To get things done, Ireland needs more engineers and fewer lawyers
A country run by engineers will build and accelerate into the future, while one run by lawyers will litigate and decelerate
New York City
Zohran Mamdani reaches out to White House to arrange meeting with Donald Trump
New York’s mayor-elect said he hopes to press US president to help ease affordability crisis
Make no mistake, American democracy remains in a perilous state
This week’s wins for the Democrats may increase the chances of Trump using authoritarian means to retain his grasp on power
Zohran Mamdani and Catherine Connolly built their campaigns from similar playbooks
Ireland’s president-elect and New York’s incoming mayor succeeded in disrupting politics by building broad coalitions of disaffected voters
Europe’s left takes heart from Zohran Mamdani’s radical rise in New York
USA-ELECTION/EUROPE (PIX, TV):Mamdani victory fires up Europe's left against right-wing surge at home
After fairytale in New York, mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani starts a new chapter
City’s rising star and mayore-elect may reflect a shifting mood among the electorate
The Irish Times view on US elections: signs of life for Democrats
Wins arrive at the close of a bleak year defined by self-doubt and internal recriminations
Zohran Mamdani has lifted New Yorkers out of their pessimistic and reactionary funk
The promise is simple: a city worth living in, that everyone can afford to live in
Trump threatens to cut federal funds if Zohran Mamdani wins New York mayoral election
US president alludes to support for Andrew Cuomo but Mamdani maintains lead in latest polls
Donald Clarke: Jimmy Kimmel was very polite about his recent Irish trip. But he is mistaken
I’m glad the TV host had a good time here but Irish people are no more polite or generous than his fellow citizens back home
Would Zohran Mamdani’s plan for free buses work in Dublin?
New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has tapped into frustration with city’s service by pledging to make it free
High-end amenities in office buildings? These New York tenants say no thanks
Older buildings have an obvious appeal in times of economic uncertainty – they’re cheaper
‘The Irish thing always sells over here’: a New York shop selling Foxford blankets, Guinness prints and Sinéad O’Connor totes
Dubliner Alison Doyle left her stressful job in tech sales to open Irish homeware and gifts shop Irving Green
New York high-rise apartment building partially collapses
No injuries reported so far, the city’s fire department says
Him star Julia Fox: ‘I don’t enjoy adrenaline any more. I just want everything to be calm and soft’
Having endured trauma and instability in her youth, the New York-Italian artist and actor has since had ‘a huge revelation’
Eric Adams drops out of New York City mayoral race
Adams says it had been impossible to mount winning campaign
AI analysis finds €81,000 painting dismissed as copy is a work of Caravaggio
Testing determines 85.7% probability that work, entitled The Lute Player, is an original by Italian master painter
Ice officer ‘relieved of his duties’ after video shows him pushing woman to floor
Monica Moreta-Galarza was pleading on behalf of her arrested husband when officer pushed her to the ground
Devices capable of crashing mobile phone network uncovered near UN headquarters
Security services also discovered cocaine, illegal firearms and servers in New York operation
What the HSE wants from its next chief executive
Plus: Malachy McCourt faces ‘public hanging’ in New York, a leafy problem for Irish Rail, and Barack Obama makes a well-timed visit to Dublin
Three killed and eight wounded in Brooklyn lounge shooting
Multiple gunmen open fire inside crowded lounge in New York early on Sunday morning
Three wounded in New York Times Square shooting
Two teenagers and man (65) are in a stable condition as 17 year-old male in custody
New York shooting: Police officer among four killed in Manhattan as gunman named
Police say Shane Tamura (27) took his own life after attack in skyscraper that houses NFL headquarters
Wall Street gets the chills in New York’s ‘hot commie summer’
Much of ‘democratic socialist’ mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s wishlist requires state approval
‘The capital of capitalism’: New York’s old brigade plot how to stop the rise of Zohran Mamdani
The party’s candidate for New York’s mayoral election will face a wily political operator in Eric Adams
Zohran Mamdani stuns sweltering New York to win Democratic mayoral primary
Socialist candidate (33) upsets Andrew Cuomo with clever campaign promising rent control
This man could be just what the American left needs
Socialist challenger has come from nowhere to rival Andrew Cuomo in New York’s mayoral race
The New York island that is the final resting place for thousands of Irish emigrants
Irish people are among those buried on New York’s Hart Island, final resting place of the unknown, the unclaimed and those who couldn’t afford a ‘proper’ burial
Clooney’s timely warning from history about Trump’s authoritarian America
Clear parallels between play about 1950s McCarthyism and how US president is waging war on US news media today
New York boy Timothée Chalamet joins the celebrations as Knicks fans dare to dream
The long-mediocre Knicks secured a Game Six victory over the Celtics to take them within a series victory of the NBA finals
‘I like the underdog thing’: Meghann Fahy’s rise from underestimated actor to Netflix’s Sirens star
The former White Lotus supporting actor takes the lead in the new Netflix series that airs this week
Two killed as Mexican Navy tall ship crashes into New York’s Brooklyn Bridge
Seventeen others are injured after training vessel’s masts toppled while sailing under bridge, says city’s mayor
Candace Bushnell at the Ambassador: A fun, girly night out for Sex and the City fans
Choreographed performance from ultimate NYC character is entertaining but lacks proper fan Q&A
Prosecutors say Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs ‘ran a criminal enterprise’ as sex-trafficking trial begins
Prosecuting lawyer accuses Combs of threatening, drugging and violently coercing women into sex
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