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Businessman and INM shareholder Denis O’Brien and former INM chairman Leslie Buckley. File photograph: Bryan O’Brien ‘Leslie. This storm will pass. Denis’: The INM controversy

Affidavit shows texts between former chairman Leslie Buckley and Denis O’Brien

Winning ways: Emmanuel Macron at his victory rally in Paris after being elected president, in May 2017. Photograph: Patrick Kovarik/AFP/Getty Le Big Mac: Emmanuel Macron’s rise and rise
One of the traditional, now highly contested, ideas about consent is the “No Means No” framework, where consent is understood to be revoked if and only if the unwilling partner says no and resists, firmly and explicitly Everything you want to know about consent but were afraid to ask
The four accused in the rape trial of Ireland and Ulster players Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding have been acquitted of all charges Inside Court 12: the complete story of the Belfast rape trial
The determination of Bertie Ahern and Tony Blair, allied to the patience of Senator George Mitchell, pulled enough people over the line to make the Belfast Agreement possible 20 years ago. Photograph: Crispin Rodwell/Reuters The Belfast Agreement: a historic deal is under threat
Dark web: Cambridge Analytica is controlled by a key funder of the hard right in US politics, the billionaire Robert Mercer, who also owns AggregateIQ’s intellectual property. Photograph: Henry Nicholls/Reuters Fintan O’Toole: The DUP’s Cambridge Analytica link
Dr Martin Luther King Jr makes his last public appearance at the Mason Temple in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 3rd, 1968. The following day King was assassinated on his motel balcony. Photograph: AP Photo/Charles Kelly Martin Luther King’s final speech analysed by Fintan O’Toole
“We’re in a good spot, in a good place. But we’ll always be aware that it can come up and bite you on the backside.” Photograph: Cyril Byrne Dylan McGrath: ‘I’m 100% back. I’m as good as I’ve ever been’
The grotto where 15-year-old Ann Lovett died after giving birth to her stillborn baby. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons Ann Lovett: Death of a ‘strong, kick-ass girl’
Smoke rises on the Syrian side of the border in Hassa, near Hatay, southern Turkey, as Turkish jet fighters hit People’s Protection Units (YPG) positions. Photograph: Ozan Kose/AFP/Getty Images) The Irish man ‘fighting fascism’ in Syria: ‘I was always curious how I’d react to battle’
The Ireland team celebrate with the NatWest Six Nations trophy and the Triple Crown trophy after their match against England at Twickenham. Photograph: Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images Best of the Slams: This is the most successful Irish team – ever
Fr Alex Reid gives last rites to one of the two soldiers murdered. Photograph: Trevor McBride On the brink of civil war: The two dark weeks that still haunt Northern Ireland
US fund Kennedy Wilson owns the Shelbourne Hotel, which took it out of receivership in 2014, with about €110 million in debt attached. How vulture funds got their tentacles deep into Irish lives
Climb Croagh Patrick, whichever way you want. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill / The Irish Times The ultimate Irish bucket list: Croagh Patrick, the Gaeltacht, soda bread
London children: we played the same games and watched the same TV programmes and listened to the same pop songs Fintan O’Toole: The British and Irish are no big deal to each other, which itself is a very big deal
Illustration of starving peasants clamouring at the gates of a workhouse during the Irish potato famine, 1846. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images Great Famine's impact illustrated by interactive map
circa 1833: A Choctaw Indian encampment on the Mississippi River. Original Artwork: Painting by Karl Bodmer. (Photo by MPI/Getty Images) What the Irish did for – and to – the Choctaw tribe
For a lot of folk, Cheltenham presents the four days in the year where it feels acceptable to gamble in a way that we just wouldn’t on the other 361 days. Photograph: Alan Crowhurst/Getty Gambling addict’s story is a salutary read in Cheltenham week
Crash site: coastguards watch the wreckage-recovery operation in Co Mayo. Photograph: Keith Heneghan/Phocus Rescue 116: ‘It’s been a tough year, very tough’
Brigid of Kildare: a fearless negotiator who secured women’s property rights, and freed trafficked women 25 fearless women who helped shape today’s Ireland
George Gibney in May 1988 when Ireland swimming coach. Photograph: Billy Stickland/Inpho No justice, no peace for the victims of George Gibney
True grit: Motorway maintainence workers load trucks at the Dublin County Council depot in Ballymount. Photograph: Cyril Byrne Storm Emma: Behind the scenes of the snowmergency
Music shop Waltons closed down this week after more than 20 years on South Great George’s Street in Dublin. Photograph: Cyril Byrne/The Irish Times The economy may be booming, but Irish shops are dying
If you have not been up a mountain previously, Carrauntoohil may not be the recommended starting point. Photograph: Getty Images Chaos on Carrauntoohil: Too few guides, too late starting
Catherine Nevin entering the Central Criminal Court during her trial. She was given a life sentence in April 2000 after being found guilty of murdering her husband Tom. Photograph: Collins Derek Byrne: The Catherine Nevin I knew
Saoirse Ronan attends the 90th Annual Academy Awards Nominee Luncheon in Beverly Hills, California, the US. Photograph: Kevin Winter/Getty Images Saoirse Ronan: ‘I don’t know where I am from. I’m just Irish’
Dr Ali Selim of the Islamic Cultural Centre of Ireland. The Muslim population is small but growing rapidly, from 49,000 to 63,000 between 2011 and 2016. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien Fintan O’Toole: No integration please, we’re Irish
Students released from a lockdown are overcome with emotion following following the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida. Photograph: AP ‘This happens nowhere else other than the United States’
Bernard Brogan: his experience and guile invaluable when Dublin need a forward whose brilliance lies in turning a match on nothing moments. Photograph: Donall Farmer/Inpho Brogan’s real value to Dublin will only be evident in his absence
The Syrian town of Kobani in 2014. The US-led coalition has carried out more than 27,000 airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria since August 2014. Photograph: Gokhan Sahin/Getty Images Islamic State: Defeated but still dangerous
Joe Schmidt during the captain’s run in Paris. Photgraph: Reuters/Gonzalo Fuentes The Joe Schmidt interview: ‘Hopefully I haven’t outstayed my welcome’
Losing sleep over infinity? Try reading Bertrand Russell. Photograph: Getty Images/Ikon Images To infinity and beyond: The numbers game behind God’s ‘existence’
The District Court in Virginia, Co Cavan, sits four times a month before Judge Denis McLoughlin. Photograph: Garrett White Irish life laid bare, one court case at a time
Manchester United line up before their 1958 European Cup quarter-final second leg against Red Star Belgrade. Photograph: Inpho/Getty Manchester’s trailblazing Babes and a legacy cut short
Continuing reciprocal access to both EU and UK waters is seen as crucial by EU negotiators, who point to the joint management of around 100 shared fish stocks. Photograph: Annie Sakkab/Bloomberg via Getty Images Brexit slideshow looks more like a disaster movie
Derek Coakley Hutch: Like most of the Kinahans’ victims, he appears to have had no involvement in anything that could be even loosely defined as active organised crime Shot because his name was Hutch: The propaganda war
Buying a new home in 2018? Here's what's coming
Fr James Good: was suspended from carrying out his priestly faculties almost 50 years ago for publicly opposing “Humanae Vitae”. Photograph: Michael Mac Sweeney/Provision ‘Humanae Vitae’ and the suspension of priest opposed to it
Author Philip Roth, at home in Manhattan’s Upper West Side in January 2018. Photograph: Philip Montgomery/The New York Times Philip Roth: Trump is a massive fraud, the evil sum of his deficiencies
Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons/The Irish Times On the road again: GAA players going the distance for their counties
Joanne Hayes leaving the tribunal in June 1985. Photograph: Matt Kavanagh ‘We are all guilty.’ Kerry remembers the babies scandal
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds performing on stage with Shane MacGowan in London, 1992. Photograph: Redferns Shane MacGowan and me, by Nick Cave, Glen Matlock, Camille O’Sullivan
File photograph: iStock Fintan O’Toole: The A&E crisis is perfectly acceptable
Decimated construction industry: by 2011-13 work started on only 4,000-5,000 new homes a year. Builders went bust or into Nama. Photograph: Eric Luke The Crash – 10 years on: scars remain amid the recovery
The top 50 people to watch in 2018. Photograph: Alan Betson 50 people to watch in 2018
Scientology: the church’s community centre in Firhouse in Dublin. Photograph: Cyril Byrne How Scientology is trying to insert itself into Irish schools
Conor McGregor arrives at Blanchardstown District Court in Dublin, where he was facing a speeding charge. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire Fintan O’Toole: Crumlin children do not need Conor McGregor’s gangsta fantasies
Downsizers: Sheila and Peader Keogh, from Castletroy, Limerick. Photograph: Don Moloney Ireland’s empty-nesters: ‘A big home is okay when you have kids’
Undercover gardaí search a rickshaw driver on Dublin’s Suffolk Street after observing a drug deal. Photograph: Alan Betson Dublin’s drug-dealing rickshaw drivers
Theresa May and Arlene Foster: the DUP this week helped to kill the thing it purports to love – the power and prestige of Britain. Photograph: Carl Court/Getty Fintan O’Toole: In humiliating May, DUP killed the thing it loves
The relatively charitable and sincere ambience surrounding Mass can be a tonic – even for non-believers. Why did the atheist go to Mass?
Niall Donohue in action for Galway in 2013. Photograph: Cathal Noonan/Inpho Life after death: Remembering Galway's Niall Donohue
Subset’s image of Donald Trump in Andrew’s Lane, Dublin. His baseball cap reads “Make Dublin grey again”. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire Why are stunning Dublin murals being painted over?
A former millionaire shows us what remains of his shop in Damascus. Now a refugee living near Hanover, in Germany, he attends language classes each day with his wife and children. Photograph: Sally Hayden Road to Damascus: the Syrian refugees who want to go home
The Luas Cross City on College Green passing Trinity College en-route to Nassau Street. Photograph Nick Bradshaw A match made in Dublin: the Luas lines finally get it together
It is alleged Kieran Creaven, a television producer in the RTÉ Sports department, flew from Ireland to meet up in Leeds with someone he believed to be a 13-year-old girl. We’re seeing an online justice revolution. That’s good. Isn’t it?
The Japanese concluded in 1868 that to get the economy working properly for as many people as possible they had to dramatically reduce the wealth tied up in land. David McWilliams: Want to fix the housing crisis? Tax land
Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker in Star Wars: The Last Jedi: “I have a much bigger waistline.” Mark Hamill: ‘If I had to climb a Skellig, I was staying at the top’
Peter O’Mahony in action for the Lions against New Zealand. “I didn’t play as well as I would have hoped in the first Test, but it was a huge honour. I wanted to play in the last two but I wouldn’t be bitter. I enjoyed the tour.” Photograph: David Rogers/Getty Images ‘Fellas are hungry to win trophies – not just win with Ireland’
Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams at the party’s ardfheis in Dublin last weekend. Shortly after the attack in 1983, Adams said Charlie Armstrong was a “perfectly legitimate” target. Photograph: Paul Faith/AFP/Getty Images Newton Emerson: Licensing next war is Adams’s real legacy
Republic of Ireland’s Tyler Toland: “Any football player, I suppose, would like to become a professional.” Photograph: Ryan Byrne/Inpho Tyler Toland taking international football in her stride at just 16
International role: Commercially Ireland is more akin to a trading state than a nation state. However, playing this trading state game takes skill and vision. Photograph: Christopher Murray/Getty David McWilliams: A new economic plan for Ireland
Ruby Walsh: He will miss at least four months of action, and his whole winter will be built around getting back in time for Cheltenham. Photograph: Alan Crowhurst/Getty Images Tipping Point: Ruby Walsh trolls show ugly side of Twitter
Marcial Maciel Degollado is embraced by Pope John Paul II in a ceremony on January 3th, 1991, marking the 50th anniversary of the Legionaries of Christ. Photograph: Getty Images The ‘gangster’ superior, the Irish priest and the wealthy widow
Beijing Guoan: Workers’ Stadium, the club’s ground. Photograph: Sino/Getty Bright lights, big city, bigger plans: Jim McGuinness in Beijing
Eric Hobsbawm: writing in the late 1980s, he regarded the Russian revolution as the central event of the 20th century as one-third of humanity lived under communist regimes deriving from those events. World View: Centenary of Russian revolution well worth marking
George Hamilton at Greystones Golf Club on Tuesday. “I am astonished really that at this point in my life I have ended up with this schedule of commitments.” Photograph: Cyril Byrne The unique career of George Hamilton and how it all began
Wilbur Ross (main image), Britain's queen and the Apple logo Paradise Papers: How the rich and powerful hide their money and avoid tax
Richard Ford: ‘The worry is that bad and doing bad will come to seem normal, acceptable.’ Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons Richard Ford on Donald Trump's America: The string of calamities seems too much to absorb
Nama Land: the part-built Anglo Irish Bank HQ, on the River Liffey in Dublin, in 2011; the finished building is now occupied by the Central Bank of Ireland. Photograph: David Sleator The making of Nama Land: Ireland’s great property sell-off
Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing tackles steep and angry seas as they pass East Cape, the eastern-most point of New Zealand in 2015. Photograph: Ainhoa Sanchez/Volvo Ocean Race via Getty Image Annalise Murphy: Racing headlong to the edge of the world and back
Traffic on the M50: The 45.5-kilometre road now carries an average of 142,496 vehicles a day; up from 109,434 in 2009. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times M50 blues: Ireland’s busiest road, Dublin’s biggest car park
Samantha Power: President Trump “is way more divisive and more of a purveyor of hate towards different groups and trying to pit different parts of American society against each other than I expected.” Photograph: Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Fortune/Time Inc Samantha Power: ‘Trump? He’s just a hack, an actor, a performer’
Estimates of how many died vary from 300 to 800, a remarkably low figure given the ferocity of the storm The calm before the Big Wind of 1839 was particularly eerie
Anthony Foley at Munster training at UL on October 13th of last year. Photograph: Tommy Dickson/Inpho One year on: Munster still living through Anthony Foley’s life and death
Dublin commuters travelling on the Luas. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw Life on the Luas: a tale of two tracks
Paul Howard with the Ross O’Carroll-Kelly statue in Dublin city centre. Photograph Nick Bradshaw 20 years of Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: Paul Howard’s top 20 moments
Familiar sight: people use a Dublin laneway to take drugs. Photograph: Cyril Byrne Decriminalising drugs: could it work in Ireland?
Burnt out? Relax, we’ve been exhausted for centuries
The battle for the hearts and minds of the 30,000 parents who will decide this month whether their daughters should receive the Gardasil vaccine is long under way The HPV propaganda battle: the other side finally fights back
Ivanka Trump, daughter and assistant to US president Donald Trump. “Whether my contribution ultimately lives up to the expectations of some of the harshest critics? Only time will tell.” Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Ivanka Trump: ‘I will not be distracted by the noise’
Homes under construction in Adamstown, Co Dublin. Photograph: Enda O’Dowd How do you build a new Dublin town?
Derek “Bottler” Devoy: he and other members of his family became embroiled in a row with two neighbouring families in Ballymun, which centred on where the Devoys’ bins should be placed for collection Who are Devoy family at centre of feuding in Dublin’s Ballymun?
Molly Martens Corbett has been convicted of the second-degree murder of her husband Jason Corbett. The two sides of Molly Martens Corbett
Gardaí tackle cold-case mystery of Trevor Deely’s disappearance
Moulin Rouge: Do people ever ask for sex? “Oh, for sure. Definitely,” says Peter Dandos, the owner of the Dublin massage parlour. Photograph: Enda O’Dowd Ireland’s Moulin Rouge: Inside a massage parlour on Dorset Street
Aileen Power, in St Stephen’s Green, Dublin. Power says her joining a pension at age 23 was “pure luck”. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill The new retirement: ‘My big fear is being old and poor’
The behaviour of members of An Garda Síochána is in focus at the moment. Trust in policing has been damaged by a number of controversies. Children in the inner city were ahead of the curve on this distrust. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill Stop and search: Garda harassment or crime-fighting?
The summer of 1992 was when everything changed, when the stranglehold a handful of high-priced flag-carrying airlines had held over all Europeans started to loosen. How low fares took off: a revolution in the skies
Martin McGuinness. “I could never see how it was right, even in a war situation, to slip out of your bed at night to go and put a bomb under somebody else’s car,” says Peter Sheridan. Photograph: Bruno Vincent/Getty Images Depraved hearts, history and hope: the IRA ceasefire, 20 years on
To PCP or not to PCP: You need to ask yourself some hard questions, or you could find yourself in a tricky situation three years down the road. Photograph: Barry Batchelor/PA Wire Buying a 172 car? With a personal contract plan? Read this . . .
Crack cocaine: crack rocks are smoked for a very short but intense high, and are far more addictive than standard cocaine. Photograph: Universal/Getty Crack cocaine in Ireland: The rise of an ugly drug
How the EU survived populism, migration and Brexit. So far
All the incentives to buy a property are typically directed at a younger generation Generation X: Born at the wrong time, an entire generation struggles to survive
The main street of Kildorrery, Co Cork. Photograph: Daragh Mc Sweeney/Provision Rural Ireland: The village that refused to die
Jobstown trial defendants Michael Banks, Ken Purcell, Paul Murphy TD and Scott Masterson leave the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court after they were all found not guilty on charges of the false imprisonment of then tánaiste Joan Burton at a water protest in 2014. Photograph: Collins Courts Jobstown trial struck a modern, and very disturbing, tone
Murder in Monkstown: the brutal killing of Charles Self
The DUP’s Arlene Foster and Nigel Dodds arrive at 10 Downing Street. Not quite the same as Prince fans arriving at Paisley Park. Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters Dear England: Here’s who the DUP are
Skeletons unearthed: Bones that halted a family’s dream home
Part of the former athletics track at Belfield is now being used as a car park. Photograph: Cyril Byrne Sad tale of Belfield’s abandoned athletics track a running sore
Ireland’s next taoiseach: Leo Varadkar’s life will change for ever when he accepts the seal of office on Wednesday. Photograph: Ramsey Cardy/Sportsfile/Corbis via Getty How to be taoiseach: A guide to Ireland's most powerful job
Body and Soul: The enchantingly creative arts and music festival really does deliver a ‘magical experience’ for kids. Photograph: Allen Kiely School’s Out: 43 things to do with kids this summer