Horticulture doyenne Sarah Raven has an enduring eye for beauty and brilliance
The gardening trailblazer is a key speaker at this weekend’s Festival of Gardens and Nature in Laois
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Peter Kay show stopped and 19-year-old in custody after ‘suspicious bag’ found
Police detain 19-year-old as Birmingham venue cleared during live performance
Burglar climbed through open window at Irish billionaire’s London home, court hears
Paul Coulson’s Knightsbridge townhouse was targeted in a series of burglaries over four days
Bank of Ireland sees little change in £374m UK motor finance commission charge
Group said it started this year ‘with momentum’ despite geopolitical uncertainty posed by the Middle East conflict
UK police charge man over stabbing of two Jewish men in London
Green Party leader criticised for retweeting post accusing officers of ‘violently kicking a mentally ill man in the head’
From Laois to London: CPM boss Lorraine Butler on Britain’s ‘different business culture’
Chief executive of CPM International in Ireland and the UK commutes weekly between Buckinghamshire and Laois
Suspect in London stabbings was referred to counter-extremism programme in 2020
Man being questioned over attack on two Jewish men in Golders Green has been named as Essa Suleiman (45)
Ireland should learn a lesson from UK’s futile efforts at pleasing Trump
It made sense for Britain to send the king rather than Keir Starmer to Washington, but it won’t make much difference
Monty Python and the site of one of modern Britain’s darkest crimes: Mark Paul’s Scotland road trip
Relief on the road to Aberdeen became an encounter with gunmaking, Roman legions, Monty Python - and the uneasy proximity of one of modern Britain’s darkest crimes
Charles and Camilla arrive in Washington for state visit amid US-UK tensions
King’s first US trip as British monarch comes as Donald Trump belittles prime minister Keir Starmer for refusing to join Iran war
Kneecap: ‘These topics have been out of bounds for many years’
The controversial group have had a year of a kind that few artists will ever experience. They’re determined to stand their ground as they release their album Fenian
Man struck by bus at Dublin Airport died ‘tragically while living his best life’
It is understood John Fleming had returned from horse sales in UK when he was struck by a bus
Romance fraudster who deceived widow out of €140,000 jailed for five years
Peter McDonagh claimed he needed money for cancer treatment, a car and to pay off debts to ‘dangerous people’
Kneecap ar pholaitíocht, brú agus sícideileacha: “Ar ndóigh, teastaíonn teiripe uainn ... ar feadh na mblianta fada”
Agallamh le Kneecap: Anuraidh, bhí an ceol, an chonspóid agus an chraic fite fuaite i saol an ghrúpa agus i mbliana tá albam nua uathu ar na bacáin
Stalin with a nose ring or ecopopulist? Inside the dizzying rise of Zack Polanski
Under his leadership the Green Party in Britain is riding high in opinion polls and threatens to swamp Labour in London
Dear political parties. Now is really not the time to talk about deposing your leader
The threshold at which politicians seek to overthrow their leader should be much, much higher than this (I am looking at you too, Fianna Fáil)
One EU state has much more to fear from the Iran war than any other
Drone attack prompts fresh debate about bloc’s ‘mutual assistance’ clause
NI legacy Bill to be delayed by amendments to ‘safeguard’ British army veterans
UK government has been ‘consulting widely’ on Northern Ireland Troubles legislation, says Hilary Benn
Keir Starmer’s Cork-born adviser Morgan McSweeney to be questioned by MPs over Mandelson appointment
McSweeney quit his role in February, saying he took ‘full responsibility’ for advising prime minister to appoint Mandelson
Life in the Faslane peace camp: Veteran protesters return to site at UK nuclear-armed base
Britain’s creaking armed forces spur worries about war readiness as its armed submarines patrol northern seas
Britain’s King Charles pays tribute to late mother on 100th anniversary of her birth
Monarch says Elizabeth II would have been troubled by recent events but she believed ‘goodness will always prevail’
Grace O’Malley-Kumar, killed in Nottingham attacks, ‘was too good to be true’, say parents
Teenage Irish citizen from prominent medical family was killed in the Nottingham attacks but had lived a joyous life, her parents recall
Bread Alone: Working-class writers on voice, visibility and the limits of opportunity
New anthology brings together 33 voices exploring access, ambition and the cost of getting on in publishing
Mark Jenkin on his bigger-budget film Rose of Nevada: ‘You don’t want to be luxuriating too much’
The singular Cornish film-maker’s latest eerie maritime flick centres on a timeslip back to ancient 1993
The Irish Times view on UK-EU relations: Starmer inches closer to Europe
His call for closer ties has become an explicit argument made in his political favour
Nicola Coughlan and Aimee Lou Wood to host Saturday Night Live UK
Coughlan will front the comedy show on April 25th, alongside Foo Fighters as musical guests
‘Would gifting my daughter some of her inheritance while she’s in London avoid tax implications?’
What works for an Irish child in UK getting a gift from home does not work if they return, nor if they are a UK child based in Ireland
The Irish Times view on live facial recognition: careful consideration required
It is right to question whether the technology is necessary or proportionate
Facial recognition trial on Dublin-Holyhead route scans thousands but finds no matches
Outcome raises fresh questions about effectiveness of technology, which Irish and UK authorities are embracing
Viral video of London stabbing incident sparks debate over crime: ‘He was my only son’
Killing in north London park is one of the latest in a spate of knife attacks among young people in the city
Healthcare assistant accused of smuggling woman through Dublin Airport
Dublin District Court heard Muna Mohamed Sharif (47) had used ‘lookalike’ document for asylum seeker for a fee
Kanye West and anti-Semitism: Giving rapper stage at festival would certainly pose risk
If West were serious about atonement, he would put any thought of performing at festivals aside
Vodafone’s stock market rebound risks losing reception
Vodafone soars more than 80% from near 30-year low last April to about £1.18
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