Darragh Ó Sé: Kildare’s opportunity to end Dublin’s Leinster domination
It’s a shame that Croke Park final is going up against Leinster’s European decider
Cork’s Quay Co-op celebrates 40 years battling prejudice and inequality
Organisation to mark anniversary with celebration for staff, suppliers and supporters
Macron happy to dive into the transfer saga around Mbappé
PSG star's stature among young people seen as invaluable to the French government
Hilary Fannin: My pals and I didn’t understand the stern forces that extinguished our youth
I was 17, working in a restaurant, smoking Rothmans and reading Edna O’Brien
Jennifer O’Connell: Is making everyone equally unhappy the plan?
One good news initiative after another failed to cheer a disgruntled public. Until housing is fixed, nothing is fixed
Conor Pope: A letter to Fianna Fáil TD Seán Fleming
Minister’s call for people to shop around amid rising cost of living could hardly be more tone deaf
Eric Earle – one of the Trinity students who gathered on the roof of the college on VE day in May 1945
An Appreciation
David McWilliams: Irish people are both capitalists and workers at the same time
The Irish economy – like its people – is multifaceted, shape-shifting and inconsistent
GAA director urged Charlie Haughey to abolish VAT on hurleys
Liam Mulvihill said cost of hurleys was making it almost prohibitive to take up sport
Clontarf Golf Club given offer to relocate to Haughey estate under housing plan
Paul McGinley drafted in as part of property group’s bid to secure club site for housing
In a Word ... Perfidious
A strain of English exceptionalism is enough to make any Irish person’s blood run green
Sweet and nutty: Scallops with brown butter and hazelnuts
JP McMahon: Across Europe you can hand-dive for scallops, but it’s outlawed in Ireland
Mary O’Rourke: The day I announced our worst ever pupil-teacher ratio
If 1987 was a low point, then 2021 is a milestone in Irish education history
Jennifer O’Connell: We are world experts at anomalies, fudges and blind eyes
Rule number one: don’t talk about the anomalies or you might have to address them
Albert Reynolds: Razzmatazz politician and supreme negotiator
Showman and dealmaker defied detractors when he brokered peace in North
Des O’Malley was a mould-breaking ‘giant of politics’
Progressive Democrats founder made ‘extensive’ contribution to public life, says Higgins
Fianna Fáil members know party facing one of its greatest challenges
Activists acknowledge issue of identity essential to repelling threats from Fine Gael and Sinn Féin
Bitter infighting in Green Party threatens to undermine Coalition
Row over Hazel Chu’s bid for Seanad seat highlights split between party’s leading figures
Fearless lifeboat volunteer retires from watery watch after 45 years
Kieran Cotter calls time on Baltimore RNLI seagoing work – service that began in 1975
Pragmatism v Principle – how the Seanad attempted to tackle the issue of children born out of wedlock
An Irishman’s Diary
We’ve had decades of poverty, stifled dreams and lives unlived. But look on the bright side
RTÉ’s The Way We Were successfully dusted off the Reeling in the Years formula
Politicians and sports people ‘should not get’ tax relief aimed at artists
Exemption not intended for ‘career politicians’ or various stars promoting their memoirs
The Crown, season 4: Gillian Anderson takes up the Margaret Thatcher challenge
She is the latest of many actors to wrestle with the blue suit and tortured vowels
Mother-and-baby-homes: Dealing with sensitive data a difficult balancing act
Committee will have to weigh up a matrix of matters before making recommendations
Why are some in Fianna Fáil unhappy with Micheál Martin?
Majority in FF do not want leader’s removal, but many take issue with his operating style
The Puck Stops Here – Frank McNally on the royal goats, psychedelic sheep, and fearsome midges of Kerry
An Irishman’s Diary
Thirty years on, Ireland’s smoky coal ban remains an urgent issue
Some, including initial proponent Mary Harney, argue the ban should be nationwide
Paddy Sheehan obituary: Witty Cork TD with a serious work ethic
Former Fine Gael TD was ‘completely resistant to anodyne press office suggestions’
Anne Doyle: ‘Depression? I know what it is, and it’s a b*tch’
The former RTÉ newsreader on her popularity, perks of retirement and not enjoying lockdown life
Barry Cowen sacking: Lenihan questions why vetting did not flag Pulse record
Vetting of proposed ministers ‘always carried out’, says former minister of state
The Best Of Times: Roche goes to the limit and beyond in bid for Tour de France glory
The drama of the closing stages of the 1987 race held the nation in rapture
Seán O’Rourke: 32,000 interviews later... ‘I’ve had my fill’
The broadcaster, who retired on Friday, looks back on his career high and low points
A riot, champagne and Charlie Haughey: Garret FitzGerald’s eve of VE Day diary
“At 9.19 on way back to College, at bottom Grafton St, we met Charlie Haughey”
Tipping Point: Pining for Irish Grand National frivolity
Easter Monday and the big race at Fairyhouse go together like Laurel & Hardy
Q&A: How long could it take to form a new government after Election 2020?
There are no rules and no time limits on how to put together a new administration
Winning Triple Crowns: ‘Seeing Jack Kyle was a spiritual experience’
A history of Ireland’s wins throws up some mythical tales and unforgettable moments
Paddy O’Mahony (100) prepares to vote in a general election for the 23rd time
‘I got my photo taken with Jack Lynch but Jack bought me no whiskey!’
Election 2020 outtakes: Never gonna let you down
Championing Rick Astley for taoiseach while Ó Ríordáin lets us in on a daily struggle
Election 2020 leaders’ debate: Casting Mary Lou McDonald made this a true TV spectacle
Election 2020: Having long resisted her participation, RTÉ should be happy with its decision
State papers: ‘I cried with joy' when Haughey re-elected
Unconfined joy among some of Charlie Haughey’s most fervent supporters when returned as taoiseach in 1987
State papers: Scientology and mass migration would solve Northern Ireland conflict
Taoiseach Charles Haughey received some novel advice from members of the public on how to end the Troubles
State papers: Adare Manor wanted to host USSR-US summit
Department of Foreign Affairs chief of protocol said ‘standard of service was not adequate for a meeting of this type’
Gifting of ancient table caused protests and court actions
State papers: Charles Haughey had to intervene in row after Duke of Leinster requested 16th-century stone table be given to county council
US feared Russia plotting Cold War spy base in Cork dockyard in 1989
State papers: American embassy diplomat raised concerns after top-level meetings between taoiseach Charles Haughey and USSR president Mikhail Gorbachev
Tory party adviser ‘very struck’ by rapport between Margaret Thatcher and Charles Haughey
State papers: Official compared how British prime minister had ‘grabbed her handbag and stormed out’ of meeting with Belgian leader
Birmingham Six were furious with Haughey for not seeking their release
State papers: Paddy Joe Hill wrote to taoiseach pleading with him to take their case to European Court of Human Rights
That was the year that was . . . 1989
Release of Guildford Four, fall of Berlin Wall and Ireland qualifying for World Cup for the first time among highlights
State papers: Paisley ‘vigorously’ backed membership of EEC
Despite public histrionic denouncements, North’s first minister advocated getting ‘as much as possible out of the cow’
It’s quite possible to turn our homes into micro-generation stations
Everyone, homeowners and businesses, needs to start producing their own electricity
Settled into an Irish cottage, Peig style
Artist Maria Simonds-Gooding settled in Dunquin in the 1960s in a Blasket islander’s cottage
Blindboy: ‘Being recognisable is absolute hell’
The Rubberbandit talks politics, podcasts, his new book, and angry men with Patrick Freyne
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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