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#Coronavirus

The Ireland vs Italy Six Nations clash is in doubt due to the spread of the coronavirus. Photo by Ramsey Cardy/Sportsfile

Coronavirus

Coronavirus: Ireland-Italy clash and Cheltenham under threat

Premium

Up to 20 Irish guests on 'lockdown' at Tenerife hotel and being tested for coronavirus tonight

Premium

Coronavirus Travel Q&A: Should I cancel my trip? What are my rights if I do?

Coronavirus: Donegal school advises students who attended Italian trip to stay at home

Premium

Opinion Eilish O'Regan: 10 ways a coronavirus outbreak could change the way we live

Headlines

Probe: Gardaí at the scene of the fatal stabbing of Gareth Kelly in Brownsbarn Wood.
Photos: Gerry Mooney

Irish News

Mother of three is questioned after man (20s) fatally stabbed 'in row over car parking'

Humbled: Sabina Syed feels more spiritual when she fasts for Ramadan. Photo: Mark Condren

Life Premium

Why we'll never give up abstinence

Presidential seal: Current GAA president John Horan being congratulated by predecessor Áogán Ó Fearghail in 2017 – the next man in the hot seat will have to drive change within the organisation. Photo: Ray McManus/Sportsfile

GAA Premium

Opinion Martin Breheny: GAA in desperate need of a leader, not a figurehead

All hands to the pump: Members of the 6th Infantry Battalion and the 2nd Artillery Regiment get sandbags. Photos: Mark Condren

Irish News Premium

'If you don't have buckets, you're no use here': worst yet to come in floodlands

Lucinda Creighton’s Renua never really took off. Picture: Gerry Mooney

Comment Premium

Opinion Philip Ryan: Fads come and go - both Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael will be hoping the same applies for Sinn Féin

‘Rumours’: Margaret Thatcher’s private secretary Peter Morrison. Photo: PA

Britain

UK politicians 'turned blind eye to child abuse'

Pay figures: Jane Howard was appointed Ulster Bank CEO in 2018

Irish Premium

Top brass at Ulster Bank earn up to €1.5m each

Health threat?: The family said they suffered health issues related to the wind farm. Stock picture

Courts

Children who 'were made ill by wind farm near their home' get €225,000

Gareth Kelly (39) who was stabbed at the Brownsbarn Estate

Irish News

Man (39) may have been stabbed by woman after parking space row

Lorcan Carpenter and Belinda Bielenberg with their children outside their home, which up to two years ago, was used as a barn. The barn dates from 1820. Anna is on Cilla Black, while Lorcan and Belinda carry the twins, Tom and Jessica. Photo: Tony Gavin

Homes Premium

My favourite room: Inside the converted 18th century barn in the Wicklow hills

Podcasts

Ireland suffered their third heavy defeat to England in 12 months at Twickenham last Sunday. Photo by Brendan Moran/Sportsfile Photo by Brendan Moran/Sportsfile

The Left Wing

The Left Wing: Neil Francis on England loss, what Andy Farrell must do and the player who could make a difference

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Seán Bugler of Dublin in action against Michael Murphy of Donegal

The Throw In

The Throw In: Jim Gavin's cap, Brolly as the waterboy and leave hurling alone

In association with Allianz.

News

The Big Tech Show: Is 5G really worth it? When is the 5G iPhone coming? And what are the applications that people actually want?

In association with Vodafone Business

Featured

Acting out: John Connors near his home in Coolock. Photo: Frank McGrath

Movies

'I have a love-hate relationship with acting'

Is John Connors the hardest-working man in the Irish film industry? It certainly seems that way. In this month's Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival, the Dubliner has not one, but three projects in the programme.

Popcorn at the cinema (stock photo)

Family

Opinion Bill Linnane: Post-kids, movie magic takes on a new meaning

Is there anything more splendid than going to the cinema on your own?

Keelin Shanley. Photo: Patrick Bolger Photography

Entertainment

'Keelin's death is a reminder to live every moment' - DWTS ace Mary

Evan McCabe as the mysterious Brendan in Doctor Who

Television

Begorrah, 'tis Doctor O'Who, to be sure!

Samsung’s Galaxy S20 Ultra. Photo: Adrian Weckler

Technology

Opinion Adrian Weckler: Watch the incredible zoom on Samsung's Galaxy S20 Ultra - the new king of camera phones

Artist Mick Mulcahy and his partner Vera photographed in County Wexford. Photo: Mark Condren

Life Premium

'An all-consuming, disempowering terror came over me' - artist Michael Mulcahy

Opinion & Analysis

Arrogance: Leo Varadkar (pictured) and Micheál Martin have not addressed the issues thrown up by the election

Comment Premium

Opinion Colette Browne: Varadkar and Martin are playing hard to get - but the fed-up voters aren't buying it

Hopeful: Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders speaks during a campaign rally at the University of Houston, Texas. Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty

Comment Premium

Opinion Robert Schmuhl: 'Champion of revolution' Sanders is facing a battle even before Trump enters the fray

'The first thing I’ve decided is everything I don’t want for my ‘big day out’. Firstly, that means it’s not a ‘big day out’.' Stock image

Comment Premium

Opinion Sinead Ryan: This bride only blushes if it gets too garish

'Lovely parent', 'donkey', 'useless', 'nut' - many sides to man who became killer

Andrew Phelan

We're mired in a political emergency - it's time to put an end to Lannigan's Ball

Ian O'Doherty

IRA's unelected godfathers should quit and shuffle into the shadows

Máiría Cahill

Farming Independent

Knee deep: PJ Finnerty on his flooded farm in Kilcar, Co. Roscommon. PJ's farm is ten miles from the Shannon but all the river's tributaries are full and there are turloughs filling across the area. Photograph: Hany Marzouk

Agri-Business

Thousands of acres under threat from Shannon floods

A single agency has to take charge of water levels on the Shannon, the IFA warned this week as flood waters from the river threatened more than 6,000ac of farmland.

IFA president Tim Cullinan addressing the association's AGM in Dublin. Photo: Finbarr O'Rourke

IFA News

IFA offers staff early retirement scheme

Farmer spreading slurry in a field

Agri-Business

Slurry levels a concern with spreading at a standstill in some areas

Roosters are seen as the ideal 'table potato'. Photo: Getty Images.

Tillage

Roosters rule, but planting levels close to a record low

Teagasc dairy specialist George Ramsbottom

Dairy

Dairy calf births running 45,000 ahead of 2019 figure

Videos

Tenerife hotel placed in quarantine after doctor tests positive for coronavirus

Historic 'Pancake Race' recreated in Cork today in aid of charity

Baboons run amok in Sydney after escaping research facility

Harvey Weinstein accusers elated over conviction

Croatian president expresses outrage at anti-LGBT effigy burning

Sport

Bayern Munich eased to a 3-0 win over Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, with Robert Lewandowski (left) getting on the score-sheet. Adam Davy/PA Wire

Champions League

Bayern Munich on the verge of quarter-final place after second-half surge sinks Chelsea

Serge Gnabry fired two goals in four minutes to give Chelsea a Champions League mountain to climb as Bayern Munich stung the 10-man Blues 3-0 at Stamford Bridge.

Galway manager Padraic Joyce. Photo: Oliver McVeigh/Sportsfile

Columnists Premium

Opinion Roy Curtis: Galway's Guardiola, Pádraic Joyce - the audacious renaissance artist with a keen eye on Sam Maguire glory

As his newly liberated choir compose soaring hymns to Gaelic football's beautiful potential, so the temptation grows to anoint him Galway's Guardiola.

Joey Carbery has been ruled out for a number of months with an arm injury.

Munster Rugby

More injury woe for Joey Carbery with Munster star to undergo further ankle surgery

Joey Carbery's injury-hit season has gone from bad to worse with the news that the playmaker will have further surgery on his ankle.

Seán Bugler of Dublin in action against Michael Murphy of Donegal

The Throw In

'It's actually scary to the rest of the country' - Tomás Ó Sé on Dublin's dominance and fresh faces

Dublin are so strong that "it is actually scary for the rest of the country," according to Tomás Ó Sé.

Cork City manager Neale Fenn has endured a tough start to the season. Photo by Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile

League of Ireland

Three games, three losses, no goals scored and ten conceded - Cork City facing into tough season

THREE games, three losses, no goals scored and ten conceded.

Different approach: Andy Farrell’s mild manner couldn’t be more different from Eddie Jones’s snide approach. Photo: Ramsey Cardy/Sportsfile

Six Nations

'We can definitely still win the Six Nations' - Andy Farrell eyes Paris glory

Style

Pictured at the launch of the Naas Racecourse Ladies Day at Kildare Village is television personality Anna Daly who was announced as the style ambassador for Ladies Day

Celebrity News

'Being on telly means that not everyone will like you'

Daily coverage: The suicide of Caroline Flack has been the subject of huge amounts of speculation

Voices Premium

Opinion Patricia Casey: How our natural curiosity when a star dies can spill over into something much darker

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex arrive at the public walkabout at the Rotorua Government Gardens on October 31, 2018 in Rotorua, New Zealand

Celebrity News

MP says it's a 'reasonable question' to query who will foot the bill for Meghan and Harry's security

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Fighting back: Model Ambra Battilana Gutierrez – the first woman to report Weinstein to the police – after yesterday’s verdict. Photo: REUTERS/Jeenah Moon

Voices Premium

Opinion Celia Walden: #MeToo victory vindicates brave women who stood up to power

Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge depart the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre, Stanford Hall on February 11, 2020

Celebrity News

What's on the agenda for royal visit: Kate and William hoping to build 'lasting friendship with the Irish people'

Stock image

Sex & Relationships

Dear Mary: It makes me feel awkward when partner's ex is at family events

Travel

One of the poolside restaurants at Forte Village, Sardinia

Europe Premium

Brendan O'Connor in Sardinia: 'Why would we want to leave?'

The Diamond Princess cruise ship in quarantine due to fears of the COVID-19 coronavirus, seen at the Daikoku Pier Cruise Terminal in Yokohama on February 20, 2020. Photo by KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP via Getty Images

Travel Talk

What does a coronavirus cleanup look like?

A Silver Suite at the Hard Rock Hotel Dublin

Travel News

First look: Inside Dublin's Hard Rock Hotel, from a Rock Star Suite to Kurt Cobain's sweater

Big on taste in the Big Smoke: Arcade Food Theatre

Europe Premium

50 great places to eat in London - a bite of the city at every price point

Honeymoon inspiration: Go beyond the beach with a cycling trip through Sri Lanka

Deals

Magic Monday: Go wild from just €95pp in our Top 5 travel deals

Sleeping on a plane. PA Photo/iStock.

Travel Talk

Keep calm and wash your hands: 7 ways to stay healthy during winter travel