03 February, 2016 Digital News Archive

Lucinda Williams: ‘My stuff is so much more than country’

By Lauren Murphy

Editorials

Cruising past the Donald in Iowa

Editorials

Election 2016: Back to the future or a just society?

Kainos to buy 10% of Cirdan Imaging

By Francess McDonnell

Housing is hot issue in election that is officially kicking off

By Ciarán Hancock

Man killed in road incident in which two gardaí injured is named

By Lorna Siggins

United Parcel Service beats analysts’ expectations

Brexit proposal is impressive start but ‘nothing is agreed’

By Suzanne Lynch

Builder clashes with South Dublin County Council over site

By Barry O'Halloran

Varadkar accepts need to improve ambulance response times

By Michael O'Regan

Plenty of parking as Enda goes boldly into fiscal space

By Miriam Lord

Safe Harbour: EU and US reach deal on data transfers

By Suzanne Lynch

Motors

Run-flat tyre breakthrough from Bridgestone

By Michael Sheridan

January tax returns could propel Kenny ahead of election

By Arthur Beesley

New Russian law protects it from culpability over Flight MH17

By Peter Cluskey

Motors

Road Test: Poor performance leads DS 5 into a cul-de-sac

By Neil Briscoe

Seán O’Brien ready to step in to a leadership role for Ireland

By Gerry Thornley

Markets

European stocks slide as oil tumbles once more

By Barry O'Halloran

Three Northern Ireland firms plan to create 117 jobs

By Francess McDonnell

Government not protecting workers from ‘rogue employers’

By Marie O’Halloran

European Parliament urges Schengen adherence

By Suzanne Lynch

An Irish Diary

Open and shut – An Irishman’s Diary about a short-lived newspaper of 1916

By Frank McNally

An Egyptian soprano adds to the great variety of Irish competition winners

By Michael Dervan

Life & Style

Michael Harding: Awkward sex therapy in the doctor’s waiting room

By Michael Harding

Markets

Google parent Alphabet beats Apple on profit and sales

BP to cut 7,000 jobs while ExxonMobil shows resilience

Clare Daly claims foster father lobbied Michael Noonan

By Michael O'Regan

Tesco Ireland CEO outlines back to basics plan

By Mark Paul

An Irish Diary

Why ‘Grace’ was left in home key question in abuse case

By Kitty Holland

Leo Varadkar cautions on teen girls’ vaccine fears

By Marie O’Halloran

Racing

Road to Riches hotly fancied to claim Irish Gold Cup

By Brian O'Connor

Mortgage charity warns of repossession wave if ECB raises rates

By Conor Pope

Fine Gael plans to introduce third-level student loan scheme

By Carl O'Brien

Roses

Quakers and 1916

Crime & Law

Prosecutor in Graham Dwyer case received €101,000 fee

By Gordon Deegan

Government gives itself an A1, but not all would agree

By Harry McGee

Remembering Terry Wogan

Mother went homeless to get on housing list, ex-partner claims

By Fiona Gartland

Election campaigning

An Bord Pleanála and Corrib gas

President’s remarks on tax cuts

Recipes

Warming pesto butter beans

By Ella Woodward

Literacy levels and education

Community energy projects

Sexual consent workshops

Clár nua teilifíse faoi Sheosamh Mac Grianna

Ábhar ceiliúrtha agus imní i gcúrsaí oideachais

By Pól Ó Muirí

An cárta Brexit

By Pól Ó Muirí

Faire an feisteas!

By Alan Titley

The price of going Dutch on election manifestos

By Laura van Geest and Johannes Hers

Colum Kenny: George Galloway victory over Google strikes a blow for free speech

By Colum Kenny

Q&A: How to sell your Vodafone shares

By Dominic Coyle

Tallaght apartments offer 11% return

By Jack Fagan

Green Reit to sell off mixed-use €169m portfolio

By Jack Fagan

Council to unveil radical vision for College Green in Dublin

By Justin Comiskey

People

New to the Parish: ‘For people like us, this feels like paradise’

By Sorcha Pollak

Rachel Platten: ‘One of my managers asked me if I wanted to lie about my age’

By Shilpa Ganatra

Sandyford site sold for €110m in 2006 on market at €9m

By Jack Fagan

Vodafone offers Irish shareholders chance to exit group

By Dominic Coyle

Gordon D'Arcy: Sexton knows what to expect from Warren Gatland’s Wales

By Gordon D'Arcy

Engineering a future in equipment design

By Kirstin Campbell

34 cranes over Dublin’s skyline as construction boom gathers pace

By Justin Comiskey

Irish services growth highest in a decade in January

United earn well needed three points for Louis van Gaal

By Jamie Jackson

Health

Zika: Two Irish residents who caught virus ‘fully recovered’

‘Locked in’ Vodafone investors get chance to cut their losses

By Dominic Coyle

Tulfarris Hotel and Golf Resort in Wicklow for €5m

By Justin Comiskey

Allsop targets higher-value commercial and investment assets

By Jack Fagan

Asia-Pacific

Neighbours on alert over North Korean rocket launch plan

Gaelic Games

Unease as Dublin’s blue wave threatens to engulf GAA

By Seán Moran

Roddy L’Estrange: No spring in Vinny’s step as Angie lies becalmed

By Roddy L'Estrange

EU backs easing of Ireland’s budget targets by €1.5bn

By Suzanne Lynch and Arthur Beesley

Half-finished Howth complex for €800,000

By Jack Fagan

Higgins questions emphasis on tax cuts in election campaign

By Stephen Collins and Patsy McGarry

Brexit deal ‘best of both worlds’, says David Cameron

By Denis Staunton and Suzanne Lynch

The Morning Sports Briefing

Restaurant in village centre for €800,000

By Jack Fagan

Man jailed for 1984 rape after new DNA technique used

Blackrock site with permission for nine houses and 11 apartments guiding €3m

By Jack Fagan

Clydesdale Bank rises more than 2% in London debut

Arsene Wenger and Ronald Koeman row in tunnel after stalemate

People

Coping: Yorkshire pudding as a metaphor for disgruntlement

By Laura Kennedy

Higgins raises eyebrows with criticism of tax cut promises

By Ruadhán Mac Cormaic

Manchester United finally roused from Old Trafford slumber

By Paul Wilson

Retail sales outstrip footfall

By Jack Fagan

Long-delayed shopping centre for Bray goes to planning stage

By Jack Fagan

Office rental at Iveagh Court

By Jack Fagan

Jackson Martínez joins Guangzhou Evergrande for €42m

By Ed Aarons

German private sector growth slows at start of 2016

Pembroke Road offices for €750,000

By Jack Fagan

Ireland move a step closer to Test dream with Papua New Guinea win

Four-house site for €1m

By Jack Fagan

For those relishing the election campaign, we say: enjoy

By Fiach Kelly

Africa

Two injured in explosion on passenger jet in Somalia

The gradual reduction of 31st Dáil’s historic majority

By Marie O’Halloran

The Irish women behind Engels and the birth of communism

By Arminta Wallace

The Hangover: How have Ireland fared in the Six Nations following a World Cup?

By Gavin Cummiskey

Funeral of singer ‘Black’ to take place in Co Cork

By Barry Roche

Farming & Food

ChemChina to make bid for pesticides group Syngenta

Student Hub

Netflix's 'Making a Murderer' shows value of Arts degree

Transport

Road Warrior: longest flights, Iran buys 118 aircraft, Tru by Hilton, supercars at LHR

By Joan Scales

Independents could hold the balance of power after election

By Michael O'Regan

Greens will hope to breach 2 per cent of national vote

By Harry McGee

Social Democrats offer a 'relatively mainstream alternative'

By Mary Minihan

The Anti Austerity Alliance and People Before Profit

By Fiach Kelly

Sinn Féin officials insist polls suggest it could bag 30 seats

By Mary Minihan

Do Fianna Fáil aspire to government or opposition this time around?

By Sarah Bardon

Coalition’s fate hinges on Labour’s election performance

By Fiach Kelly

After all the blows, Fine Gael is still standing tall

By Harry McGee

Irish companies raised €522m in VC funding last year

By Charlie Taylor

People

Board games come out of the closet

By Ed Power

Louis Ludik signs contract extension with Ulster

Bank of Ireland staff vote to accept new pay deal

By Charlie Taylor

Health

Only one in four health service staff is vaccinated for flu

By Paul Cullen

Penny for your thoughts? Listowel Writers’ Week offers prizes, lots of them

By Anne O'Neill

Tom James to earn first Wales cap in five years against Ireland

China targets up to 7% growth, unemployment to rise

Martyn Turner

USI calls on students to report sex assaults

By Éanna Ó Caollaí

Housing crisis biggest election issue, says AAA-PBP

By Fiach Kelly

Renua will hope to return its ‘big beasts’ to the Dáil

By Mary Minihan

Zika virus: case through sexual transmission reported in US

By Donald G McNeil Jr and Sabrina Tavernise

Denis O’Brien awaiting Red Flag defence to alleged conspiracy case

By Mary Carolan

Travel

A Walk for the Weekend: postcard-pretty views on Mount Brandon

By John G Dwyer

Six Nations: Origin of 51 per cent of World Cup 2015 tries proved to be lineout possession

By Andy McGeady

Classes at institutes of technology stop as lecturers strike

By Carl O'Brien

Roger Federer facing month out after undergoing knee surgery

SF MLA to pay £48,750 libel damages to UUP politician

By Alan Erwin

Death certificate for Lord Lucan 42 years after disappearance

Georgia executes oldest death row inmate for 1979 murder

Strength of Brexit deal ‘a surprise’ for eurosceptics, says Chilcott

By Eoin Burke-Kennedy

Residential

Great Irish tenor’s Dublin home for €3.6m

By Frances O'Rourke

Designed to be read: ‘Even the smallest detail can spark a concept for the cover’

By Sarah Bannan

Racing

2015 winner Many Clouds among 126 Grand National entries

Tributes pour in following death of Mark Farren at 33

By Emmet Malone

Drink

Take it home: an Irish red ale and a South African Chenin Blanc

By John Wilson

TUI warns of more lecturer strikes at institutes of technology

By Martin Wall

Brian Boyd: People of Stoneybatter prepare to be gentrified

By Brian Boyd

Album of the Week: Lucinda Williams - The Ghosts of Highway 20

By Joe Breen

Alan Kelly an ‘obedient employee’, Joan Burton says

By Sarah Bardon

Saudi court commutes poet’s death sentence to jail, lashes

Asia-Pacific

Taliban assassinates 10-year-old militia hero in Afghanistan

By Mujib Mashal and Taimoor Shaht

Six Nations: Ireland have hard act to follow in pursuit of three in a row

By Gerry Thornley

Adams hoping ‘Slab’ Murphy won’t be election issue for SF

By Mary Minihan

Golf

Time slowly but surely drifting away for absent Tiger Woods

By Ewan Murray

Una Mullally: #MarRef effect will blindside big parties

By Una Mullally

Fears mount that gas price war is looming

Six Nations: Irish rovers seize chance to add new strings to their bow

By Gavin Cummiskey

Kenneth O’Brien died ‘knowing he was loved’, funeral told

By Conor Lally

Fianna Fáil can win most seats in election, Martin says

By Harry McGee

Crime & Law

Bakery’s appeal over gay cake ruling halted by North’s AG

By Gerry Moriarty

Martin Wolf: Bring our elites closer to the people

By Martin Wolf

Seán O’Brien misses training ahead of Wales game

By John O'Sullivan

Election 2016: President Higgins dissolves 31st Dáil

By Mary Minihan, Fiach Kelly, Marie O’Halloran, Sarah Bardon and Tim O'Brien

Cameron tells Tories to ‘vote with your heart’ on Brexit

Restaurants

Meal Ticket: Cowtown Cafe - bringing back the good ol' greasy spoon

By Aoife McElwain

TV & Radio

TV review: The Jump - Cheryl, Bryan and Rickaaay tremble before Ice Queen Davina

By Patrick Freyne

CRH expected to bid for India’s Jaiprakash cement business

The Contested Identities of Ulster Protestants review: grief and grievances

By Susan McKay

Abroad

Irish abroad: Will you be following the election?

Social Affairs

Carers to urge election candidates to back ‘fairness’ campaign

By Elaine Edwards

Film

Janis: Little Girl Blue review - Drawing a line under an unfinished life

By Donald Clarke

Jared Payne: Ireland must take chances against Wales this time

By John O'Sullivan

Anti-racism protest to counter Pegida Ireland launch

By Barry Roche

Kerry County Council faces large legal bill over election appeal

TV & Radio

F**k, That’s Delicious! Viceland gets ready to invade your television

By Una Mullally

Environment

Election candidates warned over electronic road signs

By Elaine Edwards

The politics of Twitter: Drama as Kenny unleashes #ge16

By Hugh Linehan

Creighton: Money ‘pumped’ into constituency to stop re-election

By Mary Minihan

‘Six Nations passes Kiwis by because they don’t much rate it’

By Gregor Paul

Health

That’s Men: Why do only women leave food on their plate?

By Padraig O'Morain

Ford plans to cut jobs in European operations

Noonan insists figures for Fine Gael plans do add up

By Sarah Bardon

Africa

South Africa opposition rejects Zuma offer on upgrade costs

By Bill Corcoran

Guilty plea after man kicked in head during robbery

By Sonya McLean

Nigel Carolan names Ireland U20 side for opener against Wales

By John O'Sullivan

Former ministers among 19 TDs retiring from Dáil

By Mary Minihan, Sorcha Pollak and Marie O’Halloran

Stuttering start as Coalition parties prepare to do battle

By Fiach Kelly

Shares in global banks fall further

Gaelic Games

John Heslin makes difference as UCD book quarter-final slot

World

Colombian president to lobby for US support at White House

By Mark Duffy

Gaelic Games

Fitzgibbon Cup: Carlow IT seal deal with late flurry

Racing

Many Clouds primed for bid to retain Grand National crown

Election 2016: Parties set out stalls as three week campaign begins

By Sarah Bardon, Mary Minihan, Harry McGee and Fiach Kelly

Interview: Irish UN official urges greater effort on Syrian crisis

By Michael Jansen

Stuart McCloskey backed to handle Wales’ physical approach

Six fishermen rescued by Dun Laoghaire lifeboat off Dublin

By Lorna Siggins

Councillor says he cannot pay woman he drove over

Senior EU figures optimistic about success of Cameron deal

By Suzanne Lynch

Israeli officer killed after attack by three Palestinians

Merck cautious on 2016 as sales of top medicines lag

Former journalist John V ‘Danno’ Halloran dies aged 85

By Michael O'Regan

Unborn killed in crash should be seen as individual - FF Senator

By Michael O'Regan

Crescent end Rockwell’s senior title defence in Munster

By Conor Kane

Man whose voice box was unnecessarily removed sues HSE

By Mary Carolan

Varadkar aware of foster home abuse allegations in 2014

By Sarah Bardon

Science

First known fatal fight between female orangutans witnessed

By Dick Ahlstrom

France’s radical Muslims list doubles in 11 months

By Lara Marlowe

Genteel start to election campaign for Burton in Clontarf

By Fiona Gartland

Syria peace talks suspended as army pounds rebels near Aleppo

Murder accused told cousin he stabbed woman

By Alison O'Riordan

Media

Radio 1 builds recovery as Today FM slides - JNLR survey

By Laura Slattery

Man accused of assaulting garda claims he was beaten with tie

By Conor Gallagher

UL to host landmark leaders election debate

By Éanna Ó Caollaí

USI prepares for final voter registration push

By Éanna Ó Caollaí

British EU welfare changes may not affect Irish people

By Denis Staunton

Donald Trump accuses Cruz of ‘fraud’ and seeks Iowa rerun

GSK chief asks for three years for profit increase

‘Concerns’ remain about personal data transfers to US

By Elaine Edwards

Bordeaux prepares for Irish invasion during Euro 2016

By Ronan McGreevy

Convicted killer in ‘Serial’ podcast seeks new trial

Markets

Europe shares fall on disappointing economic data

By Eoin Burke-Kennedy

Miriam Lord: Breathless Enda is gone in 60 seconds

By Miriam Lord

Man (30) found not guilty of murder of Dublin grandfather

Science

Ravens will move food if spying is possibility, study shows

By Dick Ahlstrom

Man found guilty of using digger to steal ATM holding €124,000

By Marese McDonagh

Political parties set out their stalls for election day

By Fiach Kelly, Mary Minihan, Sarah Bardon and Harry McGee

Aberdeen close gap as Celtic nightmare continues

By Graham Ruthven

Everton show up all of Newcastle’s faults at Goodison

By Andy Hunter

Andy McGeady: Time to look at rehab for brain injuries

By Andy McGeady

Varadkar fights Kenny’s battles, Martin claims

By Sarah Bardon

London Irish raise a toast to ‘great unpaid ambassador’ Wogan

By Sean O'Donovan