Highlights

Louise O’Neill: ‘I read columns of mine that I would have written 10 years ago, and I think it’s interesting how much my worldview or my feminism has really shifted’ Louise O’Neill: ‘My career took off. My life changed. And I fell apart’

‘It felt like a lot of people really hated me. I suppose I felt really scared a lot of the time’

Niamh O’Donoghue and Jake McCabe, who left Dublin during the Covid-19 pandemic to work remotely in Murrisk, Co Mayo. Photograph: Keith Heneghan Escape to the west: ‘Everything we had in Dublin we have here’
Brett Egan: ‘I think it’s just greed to be honest.’ 3:52 Renting in Ireland: ‘I’m 35 at home with my mother. That’s ridiculous’
Lyubov Leus holds a photo of her with her husband, Serhiy, on their wedding day nearly 40 years ago. Serhiy was shot and badly injured by Russian troops outside their house. He and their son Sasha (32) were shot dead in their car later in the day as they attempted to drive to a nearby hospital. Photograph: Daniel McLaughlin Years of work ahead to hold Russia to account for atrocities it calls ‘fake’
Election officials count and verify votes at the Meadowbank sports centre in Magherafelt: For the first time in the North’s history, a nationalist party is poised to take the largest number of seats. Photograph: Paul Faith/AFP Assembly elections: All change for Northern Ireland
Alison Oliver, a virtually unknown actress from Cork, is compelling as Frances Conversations with Friends: How we made the new Sally Rooney TV drama
Mick McCarthy and Roy Keane pass each other during training in Saipan on May 21st, 2002. Photograph: Andrew Paton/Inpho Saipan 20 years on - Part III: The interview, the meeting, the row, the departure
Tatyana Arkhipova meeting son Ilya (9) in Odesa after he was evacuated from Russian-occupied Kherson in southern Ukraine. Photograph: Daniel McLaughlin ‘I’m terrified of going back there’: Ukrainians flee occupied Kherson
‘Covid-19 was not a potential threat. It was an existential threat.’ Behind Ireland’s Covid response: ‘We were going to be building morgues for people’
A Russian soldier walks amid the rubble of Mariupol in Ukraine. Photograph: Maximilian Clarke/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Peace in Ukraine: What will it take and how can it happen?
DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson presents his party’s manifesto in Craigavon, Co Armagh. Photograph: Mark Marlow/PA Wire NI Assembly election: Everything you need to know
John Francis Morrissey and his wife, Nicola 0:57 Revealed: Kinahan gang member’s dealings with Panama law firm over crime website
After her successful first book, Notes to Self, a collection of personal essays, Emilie Pine is now writing fiction. Photograph: Ruth Connolly Emilie Pine: ‘I miss the children I didn’t have. Some people get that and some don’t’
Alla Barsehyan, head doctor of the hospital in Bashtanka in southern Ukraine, which was hit by a Russian missile on April 19th. Photograph: Daniel McLaughlin ‘We hit them with everything we had’: Ukrainian town fights off the Russians
The PCK oil refinery in Schwedt, Germany. Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty Russia’s attempt to strong-arm EU on gas could backfire
When Beryl Ohas was 13, her life changed forever. Photograph: Damien Eagers She said ‘I’ve had a huge crush on you’ and kissed me. She was beaten to death
Documents shown to The Irish Times have revealed how a screening conducted by the Dubai authorities deemed the Kinahan brothers to be ‘low risk’ as they set up trade in the UAE The Kinahan files: Leaked documents expose workings of global empire
Terri Harrison was repatriated against her will when she was 18 from London to Bessborough where she had a baby boy Mothers and babies: ‘The day I arrived in Bessborough, I landed in the bowels of hell’
Vladyslav Lytvyn: ‘Before the war I had an ordinary family life and did what I loved, working in a barbershop’ Ukraine’s citizen soldiers: The barber, the businessman, the writer, the cafe manager
The pandemic has completely changed the way we work, so will we ever return to the office en masse? Photograph: iStock The future of work: Will we ever return to the office as we knew it?
Residential property prices have recovered by about 117 per cent from the trough in 2013 and are currently just 2.5 per cent off their Celtic Tiger peak. Photograph: Rui Vieira/PA Wire David McWilliams: State has completely lost control of the housing market
The funeral of Ukrainian soldier Ivan Myno: ‘It was so bad they could not take his body from the battlefield. But my dad knew where to search and asked soldiers to go there.’ Photograph: Yaryna Chuchma The dead and the survived: A tale of two Ukrainian soldiers
French presidential election candidate Marine Le Pen with Russian president Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin: She believes it is important to ‘anchor Russia to Europe’. Photograph: Mikhail Klimentyev/AFP Marine Le Pen: Putin’s best hope of sowing discord in EU and Nato
Mick Wallace and Clare Daly have become staples of state-controlled media in the Russian, Chinese, and Arabic language. File photograph: Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images How Clare Daly and Mick Wallace became stars of authoritarian state media
The State of the Parties: Sinn Féin, 33 per cent (down two); Fianna Fáil, 23 per cent (up three); Fine Gael, 22 per cent (up two); Green Party, 3 per cent (down two); Labour, 4 per cent (no change); and Independents/others, 15 per cent (no change). Opinion poll: Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael regain ground against Sinn Féin
Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland Michelle O’Neill and Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald: Sinn Féin appears poised to return the largest number of MLAs to Stormont following the election. Photograph: Paul Faith/AFP via Getty Images 14:11 Northern Ireland election: This could be the most important in a generation
Martina and Sean Burke from Castlebar protesting against the proposed Civil Partnership Bill with some of their children outside Leinster House in July 2010. Photograph: Matt Kavanagh 10:24 The Burkes of Castlebar: Who are the high-achieving family from Co Mayo?
Floral tributes, photographs and candles on Deanstown Avenue, Finglas, where James Whelan was discovered with a fatal gunshot wound at around 4.30am on Sunday morning. Photograph: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin Murder in Finglas: ‘These people are throwing away lives’
Shawn and Olesea Kell, Natalia Danilova and her son Timofey, and her mother, Tatiana Boiko in the Kells’s apartment in Chisinau, the Moldovan capital The war next door: Fear and loathing in Moldova
‘We are now presented with even more serious attempts aimed at controlling our independence,’ says managing director of South East Radio Eamonn Buttle. Photograph: iStock 7:53 Radio station accuses council of offering adverts in return for presenters not expressing opinions
Northern Ireland’s most popular presenter, Stephen Nolan. Photograph: BBC 12:10 The Nolan Show dominates the North’s airwaves but is it hard-hitting or just hardline?
The Glass Curtain, Thompson House, MacCurtain Street, Cork. An unexpectedly mediocre meal at a new Cork restaurant
Ammi Burke took exception to her family being described as a ‘travelling circus’. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw Ammi Burke vs Arthur Cox: Would a young male solicitor be labelled petulant and difficult?
My brother’s experience opened my eyes to how detrimental the Leaving Cert can be to some young people’s mental wellbeing. Photograph: Eric Luke My education snobbery vanished when I saw my brother struggle, then thrive
Rebecca O'Flanagan with Lana Udachina at Moy House, Lahinch, Co Clare. Photograph: Eamon Ward From Ukraine to Ireland: Three generations, two families, a shared humanity
Going from Ireland to London in your 20s will probably benefit you for the rest of your working life. Photograph: iStock David McWilliams: Why young Irish are still leaving for London in their droves
Chances of survival for many cancers is increasing, and the quality of life has improved. Photograph: iStock Winning the fight against cancer: ‘It’s just miraculous’
Sara Baume: ‘I’ll never have kids, and I’m lucky to be with a man who feels the same’
No atmosphere: The Ireland team prior to their Six Nations game against Scotland at the Aviva Stadium on March 19th. There’s anecdotal evidence of supporters who no longer wish to be there having simply become weary of the experience. Photograph: Ben Brady/Inpho Gerry Thornley: Time to ban the booze during games at the Aviva
The man who had insulted me had a mug with the word ‘Boss” on it. I paid special attention to that one. Rosita Boland: I could hear the boss say – ‘She’s Irish, and she’s really stupid’
Donnah Vuma, who is originally from Zimbabwe and now lives in Lisnagry, Co Limerick, is studying for an MA in peace and development. Photograph: Liam Burke/Press 22 He banged our passports down and said ‘Not you people again’
Five young people speak about their sex lives and how the pandemic has changed things – for better and for worse. Illustrations: Getty Images ‘There is a lot of choking’: How the pandemic has changed sex for Generation Z
Carron McKinney, her husband Martin Perry and the Babchenko family from Lviv in Ukraine, Zoryana, Viktoriya, Max and their mother Halayna. Families who opened homes to Ukrainians: ‘We can sometimes feel like we’re on top of each other’
Census time capsules: We asked a range of people what message they might leave for future generations Dear Future Ireland ... A message from 2022
It was always likely Covid-19 cases might rise once restrictions were lifted but the likelihood of the current full-blown wave so soon was discounted. Ireland was caught off guard by the latest full-blown Covid wave
Prof Clíona Ní Cheallaigh says ‘people aren’t getting really sick’ from Covid-19 8:55 Should Covid restrictions return? Three doctors share their opinions
It wasn’t a case of water off a duck’s back. The Tánaiste’s anger was instant. His outrage was not manufactured. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times Miriam Lord: Angry Varadkar calls out Healy-Rae as Kerry TD goes on the offensive
President Donald Trump meeting President Vladimir Putin in June 2019. Putin’s operatives had worked hard to get Trump elected in 2016. Photograph: Erin Schaff/The New York Times 7:56 Fintan O’Toole: Putin miscalculated the loyalty of his cheerleaders in the West
Karina O’Dowd got involved in MLM after she became desperate for a job. Photograph: Brian Farrell The young Irish women losing money in too-good-to-be-true social media sales jobs
Andy Farrell prefers Ireland’s stout defensive record to their scintilatting attack numbers. Photograph: Laszlo Geczo/Inpho 5:35 Grand Slam spoils for France but Ireland happy in knowledge they are not far behind
Ahead of world happiness day, we asked a range of people to share their happiest memories. Photograph: iStock The happiest time of my life… by Sarah McInerney, John Boyne, Marian Keyes and more
There is a strong indication Irish people want to change their carbon-polluting ways. Illustration: Fuchsia MacAree How to really cut your carbon footprint? Buy three garments a year. Don’t fly for 36 months
Fontaines DC: ‘Ireland could really benefit from a socialist government’
‘For further research on tea etiquette watch a television programme called Father Ted.’ Photograph: TV Times/Future Publishing via Getty Images 10:30 Róisín Ingle: Dear Ukrainians arriving in Ireland...
Sumy Sadurni runs ahead of Yoweri Museveni’s convoy in central Kampala. She died in a car crash in Uganda last week. Photograph: Sally Hayden. Death of a photojournalist dedicated to dignity, care and empathy
The new regulations will make it easier for single people to avail of a State-backed mortgage for a new, second-hand or self-build home. Photograph: iStock What will a revamped State mortgage scheme do for single buyers?
Antigen tests are now essential for monitoring the spread of Covid-19. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien There are more people in hospital with Covid than in late January. Why?
Chelsea’s Russian owner Roman Abramovich: This week, the UK finally sanctioned the tycoon, meaning he can’t make any more money on the sale of Chelsea. Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP via Getty Images 9:00 David McWilliams: To learn how Russia got to this point, follow the money
Question 32: In the TV version of Normal People, Connell is a Gaelic footballer. What sport did he play in the book? St Patrick’s Day quiz 2022: 50 questions to test your Irishology
17:49 Putin the invader: How did he get to this point?
Bloodied and shaken Tom McFarlane is lead away from the scene of the bombing Abercorn bomb, 50 years on: ‘She went for a coffee and never came home’
We’ve selected 50 women in Ireland’s food sector to highlight their valuable – and often very tasty – contributions 50 heroines of the Irish food and drink scene
As the scheme remains to be finalised, it is not yet exactly clear who will qualify but, according to a spokeswoman for the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, it will be open to practising and developing artists and creative arts workers. Photograph: iStock ‘A welcome step’: Ireland’s first basic income scheme on the way
Julia Marciniak had been encouraging other Ivy staff to join a union when she was dismissed. She now works for the trade union Unite. Photograph: Alan Betson The waiters who took on the Ivy restaurant – and won
A quarter of a century after the first divorces, what have we learned? ‘I voted for divorce 25 years ago. I never thought I’d need it’
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has sent shockwaves across Europe. How Europe’s addiction to Russian gas fuelled the Ukraine crisis
More than 50% of Russia’s almost $400bn exports are petrol or petrol-related. File photograph: EPA 6:10 David McWilliams: Putin knows West’s economic strength is its weak spot
It is understandable that people might point to current high fossil fuel prices and ask if they are likely to derail climate action. Photograph: iStock Q&A: What’s different about the latest warning from climate scientists?
The logo of Russian oil producer Rosneft on its headquarters in Moscow. Photograph: Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP via Getty Images 8:15 Dublin’s role in the finances of the Kremlin
Larisa and daughter Yelena trying to leave Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine on Thursday morning with their cat, Chanel. Photograph: Daniel McLaughlin Ukraine’s second city wakes to war, Daniel McLaughlin reports from Kharkiv
‘Irish men are raping women for money all across the country’
Illustration: Brian Gallagher The late summer murders: Two men on a mission to kill Irish women
Russian president Vladimir Putin: his main aim is to recreate as much of the lost Soviet empire as he can. Photograph: via AP Fintan O’Toole: Putin bad and Nato expansion good is not a binary we have to accept
The fatal shooting of David Byrne at the Regency Hotel, Dublin was a game changer for today’s gardaí, forcing them to beef up units to tackle gangland and embark on a relentless pursuit of the feuding gangs. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/ Collins Future of the Garda: Gangs, gender-based violence and cybercrime pose challenges
The Star of the Sea under-16s youth team with the league trophy in 1969. Raymond McCord is circled in the back row, Bobby Sands circled in the front row. Photo: Courtesy of Raymond McCord Star turns: The brilliant Belfast boys who defied the sectarian tide
Donald Trump speaks at ‘Save America March’ rally in Washington on January 6th, 2021. Photograph: Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Trump’s Texas: ‘I can’t think of anybody I would rather have as president’
When Drew Harris became Commissioner in September 2018, his immediate priority was to steady the ship after years of battering controversy. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw Drew Harris has ‘a clear vision’ for an Garda Síochána. Can he make it a reality?
The wildest thing about new restaurant Wildflower is the price
Victoria White with her son Tommy, who has a rare form of autism, at home in Dublin 14. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times Victoria White: ‘My sunny boy suddenly exploded with anxiety and violence’
The HSE is drawing up a national plan to deal with long Covid, which affects and estimated 10% of those who contract Covid-19. Photograph: Getty Images 9:44 Long Covid: ‘A lot of people are suffering in silence, unable to return to full capacity’
Retrofitted houses at College View, Wexford town. Photograph: Patrick Browne for passivehouseplus.ie 15:41 Retrofitting grants: How much will you get and is it worth it?
Sean McLaughlin, aka Jacksepticeye Jacksepticeye, the millionaire YouTuber from Offaly
The past two years has highlighted how we all rely on having at least one person to talk to. Photograph: Getty Irish Times mental health survey: We are recovering from a ‘mass trauma event’
Covid-19 is set to become endemic but the situation globally is highly uncertain. Photograph: Carl de Souza/AFP via Getty Global Covid: Is this the end of the pandemic?
Patrick Foster kept his gambling addiction a secret from everyone. Secret gambler: I would size up friends I hadn’t seen in years to see if they could lend to me
Phyl Herbert: 'My advice to the young is to be clear about what you want in life'. Photograph: Alan Betson ‘Know what you desire’ – Lessons in love from our old romantics
The Government estimates that the most a deep retrofit will cost is around €66,000 – that’s for bringing up to a B2 BER standard and installing a heat pump. Photograph: Alan Betson Q&A: How will the new home-retrofitting grants work?
Cork-born Aoife Hoitink, with Dutch husband Rob and daughter Saoirse; they live in Switzerland. Irish in Europe: ‘I’m always stunned when I go home by how much is consumed in a ‘session’’
Leona Maguire has her first LPGA Tour title. Photograph: Douglas P DeFelice/Getty Patient, pioneering - Leona Maguire, making her own quiet way to the top
Inflation is at a level not seen in more than 20 years, and it’s hurting consumers. Photograph: Paul Scott Conor Pope: Why you’ll need at least an extra €2,000 this year just to get by
Independent TD Noel Grealish. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA Wire Miriam Lord: And just like that, Golfgate is brought to a swift and sudden end
Róisín Ingle: ‘For many years I believed it was my fault for eating too many chips and inhabiting the wrong kind of body.’ Photograph: Tom Honan 6:45 Róisín Ingle: In a loud voice he said, ‘Now I just have to get past this very fat woman’
Ronald Wafula, an international PhD student. ‘It is practically impossible to live any life.’ Photograph: Nick Bradshaw ‘We feel exploited’: International students on studying in Ireland
In remembrance: Marching to commemorate the victims of the 1972 Bloody Sunday killings – from the Creggan to the Bogside in Derry. Photograph: PA Bloody Sunday: ‘What I remember most is the whistling of bullets’
Richard O’Halloran speaking from China with RTÉ Prime Time last February. Delicate diplomacy: The full story of Richard O’Halloran’s long road home
Romance scams: ‘These guys might have 40 or 50 women on the go’
Cody Sweeney in Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. Photograph: Patrick Browne ‘It’s been quite the journey’ – Life as a trans person in Ireland
Eddie Lough, who lives in Ennis, was a former assistant chief nursing officer at Our Lady’s Hospital. Photograph: Eamon Ward An open secret: Ireland’s lunatic asylums and mental hospitals
Though very unlikely, if a prosecution does proceed Leo Varadkar can almost certainly forget about becoming taoiseach again. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill Ongoing Garda investigation threatens Varadkar’s return as taoiseach
Ashling Murphy was killed while she was out running on the afternoon of January 12th in Tullamore, Co Offaly Q&A: What can you post online when there is an active legal case?
‘We do not have enough judges to provide the sort of service we would like to provide and that the country deserves,’ says Judge Paul Kelly, President of the District Court. Photograph: Laura Hutton Inside Ireland’s District Courts: ‘If alcohol disappeared overnight, the courts could close’
Bloody Sunday witness Paddy Walsh creeping towards Patrick Doherty. Lord Saville concluded he had "no doubt" Doherty was shot dead by Soldier F as he tried to crawl to safety. Photograph: Gilles Peress/Magnum Fintan O’Toole: Bloody Sunday, the 10-minute massacre that lasted decades