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Hundreds of millions of euro is being spent on developments geared towards the private rental sector, like this one at Green Acre Grange in Dundrum, Dublin.

Property & Mortgages

latest Government fund for small builders now helping finance cuckoo schemes

A Government agency set up to boost lending to small house builders is now ploughing tens of millions of euro into developments being constructed for cuckoo funds.

Latest News

Cllr James Geoghegan. Photo: Naoise Culhane

Politics Premium

Fionnán Sheahan Opinion Varadkar gambles on Fine Gael prodigal son who returned from Renua exile

Young people like Gabija Gataveckaite face significant challenges getting on the property ladder. Photo: David Conachy

Property & Mortgages Premium

Generation Gap: The homeowner, reluctant renter and twentysomething – three writers reveal their experiences in property

Happy place: Katie Byrne with stylist Ferg Daly at NHO in Dublin. Photo: Frank McGrath.

Life

A trip to Brown Thomas, a long-awaited hairdo, new nails and a visit to the local library – our writers on a very magical Monday as Ireland reopens

Dublin players training in breach of Covid rules

Irish News Premium

exclusive Dublin GAA stars escape Covid fines for secret training session as gardaí conclude investigation

Top Stories

Pfizer and Moderna vaccines

Irish News

Cabinet to decide today if the 28-day gap between jab doses could be widened further

Jackie and Aoife Flynn from Swords in Dublin. Photo by Steve Humphrey

Irish News Premium

‘It just doesn’t feel the same’ – Dublin’s streets stay quiet as country begins to reopen

The shocking incident was captured on CCTV.

Crime

Shelbourne FC issues statement condemning violence at Dart station

Patrick Horgan

Hurling Premium

Colm Keys Opinion An advantage rule that scarcely raised a comment at Congress is now the one exercising minds

Linda Kelly with her daughters, nine-month-old Amy-Kate and three-year-old Annabelle.

Health

‘It was like being released from prison’ – mother tells of heartache of being without her husband after giving birth

A new study by the ESRI think-tank says the vast majority of younger adults are locked out of the housing market. Photo: Getty

Property & Mortgages

Home ownership by the age of 30 nearly halved in space of a generation

Calin Scintei (28)

Courts Premium

Criminal who used fake ID to open bogus accounts gets four years

Israeli medics evacuate a man injured after a rocket launched from the Gaza Strip hit a residential building in Ashkelon, southern Israel May 11, 2021. REUTERS/Amir Cohen

Middle East

latest Scenes of destruction in Gaza Strip as rocket fire met with Israeli strikes

Senator Pippa Hackett, Minister of State with responsibility for Forestry

Farming

Forestry deep in crisis as licensing falls 50pc short of target for sixth straight month

New Aer Lingus CEO Lynne Embleton says making good progress on regional contract

Irish Premium

Aer Lingus and Emerald poised to sign Regional deal

Videos

'We're booked flat out for a week' - Ireland's hairdressers reopen as restrictions ease

Restrictions lifting: What the public are looking forward to today

Dr Mike Ryan: We're expecting the virus to slow down and we're pushing the accelerators

Man makes pet of fox in Kilkenny

Stranded minke whale rescued from London's River Thames

Featured

Dream analyst Marita Lyons at her home in Co Meath. Photo: Frank McGrath

Life Premium

‘A lot of men dream they are friends with a celebrity’ – Meet the psychotherapist who explains your subconscious nightime thoughts

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Van Morrison PIC Kevin Scott / Belfast Telegraph

Music

‘Depressing rants’ – Van Morrison’s lockdown inspired album hits wrong notes with critics

Van Morrison’s latest album — in which he rails against lockdown — has been blasted as a series of “depressing rants” by a “conspiracy theorist”, as many critics hit out at the record.

Kerry manager Peter Keane. Photo: Brendan Moran/Sportsfile

Gaelic Football Premium

Keane to conquer ‘Everest’ after last year’s fall

It never rains but it pours, especially in Kerry when all that wild Atlantic air rises to meet the MacGillycuddy’s Reeks. Just ask Peter Keane.

Aran Islands Ferries' Saoirse na Farraige vessel. Photo: Boyd Challenger

Travel News

Ireland’s largest domestic passenger ferry to set sail as services emerge from lockdown

Here it comes: Heavy rain lashes Samuel Beckett Bridge, Dublin. Photo: Stephen Collins/Collins

Irish News Premium

Heavens above! Why the weather apps on our phones get it so badly wrong

Teagasc dairy advisor Jim Moyles started the weekly videos. Photos: Alf Harvey

Dairy Premium

Meet the farmers who have pioneered an apt solution to the Covid lockdown restrictions

Dutch rider Taco van der Hoorn celebrates winning the third stage of the Giro d'Italia from Biella to Canale. Photo: Massimo Paolone/LaPresse via AP

Cycling Premium

Nicholas Roche's Giro d'Italia diary: It’s every young kid’s dream to win a Grand Tour stage like Taco van der Hoorn did

Coronavirus: In Focus

St Patrick's Street in Cork, before the pandemic. Photo: Damian Coleman

Irish News

Retailer counting on support from locals after ‘nightmare’ 14 months of closures

An Irish menswear retailer has expressed hope that the reopening of retail and click-and-collect operations will help save the 2021 trading season

An expanding waistline could place you at greater risk of contracting a serious form of Covid. Photo: Rob Hyrons

Health

People with a beer belly ‘face 75pc higher risk of severe Covid illness’, says study

Sefton Park in Liverpool has hosted a concert for 5,000 music lovers. Photo: Danny Lawson/PA Wire.

News

Pilot events hosting fans at gigs and games targeted for next month - Culture Minister Catherine Martin

Dr Tony Holohan, chief medical officer. Picture by Colin Keegan/Collins Dublin

Irish News

‘No public health justification for maternity hospital ban on partners,’ says Dr Tony Holohan

Farming Independent

Of those involved in turf cutting and peat harvesting, which are currently going through their transition, there are few who would agree that it’s ‘just’.

Comment

Margaret Donnelly: Peat transition process has been short on justice and long on neglect

“The main change under the new regulations is that farmers will have to purchase medicines within five days of a prescription being issued by a vet,” Mr Geraghty explained.

News Premium

Vets move to allay growing farmer concerns over new medicine controls

Former Bóthar chief exec David Moloney

News Premium

Bóthar scandal: ‘Shattered’ farmers doubt charity’s survival

Grain grower Bobby Miller pictured with his Isabel winter oats at Vicarstown, Co Laois. Photo: Alf Harvey

Tillage Farm Profiles Premium

‘There’s lots of young farmers in dairy, but who’s going to take over in tillage?

Rare delights: Jan Douglas and Liam Carroll with their Speckle Park cattle at Moyfeigher, Ballivor, Co Meath. Photos: Damien Eagers

Agri Food Premium

How this rare cattle breed is helping a Meath farming couple diversify

Be aware: Eamon O’Connell warns that if cows eat wire, they can develop a heart condition that will probably kill them. Photo: Alf Harvey

Farming Premium

Eamon O’Connell: Watch out for heart conditions that can affect your herd

Podcasts

The Big Tech Show

The Big Tech Show: Apple’s new iPhone ad-tracking rules — a blow for freedom or a shackle on business?

Real Health Podcast

The Real Health Podcast: Five ways to maximize your potential as we exit lockdown with Ireland’s leading performance coach Gerry Hussey

Ireland

InFocus: The insider's guide to 2021 staycations, from pre-booking pool slots to packing coins

The Big Tech Show

The Big Tech Show: An Irish class action suit against Facebook grows

Editor's Choice

The Cliffs of Moher

Travel News

Call for one-off September bank holiday to reward nation

Tánaiste Leo Varadkar and Kate O'Connell. Photo: Damien Eagers

Politics Premium

The ‘war’ between Leo Varadkar and Kate O’Connell – and how it puts Fine Gael leadership role under spotlight

Newlyweds Willie Stokes and Shelby Kelly pictured this afternoon leaving Longford Court. Photo: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin

News

‘To the people of Longford and Ireland, I am sorry’ – apologies in court for ‘illegal’ wedding reception

Despite being in a happy relationship, things can crop up which make you reconsider things. Stock image.

Health & Wellbeing Premium

Ask Allison: ‘I’m a working single-mum with my own home. I met a guy I really like – the sex is great – but he has no career and lives with his parents. Should I end it?’

Opinion & Analysis

Getting down to business once more at Butcher Otako hair salon in Dublin city centre on Monday, May 11. Photo: Clodagh Kilcoyne

Comment Premium

Ian O'Doherty Opinion Some restrictions have been lifted – but we have all been changed utterly by Covid

Blank screens don't help when writing theses. (Stock image)

Comment Premium

Frank Coughlan Opinion Me and my big, fat, lazy thesis

Allison Morris

Comment Premium

Allison Morris Opinion Unionism has to accept change and look to the future in selecting its new leaders

Love is a battlefield so beware the lure of online kiss emojis and scammers when seeking a life partner

John Daly

Housing crisis is not the pandemic’s fault, it’s the policies and the politics we’ve got wrong

Mark Keenan

The unlikely change-maker who gave Ireland a ‘breath of fresh air’ when its need was greatest

John Downing

Sport

Neil McManus of Antrim celebrates

Hurling Premium

Conan Doherty Opinion Welcome to Antrim - How a Saffron masterclass of horribleness strangled Clare

Jessica Harrington

Horse Racing

Jessica Harrington hit with hefty fine and two-week ban after breaching Covid protocols to attend Aintree Grand National

Fulham manager Scott Parker and Ivan Cavaleiro (Adam Davy/PA)

Soccer

Westwood and Wood goals keep Burnley safe for another season but send Fulham down

Clare manager Brian Lohan during the Allianz Hurling League Division 1B defeat to Antrim at Corrigan Park in Belfast, Antrim. Photo: David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile

Hurling Premium

Brendan Cummins Opinion Vultures are circling around Brian Lohan but sad reality is Clare's loss to Antrim actually wasn't a shock

Banners placed on the perimeter or Oriel Park at recent games

League of Ireland

Dundalk squad to undergo Covid tests instead of training on Tuesday after pictures emerge of 'team-bonding' trip to Belfast

Antrim’s Ciaran Clarke scores the only goal during the win over Clare at Corrigan Park

The Throw In

'Some of them would get on any inter-county team in the country' – No shock for Brendan Cummins in Antrim win

Life

Many people in Ireland rely on easy-to-make, but ultimately unhealthy, processed foods to form large parts of their diet

Healthy Eating Premium

Cheap, yummy and easy to make: why our brain is hooked on processed food

Una Herlihy and Roger O’Reilly in their magnificent hall, the feature that first sold them on the house. It’s designed like a cross, with the other downstairs rooms leading off it, so light floods in from all sides as well as via the massive windows. Beside them is their collie cross, Sammy. “He was a rescue dog. We always say we don’t know who rescued who — he’s a little country gentleman,” says Una, while Roger adds, “He’s too nice, a terrible guard dog”

Gardens Premium

My favourite room: Ireland posters artist Roger O’Reilly and businesswoman Una Herlihy show us around their Kilkenny home

Rachel's Fettuccini Alfredo. Photo: Tony Gavin

Recipes Premium

Rachel Allen serves up Italy in a bowl with three vegetarian pasta recipes that taste of summer

Oven-roasted tomatoes. Photo: Susan Jane White

Recipes

The Wholefoodie: Forget oats, Susan Jane White’s recipe for overnight tomatoes makes for a perfect breakfast

Davina McCall. Picture: PA

Health & Wellbeing

Davina McCall says symptoms of menopause remind her of when she was a drug addict

The fourth-generation Skoda Fabia, which was unveiled this week

Motor News

It’s no longer the cuddly Fabia – but it’s spacious and worth a look

Style

Daniella Moyles is no stranger to taking a leap into the unknown

Health & Wellbeing Premium

’I feel like I had my pandemic in 2017’- Daniella Moyles on surviving burnout

Triona McCarthy

Beauty

Triona McCarthy: forget ageing gracefully, lets age glamorously

Graphic by Shane McIntyre

Beauty Premium

Scent of longing: On its 40th birthday, Emily Hourican remembers what it was to be a 1980s’ White Musk girl

Author Sophie White

Comment

Sophie White Opinion Nobody tells you… how much lying life involves, or how best to murder the fake agent you invented

Women wanted Nick Kamen, while men wanted to be like him. Picture by David Redfern

Life

Obituary: Nick Kamen — the model who starred in a celebrated Levi’s jeans ad and went on to forge a career in pop music

Old hat and off-trend: many of the things that Millennials hold dear are dismissed as ‘cheugy’ by Gen Z

Life

Confused by Gen Z putdown ‘cheugy’? You’re probably too old to get it – or just too basic

Entertainment

Work in Enniskerry on a set for the upcoming Disney movie Disenchanted - sequel to Enchanted. Feb 23, 2021 Picture by Owen Breslin

Movie News

Dublin's RDS gets fairytale makeover as filming for Disney's Disenchanted is set to take place

Television

Tesla boss Elon Musk hosts Saturday Night Live

John Hawkes and Sarah Bolger in End of Sentence

Movie Reviews

Movie round-up: End of Sentence avoids the Oirish as it shines a light on Ireland’s crooked smile

Lord Henry Mountcharles at Slane

Music

‘Like hell I will!’ - Lord Henry Mountcharles won’t name names as he plans two big gigs for Slane next year

Olympia Dukakis is honoured with a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Entertainment

Obituary: Olympia Dukakis — actress who won an Oscar for ‘Moonstruck’ and played the pot-smoking landlady in TV’s ‘Tales of the City’

Lesley Roy's first rehearsal at Rotterdam Ahoy Arena Photo Credit: EBU / ANDRES PUTTING

TV News

‘I’m hoping to do Ireland proud’ – Lesley Roy has first rehearsal of 2021 Eurovision entry in Rotterdam

Travel

Portugal is among the 12 countries on the list

Travel News

Revealed: UK names 12 destinations for quarantine-free travel on ‘Green List’

A robin feeding its chick in the back garden. Photo: Pól Ó Conghaile

Travel Talk Premium

Pól Ó Conghaile Opinion Birds helped us through the pandemic, now it's time to repay the favour

SUP tour by Pure Magic to Ireland's Eye off Howth

Staycations

Travel: 10 wet and wild summer staycations and adventures

The Government is setting out rules regarding foreign travel (Aaron Chown/PA)

Travel News

English holidaymakers to find out quarantine-free destinations

Manarola village, Cinque Terre, Italy. Photo: Deposit

Travel News

‘The time has come’ – Italy will reopen to tourists from mid-May

Delta Air Lines. Photo: Deposit

Travel News

Delta stops blocking middle seats, effectively ending social distancing on planes

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