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Review 2025
Year in review 2025: Stories looking back at events of 2025
Why oak, ash and beech trees offered seeds of hope in 2025
It must be time for a ‘mast year’ for humanity, when we decide not to give up, but to rise again to the challenge
This was a dismal year for anyone hoping to buy a house. Will 2026 be better?
Cheapest nationwide average new tenancy rent for a one-bed apartment is higher than a first-time-buyer mortgage on a one-bed house
Forecasting the world in 2026: Will Trump win the Nobel peace prize? Will Starmer survive?
Irish Times writers’ predictions for the new year, from the likelihood of peace in Ukraine to whether Trump will get the Nobel Peace Prize
How 2025 became year of rising prices and cost of living
Irish consumers faced climbing house prices, grocery price inflation and health insurance premiums
2025 in video games: the 10 best overall, plus the three best Irish releases
Game quality remained high in a year in which 1990s nostalgia played a big role
Storms, GAA clashes and crime: The stories that caught readers’ attention in 2025
Breaking down the stories readers were most interested in, there was a clear winner in 2025, and it was not the presidential election
From statues to skorts, Ireland’s talent for preoccupation with the wrong things is intact
This is especially true where issues involving women are concerned, and 2025 was no exception
‘My mother probably has the rosary beads swallowed’: Top sports quotes of 2025
From Troy Parrott to Ellen Walshe, here are the year’s memorable sporting quotes of the year
John Collison’s bats to D6 topping the property charts: 2025 in quotes and numbers
The year was marked by many ups and down, from a boardroom bust up at airport operator DAA to skyrocketing house prices
2025 in TV: Rogue brogues, the drunken Irish and a prestige streamer’s hidden jewels
The biggest show of the year, Adolescence, became so huge that it fuelled a moral panic, but the best stuff was on the little-watched Apple TV
From Zelenskiy’s jaw-dropping White House meeting to Prince Andrew’s loss of royal titles: 12 history-making moments of 2025
Irish Times writers recount some of the biggest world news stories they covered this year and why they were significant
The photographs of 2025 – and the stories behind them
Irish Times photographers select their images of the year
An indifference to running? Now that’s the kind of team mascot we can all get behind
It has been a long, tough year, but in the middle of it all, a lone hero stretches and yawns in a Colorado barn
Miriam Lord’s Awards: Who gets the gongs for brass neck, cringe event and politician of the year?
It was a weird political year, featuring a humiliating presidential election for the Government parties and a far happier time for the Opposition
Best music in 2025: Irish Times critics choose the albums and acts of the year
From CMAT to Chappell Roan, and Maria Somerville to Rosalía, women have ruled the industry this year
2025 in music: The five best Irish jazz albums of the year
Including releases by Simon Jermyn, Snowpoet, Izumi Kimura, Ronan Guilfoyle and Nils Kavanagh
2025 in music: The five best trad albums of the year
Including releases by Maighread and Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill, Cormac Begley and Liam O’Connor, and Tara Breen
The year in theatre: At last, Ireland has lost its fear of new writing for the stage
We may be optimistic about a place that’s far more hospitable, where new writing could be the norm, not the exception
2025 in music: The five best Irish albums of the year
Irish acts have released more than 300 albums over the past 12 months. These are our favourites
The Irish Times view on the political year: lagging behind reality
The problems were well diagnosed. What was missing was urgency
‘It felt like every football fan in the world saw the goal’: Ken Early on the late, late Troy show
Irish Times writers pick their most memorable moments from a year featuring outstanding performances by Katie O’Connor, Ava Crean, Louth’s footballers and more
Can the Gaza ceasefire hold? Trump’s peace plan enters its most perilous stage
Unresolved questions over Hamas disarmament, Israeli territorial control and an international stabilisation force raise doubts about whether the truce can hold
2025 in radio: RTÉ and Newstalk’s tit-for-tat talent raids only add to an uncertain future
After a seismic year of poaching presenters and refreshing rosters, Ireland’s revamped stations can’t ignore the shift online
Bike sheds, Molly Malone and ghost buses: the things we talked about in 2025
Future generations will be shaped by a vocabulary of learnings and vacation - and some notions that are resolutely Irish
A bumper year for Irish athletics: 25 medals and the athletes who won them
It’s rare for Irish athletes to win medals across such a wide range of events in a single year
‘Reflecting on 2025, there’s an ominous sense that even greater disasters await us’
Year of deepfakes, drones, masculine energy and bad weather also brought first babies of Generation Beta
2025 in culture politics: Arts Council’s IT crisis, RTÉ’s financial strain and Trump’s assault on the BBC
One of the many negative effects of the housing crisis is making Ireland a cold place for culture in all its forms
2025 in art: Our 10 favourite Irish exhibitions of the year
Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone at the National Gallery of Ireland, Kunstkammer in Waterford and Lisa Fingleton in Tralee are among the highlights
From Tokyo to Istanbul and Croke Park: the top 25 moments of the year in women’s sport
World and European champions, record-setters and mould-breakers, Irish sportswomen had another stellar year
Why 2025 will be remembered as a pivotal year in Irish politics
In the News podcast: In a hectic political year, the challenge was to choose just a handful of stories
Daniel Aruebose, Michael Gaine and Evan Fitzgerald: The key crime stories of 2025
In the News podcast: Daniel Aruebose and Michael Gaine among unsolved cases
Beyond Skorts: How Ireland’s sportswomen kept clearing impossibly high bars in 2025
Away from the rí-rá of the skorts debate, Irish women offered a bounty of sporting firsts in 2026
From Kashmir sapphires to Achill art: Auctioneers’ favourite items from 2025
Rare gems, paintings from Mainie Jellett and Roderic O’Connor, and collectibles linked with Irish literary greats are among the top picks for this year
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