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Michael Collins’ death was the great Irish whodunnits of the century and the suspects have shifted over time.

@G_Friemann

runs through the events at Béal na mBláth and where the finger of suspicion has been pointed

Who killed Michael Collins?

A century has passed since Michael Collins died in an ambush on an obscure back road in Co Cork. Despite decades of scrutiny and research, much of the detail about his untimely and tragic death...

Dr Eva’s marriage troubles made for uncomfortable, voyeuristic viewing, while Reverend Richard Coles’ journey through grief was clichéd but rang true

Dr Eva’s Great Escape review: Divorce and death show two opposing sides of reality TV

What if the biggest casualty of Covid turns out to be... reality television? There’s a whole new subspecies of programme emerging that consists mainly of rain-spattered construction sites with nobody...

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Russia’s military pounds residential areas across Ukraine

Russia’s military pounds residential areas across Ukraine

Russia’s military pounded residential areas across Ukraine overnight, as Ukrainian forces pressed a counteroffensive to try to take back an occupied southern region, striking the last working bridge...

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GAA, rugby, soccer and more - receive the best sport action and all the analysis you need straight to your inbox every lunchtime

Sport newsletter: GAA, rugby, soccer and more - the best sport action straight to your inbox every...

GAA, rugby, soccer and more - receive the best sport action and all the analysis you need straight to your inbox every lunchtime.

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Taoiseach and President among mourners as Green Party leader Eamon Ryan pays tribute to mother at funeral

Taoiseach and President among mourners as Green Party leader Eamon Ryan pays tribute to mother at...

Taoiseach Micheál Martin and President Michael D Higgins were among mourners at the funeral mass of the mother of Green Party leader Eamon Ryan.

Liam Kerrigan and Aaron Connolly have taken divergent paths since leaving their west of Ireland roots – now they find themselves as rivals in an unlikely part of the world

Aaron Connolly and Liam Kerrigan - how Ireland’s Serie B specials took different roads from...

The sports pages of local newspapers are filled with reports of underage matches that disappear into the archive, a moment frozen in time.

Over 1,000 people gather in Belfast for protest over Noah Donohoe investigation

Over 1,000 people gather in Belfast for protest over Noah Donohoe investigation

Large crowds have gathered in Belfast for a protest over the police investigation into the death of schoolboy Noah Donohoe.

Trump International has lodged a planning application with Clare County Council to build the two-mile, 38,000-tonne, 15ft-high rock wall that would shelter the dunes from the adjacent Doughmore beach

Donald Trump still welcome in Doonbeg where the FBI or his slugs with snails can’t dim his popula...

Donald Trump is facing dark times as his legal woes mount, but his star has not dimmed in Doonbeg.

Students could face ‘Galway to Dublin commute’ due to accommodation crisis

Students could face ‘Galway to Dublin commute’ due to accommodation crisis

Daily commutes from Galway to Dublin and back are among the dire predictions being voiced about the choices facing students caught in the grip of a worsening college accommodation crisis.

The unsolved killing of Charles Self changed how homosexuality was viewed by gardaí and society

Garda investigation of murder 40 years ago left gay community in fear of being ‘outed’

The brutal murder of RTÉ set designer Charles Self remains unsolved 40 years on, but the aftermath and the investigation into his killing was the catalyst for changing the way gardaí treated the gay...

Summer over? Met Eireann issues yellow thundershower warning for Sunday as country basks in hot weather

Summer over? Met Eireann issues yellow thundershower warning for Sunday as country basks in hot...

Ireland’s August heatwave is set to continue until the start of next week, with a status yellow high temperature warning in place until Monday morning.

Provincial champions dominate as we count down the best scorers, blockers and revolutionaries that graced the big-ball season

From the David Clifford show to Shane Walsh’s wizardry – ranking the top 50 footballers of 2022

When was the last time there was such certainty about the identity of a Footballer of the Year? Maybe Stephen Cluxton in 2019, who had Con O’Callaghan and Jack McCaffrey also vying for it. But before...

Two Irish army officers evacuated from DR Congo due ‘security concerns’

Two Irish army officers evacuated from DR Congo due ‘security concerns’

Two members of the Irish Defence Forces have been extracted from the Democratic Republic of Congo due to what has been described as “security concerns”.

First-time buyers have been hoping for a long time that the red-hot property market would have by now shown signs of easing off

Soaring property prices and rising mortgage rates add up to nightmare scenario for would-be...

Property prices have returned to rates of increases last seen during the Celtic Tiger bubble.

Man (40s) dies after assault in early hours of morning in Athlone

Man (40s) dies after assault in early hours of morning in Athlone, Westmeath

A man (40s) has died in hospital from injuries he sustained during an assault in Athlone, Co Westmeath, in the early hours of this morning.

“We have argued about sex for so long, but I don’t think she will ever change”

Asking for a friend: I gamble because I’ve a higher sex drive than my fiancée who hates her body –...

Q: I have had an issue with gambling on and off for a long time. I agreed to give it up but have slipped a few times over the years. My fiancée gave me enough chances and I knew what I was doing was...

Diary of a Ukrainian refugee: ‘In Dublin, I love how that when it’s warm, everyone goes out as if that’s their last day on Earth’

Diary of a Ukrainian refugee: ‘I escaped before the war but the air show made me panic’

It’s been five months since I came to Ireland and I am still very excited to keep learning about this country.

Born in 1922, a select club of citizens share the year of their birth with the foundation of the Irish State. Here, four of them share the stories of their lives and the secret to a long, happy life

Meet Ireland's centenarians: ‘I think I was always happy, but I feel despairing when I look at the...

When it came to ageing, Albert Einstein had this to say: “Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born.”...

Lucky Tipperary lotto player wins €1m in Euromillions as Dubliner scoops €500,000

Lucky Tipperary lotto player wins €1m in Euromillions as Dubliner scoops €500,000

A lucky lotto winner from Tipperary has won €1m in this week’s Euromillions.

Dillon Quirke’s untimely death at 24 has rocked his home parish of Clonoulty and the entire hurling world of which he looked destined for greatness

Vincent Hogan: With Dillon Quirke's passing a shining light that will never be forgotten has gone...

Even for those of us who never met him, there is the enduring impression – above all – of a wonderful smile.

Monthly child benefit could be doubled in one-off €280 payment in December

Monthly child benefit could be doubled in one-off €280 payment in December

The Government is considering a double payment of the €140-a-month child benefit payment as part of a cost-of-living package to be announced on Budget day.

‘The energy blast from the stage is irresistible; the 1970s are back, and they are doubling down’ –

@Katy_Hayes

reviews Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

@BGETheatre

Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat: revival glows with Seventies sass and spangles

The 1970s are alive and well on the stage of the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre. There is nothing in this touring London Palladium production that wouldn’t feel at home in the decade that taste forgot....

#VIDEO Police smash car window to rescue dog in heatwave

Police smash car window to rescue dog in heatwave

Police in Nottinghamshire have rescued a dog during hot weather this week. The small black Shih Tzu was barking and panting inside a locked car. The windows were left slightly open but it was not...

Rose of Tralee: ‘Why shouldn’t married and trans women be allowed to take part?’ – Contestants welcome more inclusive pageant

Rose of Tralee: ‘Why shouldn’t married and trans women be allowed to take part?’ – Contestants...

The Rose of Tralee festival is back after a two-year break, and there was warm approval yesterday among the 33 competitors for new rules reflecting modern times.

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‘Five Days at Memorial doesn’t want you to think, it wants you to feel, and what it wants you to feel is sad’ –

@KevPow3

on Apple’s new prestige drama, plus Ukrainian cop show Hide and Seek

What’s streaming this week: Five Days at Memorial glosses over the real scandal of Hurricane Katrina

Five Days at Memorial (Apple TV, eight episodes) comes pre-loaded with moral gravitas, being based on events that took place at a New Orleans hospital in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in August...

Record August heatwave to continue as temperatures forecast to hit 31C amid thundershower warning

Record August heatwave to continue as temperatures forecast to hit 31C amid thundershower warning

Ireland’s August heatwave is set to continue until the start of next week, with a status yellow high temperature warning in place until Monday morning.

Mohsin Hamid tells

@MeadhbhMcGrath

how his experiences in US after 9/11 inspired his new novel The Last White Man and why Ireland’s colonial history feeds into its best writing

Mohsin Hamid on how his post-9/11 life inspired The Last White Man and what makes Irish writing...

‘One morning Anders, a white man, woke up to find he had turned a deep and undeniable brown.” So begins Mohsin Hamid’s fifth and latest novel, The Last White Man. The slim volume imagines a world in...

Shane Lowry last Irishman standing as Rory McIlroy bogeys last to miss cut at first FedEx Cup play-off event

Shane Lowry last Irishman standing as Rory McIlroy bogeys last to miss cut at first FedEx Cup...

Rory McIlroy missed the cut at the first FedEx Cup play-off event by bogeying the final hole at TPC Southwind.

What kind of Ireland would Michael Collins have presided over if he hadn’t been killed 100 years ago this month? Six experts give

@KimBielenberg

their opinion

Dictator or democrat: what if Michael Collins had lived?

It is the great “what if’’ of Irish history. How would life have been different if Michael Collins had taken a different route through West Cork on the day of his killing on August 22, 1922 and...

Country at risk of losing consultant heading up only genetic testing service for rare foetal abnormalities

Country at risk of losing consultant heading up only genetic testing service for rare foetal...

Ireland is at risk of losing the consultant who heads up the only genetic testing service for babies with rare foetal abnormalities, just a year after the service was introduced.