A record of what was published, when, and how it changed.

Middle East conflict drives sharpest rise in commercial construction costs in several years

By Killian Woods

Copper pipes among key building materials to record large increase in cost in 2026

‘It’s going to be special’: Down’s Adam McCann-Gibbs ready for college football debut at the Aviva

By Muireann Duffy

Newry 18-year-old set to lineout for University of North Carolina in Saturday’s Aer Lingus College Football Classic

Honoured to be a hitchhiker

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My fellow passenger was Edmund Van Esbeck

Maybe old-fashioned manners don’t exist?

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Reader left standing on a packed train reflects on shifting commuter etiquette

Aer Lingus and pilots end job cuts talks abruptly

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Sides row over involvement of parent group trade union body

IHRB says Maurice Regan’s Coolmore complaint still ‘under consideration’

By Brian O'Connor

Constitution Hill camp hoping for rain ahead of potential comeback at Windsor on Saturday

HSE agrees to fund Friedreich's Ataxia drug for patients

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The HSE has approved the reimbursement of the drug Skyclarys for people with Friedreich's Ataxia.

Scouting Ireland’s future ‘threatened’ by costs of historic abuse cases in legacy groups

By Jack Horgan-Jones

Department records show report suggests organisation faced selling off properties, increasing fees and assuming debts to meet costs

‘We went to the Manorhamilton Agricultural Show. That was an eye-opener’

By Hosanna Boulter

Nick Maertens and his wife Cyrelle, from Belgium, spent years fantasising about living somewhere rural

Percy Place Edwardian once owned by Beckett in Ballsbridge

By Alison Gill

Modernised three-bed built by playwright’s father in mint condition beside the canal

Ireland’s padel court building boom in full swing despite high-profile planning refusals

By Paul Colgan

Demand for facilities has risen significantly since Covid pandemic, according to sport’s federation

Radiologist who reviewed HSE patient scans had medical licence revoked in two countries

By Shauna Bowers

Dr Sattar Kadhem provided reports on Irish patients until 2024, despite Sweden and Norway revoking his licence in 2023 for misreading images

Roisin Kiberd: ‘Beauty is a very weighty subject... it can be cruel and manipulative but it can also be art’

By Aoife Barry

The journalist and writer’s new essay collection dissects the concepts of beauty and identity in the present age

What will €385,000 buy in the Kildare commuter belt and coastal Clare?

By Jessica Doyle

A traditional cottage near Lahinch or a walk-in midterrace home in Celbridge

Letter from 1955 found during house renovation

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Brendon Swallow, from Welton, finds the letter wrapped up in a newspaper behind an old bookshelf.

The teenage killer who talked his way into the noose

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A killer, whose need for press attention directly led to his execution, was charged 75 years ago.

Huge range of options now available to school leavers to secure their desired course choices

By Brian Mooney

Further Education sector growing in popularity with school leavers

I Am Not an Alcoholic: The anger never lasted long - but the consequences did

By Anonymous

Part 32: Watching people sipping their refreshing drinks sometimes makes me long to be among them

Actions fail to match words among DCC investors objecting to deal

By Richard Cantillon

Sale of shares at levels below an offer they dismiss as not good enough adds to summer turmoil at listed targets

‘We’ve noticed water damage and cracks in a home we want to buy. Should we walk away?’

By Pat McGovern

‘The estate agent was unable to tell us whether the leak was an ongoing problem or if it had been fixed’

‘Like smoking a cigarette’: Indonesia chokes on haze as blazes intensify amid super ‘El Niño’

By Natasha May

In Indonesia’s Kalimantan, fires have ravaged tens of thousands of acres, with suffocating smoke reaching Malaysia and putting Singapore on alert Suwadi can barely see five metres in front of him when he steps outside his home in Indonesian Borneo. Each breath, he says, feels “like smoking a cigarette”. Continue reading...

Sydney shark attack survivor describes moment she came to face-to-face with ‘monster’

By Achol Arok

In her first media interview since the June incident, Leah Stewart, 34, says her thoughts while being bitten were of her one-year-old daughter An Australian woman who lost an arm after a shark attack at a beach in Sydney’s eastern suburbs has recalled the moment she came face-to-face with the “monster”. Leah Stewart, a 34-year-old teacher and mother of a one-year-old daughter, was attacked by a large shark while on a

Patrick Kavanagh and the beat poets: ‘I’ve always seen him as a punk’

By Jane Coyle

Kavanagh Weekend 2026 will explore the Irish poet’s US adventures and his affinity with Allen Ginsberg and the outsider spirit of the beats

‘Even the canteen lady knew my name at the PLC college. Everybody is so close-knit’

By Jen Hogan

Lana Dowling was ‘lost’ for a long time in secondary school, but PLC courses proved a huge help in building her future

The Librarians: A Very Serious Comedy! review – workplace meltdown borrows from classic sitcoms

By Chris Wiegand

Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Well-tuned performances help along a familiar set of laughs as a rickety library gets a new manager and an inspection The sign says Plumstanton Library but this could be The Brittas Empire’s Whitbury New Town Leisure Centre, The Office’s Wernham Hogg or Torquay fleapit Fawlty Towers. Such is the instant familiarity of a failing workplace whose staff have a new manager and an inspector t

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