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Gardaí at the scene in Clarecastle on the outskirts of Ennis, Co Clare. Photo: Press 22

Crime

Ukrainian girl (8) suffered up to 70 stab wounds during Clare attack

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Gardaí investigate after skeletal remains of child found in east Cork

Stephen Kenny

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Vincent Hogan Opinion For a riotous 90 seconds, the tone in the Lansdowne air rippled somewhere between irritability and outrage

Video

Driver has lucky escape after car overturns in Co Longford

Pat McDonnell. (Photo by Mark O'Sullivan).

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Kerry man (58) facing the prospect of homelessness: ‘I’m scared and don’t know what to do’

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Courts

Mum-to-be who snatched another pregnant woman’s overnight bag as she gave birth then racked up charges on the victim’s card avoids jail

Vladimir Putin has threatened to use nuclear weapons but whether he's bluffing remains to be seen. Photo: Sputnik

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Truth or bluff? Why Vladimir Putin’s nuclear warnings have the West more worried than we might believe

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Celebrity News

Chef Rachel Allen says she ‘can’t bring herself’ to watch her son Joshua’s MMA fights

Jonathan Dowdall with Mary Lou McDonald before the split

Courts

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald welcomes former councillor Jonathan Dowdall’s guilty plea in relation to ‘heinous and disgusting crime’

Sports Minister Jack Chambers. File photo.

News

Under-12 hurling game in Waterford abandoned over abuse directed towards match official

Judith Cuffe tried everything to help her son enjoy school. Photo: Gerry Mooney

Parenting Premium

My son doesn’t like school, he never has – and I’ve finally accepted I can’t change that

Tánaiste Leo Varadkar

News

Four Fianna Fáil TDs call for controversial concrete levy to be postponed or revisited

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Environment

Smart meter users to pay more for peak-time electricity with off-peak reductions to match

GAA

Referee ‘still shocked’ by alleged physical assault after junior hurling game in Wexford last month

It is only when children have their own money that they can discover the value of money. Picture posed

Parenting Premium

Dr David Coleman: Why it’s important to teach children how to manage money

Videos

TikTok video shows cat's daily routine of walking its owner to the school bus stop

Shocking video shows people trying to swim on Florida coast as Hurricane Ian approaches

It's possible to embrace climate action and maintain aviation links, says Varadkar

Video shows train hitting US police car with woman handcuffed inside

Our favourite dog clips of the year so far

Budget 2023 - what it means for you

Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe, presenter Claire Byrne and Public Expenditure Minister Michael McGrath pictured ahead of the Budget Phone-in on RTÉ Radio 1's Today with Claire Byrne show. Photo: Colin Keegan/Collins Agency

Budget 2023

Budget 2023: The timeline for when the new measures that were announced come into effect

Paschal Donohoe and Michael McGrath yesterday revealed an €11bn Budget to see the country through the next 12 months of uncertainty.

Justice Minister Helen McEntee said she is confident garda recruitment targets will be met. Photo: Gerry Mooney

Budget 2023

A Budget pledge broken: Just over half of the 800 Garda recruits promised for this year will be delivered

The Government will fall significantly short of its Garda recruitment targets for 2022.

Children's Minister Roderic O'Gorman. Photo: Gareth Chaney/Collins

Politics

New register for childminders should let parents access grants

A new scheme to provide for the simplified registration of thousands of childminders promises to help parents to access Government subsidies for the first time.

Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe TD walking to the Dail yesterday. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Budget 2023

Budget 2023 calculator: Find out what the giveaway budget is worth to you

‘I’m living out of my car because I can’t get accommodation for college’

Gallery Budget 2023: ‘There are people who are not getting the same benefits as the rest’ – Paschal Donohoe and Michael McGrath are taken to task by angry public

‘If I increase prices to cover energy costs, I will simply lose customers’ – restaurant owner says Vat move disappointing

Featured

Party central: Ophelia Lovibond as Carrie Symonds and Kenneth Branagh as Boris Johnson in This England

Television

TV review: Kenneth Branagh as Boris in This England is great television. I just wish we saw more of him

There has been a lot of fuss about Kenneth Branagh playing Boris Johnson in the new drama series This England. There have been newspaper articles and photoshoots galore, with Branagh in prosthetics and padding and miraculous make-up. But the problem is that there isn’t enough of the Branagh/Boris in This England (Sky Atlantic, Wednesdays), which is essentially a Covid drama.

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Garth Brooks stunned by Lisa McHugh's 'beautiful' cover of The River

Glen McManus of St Joseph's GAA Club.

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Wexford GAA mentor at the centre of alleged assault on ref apologises but insists ‘I didn’t throw a punch or elbow him’

'It was with a heavy heart I had to come to terms with the fact that my daughter is a hipster.' Picture posed

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Bill Linnane Opinion My daughter finally went and got tattoos — not even the wise words of Ozzy Osbourne could dissuade her

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Celebrity News

Vogue Williams says she lost virginity at 18 to man (27) who ‘picked me up in school uniform’

John Cooney stood out for Ulster in the win over the Scarlets. Image: Sportsfile.

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Brendan Fanning Opinion Ulster and Munster's contrasting games highlight all that is good - and bad - about modern rugby

Aer Lingus Cabin Crew members Oisin Leong and Kellie Woods with Aer Lingus First Officer Conor Murray as Aer Lingus took delivery of its first Airbus A320neo aircraft (registration EI-NSA, named Saint Thomas). Photo: Fennell Photography

Travel News

Aer Lingus announces new flights from Dublin Airport to Cleveland, USA

Ukraine

Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney and former EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier speaking to the media at Iveagh House.

Politics

Energy crisis will not end with the war in Ukraine, warns Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney

Gallery Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev says threat of nuclear strikes ‘not a bluff’

We should not conscript hairdressers, surgeons and musicians, say state TV warmongers as they turn on Vladimir Putin

Putin ‘likely to announce accession of occupied regions of Ukraine this Friday’; leaks found in Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline

Facebook parent Meta disables Russian propaganda network targeting Europe

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Opinion & Analysis

Vladimir Putin has threatened to use nuclear weapons but whether he's bluffing remains to be seen. Photo: Sputnik

Europe Premium

Truth or bluff? Why Vladimir Putin’s nuclear warnings have the West more worried than we might believe

Taoiseach Micheal Martin arriving at the Dáil for yesterday's Budget. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

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Richard Curran Opinion We’re worryingly reliant on tax revenue that just a few multinationals bring. But don’t worry, we have plenty of money – for now

Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe with ECB president Christine Lagarde, who said this week that the economic outlook “is darkening”. Photo: Marty Katz

Budget 2023

Growth sting: Inflation is heading for double digits this year and there’s a 2008 level of pessimism forecast for next year

The Government is throwing money at the energy crisis but will it work if the Vladimir Putin premium keeps rising?

Charlie Weston

As sterling sinks to a new low against the dollar, we should all be rather concerned

Ian O'Doherty

Squeezed middle shown some love as dig-outs give breathing space to struggling families

Mary McCarthy

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Is it still worth it for companies to set up a stand at the Ploughing? Photo: Barbara Lindberg

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Angus Woods Opinion Has the Ploughing Championships passed its peak?

It was great to be back at the Ploughing after the years missed because of Covid.

Main man: Teagasc director Prof Frank O’Mara at the Ploughing. Photos: Roger Jones

News Premium

‘Business as usual’ attitude won’t achieve 25pc emissions cut – O’Mara

Crowds on the first day of the National Ploughing Championships in Ratheniska, Co Laois, Pic:Mark Condren 20.9.2022

Farming

Half of farmers would reduce livestock if Government paid them

Agriculture Minister Charlie McConalogue

News

Budget 2023: Agriculture Minister Charlie McConalogue to unveil new beef and energy schemes

Solar panels and liquid fertiliser: Helen Harris on her tillage farm at Clane, Co Kildare. Photos: Lorraine O'Sullivan

Rural Life Premium

Input cost crisis: How these farmers are cutting their bills

Sport

Ireland's Aaron Connolly is pictured after the UEFA European U21 Championship play-off second leg defeat to Israel at Bloomfield Stadium in Tel Aviv, Israel. Photo by Seb Daly/Sportsfile

International Soccer

'We're devastated' - Captain Conor Coventry hails Ireland U21s in Euro play-off penalties defeat to Israel

Robbie Brady of Republic of Ireland celebrates with team-mates Alan Browne, left, and Nathan Collins, right, after scoring their side's third goal during the UEFA Nations League B Group 1 match

International Soccer

Ireland player ratings: Collins, Obafemi and O’Shea the stand-out performers on difficult night for Boys in Green

Ultimate irony: Ciarán Frawley won't be in South Africa with the Emerging Ireland touring side. Photo: Sportsfile

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Tony Ward Opinion Why this Emerging Ireland tour is taking place still remains a mystery to me

David Fitzgerald is looking forward to a 15th season as an inter-county manager having returned for a second stint in charge of Waterford

Hurling

‘I reckon that’s a load of bulls**t. Who came up with that saying?’

Robbie Brady celebrates with team doctor Alan Byrne after the UEFA Nations League B Group 1 win over Armenia at Aviva Stadium in Dublin. Photo by Sam Barnes/Sportsfile

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Roy Curtis Opinion Robbie Brady’s triumphant Ireland return will keep the wolves from Stephen Kenny’s door for a little while longer

Robbie Henshaw has a lot of respect for the departing Stuart Lancaster, who will join Racing 92 at the end of the season, and says the former England head coach has had a huge influence on his career. Photo: Sportsfile

Rugby

It's ‘tough’ to see Stuart Lancaster leave, but Leinster will bounce back – Robbie Henshaw

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Budget 2023: 11 ways the Budget will put money in your pocket

Khloe Kardashian and her baby. Photo: Hulu

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Kirsty Blake Knox Opinion I have limited time for the Kardashians, but who begrudges a mother holding a newborn in bed?

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Celebrity News

Graham Norton reveals why he declined offer to skip queue to see Queen lying in state

Maria Barker recommends taking time to slow down and unwind. Photo: Jonathan Goldberg

Life Premium

‘Bipolar disorder doesn’t need a trigger or trauma that ordinary life can bring. It has a mind of its own’

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The Big Tech Show

The Big Tech Show: How a bank card was scammed with a phone

Fine Gael Junior Minister Peter Burke (left) and Sinn Féin TD Matt Carthy.

Politics

The Indo Daily: heated row between Fine Gael’s Peter Burke and Sinn Féin TD Matt Carthy as podcast goes live at the Ploughing

Karl Henry with Mairead McGuinness

Real Health Podcast

The Real Health Podcast: Life Lessons with Mairead McGuinness

Jason Corbett, who was beaten to death in his home in August, 2015

The Indo Daily

The Indo Daily: His name was Jason - The killing of Jason Corbett and the Tom and Molly Martens retrial

Entertainment

The first-edition hardback of 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' which is valued at £150,000 (€168,000) in the auction. Photo: Propstore/PA

Books

Harry Potter first edition, wizard’s wand and Superman’s suit among thousands of memorabilia up for auction

Graham Norton

TV News

Graham Norton backs Glasgow as Eurovision host city because it’s ‘got the banter’

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Music News

Miley Cyrus, The Darkness and Def Leppard perform as Dave Grohl brings second Taylor Hawkins tribute concert to LA

Weapon of madness: Genevieve Hulme Beaman as Lucia Joyce in Edna O’Brien’s Joyce’s Women. Photo by Ros Kavanagh

Theatre & Arts

Joyce’s Women at the Abbey Theatre: Edna O’Brien creates a singular portrait of the artist

Don McLean

Entertainment

Hi, Mr American Pie – Don McLean coming to Newbridge

Evan Peters as serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer in Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story. Image: Netflix

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Jeffrey Dahmer: The true story behind depraved serial killer explored in Ryan Murphy’s new Netflix series

Style

The Duchess of Sussex meeting members of the public at Windsor Castle in Berkshire following the death of Queen Elizabeth II. PA

Britain

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex’s Archetypes podcast to return as royal mourning period ends

Khloe Kardashian and her baby. Photo: Hulu

Life Premium

Kirsty Blake Knox Opinion I have limited time for the Kardashians, but who begrudges a mother holding a newborn in bed?

Ella de Guzman of Siopaella specialises in designer bag resale. Photo: Gerry Mooney

Life Premium

Bags of potential: Why designer handbags make the ideal inflation-proof investment

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I never thought I would sit in a room full of strangers and say the words, ‘I am a sex addict’

Adam Levine

Sex & Relationships Premium

Why are men so bad at sexting?

Ellen Ryan has given myths a modern twist. Photo: Gerry Mooney

Books Premium

Ellen Ryan: How I reclaimed the forgotten goddesses of Ireland’s rich historic past

Travel

A Qatar Airways Airbus A350-900. Photo: Deposit

Travel News

Revealed: The world’s best airlines for 2022, and where Ryanair and Aer Lingus rank

Toronto SKyline. Photo: Deposit

Travel News

Canada to drop all Covid travel restrictions from October 1

An elegant bedroom in Killarney's Cahernane House Hotel

Hotel Reviews

Hotel Review: Killarney’s ‘best-kept secret’ gets a €7.8m makeover

Crowds at a busy intersection in Ginza, Tokyo. Photo: Pól Ó Conghaile

Travel News

Japan set to ease Covid travel restrictions next month

Hong Kong skyline at night. Picture by Leung Cho Pan

Travel News

Hong Kong airfares skyrocket as hotel quarantine set to end

Hot 100 Hotels: Adare Manor

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Revealed: Ireland’s 100 best hotels for 2022, from budget gems to five-star luxury