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Upon learning that Dublin City Council inspectors gained access to one of his properties, landlord Marc Godart ordered that the workers he deemed responsible be sacked and outstanding wages withheld.
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In 2023, controversial landlord Marc Godart told colleagues that new contracts should stipulate that workers are hired by Itzig Sarl, one of his family’s Luxembourg companies, rather than by an Irish-based company.
“The reason is we don’t want to be exposed to any prosecution if we do not get along with an employee or a person that works for us,” Godart explained in a voice note.
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In Conor Pope’s exclusive interview with Santa, Irish kids from Bray, Co Wicklow to Queensland, Australia, messaged the man in red with questions asking about his habits, from beard grooming to cookie-eating, what sort of exercise he takes and how, he circumnavigates the world in one night, and much, much more.
Thank you to all the boys and girls who sent voice and email messages. Unfortunately Santa couldn’t get to all of them but he has taken your names and checked them against his list, twice, so expect nice surprises on Christmas morning.
M&S Food has everything you need for the festive season, including a wide range of snacks that Santa will enjoy to leave out for him on Christmas Eve
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Trisha Lovett 's letter to her friend Carrie Lee.
Read by Rosita Boland.
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A Christmas card sent by Trisha Lovett to her friend Belinda Lee.
Read by Rosita Boland.
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Ann Lovett's Christmas letter to her friend Belinda Lee.
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Trisha Lovett's note to her friend Belinda Lee after Ann Lovett's death.
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A note written by Ann Lovett to her friend Belinda Lee.
Read by Rosita Boland.
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Christmas Eve is Santa’s busiest night of the year. Mrs Claus, the elves and all the reindeer help with the preparations. The lists have been made, checked at least twice. The brakes on the sleigh have been tested and tested again and the harnesses polished by the stable team who will also check that all the jingle bells are in fine working order.
For the occasion the reindeer too will have all been fully groomed, their hooves oiled to perfection, Conor explains. He says that Rudolph, Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Donner, and Blitzen will also have been fed a warming mash that includes a magic mix that helps them be able to make that epic trek, traversing time barriers and exceeding sky speed limits to circumnavigate the globe in just one night.
We ask Conor, is he excited? “I have been looking forward to this interview for months. How could I not be? I mean, it is Santa Claus, the most important person in the whole wide world right now and the one absolutely everyone wants to impress this week,” he says.
It is the most important interview he will do all year and he has some very pressing questions that he plans to ask him. “Loads of questions have been put to him by boys and girls and mammies and daddies all over Ireland and those questions are great.
People have asked how he manages to get around to all the houses in the world in just one night and whether or not he likes mince pies. There have been questions about his reindeers and his sleigh and all sorts of other tricky questions that I am sure he will be able to answer.”
But what about the one question he is planning to ask? Conor in fact has two. “Am I on the nice list this year?” and “what present does he plan to leave for me under my tree?”.
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The Irish Times Santa Podcast is back, in association with Opel.
With Christmas just around the corner, Irish Times journalist Conor Pope secured an exclusive interview with none other than Santa Claus himself ahead of his big night of deliveries on Christmas Eve.
Listen to the exclusive podcast now.
Crime Correspondent Conor Gallagher talks to Conor Brady about the surprising way An Garda Síochána became an unarmed force, and to Doireann Ansbro of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties about the problem with the increasing number of guns in the hands of gardaí.
We look at how changes in the teenage brain and how these can affect behaviour.
From a feature by Fred Eheresman in August 2019.
Ana Kriégel murder trial: The complete story
This is part five of five.
Conor Gallagher is The Irish Times’s Crime Correspondent.
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Narrated for The Irish Times by NoA.
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Ana Kriégel murder trial: The complete story
This is part four of five.
Conor Gallagher is The Irish Times’s Crime Correspondent.
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Narrated for The Irish Times by NoA.
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Ana Kriégel murder trial: The complete story
This is part three of five.
Conor Gallagher is The Irish Times’s Crime Correspondent.
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Ana Kriégel murder trial: The complete story
This is part two of five.
Conor Gallagher is The Irish Times’s Crime Correspondent.
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Narrated for The Irish Times by NoA.
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Ana Kriégel murder trial: The complete story
This is part one of five.
Conor Gallagher is The Irish Times’s Crime Correspondent.
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Narrated for The Irish Times by NoA.
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Elizabeth O’Kelly, as the former Elisabeth Sykes was known as at the time of her death, died peacefully on 11 December 2016 in Stradbally, Co Laois. It was only in October this year that her name suddenly blazed into public consciousness. The news broke that she had left a remarkable €30 million to charity. Rosita Boland reads her piece about Elizabeth's extraordinary life.
For the final instalment of Lilly Higgin's Food Month podcast, she talks to Irish Times food writer Aoife McElwain about getting into food blogging, her love of fermented food and the food questions that keep her up at night.
Episode Three: Lilly talks to Irish Times beerista Sorcha Hamilton about the joy of beer - drinking, brewing, and pairing with food.
In this episode Lilly talks to our restaurant critic Catherine Clery about the practical side of a job many wish was theirs.
The first of four Food Month podcasts with your host Lilly Higgins and Irish Times food and drink writers.
On this episode it's John Williams on wine: drinking it, working with it, learning about it and enjoying it.
Seán Lemass was scathing about the last years of Éamon de Valera’s time as Taoiseach. Here he talks about de Valera’s final days in office.
The visit of President John F Kennedy to Ireland in June 1963 was one of the highlights of Seán Lemass’s time as Taoiseach, but Lemass detected a coldness about Kennedy.
Seán Lemass finally took over as Taoiseach in 1959, but the man he replaced, Éamon de Valera, cast a long shadow.
Sinead McCarthy was 24 week pregnant when she went in for a routine scan at a hospital in Mullingar in early December and was happy and confident and looking forward to celebrating Christmas with her husband Pat and her two little girls Holly and Ruby.
But when the scan, the third of her pregnancy, revealed that her baby had a condition that was incompatible with life she was shattered.
In a pre-recorded interview with the Ray D'Arcy Show on RTE Radio One on Wednesday afternoon she said her baby’s “coffin is chosen instead of her cot” and she encouraged people to vote yes in the upcoming referendum on repealing the Eighth Amendment so other women would not have to go through what she has been through in recent months.
This Christmas most of the prisoners in Dochas will spend the family season inside. For the children of women inside, it’s distressing. As part of the Storybook Mams project, women choose a book to read to a child they are separated from, and make a video to send them.
Here three of the women who made Storybook videos this year - Annie, Angelique and Manie - are talking about being in priosn and apart from their children. “I would have missed a good part of her life. Like, most of her life. I understand she’s hurtin’ in her own little way. This is just so as she can see me and see what I am like now.”
“I don’t like her coming up to the prison because she gets very upset after visits, so I’d rather just let her know I love her, and the phone calls.”
Produced by Deirdre Falvey and Declan Conlon.
Is Christmas the most wonderful time of year? Or a living nightmare of enforced jollity? Irish Times journalist Kevin Courtney asked comedians Karl Spain and Bernard O'Shea.
Marti Padrisa and his partner Sara Flanagan - one is Catalan and one is Spanish. They both live in Barcelona and they debate their contrasting opinions during a protest at the GPO, Dublin.
Inside Politics: Irish Times Political Correspondent Harry McGee reflects on the 2016 General Election.
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Inside Politics: Dignified, engaging and for the people - Historian Diarmaid Ferriter looks back on the 1916 centenary celebrations.
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Inside Politics: When will Enda Kenny step down as Fine Gael leader? Not until after the Pope gets here, according to Irish Times parliamentary correspondent Michael O’Regan.
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Inside Politics: Has Simon Coveney fired the starting gun on his bid to become Fine Gael's next leader? Irish Times political reporter Sarah Bardon thinks so.
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Inside Politics: What is the solution to Ireland's continual housing crisis? Increased housing supply or rental market reforms? Hugh Linehan talks to Construction Industry Federation Director General, Tom Parlon. Full episode: iti.ms/InsidePoliticsIT
Inside Politics: What is the solution to Ireland's continual housing crisis? Increased housing supply or rental market reforms? Hugh Linehan talks to Trinity College Professor, Cian O'Callaghan. Full episode: iti.ms/InsidePoliticsIT
Françoise Fillon might be the next president of France. Who is he and what are his positions?
In this excerpt Lara Marlowe explains "traditional, rural conservative" Fillon's stated positions on social issues like abortion and same-sex marriage.
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Denis Staunton is in Te Aviv finding out how Israelis feel about Donald Trump's win.
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Former journalist and Cuba resident Lynn Geldof recalls her experience of "socialism in a warm climate" and defends President Michael D. Higgins' reaction to Fidel Castro's death.
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Voting is not enough – if people don’t have a voice, the system will crash, warns David Van Reybrouck.
Van Reybrouck explains what he sees as the way forward for European democracies: the greater use of deliberative procedures first trialled in Ancient Greece, including the selection by lottery of citizens to sit on legislative bodies.
Journalist and Ross O'Carroll-Kelly creator Paul Howard has written a new book about Tara Browne, the Guinness heir who died in 1966. Tara's friend Mike McCartney, brother of the Beatle, talks about Tara and living through the Swinging Sixties with Paul and Roísín on this week's Roísín Meets podcast. You can listen to the chat (and subscribe to the podcast) here: http://iti.ms/RoisinMeetsIT
Mike McCartney talks to Roísín Ingle about life in the shadow of his Beatle brother. He is joined by journalist and Ross O'Carroll Kelly creator (and friend of the show) Paul Howard. Paul has written a new book about McCartney's friend, the Guinness heir Tara Browne, who died in 1966 at the height of the Swinging Sixties. You can hear the full podcast here: http://iti.ms/RoisinMeetsIT
Inside Politics: Who's to blame if your house is broken into on a strike day? Irish Times Industrial Affairs Correspondent Martin Wall talks to Hugh Linehan Full episode: http://iti.ms/InsidePoliticsIT
There has always been a creative tension between philosophers and scientists and for the past 30 years Susan Haack has followed the currents of that debate, playing the role - in her own words - of “the cannibal among the missionaries”.
Haack, an English-born philosopher now based at the University of Miami, has little patience for those in the humanities who see the rise of the STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering and maths) as a threat.
But she also warns of the modern trend towards scientism – an undue deference to all things scientific.
The tension arises acutely in investigations of the mind. Can the mind be understood purely through neuroscience, or do other disciplines have a role to play?
Ismail says Aleppo is like nowhere else in the world. The people are scared and desperate and they wonder why the international community won't help them.
'I see the people around me getting thinner and thinner': Wissam describes what he has seen a in Aleppo, including a bomb attack on his apartment building.
"Was it for this? This State is not worthy of the sacrifices of the men and women of 1916" was the provocative title of a discussion in The Irish Times' tent at this year's Electric Picnic. MCing was Irish Times journalist Ronan McGreevy, editor of Was it for this? Reflections on the Easter Rising, a book compiling Irish Times writings on 1916 and its aftermath, from that fateful year right up to the present day.
Running the rule on the country 100 years after the Easter Rising was musician and writer Paddy Cullivan, the creator of The Ten Dark Secrets of 1916, and columnist turned election candidate Carol Hunt.
Why laugher is a serious business: TCD Prof Eric Weitz of the International Society for Humor Studies discusses the intellectual and psychological benefits of jokes.
Joe Humphreys meets Prof Tom Inglis of University College Dublin, whose latest book, Meanings of Life in Contemporary Ireland, tests the long-standing church theory that you need faith to provide ballast, or a purpose, to your life. He interviewed 100 people for the book, exploring what gave their life meaning, and while he doesn’t claim the study is representative, he says it is illustrative of the way in which Ireland is going.
At the Electric Picnic, Una Mullally interviewed Jonny Beauchamp and Seana Kerslake on what it takes to make it in the most mysterious of jobs - acting. In this clip, Jonny gives a rapid-fire account of how he won his role in the hit show. Here be mild profanities. The clip ends abruptly to spare you a Penny Dreadful spoiler.
Check irishtimes.com for more from our spoken word events at Electric Picnic soon.
Irish Times sports journalists Malachy Clerkin and Gavin Cummisky and thejournal.ie news editor Sinead O'Carroll (who got a taste of covering sport in Rio) discussed the hidden side of their envied trade at The Irish Times tent at Electric Picnic today. In this clip they talk about one of their biggest challenges: getting sports stars to say anything revealing.
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Guidance Counsellors Brian Howard and Deirdre Garratt discuss some common themes and give their advice on queries submitted by readers to the Irish Times CAO helpdesk following delivery of this year’s Leaving Cert results and CAO Round One offers.
To find out why it makes sense to visit Mars, a distant, hostile place, Vanesa Martinez interviewed Kevin Nolan, lecturer at IT Tallaght and Irish coordinator of the Planetary Society. Kevin is a leading expert on Mars exploration, a passionate believer in the benefits of going there and the author of a book on the subject. She asked him: what is it about Mars? Why does Mars matter?
Jockey Ruby Walsh talks about fellow jockey John Thomas McNamara, who died yesterday, three years after suffering a devastating spinal injury at Cheltenham.
Can you taste a place? It’s a question some of the world’s best chefs play with these days. In the first All You Can Eat Irish Times food podcast Catherine Cleary has a story about beef that comes from a very special place in Ireland. She asks whether a system of Restaurant Supported Agriculture where farmers and chefs work together could keep good farming traditions alive... and she meets a scientist who’s managed what sometimes seems like an impossible feat: bridging the gap between farmers and environmentalists.
All You Can Eat kicks off with a rant from our Pet Peeves Corner. Television producer Maire Kearney has had her fill of goats cheese and beetroot. As a vegetarian she charts the highs (few) and lows (many) of three decades of vegetarianism. Irish restaurants aren’t at the races when it comes to satisfying a growing and disgruntled band of non meat eaters, she says.
Finally we end with Aftertaste, a potted history of foods remembered from childhood. This week it’s hot beefy Bovril, and the surprisingly multicultural story about the origins of this frightfully British brand.
We’d love to hear what you think of the podcast and any food stories you’d like to see featured in future podcasts. Email allyoucaneat@irishtimes.com.
Eddie Holt outlines WB Yeats's considerable body of writing for the newspapers which ranges from literary journalism to letters to the editor
Francis Halsall of the National College of Art and Design explains the philosophy of Phenomenology. Established by Edmund Husserl one hundred years ago, Phenomenology concerns our subjective experiences of the world, and is fundamental to understanding the art of the 20th Century.
The dramatic story of the birth of Irish radio during the 1916 Rising was re-enacted on air by 37 radio stations across the state this evening at 5.30, one hundred years to the original date and exact time of the first broadcast, which announced the declaration of the Irish Republic.
The morse code message written by James Connolly and transmitted by Marconi operator David Burke read:” Irish Republic declared in Dublin today. Irish troops have captured city and are in full possession. Enemy cannot move in city. The whole country rising.” It was the brainchild of Joseph Plunkett, a wireless expert who recognised the power of radio.
The broadcast took place 190 metres from the GPO at what was then The Wireless School of Telegraphy on Sackville Street, now O’Connell Street.
Does remembering a past event like the Holocaust immunise us from repeating it in the future? Not necessarily, days former war correspondent David Rieff, who argues that "active forgetting" could be of greater benefit to humankind, especially when the facts of history are in dispute.
Trinity College Dublin philosopher Alice Pinheiro Walla explains how Kant can keep us happy.
FAI chief executive John Delaney interviewed on Tipperary Mid West Radio by Stevie O'Donnell.
Conor Pope describes the situation in Athlone, where townspeople are fighting to prevent floodwater form inundating their homes.
Former advisor to Tony Blair Alastair Campbell speaks to The Irish Times' Declan Conlon about Jeremy Corbyn, Syria, Northern Ireland and his new book Winners: And How They Succeed.
A common assumption in modern debate is that religious and scientific thinking are polar opposites. Strident secularists like Richard Dawkins decree that you're either on the side of God or the side of reason. But is this a false choice? Could there be truth within both science and religion?
The Irish Times Unthinkable Debate was held recently in the Paccar Theatre, Science Gallery Dublin to mark the publication of Unthinkable: Great Ideas for Now by Joe Humphreys.
The subject for debate was "Are science and religion really in conflict?" and the participants on the evening were:
William Reville, Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry and Public Awareness of Science Officer at University College Cork
Dr Siobhán Garrigan, Chair of Catholic Theology, Loyola Institute, Trinity College Dublin
Dr Kevin Mitchell, Department of Genetics, TCD and blogger at wiringthebrain.com
Cathy Barry, philosophy graduate and blogger at irishphilosophy.com
Joe Humphreys (chair), Irish Times Education Correspondent and author
Unthinkable: Great Ideas for Now by Joe Humphreys is published by Irish Times Books and is drawn from Joe Humphreys' weekly columns in The Irish Times. It is available to buy now.
October 6th 2015, Luxembourg - Austrian student Max Schrems, whose initial complaint to the Irish Data Protection Commissioner led to today's European Court of Justice ruling, talks to Derek Scally about what the decision means for Facebook users and how the story reflects on data protection in Ireland.
During an impromptu address to the Labour think-in former party leader Ruairí Quinn claimed his party had defeated “the Fine Gaelers”, the “Fianna Fáilers” and the nationalists and dragged the country into the 21st century.
Public Displays of Emotion Róisin Ingle
Roisin Ingle just can't keep her feelings to herself. Each weekend in her Irish Times column she lets it all pour out on the page where her Public Displays of Emotion (PDE's) are legion. This honesty has endeared her to her many readers. Public Displays of Emotion contains the best of the past ten years of columns selected and reflected upon by Roisin.
Grieving families, friends and strangers attend Oakland church where four of the six Irish J-1 students lay in repose
Simon Carswell Washington Correspondent reports from Berkeley where six Irish students died in a balcony collapse.
Taoiseach Enda Kenny said the closure of Clerys was “very insensitive” and “could have been handled a lot better”.
A 1985 BBC interview with the Beits where they state their intention of keeping their collection intact and in Ireland
Two families tell of their experiences dealing with housing and health authorities.
Rose and her two children Tracey and Keith became homeless and were placed in unsuitable emergency accommodation.
Rita's daughter Cait suffered from mental illness and was admitted to a facility for adults at the age of 15.
These interviews are extracts from A Word From The Wise, published by the Ombudsman for Children's Office.
Irish Times Berlin correspondent Derek Scally reports on the latest from the investigation into the Germanwings plane crash
UK Green Party leader Natalie Bennett admitted suffering an 'excruciating mind blank' after a car-crash interview in which she appeared unable to answer questions on key policies
Leo Varadkar comes out publicly on Sunday with Miriam on RTÉ Radio 1. by The Irish Times
Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Brendan Howlin speaks with Mary Minihan about high childcare costs.
Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Brendan Howlin speaks with Mary Minihan about public pay.
Dr Kevin Williams, former president of the Educational Studies Association of Ireland and a research fellow at the Irish Centre for Poetry Studies, discusses the ethos of schools
Ruadhan MacCormaic reports on the developing hostage situation with the suspected Charlie Hebdon gunmen in Dammartin-en-Goele.
Irish Times Paris Correspondent Lara Marlowe reports from the scene of the terrorist attack on the offices of the Charlie Hedbo newspaper which has left at least 12 people dead.
Elaine Keogh interviews unidentified woman outside Our Lady of Lourdes hospital in Drogheda on Monday 5th January 2015 about overcrowding in AE
Johnathan Corrie speaks about his life and homelessness in an interview by Hanna Parkes on Dublin City FM
Alan Kelly TD speaking ahead of the upcoming announcement of the latest water charges package.
Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Brendan Howlin speaks ahead of the announcement of the latest water charges package from Government.
Minister for Finance heckled by protester while answering questions about recent water charge protests.
Charlie Flanagan TD speaks to Mary Minihan about anti-water charge demonstrations and the upcoming Government announcement on the tax.
Enda Kenny speaks to Mary Minihan about recent protests ahead of water charge package announcement.
Irish Times northern editor Gerry Moriarty discusses the controversy surrounding Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams and his handling of allegations made by Maíria Cahill
Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Brendan Howlin comments on the upcoming Budget 2015
Minister for Public Expenditure Brendan Howlin welcomes the introduction of new rules governing mortgages announced today by the Central Bank.
Enda Kenny talks to journalists on his way into the Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, October 7th, 2014
The Book Club: The first edition of the Book Club brings Michael Harding together with three readers: Jo Homewood, Jacinta Wright and Hans Zomer to discuss his new book Hanging with the Elephant, Hachette Books Ireland. Presented by Gary Quinn. Sound: JJ Vernon
Minister for Arts Heather Humphreys comments on the appointment of Donegal Fine Gael member John McNulty to the Irish Museum of Modern Art board.
The RTE Symphony Orchestra performing music for the Music in the Classroom series with The Irish Times
The RTE Symphony Orchestra performing music for the Music in the Classroom series with The Irish Times
The RTE Symphony Orchestra performing music for the Music in the Classroom series with The Irish Times
The RTE Symphony Orchestra performing music for the Music in the Classroom series with The Irish Times
The RTE Symphony Orchestra performing music for the Music in the Classroom series with The Irish Times
The RTE Symphony Orchestra performing music for the Music in the Classroom series with The Irish Times
The RTE Symphony Orchestra performing music for the Music in the Classroom series with The Irish Times
The RTE Symphony Orchestra performing music for the Music in the Classroom series with The Irish Times
The RTE Symphony Orchestra performing music for the Music in the Classroom series with The Irish Times
Unthinkable: Gerard Casey of UCD school of philosophy makes the case against the state by The Irish Times
Patricia and Lauri Dolan of Killiney, Co Dublin sing at Molly Malone statue unveiling on July 18
Suzanne Lynch, European Correspondent, reports from the EU summit in Brussels ahead of the appointment of Jean-Claude Juncker as European Commission president
Brazil's caxirola, a bead filled plastic instrument, was meant to be the sound of the 2014 World Cup, but the colourful noisemaker has been banned from all stadiums,not because of the sound, rather its potential to injure if thrown.
Philosopher David Chalmers on the nature of the mind and consciousness by The Irish Times
Prof Richard Kearney on anatheism - a path between blind faith and godlessness by The Irish Times
New music from Brigid Power Ryce, Let’s Set Sail, James Kelly/WIFE, Teishi-1, Slow Place like Home, Elastic Sleep, The Holy Sparks and Glimmermen
British prime minister David Cameron welcomes President Michael D Higgins to 10 Downing St on day 2 of his state visit to Britain.
Mark Hennessy asks Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore and British foreign secretary William Hague about participation in the 1916 Easter Rising commemorations
Stephen Collins on the State visit to Britain by President Michael D Higgins by The Irish Times
Prof David Berman of TCD on George Berkeley, Ireland's 'greatest' philosopher by The Irish Times
In this clip Sean Dunne is asked why his wife filed a lawsuit against him.
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The story of 'Hannah’, who was sold for €3,000 by her brother-in-law in her native Moldova and put to work as a prostitute.
Eileen Battersby, Irish Times Literary Correspondent, tells Fionnuala Mulcahy the thinking behind her choices for this year's non-fiction books of the year
Irish Times journalist Emmet Malone joins the Second Captains to discuss the FAI's appointment of Martin O'Neill and Roy Keane as the new Irish soccer management team.
Minister for Finance Michael Noonan speaks to reporters ahead of Cabinet meeting about property tax
Andrew Basquille decided to pen this song after hearing the Guinness Storehouse was Ireland’s number-one tourist attraction last year
John Delaney says that the FAI’s board will decide over the coming days how to go about replacing Giovanni Trapattoni who parted company with the association this morning “by mutual conbsent”.
Guy Hedgcoe reports from Spain where three days of mourning have been announced after dozens die in train derailment outside northwestern city of Santiago de Compostela.
Fine Gael’s Lucinda Creighton voted against the Government on the abortion legislation. Following an incorporeal Cabinet meeting last night – the first of the current Government - Dublin TD Paschal Donohoe was appointed to replace her. Irish Times political correspondant Michael O'Regan on what was a long week in the Dáil.
The Dáil is due to resume discussion on the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill at 5pm with over 100 amendments to be debated. It follows a marathon overnight sitting until 5am during which the Government won two votes. Michael O'Regan reports on events to-date.
Michael Jansen reports from Egypt where Adli Mansour, head of the constitutional court, is due to be sworn in as interim Egypt leader replacing president Mohammed Morsi who was ousted by the army.
Brian O’Driscoll and Jonathan Davies form the central partnership in Warren Gatland's British and Irish Lions team who play Australia in Brisbane on Saturday
Mark Hennessy reports from London following the brutal murder of a British soldier during broad daylight in the suburb of Woolwich.