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A 32-year-old man has been charged with the murder of Natalie McNally in Co Armagh in December, PSNI said (Family handout/PA)

Crime

Man (32) charged with the murder of Natalie McNally

Latest News

Energy Minister Eamon Ryan wants households to have the €50 paid back as soon as possible. Photo: Brian Lawless/PA

News

‘It must be paid back’ – row erupts as ESB drags heels over €50 refund to households

Ronan Keating has very special memories of his mum Marie

Irish News Premium

‘I just felt so helpless when Mum died – but she would be so proud of the cancer foundation in her name,’ says Ronan Keating

Video

Hundreds gather to protest outside Finglas Garda Station

Anthony Stokes in action for Celtic in 2015 (Jeff Holmes/PA)

The Indo Daily

The Indo Daily: The turbulent world of ex-Ireland and Celtic star, Anthony Stokes

Head coach Andy Farrell during Ireland rugby squad training at The Campus in Quinta da Lago, Portugal. Photo by Harry Murphy/Sportsfile

Six Nations Premium

Coming out from under the shadow of Joe Schmidt – How Ireland have become ‘gold standard’ under Andy Farrell

Jojo Moyes with her dogs on Hampstead Heath, London. Photo: Jonathan Goldberg

Life Premium

‘I don’t think we realised the cracks had appeared until it was too late’ – bestselling writer Jojo Moyes on her midlife marriage breakup

Top Stories

Higher mortgage repayments are on the way for everyone

Property & Mortgages

Banks to hit variable-rate holders – as ECB to announce another hike

When Taoiseach Leo Varadkar appointed a successor to junior minister Damien English, he chose Dublin Rathdown TD Neale Richmond. Photo: Damien Storan

Comment Premium

John Downing Opinion Leo Varadkar’s team of city slickers will harm Fine Gael’s hopes of rural votes at election time

Far-right activist Graham Carey was arrested yesterday at his home in Finglas, Dublin

News

More arrests on the way as ‘upwards of 20 far-right agitators’ monitored by Special Detective Unit

Katie Taylor's homecoming is now set to take place in the 3Arena on May 20

Katie Taylor

Katie Taylor’s homecoming fight against Amanda Serrano to be staged at 3Arena on May 20

The High Court liquidated Paul Hourican's former business, Period Door Properties (PDP). Photo: Stock Image

News Premium

Businessman behind collapsed luxury rental firm now director of apartment-letting outfit

Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien. Photo: Niall Carson/PA

Politics

Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien’s landmark €450m apartments plan faces delay until next year due to EU clearance backlog

The couple left the baby at a Ryanair check-in desk. Stock Image

Europe

Couple leaves baby at airport check-in to avoid paying more to board Ryanair flight

Stock photo

Britain

‘Household name’ sport star alleged to have drugged ex

May Keegan and her partner John Doody with son Sean.

News Premium

Wexford family forced to live in hotel after second fire in neighbour’s house – ‘I just want to feel safe in my own home’

Zoe Holohan. Photo: Frank McGrath

News

Zoe Holohan breaks down in tears as she is reunited with Greek firefighter who saved her life

Videos

Ryan Reynolds is a part-owner of Wrexham

Ryan Reynolds has difficulty pronouncing ‘Eoghan’ as Irishman signs for Wrexham

Mayo comedy duo 3 Bucks Left 'Only in Ireland' skit

Man arrested for dangerous driving incident in Dublin

Andrew Tate to appeal against second 30-day detention in Romania

Enoch Burke talks about failings of the media as he leaves school on Monday afternoon

Featured

'Even the kindest boutiques tend to engage in the same kind of psychological pressure that dresses up bald sales tactics with loaded emotion’

Comment Premium

Ellen Coyne Opinion When you’re a bride-to-be, salespeople pile on the pressure to say yes to a dress you don’t even like

Most Read

Madonna has been ridiculed for touring at her age. Photo: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images

Comment Premium

Tanya Sweeney Opinion Why is Madonna ‘too old’ to tour when the likes of Elton John and Bruce Springsteen are lauded?

Siobhan Conmy, who runs Street 66 on Parliament Street in Dublin. Photo: Gerry Mooney

Life Premium

‘This is our church’ — why Ireland’s old and new LGBTQ+ pubs and clubs are so vital to us

Ireland captain Johnny Sexton during a press conference. Photo: Sportsfile

Six Nations

‘I’m not playing against Warren Gatland, I’m playing Wales’ – Johnny Sexton focused on now, not Lions snub

TV presenter Dáithí Ó Sé. Photo: Ray Ryan

Real Health Podcast

The Real Health Podcast: 'I'm still on the way up' - life lessons with Dáithí Ó Sé

Nathan Chasing His Horse

North America

‘Dances with Wolves’ actor Nathan Chasing Horse arrested in US over sex cult abuse allegations

Stock image

The Big Tech Show

The Big Tech Show: Hooked - behind the algorithms that keep us scrolling

Business Magazine

KBC Bank is one of two banks leaving the Irish market. Photograph: Aidan Crawley/Bloomberg

Irish Premium

Non-banks use just 20pc of Bank of Ireland’s €1bn mortgage competition funding

Samsung has launched their new S23 range of phones

Technology

Samsung turns up the heat on its rivals at latest ‘unpacked’ launch

SCSI President Kevin James

Business

Laid-off tech workers should look to property, says top surveyor

Russell Vickers

Irish Premium

The dreaded Irish weather makes Shannon an ideal place to test new car technology

Ukraine and World News

Arina, dressed in children's bulletproof vest and helmet holds her toys before evacuation from front line city of Bakhmu amid Russia's attack on Ukraine. Photo: Reuters/Oleksandr Ratushniak

Europe

Gallery Ukrainian girl (6) reunited with mother after being rescued from ‘encircled’ Bakhmut

Russia advances in east Ukraine, strike on apartments kills civilians

Gallery Lost radioactive capsule the size of a fingernail is tracked down on 1,400km Australian highway

FBI search of Biden holiday home may hit US president’s hope to run again in 2024

Raid on lair of ‘Bond villain’ oligarch who helped launch Zelensky’s career

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Opinion & Analysis

Catherine Clinch as Cáit in Oscar-nominated Irish-language film 'An Cailín Ciúin'

Comment Premium

Lorraine Courtney Opinion ‘An Cailín Ciúin’ has been a shot in the arm for Gaeilge – even I am brushing up on it

Chaos: Hospital emergency departments continue to be under pressure

Comment Premium

Dr Patrick McGarty Opinion Pandemic’s culture of creativity must be reignited if we want world-class healthcare

Daffodils signal the dawn of a new spring and all its hope. Photo: Getty Images

Comment Premium

Roslyn Dee Opinion February, and its sprouting daffodils, fill me with hope

Video of police beating shows how history casts a long shadow on the troubled streets of Memphis

Gerard O'Regan

‘Banshees’ at the Oscars will not be enough to get Irish tourism back to pre-Covid levels

Richard Curran

Appalling state care fiasco has tainted those in power

Editorial

Editor's Choice

Councillor Alan Edge is fundraising for three Irish-based support and advocacy charities

Dublin News

Enoch Burke fines to be matched and donated to LGBTQ+ charities

Police swooped after the ‘paedophile hunters’ confronted Adrian Robinson at Enniskillen bus station

Courts Premium

Gardaí seize computer after judge frees man who sent photos of his genitalia to 11-year-old girl

Former UK prime minister Boris Johnson doesn’t have to worry about the consequences of Brexit. Photo: Phil Noble

Comment Premium

Ian O'Doherty Opinion It saddens me to say it, but even Brexiteers must now admit they’ve been sold a pup

Deirdre O'Kane looks on as Eve Hewson (right) greets Eva Birthistle at the launch in Ballsbridge. Photo: Gareth Chaney/Collins

Entertainment

Eve Hewson: ‘I moved to the US to be a star – but now I’m back home in Killiney with the family’

Farming Independent

Big change: Michael Murphy on his farm outside Nenagh in Tipperary, where he switched to dairy after winning awards for his beef system. Photos: Niall Hurson

Dairy Farm Profiles Premium

Why one of Ireland’s best beef farmers switched to dairy

Milk recording will be included in the new TAMS list

News Premium

Milk recording, underpasses in new TAMS but no dribble bars

Big money: ‘It is often hard to understand how these costly machines can be justified and indeed afforded’

Finance Premium

How much tax can I save by buying a tractor?

Innovation: Barry O’Connor, managing director of Connor Engineering, with the tanks at Tubber, Co Clare Photos: Eamon Ward

Machinery Premium

Meet the company who built Ireland’s biggest ever slurry tankers, worth €150,000 each

The minimum age requirement for an entry level T1 licence would still be 16 years old

News

Stricter tractor driver rules review delayed until 2024

Caution: Andrew Bergin has started spraying, but his approach for this year will be to ‘buy wisely and use carefully’. Photo: Roger Jones

Tillage Premium

Andrew Bergin: I still don’t know if I have been accepted into Acres even as I spray my crops – it’s so frustrating

Sport

Caelan Doris during Ireland media conference at the Campus in Quinta da Lago, Portugal. Photo: Harry Murphy/Sportsfile

Six Nations Premium

Cian Tracey Opinion Caelan Doris key to Andy Farrell’s high-tempo game-plan

Chelsea's Hakim Ziyech

Soccer

Why PSG will think twice about dealing with Chelsea’s ‘Class A circus’ again

Stuart McCloskey of Ireland

Six Nations

Andy Farrell to keep Stuart McCloskey on centre stage for clash with Wales

Ciaráin Murtagh celebrates after scoring a goal for Roscommon against Tyrone. Photo by Seb Daly/Sportsfile

Gaelic Football

Tyrone need to shake the malaise that dogged their All-Ireland defence

Manchester United's Fred celebrates scoring his sides second goal with team mates during the Carabao Cup semi-final, second leg match at Old Trafford, Manchester

Soccer

Martial and Fred on target as Manchester United seal Carabao Cup final spot

Brooks Koepka

Golf

Vulnerable Brooks Koepka the big surprise in Netflix documentary

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Local News

Podcasts

Electronic voting was a failure

New Articles

The Indo Daily: The Fall of the Machines — Ireland's €55m e-voting controversy

Warren Gatland is looking to spring a Six Nations surprise against Ireland on Saturday. Photo by David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile

The Left Wing

The Left Wing: Irish expectations, the number 12 'debate' and the Warren Gatland wildcard

Mayo manager Kevin McStay with Galway boss Padraic Joyce after their opening round draw. Image: Sportsfile.

The Throw In

The Throw-In: Mayo’s new start, Kerry’s focus and Vincent Hogan’s Hurling League Preview

Enoch Burke pictured leaving Wilson’s Hospital School after spending the day standing outside the school buildings on Thursday. Picture: Frank McGrath

The Indo Daily

The Indo Daily: What's the end game for Enoch Burke?

Entertainment

Pamela Anderson in her new Netflix show

Television

What’s streaming this week: Pamela Anderson, the notorious sex tape and a candid look back at her life

Brendan Fraser shines in the ham-fisted The Whale

Movie Reviews

Brendan Fraser is the best thing about The Whale – but the film around him is terrible

Little Simz, The Murder Capital and Ladytron

Music Reviews

The seven best albums released in January

The cast of the touring Rocky Horror Show. Photo by David Freeman

Theatre & Arts

Theatre review: Joyful and anarchic Rocky Horror Show has fans lapping up the Time Warp again

Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar Jones in the TV adaptation of Sally Rooney’s ‘Normal People’

Entertainment

Paul Mescal reveals unusual method he employs during sex scenes

Chris Hammer, author of Dead Man’s Creek

Book Reviews

A cold shoulder for a cold case detective, our decreasing attention spans and digging the dirt on the archaeological world

Style

Sarah Magliocco says there are lots of bargains to be found in secondhand shops

Dublin

‘I got a €300 Brown Thomas jacket for a fiver’, says thrift shop bargain hunter

Ozzy Osbourne has said that following extensive spinal surgery he is not ‘physically capable’ of doing his tour dates in Europe and the UK (David Davies/PA)

Music News

Ozzy Osbourne: I’m not physically capable of tour dates after extensive surgery’

TikTok app

Health & Wellbeing Premium

What is lucky girl syndrome? The new TikTok manifestation trend explained

'Molly Mae and Tommy Fury with their new baby (Instagram)

Entertainment

Love Island stars Molly-Mae Hague and Tommy Fury welcome their first child

Noticing patterns of how people behave can help you feel more prepared to deal with issues. Getty Images/iStockphoto

Health Features Premium

Ask Allison: My in-laws gifted my husband a week’s golfing abroad at Easter – without checking with me. I am furious!

"I’m 60 years old, and have never had an orgasm by penetration alone."

Sex & Relationships

Dear Mary: I fantasise about women and prefer sleep to sex with my husband. Am I a lesbian?

Life

If a French child refuses food, the plate is taken away and no substitute is offered. Stock image

Comment Premium

Sinead Ryan Opinion We could learn lessons on parenting from the French

A heated steering wheel is one of the silliest things you can have in a car. Photo: Getty Images

Motoring

Are we all that pampered? Why I think heated steering wheels are silly and a waste of energy

Shop around for car finance options as not everything needs to be bought on PCP

Motoring

Make sure to check out interest rates before doing new-car deal or you face paying over the odds

Director Anna Newell with babies Lochlann Mulkerrins (11 months, left) from Tallaght and Abby Boland, (6 months, right) from Saggart. Photo: Maxwells

Life Premium

‘I make theatre and shows for babies – they are an extraordinary audience to work with’

Marie Kondo. Photo: Adam Rose/Netflix

Life Premium

Kirsty Blake Knox Opinion I’m with Marie Kondo – I gave up on any hopes of a tidy house once I had children too

Avril Tierney, with daughters Tamsin and Tess, at home in Co Laois. Photo: Paul McCarthy

Living With Cancer Premium

Metastatic breast cancer: ‘There is a part of me that is really angry and I have to accept that. I let myself feel what I feel’

Travel

Yosemite 'firefall'. Photo: Deposit

World/USA

Firefall is back: How and where to see Yosemite’s breath-taking natural phenomenon

A bonded travel agent is the safest, as you are covered if the company goes bust. Photo: Jordan Siemens/Getty Images

Personal Finance Premium

How to find the best value for your summer holidays

The Abbeyglen Castle Hotel in Connemara, Co Galway, has a recipe for romance

Staycations

10 best Valentine’s week love nests in Ireland

Lough Tay, Co Wicklow. Photo: Brian Morrison / Fáilte Ireland

Travel Talk

Pól Ó Conghaile Opinion The ‘say-do gap’ in travel is one reason you’re unlikely to read this story

Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France

Europe Premium

South of France – soak up architecture and art on the Côte d’Azur

The Oak Hall at Ashford Castle

Hotel Reviews Premium

Hotel Review: Ashford Castle is ‘up there with the best hotels globally’, but is it worth the sky-high prices?