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Irish companies receive €8.8m European funding for Covid-19 projects
- Innovation
- June 9, 2020, 13:20
Five Irish companies have received funding of €8.8 million between them for projects focused on tackling the coronavirus that causes Covid-19. Overal(...)

Who’s using your face? The ugly truth about facial recognition
- Innovation
- May 9, 2019, 04:53
When Jillian York, a 36-year-old American activist, was on vacation in February, she received an unexpected text. Her friend Adam Harvey, another acti(...)

The day the banks stood still: counting the cost of the crash a decade later
- Economy
- September 28, 2018, 05:30
Seamus Murphy was something of a maverick in Dublin’s small stockbroking community in late 2006 when he suddenly turned negative on Irish banks. That(...)

The constitutional heritage of the Irish revolution
- Heritage
- April 24, 2018, 00:00
The revolution of 1916-1923 is usually presented in our history books as part of the physical-force tradition of Irish nationalism, but in reality it (...)

Former St Stephen’s Green hostel approved for hotel for sale for €16m
- Commercial Property
- January 31, 2018, 06:45
A former Loreto hostel on St Stephen’s Green, Dublin, which now has planning approval to convert it into a luxury 81-bedroom hotel, will be offered fo(...)

Student profile
- Education
- May 24, 2016, 09:17
“My favourite subjects in school are home economics and Irish. I love studying Irish because I enjoy learning about Irish culture and poetry. “In ho(...)

John Bruton: Home rule could have led peacefully to independence
- Opinion
- April 8, 2016, 01:00
Home Rule, already law, could have led this part of Ireland peacefully to the same fully independent position Canada enjoys today, had it not been der(...)

1916 Diary, February 26th
- Irish News
- February 26, 2016, 01:00
February 26th, 1916 A disgruntled “observer” of Dublin student life has penned a caustic letter to The Irish Times noting the contrast between the n(...)

Life and times of Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- World
- April 18, 2014, 10:58
1927 - Garcia Marquez is born on March 6 in Aracataca, a backwater banana-growing town near Colombia’s Caribbean coast. The oldest ch(...)

When Joe Kennedy visited Ireland
- Heritage
- July 9, 2013, 12:21
The 50th anniversary of President Kennedy’s visit to Ireland in June 1963 overshadows the visit of his father almost 75 years ago, in July, 1938. The (...)