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Ukraine’s army is the largest and most battle hardened in Europe. But its also the oldest with an average age of 45. Our contributor in Ukraine, Lara Marlowe, has been speaking to some of them. The Irish National Lottery is calling for a ban on bookmakers allowing bets on the numbers that come up saying it has created a “secondary market” that’s inhibiting its ability to fund good causes. Armagh G...

More than €375,000 has been spent upgrading security at politicians’ constituency offices over the past three years, amid growing concern about threats and abuse. A legal document seen by The Irish Times has revealed new details surrounding the killing of notorious Dublin criminal Robbie Lawlor in 2020. The man accused of a shooting at The White House Correspondent’s Dinner on Saturday, where Dona...

By-elections in Dublin Central and Galway west will take place on 22nd May. Who’s standing? And what issues are likely to sway voters? Sinn Féin’s Ard Fheis will begin today with the keynote address from Michelle O’Neill on Friday night. Ten per cent of Ireland’s homeless population is being concentrated on a single street in Dublin city centre, according to figures raised in the Dáil. A former Hi...

Of around 7,000 children who live in Dublin’s southwest inner city, fewer than four in every ten of them go to secondary school, while a new study finds crime rates and drug deaths are twice the national average there. Since applications opened for the first cost- rental housing development in Balbriggan in north Dublin in July 2021, every scheme has been vastly over-subscribed. But recent viabili...

Daniel Kinahan is expected to face just one charge of directing organised crime when he’s tried at the Special Criminal Court. Hildegarde Naughton is the seventh education minister to tackle Catholic school divestment. Can she succeed where others have failed? Ed Power reminisces on Michael Jackson’s 1988 concert at Páirc Uí Chaoimh, and how hindsight shows us something much darker was happening a...

Ministers will be warned today that tighter spending controls are required in their departments in order to stick within agreed budgets at a time of growing international threats to the Irish economy. The arrest of alleged cartel boss Daniel Kinahan in Dubai last week marks a significant new phase to efforts by An Garda Síochána to get him back in Ireland. A group from the Ancient Order of Hiberni...

The government underreported the number of US military aircraft flying over Irish airspace, an Irish Times investigation has found. A “crisis” response group to overcrowding in prisons is to meet next week as records show the Director General of the Irish Prison Service sought more urgent action to tackle “unprecedented” overcrowding. Rising fuel prices are hitting people across the country, but f...

The Fianna Fáil parliamentary party is rallying around Michaél Martin amid pressure for new leadership of the party, the Irish Times understands. Electricity prices could rise as soon as May or June, energy industry sources have said. A man who took the social media giant, X, to court for unfair dismissal has had his payout reduced to €201,000 down from more than €500,000. It’s three years since t...

Europe faces higher gas prices “for years” to come even in the best-case scenario, and possible shortages in the supply of diesel and jet fuel in the short term if the Strait of Hormuz remains blocked, the European Union ’s energy commissioner Dan Jørgensen has warned. The oil and gas shock caused by the US-Israeli attack on Iran and Tehran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz has caused the cost of...

The government has survived a confidence vote in the Dáil but what could the impact of the resignation of Michael Healy-Rae as a Minister for Agriculture mean? Cuts to fuel excise duty came into effect at midnight, but motorists are being warned not to expect an immediate fall in prices. The Basic Income for the Arts scheme has caused “segregation in the artistic community” and allowed people to t...

Gardaí are warning that fuel protesters who block roads or slow traffic on motorways will now face arrest, detention and will have their vehicles towed away. Cuts to fuel excise duty will kick in at midnight tonight, but oil prices continue to surge after the US began a blockade of Iranian ports near the Strait of Hormuz. The building housing the National Museum of Ireland’s collection “presents a...

The government has announced a €505million package to help support the rising cost of fuel following a week of protests across Ireland. Ryanair was the most complained about company in Ireland last year according to new data released by the consumer watchdog. It’s the 75th anniversary of the resignation of Noël Browne as health minister over the cabinets refusal to support the mother and child hea...

Protests against the cost of fuel have been bringing travel chaos across Ireland and Gardaí say those blocking roads will feel the full force of the law. The Italian government has submitted a complaint to the European Commission of plans to ban disposable vapes in Ireland. Condé Nast Traveller magazine has issued its seven wonders of Ireland for 2026.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...

We are in for another day of disruption due to fuel protests. The Taoiseach has condemned the blockades of depots and the State’s only oil refinery, Whitegate in Co. Cork. Some demonstrators say they will go home if the government agrees to meet them. A fragile ceasefire remains in place in Iran after US president Donald Trump accepted a deal with regime leaders. But Sally Hayden in Beirut says Le...

It is understood officials from the National Oil Reserves Agency will tell government ministers today that the country has reserves of petrol for 99 days, diesel for 85 days and kerosene for 70 days. Meanwhile European governments have been told they should be on heightened terror alert and warned they must protect critical infrastructure and other “soft targets” as the Middle East crisis escalate...

Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) spent almost €60,000 on communications support ahead of its hearing at the Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee. The health watchdog Hiqa raised serious concerns about the safety of children in special emergency arrangements under the care of the family agency Tusla. Protests at the rising cost of fuel are taking place today on several key routes into Dublin. The PSNI ha...

Plans to strip parental rights from killers are to be pressed ahead with by the Department of Justice despite the State’s child and family agency raising concerns that the legislation was unconstitutional. The 1970s oil price shocks toppled governments, led to recessions and precipitated dramatic shifts in monetary policy (interest rates were hiked to more than 16 per cent in the United States). W...

Fear of electricity blackouts has prompted Irish authorities to set down new protocols for data centre operators. Jet fuel supplies could be disrupted during the summer months if the war in Iran continues, aviation bosses have warned. The Irish Air Corps is hiring civilian contractors to teach its pilots to dogfight, after losing the ability to conduct in-house combat training . Make it easier to...

Italy and Spain have blocked U.S. military aircraft en route to Iran from using their air bases causing a rift with the Trump administration. It could take months for oil production and exports to recover after the war in the Middle East ends. Last year saw the second warmest year on record, and more drought and higher temperatures than in recent years, according to the Climate Change Advisory Cou...

There have been 13 incidents or allegations of money going missing from Garda stations between 2020 and 2025, the Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee has been told. The Church of Ireland says it’s less likely to rent out vacant rectories and curates’ houses due to rental reforms on landlords. New figures show the value of mortgage approvals reached almost €1.2 billion in February, up 10 per cent on t...

The National Concert Hall is embroiled in a row over a decision by one of its officials to cancel a booking for a fundraiser by the Irish branch of an Israeli ambulance charity, which it has reversed. It’s been revealed that more than 6,600 employers have not yet signed up to pensions auto-enrolment scheme four months after registration opened. Many swimming pools across Ireland are aging and many...

Ireland won’t progress in the World Cup qualifiers and won’t be in America this summer after losing to the Czech Republic on penalties.   The Olympic Federation of Ireland has given its support to an International Olympic Committee’s decision to ban transgender women from female events at the Games.   The Irish Times visits a ho...

Three weeks after a judge ordered their arrest and committal to prison, Martina and Ammi Burke have still not been located and jailed. They were found guilty of contempt of court in the High Court on the 4th of March - over their conduct during a February hearing relating to Enoch Burke. The cost of fuel on forecourts around the country has started to fall reflecting the excise cuts to petrol and...

An unregistered dentist was offering patients treatments, including X-rays, in the sittingroom of a Dublin apartment, the Irish Dental Council has said. The State will no longer issue pardons for people convicted by the British-controlled justice system, writes the Minister for Justice Jim O’Callaghan. Children are being groomed into criminality from the age of six in deprived areas where “there i...

The Irish Times can reveal that the Aughinish Alumina plant in Co Limerick is supplying Russian smelters whose aluminium ends up with a trading firm that then provides materials to dozens of Russian arms manufacturers.  The cabinet is meeting this morning to finalise measures to help with the cost of living aimed at controlling inflation rising because of the war in Iran. &nbsp...