Johnny Watterson: Fearless Andrew Jennings met powerful sports corporations head on
He was one of the last big-game hunters of investigative sports journalism
The Irish Times view on Spain’s new government: a difficult task for Pedro Sánchez
Despite the right’s inflated rhetoric, the PSOE-Podemos programme offers reforms in the classic EU social democratic tradition: raising pensions, public service incomes and the minimum wage
A Twentieth-Century Crusade review: Eye-opening look at the Catholic Church and fascism
Giuliana Chamedes’s new book is revelatory but leaves some key questions unanswered
How the British faked ‘battles’ during the War of Independence
A ‘battle’ in Tralee was restaged in Killiney, Dublin, and the photographs and Pathé news film were spread widely
10 things I’ve learned in 12 years living in Spain
Dress code is important, lunches are long, and everyone is very, very late
Costa living: ‘Move home to Ireland? I’d hate it’
Thousands of Irish people live on the Costa del Sol – and they're ‘more Irish than anyone at home’
Fintan O’Toole: Gibraltar's experience exposes British Brexit lies
The Spain-Gibraltar border shows what a customs-union divide looks like
The Irish Times view on Spain and General Franco: a divisive legacy
The challenge for Spanish conservatives is to demonstrate they harbour no sneaking regard for an anti-democratic dictator
Visionary Pep Guardiola still has something new to say
Style and substance the mark of a coach who has guided Man City to the cusp of the title
Catalan officials warn of rebellion against Spain’s direct rule plan
Region’s parliament to debate response to Spanish government’s move on Thursday
Paddy Woodworth: Rajoy has played into the hands of Catalan nationalism
Perception of authoritarian government denying gallant small nation right to express itself is widespread
Ken Early: Barca shut Camp Nou in solidarity with Catalan vote
Many on the board believed it was wrong to play on the day of the Catalan referendum
Patrick Freyne picks the best TV shows on the way for Autumn
Alison Spittle’s new show; David Simon in NYC; and a doc on the most famous Irish person ever: Shergar
Brian Boyd: Tourists seen as terrorists by some in Barcelona
The youth wing of the CUP party is on a mission to drive out visitors
Eurovision’s political scandals – From Franco to Syrian flags
Russia and Ukraine are not the only countries with form when it comes to Eurovision controvery
Nostalgia at M&S, timeshare in Tuscany and a skilled joiner who won’t retire
Home Front: interiors, design, people, property
Eta’s ceasefire – five years on
It is regrettable that neither the current caretaker administration in Madrid, nor any likely successor, appears willing to consider a new approach
Euro Moments: General Franco pulls Spain from 1960 tournament
Original championships was a political minefield for the nations who entered
Javier Marías: ‘General Franco always seemed ridiculous: a short, ugly man with a shrill voice’
Growing up in Madrid under Franco, novelist Javier Marías secretly mocked the fascist leader. The period after Spain’s transition to democracy is the setting for his latest book
Italian masonic leader Licio Gelli dies aged 96
Gelli’s name turned up in numerous high-profile inquiries but he spent little time in jail
Top 10 reasons to visit Valencia
The Spanish city is famed for its temperate climate, good food – it is the home of paella – and Calatrava’s City of Arts and Sciences
Cavan and Monaghan: a bitter rivalry dug deep into the land
For as long as there has been football, there has been enmity between counties
Forgotten no more: Patrick O’Connell, the Dubliner who managed Barca
Patrick O’Connell is to be given a memorial, five decades after the end of his turbulent life
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