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A confidential report by Swedish authorities claims the Russian billionaire, Oleg Deripaska, still controls the metals giant Rusal, which owns the Aughinish Alumina plant in County Limerick, despite sanctions meant to limit his power. Researchers at Maynooth University say the record for the hottest day ever in the month of May was smashed by more than 2 degrees, and it wouldn’t have happened with...

The planning system for commercial development is being exploited, sometimes for anticompetitive purposes through spurious objections, supermarket chain Lidl has said. There’s been a huge reaction from readers to Fintan O’Toole’s column this week which was about the row that’s kicked off between the Rotunda Hospital and the HSE and Department of Health. There could surely be no more appropriate or...

People with petrol and diesel cars that are more than 13 years old are to be eligible for grants of €8,500 to purchase a new electric vehicle (EV) under a State scrappage scheme. The Rotunda maternity hospital has been warned it could have its funding pulled if it does not withdraw permission for consultants on public-only contracts to practise privately on its premises. 60,000 students will not o...

The jury hearing the trail of former DUP leaderJeffrey Donaldson, 63, has been told he wrote a letter to one of the two alleged victims expressing “regret” and that he had sought God’s forgiveness. He denies 18 charges, include rape. Electric Ireland says prices will go up by 8 per cent, affecting around 1.1 million customers. New figures seen by The Irish Times reveal a sharp rise in arson a...

There are concerns ‘hostile’ agents may be among the 14,000 Russians granted Irish visas in the past four years. The Government hopes to make “swift progress” pushing forward negotiations on Ukraine ’s stalled bid to join the European Union when Ireland holds the union’s rotating presidency in the second half of this year. Dating apps are struggling with the AI revolution as users lose faith. Can...

The names of dozens of Defence Forces personnel, including those involved in intelligence work and sensitive counterdrug smuggling operations, are being published online by the European Union, triggering safety concerns among members. A chill wind – why are wind farms drawing so many objections at a time of climate crisis? Does your household have the “two good salaries, but still feel broke” prob...

There are tensions between left wing parties and Sinn Fein on the policy direction of Mary Lou McDonald’s party following its performance in the Dublin Central and Galway West byelections. Ireland’s Defence Forces are ramping up anti-drone measures to prepare for new threats. A search for the body of Seamus Maguire, one of the so-called disappeared who were murdered and buried in secret during the...

The Dáil has two new TD’s; Daniel Ennis from the Social Democrats and Sean Kyne from Fine Gael. Political correspondents Cormac McQuinn and Marie O’Halloran explain who they are. Plans to rezone a stretch of protected land along Dublin’s Liffey Valley could deliver a significant windfall for billionaires John Magnier and JP McManus. New figures from the HSE show more than 32,000 adults in Ireland...

Voters in Dublin and Galway are going to the polls in two byelections on Friday after intense canvassing in the closing days of the campaign and efforts by candidates to ensure their supporters turn up to vote. The Government has exceeded its annual spending target by an average €5.1 billion in each of the last three budgets , new figures from the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (Ifac) indicate. Mea...

Meta is to cut 350 jobs from it’s Irish workforce amid a global round of layoffs affecting around 8000 roles worldwide. RTÉ has faced tough questions at an Oireachtas committee about newly disclosed salaries. More than 40 leading climate scientists are warning Ireland against adopting a controversial new way of measuring greenhouse emissions. Planned changes to the electoral register following rev...

200 users of so-called dodgy boxes used to illegally stream live TV have been issued with cease and desist notices. Rents across Ireland have just shot up at the fastest rate ever recorded, rising 4.4% in just three months, according to Daft.ie. More boats in the aid flotilla heading for Gaza have been intercepted by Israeli forces, crew members have said. What do we know about what happened to Yv...

Irish diplomats in Brussels have been warned to be on high alert for lobbying by the tobacco industry. The European Commission has signalled tighter restrictions on exports that could be used by Russia’s military, following concerns raised about materials leaving the EU. Fear of homelessness is increasingly trapping people in sexually abusive situations, according to the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre....

There are serious questions about betting activity linked to Friday’s by-election in Dublin Central in which $1 million (€860,000) was placed and then withdrawn with little or no profit. Immigration, the cost of living and housing are among the main issues on voters minds in Dublin Central and Galway West. Taoiseach Micheál Martin has used Fianna Fáil’s centenary Ard Fheis to defend the party’s re...

Sinn Féin’s Janice Boylan leads the race for the Dublin Central by election according to a new Irish Times/ TG4 poll. A UK Labour MP has stepped down paving the way for Andy Burnham to run for parliament and potentially topple Prime Minister Kier Starmer. New rules for childminders are putting pressure on the sector, with some now saying they’re thinking about quitting altogether. There was a reco...

Ireland’s national debt could approach a quarter of a trillion euro by the 2030s, the head of the National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) will tell an Oireachtas committee on Thursday. Aggressive driver behaviour, speeding, poor cycling infrastructure, and the increased size of vehicles, is deterring women from getting on their bikes , research by Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) has foun...

A spotlight is being shone on the condition of council housing after plans to regenerate one of Dublin’s most neglected flat complexes were halted. Janice Maguire shares a bed with three of her youngest sons. Two sleep at the bottom, and one at the top next to her. Keir Starmer’s future as the British prime minister is looking increasingly untenable following a string of cabinet resignations yeste...

Two thousand ambulance staff in the Unite and SIPTU unions begin a 24-hour strike this morning in a long running dispute over pay. The media regulator, Coimisiún na Meán has released its first complains insights reports showing RTÉ attracted the highest number of complains between 2023 and 2025. Guns bought on the dark web are now one of the biggest challenges facing An Garda Síochána, according t...

More than 30 vacant and derelict properties bought by Dublin City Council for social housing since 2017 remain unused, and may no longer be viable for refurbishment, because of their extreme state of dilapidation. The assets declared in Aubrey McCarthy’s return to the Seanad register of interests are being examined by political correspondent Cormac McQuinn today. Since the Iran war began, financia...

Fine Gael’s Seán Kyne holds the slimmest of leads over Independent Ireland rival Noel Thomas in the Galway West by election campaign, according to an Irish Times and TG4 opinion poll published on Friday. Ireland is recycling more waste, but not fast enough to meet national targets, according to a new report from the Environmental Protection Agency. The race is on to trace dozens of passengers who...

Almost 300 adult asylum seekers who claimed they were children were placed in Tusla children’s centres in the last four years. Separately, Tusla is to launch an appeal in the Supreme Court on whether parents already in receipt of civil legal aid can recover legal costs in special care cases involving their children. The US and Iran are to begin peace negotiations. The Iranians are understood to be...

The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has called for anyone abused by Jonathan Creswell to come forward after a review found a failure to properly investigate the murder of Katie Simpson. The body representing the tech industry is asking the government to push for an exemption to smart watches from new EU rules requiring devices to be fitted with replaceable batteries. Fewer than half of p...

On today’s episode: There is a growing expectation that British King Charles III will visit Ireland, perhaps as soon as next year, reports Pat Leahy. Cases of money laundering have exploded in Ireland in recent years, new figures show. Conor Lally explains the nature of the cases and what An Garda Siochana are doing to tackle this growing category of crime. After three passengers died of a virus t...

The aid flotilla making its way to Gaza has been dispersed. One skipper in the waters off Greece says he will be continuing on to Gaza when they regroup. The mayor of Berlin is to be sued by an Irish pro-Palestine activist for defamation, after a court in Germany threw out a criminal case against Shane O’Brien. Autism a Chara, formlerly Autism Initiatives Ireland, notified the HSE it would transit...

Five pregnant women who were forced to sleep rough in Dublin last year were among over 100 mothers who gave birth at the National Maternity Hospital while either homeless or at risk of homelessness. The alleged transfer of more than €1.5 million of taxpayers’ money from an Irish autism charity to its UK parent charity could be a “breach” of the Companies Act and “possibly a criminal offence”, it i...

Spanish authorities have frozen Gerry Hutch ’s property assets in the country as part of an ongoing money-laundering investigation into the gangland figure, who plans to run in a byelection in Dublin next month. A French woman who lived in south Dublin has been charged with the murder of her 29-year-old daughter in a suspected botched murder-suicide in Iceland last year . Confusion about the new r...