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News

Don’t go trick or treating with symptoms, Tony Holohan warns families as almost 3,000 new Covid cases reported

Latest News

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer heaps praise on Ronaldo following vital Manchester United win
Manchester United bounce back in style with comprehensive win over Spurs to ease pressure on Ole Gunnar Solskjaer
Jurgen Klopp not happy with Liverpool players’ body language after squandering two-goal lead against Brighton
Roy Keane slams Manchester United players: ‘Maguire and Shaw last week were a disgrace to the club’

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News Premium

My first train ride in months left me shaken – no wonder passengers are nervous, and staff are threatening to strike

The UK has moved to purchase 480,000 courses of the drug molnupiravir. Photo: PA

Health

Ireland hasn’t placed any orders for ‘game-changer’ drug molnupiravir which could slash Covid deaths

Ciara Kelly

Comment Premium

Ciara Kelly Opinion There’s nothing about Halloween that excites me. I’m coming to terms with the fact that I’m not sociable

Damon with sex coach Jaiya and Erika in Sex, Love & Gloop

Television

'I don’t need an opinion on why Gwyneth Paltrow made a show about ridin’ but she did and it's not as terrible as you'd imagine'

Top Stories

Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald speaking to the media during the Sinn Fein Ard Fheis outside the Helix in Dublin. Photo: Damien Storan / PA Wire

News

I want to lead as Taoiseach, Mary Lou McDonald tells party members at Ard Fheis

John Traynor in Portugal in 1996, where he spoke to Paul Williams in the aftermath of Veronica Guerin’s murder
Photo: Sunday world

Crime Premium

Paul Williams Opinion John Traynor seemed hassled after Guerin's murder – and it was clear he was terrified of Gilligan

Louise McSharry

News

Louise McSharry blasts decision to not let her present final radio shows on 2fm this weekend

TD Peadar Toibin pictured arriving at Leinster House. Photo: Colin O'Riordan

News

Thousands take to streets to protest closure of Navan hospital’s emergency department

When it comes to green mortgages, switchers and first timers can avail of the same rates

Personal Finance Premium

Rate options, term times and cash-back incentives – How can I make the most of my mortgage?

Manchester United's Harry Maguire looks flustered against Liverpool

Premier League

Roy Keane slams Manchester United players: ‘Maguire and Shaw last week were a disgrace to the club’

Galway-born camel racer Katie Higgins

Irish News Premium

‘Men would laugh, now they show respect’ – Irishwoman makes history in UAE’s first female camel race

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp during draw with Brighton

Premier League

Jurgen Klopp not happy with Liverpool players’ body language after squandering two-goal lead against Brighton

Vet Pete Wedderburn with Kiko the terrier

News

How to help your pets survive firework scares to have a happy Halloween

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Irish News

Explainer: Why are the clocks still going back despite vote to scrap daylight saving time?

Videos

Man is beaten with axes in shocking CCTV footage from Tullamore

Art student who lost ability to draw after spiking feels unsafe five years on

What is daylight saving time?

Photographer Rankin puts focus on food waste ahead of Cop26 summit

Greta Thunberg mobbed by climate change protesters in London

Featured

Actor Aidan Gillen. Photo: David Conachy

Life Premium

Aidan Gillen: ‘I think people like looking at violence on TV and movies. It’s living vicariously. It’s kind of a release of pressure’

Most Read

Christian Eriksen spent seven years at Spurs before moving to Inter Milan

Soccer

‘The FA would not ban someone from playing based on a cardiac screen’ – Christian Eriksen could resume career in England

President Michael D. Higgins and President of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier with wives Sabina Higgins and Elke Büdenbender at TG4’s Ros na Rún studios yesterday in Spiddal, Co Galway. Photo: Andrew Downes/Xposure

Irish News

Tasty opportunity: Áras seeks chef to cook for the President

‘You can’t run art on handouts’: Harry Crosbie at his Vicar Street venue in Dublin. Photo by Frank McGrath

Irish News Premium

Harry Crosbie: ‘They won’t give me a VIP pass and free membership – now I can’t go to the venues I created’

Amy Huberman pictured on set

Entertainment

‘We’re meant to hate each other but we had way too much fun' – Amy Huberman on working with acting legend Jane Seymour

Newly appointed Galway hurling manager Henry Shefflin at the Kilkenny SHC semi-final between Ballyhale Shamrocks and James Stephens at UPMC Nowlan Park. Photo: Sam Barnes/Sportsfile

Hurling Premium

‘We’ve lost our best to the west’ – the reaction in Kilkenny to Galway’s appointment of Henry Shefflin

Oksana Kotsko wearing the design made for Climate Week NYC by documentary stars Cian Newman (20) from Dublin, Techinee Nawaing (19) from Athlone and Niamh Porter (24) from Donegal.

Fashion Premium

A cut above: How Niamh went from Raphoe to Romeo Hunte – and designing for Michelle Obama

'Some services have reported that women have resorted to sleeping in cars, or worse: gone back to their abuser'

Comment Premium

Ellen Coyne Opinion ‘Some in the domestic-violence sector might want to criticise a donation from Airbnb, but the reality is they can’t afford to turn down funding’

Airbnb, the private holiday rental company, is donating money to Irish survivors of domestic abuse. Did you know that? I only ask because it has been impossible for me not to know it.

Artist and writer Mercedes Helnwein at home at Gurteen Castle in Co Tipperary. Photos: Don Moloney

Life

Mercedes Helnwein: ‘It almost feels like walking into a painting. It’s mind-blowingly beautiful and it will always be home’

The dazzling Tampa sunshine that frames Mercedes Helnwein’s fine features seems light years from the Gothic gloom of Gurteen Castle in Tipperary, where her family lives. But Florida is, in fact, an apt setting for this multi-talented writer and artist.

One of the elegant terrace suites on the fifth floor of The Westbury

Reviews

Hotel Review: The Westbury adds luxury new terrace suites to a classic Dublin stay

East London’s Hoxton hotel

Travel Talk Premium

Pól Ó Conghaile Opinion As the worlds of work and travel change, can hotels reinvent themselves as hybrid offices?

Max Rocha's Café Cecilia in London. Photo: Jacob Lillis

Food Reviews Premium

Café Cecilia review, London: ‘Irish chef Max Rocha’s first restaurant is a lesson in restraint and heroically good cooking’

Pulp Fiction’s Mia Wallace, played by Uma Thurman

Opinion Premium

Tanya Sweeney Opinion After more than two decades are cigarettes suddenly having a moment again?

Podcasts

New Articles

The Big Tech Show: Are data centres sucking the energy out of Ireland?

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Photo: Erin Scott/Reuters

The Indo Daily

The Indo Daily - Is the Facebook brand toxic?

John Brennan at The Lansdowne, Kenmare

Real Health Podcast

Real Health: Life lessons with John Brennan

Christmas shoppers on Henry Street in Dublin. Photo: Collins

The Indo Daily

The Indo Daily: The Nightmare before Christmas – why you must start your seasonal shopping now

Halloween

The Strangers knows the power of a good long silence

Movies Premium

Halloween horrors: Eight really scary films to watch this weekend

In our oversaturated digital landscape, it’s easy for brilliant movies to fall between the cracks. When it comes to horror, it’s also just as common for tired remakes and rehashes of old classics to gum up the multiplex.

Donal Skehan getting into the Halloween spirit in the kitchen with his children. Photos: Donal Skehan

Recipes Premium

Donal Skehan’s freakishly good Halloween treats — barmbrack parfait pots, ghostly peanut butter squares and an autumnal tart

Halloween has always been a big event in our house and it typically begins with baking barmbrack.

Juliet (9) and Portia Nelson (6) with their carved pumpkins at Kilruddery House, Bray, Co Wicklow. Photo: Gerry Mooney

Life Premium

How to ensure your kids have a Covid-friendly Halloween while trick or treating

It’s our second Halloween under the shadow of Covid, but this year’s festivities will look a little different to last year.

Video

How to carve a Jack O'Lantern Halloween pumpkin

Opinion & Analysis

An anti-lockdown protester in Trafalgar Square, London. Photo: PA

Comment Premium

Larissa Nolan Opinion I’m all for civil disobedience, but protesting at homes is wrong

Stoke City players, sponsored by Bet365, celebrate scoring in a Sky Bet Championship match against Millwall last weekend. Photo: Kirsty O'Connor/PA Wire.

Comment Premium

Sarah Carey Opinion Endlessly watching ‘the match’ is bad enough, so let’s leave gambling out of it

Meerkats explore a pumpkin left in their enclosure by keepers at Blair Drummond Safari Park near Stirling, Scotland. Photo: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire

Comment Premium

Billy Keane Opinion When even bumpkins are eating pumpkins, you know it’s time for an IPA – or perhaps a pale ale

Covid anger management experts could help us keep peace

Mary McCarthy

Nothing sure in Ireland’s brave new world, though debt is usually followed by taxes

Richard Curran

Bookshop’s demise another sad chapter for city as we sacrifice heritage for progress and profit

Liam Collins

Sport

Shamrock Rovers manager Stephen Bradley celebrates after his side's victory in their SSE Airtricity League Premier Division match against Longford Town at Bishopsgate in Longford. Photo: Seb Daly/Sportsfile

League of Ireland Premium

Five key steps on Shamrock Rovers’ march to title glory

Michael Murphy, who is an ambassador for Gallghers Bakehouse, believes his own performance let Donegal down against Tyrone. Credit: Sportsfile

Gaelic Football

‘There will be a time when I’m not able to contribute’ – Donegal’s Michael Murphy

Manchester United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has spoken bullishly about his position ahead of the trip to Tottenham. Photo: Mike Egerton/PA Wire

Premier League Premium

Miguel Delaney Opinion Ole’s trust issue – a week on from his Old Trafford humbling there’s little margin of error for Solskjaer

Cathal Dennehy and Eliud Kipchoge

Athletics Premium

'If you dope, then you are lying to yourself' - My week in Kenya with the world's greatest marathon man

Danny Mandroiu of Shamrock Rovers, centre, celebrates with supporters after winning the SSE Airtricity League Premier Division title after their win over Finn Harps at Tallaght Stadium in Dublin. Photo by Eóin Noonan/Sportsfile

League of Ireland

Shamrock Rovers claim 19th Premier Division title with victory over Finn Harps

Cristiano Ronaldo has been United’s saviour a couple of times this season, but his role in the squad still needs to be clarified

Soccer

Five tactical tweaks Solkjaer must make to kick-sart United

Farming Independent

Nitrogen has seen large price increases due to limited supply and the rising cost of natural gas. Stock image

Tillage Farm Profiles Premium

Mark Plunkett: How to reduce the impact of high fertiliser costs

Former IFA president Eddie Downey on his dairy and poultry farm in Slane, Co Meath. Photo: David Conachy

Schemes

Commercial farmers ‘very close’ to selling CAP entitlements, warns ex-IFA chief

In Ireland, marriage continues to exist as a relationship only between a man and woman

Farming Premium

Legal advice: Breaking up is hard to – more so for farming families

A business-as-usual model will become increasingly more difficult to pursue

Farm Profiles Premium

Tommy Boland: More of the same may not result in more of the same

Suckler cows grazing on the Skellig Islands. Photo: John Heney

Beef Advice Premium

John Heney: How we approach food consumption and production has to change radically

Combining ecology, farming and agri-tourism: Sophie Nicol with some of her Zwartbles sheep at Windrush Farm near Newtownmountkennedy, Co Wicklow. Photos: Frank McGrath

Agri-Business Premium

How ecology on the farm can lead to agri-tourism: lamb to loom passion project ready for visitors to turn farm produce into art

Editor's Choice

Sinead Ryan

Homes

I have €20,000 for a deposit and am saving €1500 a month but lenders are still refusing a mortgage for my self-build home project – what are my options?

This week’s Late Late Show, presented by Ryan Tubridy, is being moved to 10.05pm so RTÉ One can show Brendan O’Carroll’s live Mrs Brown’s Boys Halloween special

Television Premium

Pat Stacey Opinion Moving The Late Late Show to fit in Mrs Brown’s Boys is an insult

'It’s Marty' by Marty Morrissey is available now in book shops and online. Photo: Pat Murphy

Book News Premium

Marty Morrissey recalls advising a ‘stark naked’ Páidí Ó Sé in the wake of the ‘f***ing animals’ controversy

The swimming pool at Brentwood, 10 Sydenham Road, Dundrum, Dublin 14

Homes

Money no object – inside the €3.75m Dublin mansion that’s been given a no limits makeover

Style

Prince William and Kate Middleton on a visit to a farm earlier this year. Photo: PA

Celebrity Premium

Kirsty Blake Knox Opinion Oh, how the other half lives! Heathrow’s ‘royal suite’ just another reminder that William and Kate aren’t that relatable at all

Inside Heathrow's VIP lounge. Source: @heathrowvip (Instagram)

Travel News Premium

What's it like inside the €3,900 private airport suite used by Prince William and Kate, and is there one in Ireland?

Maura Higgins and Giovanni Pernice

Celebrity

Giovanni Pernice denies ‘wrongdoing’ after reported split from Maura Higgins

Actor James Michael Tyler, who played Gunther in Friends

Editorial Premium

Chrissie Russell Opinion The death of Gunther from Friends hit me hard — I felt like I knew him

Spicing up your sex life starts with making intimacy and time together a priority

Sex & Relationships

Asking for a friend: ‘My husband and I used to be wild in the bedroom but our sex life has gone very quiet. How can we get back into kink?’

Entertainment

Eleanor Tomlinson and Christopher Walken show off their style in Stephen Merchant’s hilarious new series The Outlaws

TV Reviews Premium

Pat Stacey Opinion The Outlaws review: Christopher Walken sparkles in this gem of a comedy-thriller

Video

Netflix release trailer for Tiger King 2

Marty Morrissey

Entertainment Premium

Marty Morrissey interview: ‘The hurt negative comments about how you look can cause is unimaginable’

Iseult Murphy, pictured at her writing desk, has loved horror stories since she was a child. Photos: Gerry Mooney

Life Premium

‘Even as a child I would draw pictures of cats and mice with blood pouring out of them’ – horror writer Iseult Murphy

Britney Spears PIC PA/PA Wire

Celebrity News

‘This message is to my family’ – Britney Spears wants ‘justice’ over conservatorship

Richard Chambers wears: T-shirt, Paul Smith; jacket, Daily Paper, both Brown Thomas. Photo by: Lucy Foster

Life

Richard Chambers on Covid — ‘I don’t think the public knows how close we were to this being an unmitigated catastrophe’

Travel

Reader Travel Awards 2022 - nominate now!

Reader Travel Awards

Reader Travel Awards: Nominate your top hotels, beaches and more to win one of eight holiday prizes

Farnham Estate

Staycations Premium

20 Christmas hotel breaks in Ireland for 2021 - with Santa visits and slap-up meals

Statue of Liberty New York. Photo: Deposit

Travel News

Fully vaccinated Irish travellers can visit the US from November 8

Photo: Deposit

Staycations

Just how accessible are Irish hotels for people with disabilities - from bedrooms to pools and websites?

St Peter's Tin Church in autumn. Credit: Sky Lark Fotos

Ireland Premium

The story of a tin church built for love, almost lost, and saved by locals in Laragh

A family bunk room at Galway's Connacht Hotel

Travel

35 hotel rooms in Ireland that sleep families of five, six or more

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