both of which can be expected to affect the average household. But it could be argued that Irish households are already contributing a disproportionate amount to the Irish economy. File photograph: iStock Who really drives the economy - Facebook, Google, or you?
Frances Street in Kilrush, Co Clare. Photograph: Eamon Ward Which towns in rural Ireland are worth investing in?
Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe speaks to media on the conclusion of the National Economic Dialogue at Dublin Castle. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times Budget 2020: Can we rely on the Government's plan?
Boris Johnson: The UK’s deeply polarising next prime minister
Darby O’Gill and the Little People: Albert Sharpe and Jimmy O’Dea in Walt Disney’s 1959 film The making of Darby O’Gill and the Little People
Garda Majella Moynihan in 1998: As senior gardaí interrogated her, she was subjected to a lay version of a Catholic marriage tribunal. Photograph: RTÉ Diarmaid Ferriter: Garda morality and policing of ‘scarlet women’
Ana Kriégel Ana Kriégel murder trial: The complete story
Timi Nicholson has reduced her family's plastic waste for the whole month to a single glass jar. Photograph: Laura Hutton Could you fit your month's plastic waste into a glass jar?
Brian Kerr: Quintessential Dubliner with a bit of Belfast in his soul
The unsolved mystery of Peter Bergmann
Thriving family business. Drogheda butcher Justin Callaghan, of Justin Callaghan & Sons. Photograph: Tom Honan Does your neighbourhood make you sicker or healthier?
John Brennan: some of Donald Trump’s behaviour has been treasonous, he says. Photograph: Al Drago/New York Times John Brennan: My trouble with Trump? ‘His dishonesty, his character’
Jackie Healy-Rae jnr takes a break from canvassing to visit his grandfather Jackie’s grave in Kilgarvan, Co Kerry. Photograph: Don MacMonagle New to politics: Hazel Chu, Jackie Healy-Rae jnr and others on their political ambitions
Seamus Mallon in 1998, when he was deputy first minister of Northern Ireland. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien Seamus Mallon: Tony Blair said to me, ‘The trouble with you fellows is you have no guns’
United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Paul Pogba after the final whistle of the Premier League match against Cardiff at Old Trafford on May 12th. Photograph: Martin Rickett/PA Wire Michael Walker: The thing is, it could get worse for Manchester United
The Irish baby born today: the First World problem of ‘where will I go on my holidays?’ may be replaced by ‘where is my next meal coming from?’ Photograph: Getty A baby born today: The climate and their future
Huawei’s vice-president for corporate communications Joe Kelly: “The West is quite individualistic. China is more collective” Irish spin doctor in thick of Huawei’s battle with the West
Ireland: what do we do now, now that we are happy? Illustration: iStock/Getty Fintan O’Toole: In today’s Ireland, happiness is a tough gig
Photograph: George Clerk/iStock/Getty Before you leave a tip in an Irish restaurant, read this
The public conversation Niall Quinn has been driving began following an invitation before Christmas to the PFAI awards night in Dublin. Photograph: Tommy Dickson/Inpho Niall Quinn: ‘Who are the FAI trying to fool?’
Caroline Dwyer: ‘We didn’t get to hear anything until the following day. I was at work, and my husband rang me. He said ‘Have you had any strange phone calls?’ ’ Photograph Nick Bradshaw/The Irish Times Caroline Dwyer awaits justice 10 years after son’s death in Bolivia
Party of two: if your partner is heavily intoxicated they can’t give consent. Photograph: iStock ‘So if you go out and both get drunk you can’t have sex? That’s f**ked up’
‘The school tried its best, but they were struggling and ill-equipped’: Suzanne Voakes and her son Rian (6). Photograph: Nick Bradshaw ‘My child was expelled at six. We’re in 2019... Our children are invisible’
The hair collectors: Where wigs and hair extensions come from
Statistics show that Ireland is undergoing a historic shift in its traditional pattern of home ownership. The changing face of Irish home ownership – who wins, who loses?
The food truck outside The Vines in Saltmills, Co Wexford Games, craft beer and food trucks: How the Irish pub is changing
Martina Cox pictured with her husband Sean Cox at the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Dún Laoghaire. Photograph supplied by family. Sean Cox: ‘He has missed so many milestones. That kills me,’ says wife Martina
Kinahan cartel: Liam Byrne heads what the Criminal Assets Bureau calls the “Byrne organised-crime group” Liam Byrne: Christy Kinahan’s lieutenant in Dublin
Seán Quinn’s daughters, Aoife, Brenda, Colette and Ciara, outside the High Court in Dublin. Photograph: Collins How the Quinns' Anglo gamble cost the State millions
Facebook’s dirty work in Ireland: ‘I had to watch footage of a person being beaten to death’
Aaron Monaghan, Garrett Lombard, John Olohan and Jane Brennan in Druid Theatre’s Richard III. Photograph: Robbie Jack The Irish Times 22nd Irish Theatre Awards: Villainy triumphs in tales for our times
Seán Bán Breathnach: “I was lucky,” he declares more than once Seán Bán Breathnach: ‘They probably saw me as . . . a showman.'
People are escorted to safety by aid workers at the airport of the coastal city of Beira in central Mozambique on March 19th after the area was hit by the Cyclone Idai. Photograph: Adrien Barbier/AFP/Getty Cyclone Idai: Those who do least to cause climate change suffer the most
Tragedy, magical thinking, and the lasting impact of grief
Photograph: Niklas Halle'n/AFP/Getty Britain’s shrinking, ageing Irish population
Fans donate food to a foodbank outside the ground ahead of the Premier League match between Liverpool and Everton at Anfield on December 2nd 2018 in Liverpool. Photograph: Simon Stacpoole/Offside/Getty Images Football fans unite to fight poverty in Liverpool
Fintan O’Toole: The Irish priest who paved way for Donald Trump
Brexit bill: something that costs €50 to buy and have sent from an Amazon warehouse today could jump to more than €65 once third-country charges are totted up. Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Online shopping after Brexit: Higher prices, slower deliveries
Chelsea Douglas, Lauren Ellen Dunne, Lucinda Haines, Lynn Casey, Mark Gray and Dillon Owen who have helped develop Tusla’s website for young people. Photograph: Alan Betson ‘People think all children using social services are bad’
Illustration: Dearbhla Kelly A new map of Ireland: Honouring some of our outstanding women
Danile Mullan’s life unravelled following the lodgment of the complaint against him by an Irish victim in 2009. Photograph: Ireland International News Agency Wanted in the US: an Irish-linked paedophile who lived the high life
Rembrandt's Self-Portrait with Beret, Wide-Eyed, 1630. Photograph: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Rembrandt: the first great ‘selfie’ artist
A child gets the MMR vaccine. There are currently several mumps outbreaks in Ireland. File photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty Images The return of mumps: Why has the disease gained a hold in Ireland?
Drug debts: First come bullets in the post. Then the family home is firebombed
Mary Lou McDonald on the screen during the Sinn Féin special ardfheis held in the RDS. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw McDonald’s tricky first year underlines Sinn Féin’s central problem
Liam Neeson. Photograph: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty This is not a Liam Neeson obituary. It just reads like one
‘After nine years in direct provision I have never stopped living’
Dealing with a non-performing mortgage on a family home is a daily reality for 64,510 borrowers, according to the Central Bank. Photograph: Sean Gladwell/Getty Life with mortgage arrears in Ireland: I had ‘seizures from stress’
A mosaic depicting the late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez (left) and Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro on a wall in Caracas. Photograph: Getty Images The battle for Venezuela – a smoking political tinderbox
Richard E Grant stars opposite Melissa McCarthy in Can You Ever Forgive Me? Photograph: Mary Cybulski Richard E Grant: ‘Every day I thank God for Withnail and I’
Despite the less than comprehensive level of access, abortions are now happening across the country in hospitals and in general practices. File photograph: Getty Images Abortion in Ireland: Four weeks in, how’s it working?
When it was over and the dead and wounded lay in pools of blood, moaning on the ground, Dyer forbade his soldiers to give any aid to the injured The Amritsar massacre: a cold, callous display of colonial evil
No Child 2020: Fintan O’Toole on a new Irish Times initiative
Will the burger survive? Photograph: AP Photo/ Eugene Hoshiko Meat consumption must drop by 90% to avert climate crisis, report warns
Isis fighter: Alexandr Ruzmatovich Bekmirzaev, who was captured in Syria with Irish passport From Ireland to Isis: The life of Alexandr Ruzmatovich Bekmirzaev
Mary Dillon, Greg Kennedy and Marie Galvin. Photograph: Tom Honan The returned missionaries: ‘I’m more African than I am Irish’
Eoin Cluskey of Bread Nation. Photoograph: Nick Bradshaw 50 people to watch in 2019: Ireland’s hottest young talent
The remains of cars destroyed by the Carr Fire in July in Redding, California. No one was even vaguely surprised that Trump’s response to the wildfires was to deny that they had anything to do with climate change. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Fintan O’Toole: 2018, year of the dark new normal
From cow to cup: Brexit and the threat to your milk’s cross-Border journey
Cycling the Border, 2018: ‘At least yous are Prods, you f**kers’
Lavinia Kerwick: 'He committed a heinous crime next to murder. There’s no forgiveness for that.' Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill Lavinia Kerwick: 'My life in my 20s and 30s was absolutely destroyed, taken away'
Protest meeting in 1918 in Ballaghaderreen, Co Roscommon, against conscription in Ireland. In April that year, Lloyd George’s government had given itself the power to extend conscription to Ireland. Photograph: Photo12/UIG/Getty Images Fintan O’Toole: The 1918 election was an amazing moment for Ireland
Volunteering can have a number of personal and professional benefits Volunteering: Why and how you should get involved
John Gunning during his fighting days at the 18th Sumo World Championships in Hong Kong in 2012. Photograph: Richard A Brooks/AFP/Getty The Roscommon man who became a sumo wrestler in Japan
John West, former Ireland rugby international Trevor Ringland and John McNally in Holywood. Photograph: Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker North Down on Brexit: ‘The DUP threatens the union more than Sinn Féin’