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Armed gardaí drafted in as council secure injunction to remove 2,000 sq ft marquee to host wedding after party

News

latest More than 120 revelers defy court order to attend Traveller wedding party in Longford

More than 120 revelers defied a court order tonight by attending a Traveller wedding after party in Longford.

Latest News

Post-pandemic: Will Smith's 'Dad Bod'

Comment Premium

Spare me Will Smith’s six-pack journey — there’s sickening double standards in the way Dad Bods and Mom Bods are viewed

Video

Comedian hilariously describes Siri's struggles with Cork and Kerry accent

It's decision time for Lions coach Warren Gatland, who is set to announce his 36-man squad. Photo: Mike Egerton/PA Wire

Lions Tour Premium

Lions countdown: The ‘brutal’ wait every Irish tour contender is going through

Withdrawal: Construction firm Balfour Beatty is leaving the Irish market

Irish Premium

exclusive UK construction giant Balfour Beatty preparing to exit Irish market

Top Stories

Helen McEntee shares first picture of her newborn son, Michael Shane

Irish News

Helen McEntee shares first photo of her newborn son

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News

Three children successfully sue their father after his car collided with a tree

A nurse takes care of one of the newborn nonuplets, lying in an incubator, at the private clinic of Ain Borja in Casablanca, Morocco May 5, 2021. REUTERS/Youssef Boudlal

World News

Mali woman gives birth to nine surviving babies – and sets new world record

Neil Francis thinks that Johnny Sexton and James Ryan could miss out on Lions selection. Image credit: Sportsfile.

The Left Wing

‘Sexton and Ryan are in the firing line’ – Neil Francis predicts two high-profile omissions from Lions squad

Housing Minister Darragh O'Brien

Politics

‘They are gunning for him’: Housing Minister criticised at Fine Gael meeting as Leo Varadkar defends investment funds

Sean Hussey, Richie Barrett, Finbar Holland (Manager) and Aaron McDonnell of Geraldines P Moran Foxrock hurling team who are looking forward to returning to training on May 10. Picture: Owen Breslin

Sport

Contact training for sports will return from May 10

SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon on the campaign trail in north-east Scotland on Wednesday, May 5. Photo: Russell Cheyne/Reuters

Comment Premium

John Downing Opinion Scottish voters can shape the destiny of the UK… and Ireland’s future too

The Teaching Council in Maynooth

Irish News

Former school principal convicted of €204,000 theft faces possible sanctions by Teaching Council

Cash seized during garda search operations in Dublin and Kildare.

News

‘Penguin’ money man targeted in €110,000 CAB raid as cars and cash seized in two operations

Lundrit Xhemaili of Monread Gardens, Naas, Co Kildare, charged with threatening to cause criminal damage.

Courts

Man ‘made threat to burn house over €5k debt’, court is told

Videos

Mary Lou McDonald and Micheál Martin clash over wholesale purchase of Maynooth housing estate

Risky Buzz-ness - woman finds hive of 120,000 bees in her attic

'Would Germans live in these hovels?' - Rental accommodation standards blasted in Dáil

'You haven't got a chance' - Boyd Barrett on unrealistic affordable housing in Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown

Divers have incredible up-close encounter with 'Dusty' the Clare dolphin

Featured

‘Godsend’: Kathryn Thomas has been helped by her online wellness community during lockdown. Photos: Naomi Gaffey

Life Premium

Back on track: ‘I put on 10 pounds in the first lockdown’ — Kathryn Thomas

In terms of wellbeing, most Irish people have experienced mixed fortunes in the last 15 months.

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Leinster came up short in the Champions Cup semi-final against La Rochelle. Photo by Julien Poupart/Sportsfile

The Left Wing

The Left Wing: Neil Francis on Leinster's European exit, his Lions verdict and why he misses Warren Gatland

On the latest episode of The Left Wing, Will Slattery and Luke Fitzgerald are joined by Neil Francis to look back on Leinster's Champions Cup semi-final defeat and look ahead to the Lions squad announcement.

Noel Clarke (Dominic Lipinski/PA)

Movies

Bafta deputy chairwoman defends response to Noel Clarke allegations

The deputy chairwoman of Bafta has defended the film academy’s response to allegations of misconduct against Noel Clarke.

Manarola village, Cinque Terre, Italy. Photo: Deposit

Travel News

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

Rosie Ward with husband Martin, who died of an undiagnosed heart condition last year aged just 29

Irish News Premium

‘I don’t think there’s enough help there for Traveller men,’ says widow after husband dies suddenly in his sleep aged just 29

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Comment Premium

Kathy Donaghy Opinion Flourish or flounder: The sex education our children get in primary schools is not fit for purpose

Emma D'Arcy as Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen and Matt Smith as Prince Daemon Targaryen in the Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon.

Television

Revealed: first images from Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon

Coronavirus: In Focus

Deputy chief medical officer Dr Ronan Glynn. Photo: Gareth Chaney/Collins

News

Donegal will be spared local lockdown despite high numbers of Covid-19 infections

There are no plans to keep Donegal in lockdown after next Monday despite a spike in Covid-19 cases in the county.

Photo: Reuters/Clodagh Kilcoyne

Health

Coronavirus Ireland: seven further deaths and 418 more cases confirmed

There have been seven further deaths and 418 more Covid-19 cases, the Department of Health confirmed today.

Tánaiste Leo Varadkar. Picture by Gareth Chaney/Collins

News

Indoor dining may be back in July and ‘normal’ life will start to return in August – Varadkar

Coronavirus

Localised restrictions in Spain but life is slowly returning to normal in Italy: How Ireland compares to other EU nations

AFTER more than four months of lockdown, Ireland is finally set to open up again on May 10, with many other EU nations making similar plans to return to normal life.

Podcasts

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

Cultural gulf: The annual procession of the Orangemen in Belfast in 1922, a year after partition

Centenary Poll

100 Years on from partition: 'It was a shocking experience having men in uniform toting rifles come into your house'

Johnny Sexton is looking to go on his third Lions tour this summer. Photo by Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile

The Left Wing

The Left Wing: Lions selection special - the bolters, the Irish contingent and the captaincy debate

Editor's Choice

From today, people in their 50s can apply to be vaccinated. Photo: Keith Heneghan/Phocus

Coronavirus Premium

Explainer: How the new vaccine plan will impact when you will get the jab and which type you will get

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News

Here’s what beer, wine and spirits will cost as minimum unit pricing to come into effect in first week of 2022

Former Republic of Ireland international Alan McLoughlin. Barry Cregg / SPORTSFILE

International Soccer

Ireland football hero Alan McLoughlin dies at the age of 54

Crowds at a music festival in Sefton Park in Liverpool as part of the UK's national Events Research Programme. Picture: PA

Entertainment

Pods, picnic tables and gourmet food: Co Kildare to host socially distanced music festival this summer

Opinion & Analysis

The European Commission launched plans to relax rules on non-essential trips this summer, making holidays abroad possible

Comment Premium

Larissa Nolan Opinion No need for flights of fancy when it looks like the sky will be the limit this summer

Homeless man asleep in a doorway in Dublin

Comment Premium

Seán Healy Opinion We must engage with all sectors to deliver a social contract that prioritises fairness over finances

Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien. Photo: Collins

Editorial

Editorial Opinion Housing Minister should stand up to cuckoo funds

Flourish or flounder: The sex education our children get in primary schools is not fit for purpose

Kathy Donaghy

Please spare a thought for the introverts

Sinead Ryan

Letters

Heaven on tap — when a pint of plain was your only man

Letters to the Editor

Farming Independent

John on the farm in Laois. Photo: John D Kelly

Farming Premium

‘It will be a severe threat to farming if we don’t provide an attractive industry for young people’

The main part of the farm near Castlepollard, Co Westmeath extends to 197ac and overlooks Lake Derravarragh

Farm Property Premium

Prime midlands grazing farm goes to online auction with €2m price tag

Inferno: A wildfire rages across thousands of acres of Killarney National Park. Photo: Valerie O’Sullivan

Forestry Premium

Wildfires: the costs, the causes and the ways to avoid them

Restrictions: Ringside at Mohill Mart in Co Leitrim. Photo: Gerry Faughnan

Farming News

Marts gearing up for return to normal service

John Hughes takes time out from sowing wild bird cover for Jim Kelly (left) in Lacken, Borris, Co Carlow last summer Photo Roger Jones. PHOTOS: ROGER JONES

Machinery Premium

‘My wife told me she was becoming a silage widow’: Farm machinery veteran on why he’s happy to have hopped off the ‘silage merry-go-round’

On hold: We have been dealing with ComReg since the end of February

Rural Life Premium

Jim O’Brien: Trapped in a web of frustration and daily misery as we try to get landline installed

Sport

Joel and Avram Glazer have taken massive dividends out of the club

Premier League

United we fall: The deals, debt and dividends of the Glazers' Reds reign

Ireland's Oliver Dingley of Ireland competes in the Men's 3m Springboard Preliminary on day five of the FINA Diving World Cup at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre. Photo: Toru Hanai/Getty Images

Other Sports

Oliver Dingley qualifies for second Olympics with 15th place finish at Diving World Cup

Stuart Lancaster arrives for Leinster's Champions Cup semi-final in La Rochelle last weekend. Photo: Sportsfile

PRO14

'Can an Irish province do it? Absolutely' - Lancaster convinced Irish model can thrive in Europe

A general view of Casement Park in Belfast. The GAA still hopes to redevelop the venue but should it be planning for just one state-of-the-art stadium in each province? Photo: Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile

GAA Premium

Martin Breheny Opinion GAA’s latest strategy group needs to be radical or redundant

Jonathan Sexton will sit out Leinster's PRO14 Rainbow Cup clash with Connacht. Photo: Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile

Leinster Rugby

Johnny Sexton to sit out Connacht clash as Leinster lose Rhys Ruddock and Harry Byrne

Former Galway star Davy Glennon looks set to make Westmeath debut against his native county. Photo: Sportsfile

Hurling

Glennon to make Westmeath debut against his native ‘Tribe’

Life

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Health Features Premium

Has your child developed a lockdown eating disorder?

My son may be going into sex ed classes with some mild misinformation, but at least we have the dialogue open. Photo: Deposit

Parenting Premium

Bill Linnane Opinion Despite my awkwardness, I’m here if my son needs to talk about sex

Anita Flynn (front), secretary of Edenderry Women's Shed in Co Offaly, with some of the members. Photo: Mark Condren

Life Premium

From car maintenance to perimenopause courses: Inside Ireland's women’s sheds

There have been very rare cases of blood clots after people have had the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine

Health & Wellbeing

Ask the doctor: Should I be concerned about the Covid vaccine due to a past blood issue when pregnant?

Cora Kearney at her home in Dungarvan. Photo: Mary Browne.

Health & Wellbeing Premium

I set up a platform to connect people with disabilities to employers. If you want diversity in your workforce – come to me

Gina and Karol Daly in the cosy TV area off the kitchen, which looks out on the garden. The sofa is from Trim Furniture and the wall art was made by friends and fellow Instagrammers. Gina got the sign saying ‘Gaff’ from furniture artist Joanne Condon, who had an event called Round Our Gaff. The copper lampshade and standard lamp were made by Emmet Bosonnet of Kopper Kreation who repurposes old materials. Photo: Tony Gavin

Interiors Premium

My Favourite Room: The Daly Dish’s Gina and Karol show us around their revamped home

Style

Billie Eilish attends The BRIT Awards 2020. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

Comment Premium

Katie Byrne Opinion Billie Eilish’s Vogue cover sparks debate over shapewear, body size and personal choice

Leigh-Anne Pinnock (right) and Andre Gray (Ian West/PA)

Music

Little Mix star Leigh-Anne Pinnock expecting first child with Andre Gray

Kate Middleton and Prince William on the day of their graduation ceremony at St Andrew's University on June 23, 2005.

Sex & Relationships Premium

Dear William and Kate: Welcome to marriage’s Dangerous Decade

Who really needs mountains of clothes? Picture by Sergey Tryapitsyn

Fashion

Naoise Dolan Opinion Don’t turn Planet Earth into the ultimate fashion victim

Imelda May

Music News

‘We were afraid we wouldn’t see her again’ – Imelda May admits fears over not seeing her mother during lockdown

Ellie Goulding and Caspar Jopling (Peter Byrne/PA)

Celebrity

Ellie Goulding welcomes the birth of her first child with husband Caspar Jopling

Entertainment

The fictional Flying Squad of TV’s The Sweeney, with John Thaw and Dennis Waterman, was nothing like the grubby reality

Television Premium

Pat Stacey Opinion Line of Duty’s bittersweet ending is far more honest than the infallible TV cops of the past

Sophie Toscan du Plantier was murdered in 1996

Television

Director Jim Sheridan on what drove him to revisit the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier for a new Sky series

Amy De Bhrun Photo: David Conachy

Television

Irish Line of Duty star keen to avoid Wild Mountain Thyme blunder with Liverpool accent

Doireann Garrihy (Picture: Gerry Mooney)

Radio

2FM bosses stage more than a dozen auditions in search for Doireann Garrihy's new sidekick

Ted Hastings

Television Premium

Line of Duty: Jesus, Mary and Joseph, nobody would have guessed the identity of ‘the fourth man’

Games

Returnal review: So many ways to die

Travel

Scooter (Aidan Mannion) and Skipper (Colin Hughes) at Tayto Park, Co Meath, which boasts a variety of attractions for all age groups. Photo: Karen Morgan

Ireland Premium

From the attractions of Tayto Park to the wonder of Imaginosity – break free from lockdown in the best locations for all the family

Joe Walsh helped introduce the Irish public to package holidays in sunny countries. Photo: Tono Balaguer

Travel News

Joe Walsh Tours ceases trading after 60 years in business

Aer Lingus Business Class Cabin

New Articles

Business class bounce: future flyers will pay to sit up front as a treat and Covid refuge

St Paul's Bay, Rhodes

Travel News

'People want to travel' - Greece is reopening, but paradise remains under curfew

Pleasure island: Playa Blanca in Lanzarote

Travel Talk Premium

A 'Super League' for summer holidays - the ten countries we might travel to first

Passengers drinking on board. Photo: Deposit

Travel News

Vaccinated travellers should still avoid eating and drinking on planes, these experts say

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