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11 min
Budget fall-out; Laois solicitor suspended, Irish-Jewish community safety fears; Deep fakes
An enormous post budget row has erupted between the government and RTE over a shortfall in funding for the broadcaster agreed in this week’s budget.A solicitor known for establishi…
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8 min
Record public spending; the cost of policing big events; and algae in Lough Derg
The Government has unveiled an €8.5 billion Budget package bringing public spending to a record €125.6 billion next year.Tighter spending controls on policing major events after a…
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11 min
Giveaway budget; Fintan O'Toole on Drumcree; Hugh Linehan on Cornell case
The Government will unveil another giveaway budget today, Tuesday October 6th, which will include reductions in tax for middle income earners worth up to €1,500 for a couple with a…
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7 min
Booming cannabis trade; Drumcree court hearing; and delays to the National Children’s Hospital
Irish drug gangs are now making as much money from cannabis as they are from cocaine, according to new Gardaí figures.Housing, energy costs and childcare are among the main concern…
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Opposition alternative budgets; Grinds 360 boardroom war; and the viability of domestic rugby
The opposition parties have laid out their alternative budgets ahead of the government’s Budget 2027 next week.Grinds 360, Ireland’s biggest online education platform, was plunged…
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10 min
Domino’s Pizza billionaire’s Waterford plans: Border poll; Aerial house photos
An American conservative Catholic university, founded by Domino’s Pizza billionaire Tom Monaghan, is facing questions over plans to open an Irish campus at the former Mount Mellera…
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10 min
Irish citizen pleads not guilty to murder in Hungary; Fuel prices; Drumcree; 'Notions'
An Irish citizen has pleaded not guilty in a Hungarian court to the murder of his ex-wife, a Japanese national, and to setting fire to her apartment in an alleged attempt to make h…
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10 min
Drumcree standoff continues; education spending; and Ireland’s footballers to vote on second Israel match
The standoff between residents of Garvaghy Road, Co. Armagh, and the Orange Order shows no sign of resolution.Ireland is spending less per student across its education system than…
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7 min
Drumcree standoff continues as marching permission expires; and household energy arrears
Permission for an Orange Order march on the Gervaghy Road in Portadown expired at midnight with 35 Orangemen blocked by thousands of nationalist protestors.The Government is facing…
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10 min
Defeat in Kosovo; ‘wind power swindler’; minority would support new flag in united Ireland
There’s a heavy few days in store for Heimir Hallgrímsson’s Republic of Ireland squad as they get ready to travel to Hungary to face Israel on Sunday. It’s after their one nil loss…
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12 min
Energy bills the top Budget concern; Non-EU doctors; Using your parents’ first names
Help with the cost of energy and home heating is the top priority for voters in next month’s budget, according to the latest Irish Times/Ipsos B&A opinion poll.The HSE is appointin…
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9 min
ICC judge says US sanctions threaten ‘rule of law’; corporate tax receipts; and child trafficking
A French judge of the International Criminal Court (ICC) said the “rule of law” is at steak over US sanctions on judges.A newly released filing has highlighted Ireland’s dependence…
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10 min
Kinahan snr faces no charges; Omagh bombing inquiry resumes; and unused military vehicles
Kinahan cartel founder Christy Kinahan Snr is unlikely to face criminal charges unless new information emerges, The Irish Times has established.Dissident republican Colm Murphy “sa…
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9 min
German Chanellor refuses to resign over state election results; Leaving Cert overhaul; and free hot school mea…
The German Chancellor Freidrich Merz has described state elections won by the far right AfD and the far left Die Linke, but he is refusing to resign.Housing Minister James Browne…
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12 min
Tech giant tax should be ‘shared amongst EU countries’; HSE productivity; and Eleanor Donaldson appeal
Ireland’s tax receipts from tech giants should be redistributed amongst European countries, the French finance minister has told The Irish Times.Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney…
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9 min
Metrolink economic growth; President Connolly in Scotland; and students keen on military careers
Dublin’s Metrolink project could pave the way for 77,000 additional homes along the route between Swords, Co. Dublin and Dartmouth Square.President Catherine Connolly is spending t…
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10 min
Camo cocaine; updated Metrolink costs; Your clamping stories
Crime gangs are disguising cocaine as coal, paper and treacle to smuggle it into the State and are changing the genetics of cannabis plants to circumvent Irish drugs laws, the head…
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8 min
Motorists don’t know annual running costs; land owners in the Daíl; and AI shares nosedive
Most Irish drivers still have no idea just how much it’s really costing every year, according to the Economic and Social Research Institute.An Irish Times investigation has found t…
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8 min
Displaced in Belfast after the summer race riots; Row sparked over Donald Trump’s united Ireland comments
Authorities in Northern Ireland say they don’t know how many immigrant families displaced in the summer race riots in Belfast have been able to return home.The Irish Times looks at…
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11 min
World Trade Centre attack 25 years on; and ‘the Monk’ son charged following extradition
The attacks of September 11 were perpetrated 25 years ago today ushering a new era on which our correspondent Denis Staunton reflects.The European Unions foreign policy chief has t…