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Former FAI chief executive John Delaney. Photograph: Laura Hutton
Sports committee ‘agrees’ entire FAI board should resign

A member of the Oireachtas Committee on Sport said on Monday it had been “agreed across the political spectrum” that the entire board of the FAI must (...)

The Book Centre, Waterford. Photograph: Jennifer O'Connell
35 of the best independent bookshops in Ireland

This wasn’t how it was supposed to be. The digital revolution was going to kill off physical books and bookshops altogether. It’s true that between r(...)

Friends Kiara Baird (19) and Maria Wallace (38) died when Dermot Dowd (24) lost control of a car he was driving outside Ballybofey, Co Donegal, on September 21st, 2016. Photograph: North West Newspix
Drunk driver who killed friends says he wishes he could take back what he did

A drunk driver who killed two women after a drink and drugs binge said he would do anything to take back what he did. Friends Kiara Baird (19), and M(...)

Teresa Heeney, the new chief executive of Early Childhood Ireland (ECI): ‘Fees to parents can’t go up – it’s as simple as that. There has to be a different way of building the system.’ Photograph: Garrett White
Childcare issues not just the concern of parents

The cost of childcare has to increase. There’s no getting away from that unpalatable fact in the current drive for improved standards in the Re(...)

Greystones, Co. Wicklow has the lowest commercial property vacancy rate of 79 towns across Ireland. Photograph: Eric Luke / The Irish Times
Greystones has lowest vacancy rate

The national commercial vacancy rate continues to rise across Ireland, standing at 12.3 per cent in the third quarter of 2013, up from 11.9 per cent i(...)