In creating new technological universities, did we make a mistake?
Opinion: Our State’s higher education institutions need to be clearly differentiated by mission and purpose — not lumped together with similar goals
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Miriam Lord’s Week: Marty Morrissey’s godlike status in Clare provokes Senator into a dramatic U-turn
Oireachtas hearings over controversial payments at the public-service broadcaster provide spectacle set to run and run
Lego, martial arts and dance classes: how one school tackled school absenteeism
Challenges facing schools in Dublin’s northeast inner city were once considered insurmountable. A pilot project is helping to change this
Coveney heads for US to meet Biden administration officials
Minister to discuss NI protocol after British signals of law to shelve parts of mechanism
Elon Musk can walk away from Twitter deal by paying $1bn break fee
Billionaire is able to back out by stumping up fraction of net worth
Wildcats coach eager to touch down on Irish soil at Aviva Stadium
Pat Fitzgerald’s Chicago team face Nebraska side in College Football Classic in August
Easter Rising, Curtain Falling – Frank McNally on the 1916 play still awaiting its Abbey premiere
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Options open for Roma McLaughlin as she contemplates entering NWSL draft
Central Connecticut State star contemplating playing future after final year at university
‘Little friendly Dr Ross’: The forgotten hunger strike victim
Doctor who oversaw the care of republican prisoners during the Troubles later died by suicide
‘We have learned from Covid how much we miss touch’
Unthinkable: Philosopher Richard Kearney argues that sight began displacing other senses even before the pandemic
Arriving home for Christmas: ‘We got three negative tests before we came’
Oh so quiet in Dublin airport as early morning US flight touches down
Margaret MacCurtain obituary: Pioneering historian and campaigner
President leads tributes to nun, educator, feminist and human-rights activist
‘Technology was always an interest of mine’
Conor Quinn recently completed a Fulbright scholarship programme in cybersecurity with Boston College
Dublin council puts Unicorn restaurant demolition plan on hold
Council has ‘serious concerns’ over height, scale and massing of six-storey development
Coronavirus puts the squeeze on retirement hopes
People need to save closer to 33 times the amount they expect to spend annually in retirement to generate enough return
Kennedy Summer School to be postponed until next year
Covid-19 continues to impact tourism as Mother Jones Festival in Cork also deferred
Ivor Bell ruling may jeopardise future Troubles prosecutions
Judge dismisses recordings and directs jury to find Bell not guilty of soliciting murder
Boston tapes project is sharply criticised by judge in Ivor Bell case
Judge John O’Hara says taped confession was ‘improperly and dishonestly induced’
The Ivor Bell case: some key background questions answered
Jean McConville, the Boston tapes, Ivor Bell and Pat McClure
Jean McConville’s murder, the Boston tapes, Gerry Adams and the Ivor Bell trial
Long read: Tapes which implicated Gerry Adams deemed inadmissible in Belfast trial
Ivor Bell found not guilty of soliciting murder of Jean McConville
Judge directs jury to not guilty verdict: ‘You cannot find him to have done the acts alleged’
Notre Dame to get the ball rolling on gridiron college series in Dublin
College football series in Ireland is about a lot more than just big business
How can I distinguish between my needs and wants?
Unthinkable: Economist and philosopher Adam Smith encourages us to reflect on ‘how much is enough’
Concern over lack of training for doctoral students in teaching roles at DCU
DCU is first university to face review by State education standards watchdog
‘One of the biggest challenges facing us is to define Irish identity in a post-Brexit world’
New Heritage Council CEO Virginia Teehan brings plenty of experience to the table from her time at UCC and Hunt Museum
Inside dissident republican groups: A new book throws light on their thinking
Paramilitary organisations see opportunity in Brexit – the harder Brexit the better
Boston tapes: McIntyre plans appeal in European human rights court
Last month McIntyre lost legal battle keep recordings and transcripts confidential
Legislation may allow other mother-and-baby exhumations after Tuam
Government aware that not looking at other sites might be an issue – Zappone
Zappone to address Boston conference on abuse in Ireland
By 1951 more than 1 per cent of the Irish population was incarcerated in institutions
Commission of Investigations Act inhibits truth-telling about past and present
Survivors and family members must be afforded a statutory right to information
Ex-IRA man loses battle to stop police accessing interview tapes
Anthony McIntyre interviewed for Boston College project on Northern Ireland conflict
Programmes offering graduates a route into industry
Graduates are well-positioned for jobs in policy, research, business and administration in the public and private sectors
Brian Mooney: How do I go about doing a postgrad course at a US university?
There are lots of options – but costs are steep, so be sure to do your research
Filming Dolours Price: ‘Her name is Latin for sorrow. That describes her life’
Journalist Ed Moloney on his interview with the compelling, acidic late IRA woman
Mayo priest to be exhumed in step towards canonisation
Venerable Fr Patrick Peyton coined ‘family that prays together stays together’ phrase
The Irishman in charge of snow operations in Cambridge, MA
It was bitterly cold last week. I hadn’t heard of the term ‘bomb cyclone’ before that
Republican ‘not fit’ to stand trial over Jean McConville killing
Court told that Ivor Bell (80) has dementia and legal process ‘could be harmful’ to his health
LongMyles Road – An Irishman’s Diary about Conor McGregor, Flann O’Brien, and the Tallaght Gaeltacht
‘Suddenly, I was in Leopold Bloom’s kitchen, circa 1904, trying to fry kidneys (which burned, with the result that I smelled smoke)’
JFK files: ‘Committee’ would kill Lee Harvey Oswald
Some secret files on 1963 asassination of John F Kennedy released
Caveat: Ireland, cute leprechaun squid of global trade
Boston College Ireland Business Council launches in Dublin
Irish Business Council launched to promote transatlantic trade
Body will bring ‘influential business leaders’ together to create investment ‘artery’
Man of compassion or savage capitalist? The difficulty of defining Macron
Paris Letter: The French are struggling to make sense of their president
Miriam Lord: Bertie asks what one tree can do for yew
The former taoiseach dispensed with wisdom at the Kennedy Summer School
Pope Francis visits Colombia as peace deal continues to polarise
Pontiff arrives to give momentum to process still facing tough challenges
Gentle radical who fought for a more just Irish society
Obituary: The teacher and equality campaigner Ann Louise Gilligan believed in the rich rewards of altruism
An arrest in Boston: ‘The Irish are staying under the radar’
News of undocumented Donegal man’s arrest causes anxiety in Irish community
Grieving Katherine Zappone bids sad farewell to ‘Annie darling’
Minister for Children says of wife Anne Louise Gilligan: ‘I have to let you go now’
Ann Louise Gilligan ‘was always thinking of fairness, of love’
Many tributes paid to educationalist, philosopher and activist at her wake in Jobstown
Loyalist given evidence over killings of Catholic workmen
Winston ‘Winkie’ Rea in court over the deaths of John Devine and John O’Hara
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