Restaurant criticised for using Dutch chicken brings ‘luxury’ award home for Ireland
Plus: Plenty in a name for Maurice Regan’s ‘Luck Penny’; Vincent Browne recalls Charles Haughey’s guile and greed; and Garda to clamp down on souped up e-bikes
Department’s €130k ‘turf agent’ a masterclass in loose oversight
Plus: Jeffrey Donaldson’s Down home on the market, Alan Shatter’s mixed debut as a football hack, and Ireland-Israel game nets a big viewership
‘We have skin in the game’: TD backs ‘half Irish’ Macklemore after Sheeran ditching
Plus: National Library seeks a Deputy Chief Herald, Phil Hogan tours East Africa as he bids for UN job, Marty Whelan honoured to be honoured
A faithful visit: Minister impresses EU enlargement chief with lunch in Traitors’ Castle
Plus: A diplomatic practice becomes an ‘outrageous insult’; the ability to ‘quickly gain respect’ a key skill for €208,000 Garda job; and DJ Van Helden and CJH book find common thread
Does Dublin need another museum? A proposed new one would contain Napoleon’s toothbrush
Strong ‘sleep score’ can’t help McIlroy; Irish ram subs in to support Belichick in College Football Classic; Dolly Parton’s Ventry visit goes viral
Ireland’s coastline – erosion in Wexford: ‘There’s nobody protecting my land for me’
More than a third of the county’s sandy coastline is deemed at risk of erosion, leaving businesses and homes ever closer to the edge
Man overboard: ‘Conflict of interest’ sees country music’s Declan Nerney dropped from all-star cruise bill
Plus: Enda Kenny’s new gig and New York mission; €200,000 salary to take on tech giants; prepare to be Gript at Percy French Festival
The Dublin-based chauffeur firm driving great and good around during EU presidency
Irish pessimism on EU rises at wrong time; €5m on offer for Oireachtas creche operator; MEP seeks relief for fleeced farmers
Tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s ‘secretive’ gathering of US elites comes to Wicklow
Plus: Leitrim council seeks new residents, Paddy Cosgrave stars on Butt Hall courts, and Dublin-born defender helps goalkeeper go gangbusters
AI don’t believe it: What do Gerry Hutch, Michael Healy-Rae and Charlie Haughey have in common?
Plus: U2 ride the bus in Mexico City; Ryanair seeks to fill Europe’s ‘best’ comms manager job; Minister goes from eating humble pie to cake
A new private airport in Ireland? Locals unwilling to give plans a soft landing spot
Fuel protests disrupt devotees of St Thérèse; a sad dispute plays out at the RTB; Irish EU commissioner shows hunted can become hunter
‘Only the head was sticking out’: Mobile Irish relic causes a surprise in Scotland
Wicklow GAA’s April Fool bombs; Children’s hospital seeks ‘economically advantageous’ provider; Musk praises ‘cunning’ Irish breakthrough for Starlink
Troy Parrott gets a shoutout during Zohran Mamdani’s St Patrick’s Day ‘hijack’
Visionary leader sought for Ireland’s AI office; RTÉ cranks up the hyperbole for Jessie Buckley; hairdressing classes for ‘warehoused’ prisoners
Sinn Féin TD says he’s a ‘Bob Marley guy’ as Cork accent goes viral in Jamaica
Thomas Gould goes viral; Revenue sniffs out new detector dogs, ‘basic laws of physics’ show Dublin 15 getting a raw deal, Netflix ‘on board’ for Keegan adaptation
Gerry Hutch acts as script consultant for show about ‘alleged crimes’
Plus: Fianna Fáil hits the road, Ireland at the cleaner end of corruption index, and ‘startling’ number of passports stolen