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One of the two women rescued in Galway Bay wave as they taken off the Coast Guard helicopter at UCHG. Photograph by Aengus McMahon

Irish News

Exclusive: 'I’m so happy. I had given up' – father of rescued paddle boarder on moment cousins found alive

JOHNNY Glynn raised his arms to heaven and wailed "They're alive".

Aaron Brady was found guilty of the capital murder of Adrian Donohoe on August 12th 2020

Courts

Admissions of guilt, a tissue of lies and overwhelming circumstantial evidence were key to the case against Aaron Brady

Emily McDonald

Education

'I can't even go food shopping but I'm expected to sit in an exam hall full of people'

Testing times: Members of the Munster squad face an anxious wait to see if anyone else reports symptoms of coronavirus. Photo by Matt Browne/Sportsfile

Munster Rugby Premium

Cian Tracey Opinion Munster's Covid case highlights how rugby's restart is balanced on a knife-edge

Local fisherman Patrick Oliver with his son Morgan, who rescued the two ladies in the sea pictured with members of Galway Lifeboat
Photo: Ray Ryan

Irish News

'Not panicking helped them survive' - hero fisherman who rescued paddleboarders after 15 hours stranded at sea at Galway

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Sex & Relationships Premium

Ask the therapist: Should I tell my husband I had sex with another man?

Headlines

Dr Ronan Glynn

Coronavirus

Coronavirus Ireland: 92 new cases confirmed, no further deaths

Irish subscribers to the Eir TV package were unable to watch the Champions League tonight due to a dispute with Virgin Media. Lluis Gene/Pool via REUTERS

Champions League

Virgin Media vs eir Sport: Dispute over 'millions of Euro' sees Irish fans miss out on Champions League action

Taoiseach Micheal Martin and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson greet each other with an elbow bump at Hillsborough Castle, in Belfast
Brian Lawless/Pool via Reuters

Politics

Taoiseach says 'landing zone' on free trade deal emerging in Brexit talks with UK

New cases: New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern - a resurgence of Covid in her remote island nation has dealt a blow to the idea that we seal Ireland off from the rest of the world. Photo: Mark Mitchell/New Zealand Herald via AP

Comment Premium

Dan O'Brien Opinion We can't hide from virus forever - those of us at low risk need to get back to work

Around 300 staff at a Greencore sandwich factory in the UK have been diagnosed with Covid-19 (Ben Birchall/PA)

Coronavirus

300 staff at Greencore's Northampton plant diagnosed with coronavirus

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Coronavirus

Covid-19 can survive longer on lunchboxes and pencil cases than on school uniforms, virologist says

Irish News

Body of man (35) discovered in Cork city identified as gardaí appeal for information

Irish News

'Substantial' reward and song from singing priest offered as reward for return of 'priceless' historic gem

Dispute: Healthcare assistant Liz Meade protests alongside fellow staff at St Monica’s Nursing Home in Belvedere Place, Dublin, one of three facilities shutting down with the loss of 180 jobs. Photo: Steve Humphreys

Health

Nuns urged to 'pay up' as staff at three nursing homes face redundancy

On the march: Beijing has come down sharply in Hong Kong on dissenters against the new laws imposed on the former British colony. Photo: REUTERS/Tyrone Siu

Comment Premium

Sinn Fein faces questions as MEP abstains from condemnation of Hong Kong crackdown

Adrian Donohoe Murder Trial

Aaron Brady, of Monog Road, Crossmaglen, Co Armagh. A jury found him guilty of capital murder of Adrian Donohoe on 12th August 2020. Pic: Collins Courts

Courts Premium

Adrian Donohoe murder trial: Who are the other suspects and will they be prosecuted?

Video Paul Williams: The murder of Adrian Donohoe

Video Aaron Brady was ‘driving an Audi and living a nice life’ in New York, says former NYPD detective

Premium

Gallery exclusive Touts, rats and death threats:' Dirtiest trial ever' was marked by 'outrageous' campaign to intimidate the witnesses'

Adrian Donohoe was 'honest, reliable and a gentle giant' who will never be forgotten

Featured

Brenda Fricker, My Left Foot

Books Premium

Martyr, mockery, mammy: How the iconisation of the mother has stereotyped women - but 'Irish Mammies' are finally finding their voice

In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf suggested that "we think back through our mothers if we are women. It is useless to go to the great men writers for help, however much one may go to them for pleasure."

Top gun: Video game ‘Fortnite’

World News

Fortnite maker sues Apple after removal of game from App Store

Apple Inc on Thursday removed popular video game "Fortnite" from its App Store for violating the company's in-app payment guidelines, prompting developer Epic Games to initiate legal action against the iPhone maker.

Video

Socially distant concert takes place in Newcastle

A new design by Fiona Heaney of FeeG

Business Premium

Bairbre Power: More casual, more digital, less throw-away: fashion industry is being redesigned by lockdown

After an enforced spell on the sidelines due to a hip injury, Seán O’Brien is looking forward to lining out in the English Premiership with his new London Irish team-mates. Photo: Sportsfile

Rugby

'If the rule wasn't there, would I love to play for Ireland? Of course, I would'

Harry and Meghan have moved to Santa Barbara with son Archie (Toby Melville/PA)

Celebrity

Meghan and Harry buy plush €12m Santa Barbara mansion with home theatre and spa

Coronavirus: In Focus

Cyclist Ciaran Breslin said he only let his guard down twice

Coronavirus

'I am a fit ultra cyclist and took all precautions yet I was floored by coronavirus' - Ciaran Breslin (36)

A Covid-19 compliance officer who caught coronavirus is urging people to obey public health rules and to realise how easy it is to be hit with the virus.

Balance of risk: Acting chief medical officer Dr Ronan Glynn says it is inevitable that some children will contract the virus when they return to school. Photo: Gareth Chaney, Collins

Coronavirus

Increasing number of Covid-19 cases outside of locked-down counties 'a concern'

Counties outside Kildare, Laois and Offaly should take heed of public health advice following a rise in cases outside the locked-down counties, acting chief medical officer Dr Ronan Glynn has said.

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Coronavirus

'I've never seen a disease like it' - Oxford expert warns Dáil Covid committee over coronavirus risk in nursing homes

An Oxford professor says he has never seen a disease like Covid-19 for seeking out the elderly to kill.

Primary school children will be sectioned off into pods of between four and six pupils in classes and separated by at least a metre from their classmates. Photo: Jacob King/PA Wire

Education Premium

Revealed: What happens if classrooms are hit by a Covid cluster

It takes only two cases to define a Covid-19 cluster in a single setting. With more than a million students returning to classrooms and lecture halls in the next few weeks, as well as tens of thousands of staff, it is a statistical certainty that the education system will not be immune to such outbreaks

Business Week

Glanbia CEO Siobhan Talbot

Irish

Glanbia hit by Covid crisis, but eyes long-term lift on health focus

Glanbia chief executive Siobhan Talbot has insisted the group will benefit from an increased focus by consumers on well-being, even as the company's profits were hammered during the second quarter as lockdowns played havoc with key markets.

Opportunity: From study in Szczecin, Poland to working for Irish Water

Irish Premium

This Working Life: 'Water management is so much more than simply turning a tap'

Growing up in Nowa Sol in Poland I loved science experiments and would always get chemistry kits for my birthday and my dad even built me a small lab. I remember aged ten pretending to treat water from the river using a filter process using a sock and sand.

Google Pixel 4a smartphone

Reviews Premium

Tech review: Google’s new Pixel is one of the best budget phones you can buy

Most mid-tier or budget phones have things to recommend them. And most of them have sacrifices.

Clouds on the horizon: The European Central Bank HQ in Frankfurt

Irish Premium

David Chance Opinion David Chance: Negative rates are here to stay as debt levels ramp up

If it was a shock last week when Bank of Ireland announced it would start charging small and medium companies to hold funds on deposit, it should have not have been a surprise.

Editor's Choice

Aaron Brady

Courts

Aaron Brady: The low-level criminal who grew to wear murder of Adrian Donohoe like a badge of honour

Ballinla Farm, Edenderry, Co Offaly

Leinster Farm Sales

Offaly farm sells for €11m at auction amid 'meteoric' interest from public

Up close and personal: The new book about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle offers insight into the early stages of their romance, their struggles within the royal family and their relationships with those close to them. PHOTO: DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS/Getty Images

Celebrity Premium

Fights, fall outs and announcing her pregnancy at Princess Eugenie's wedding - 13 things we learn about Meghan and Harry in royal tell-all book

The Seanad chamber. Photo: Alan Betson

Politics Premium

€240k travel expenses for senators during lockdown - despite upper house being closed

Sport

Leipzig's Tyler Adams celebrates scoring the winning goal in the Champions League quarter-final against Atletico Madrid. (Lluis Gene/Pool Photo via AP)

Champions League

Atletico's dream dashed as RB Leipzig strike late to book Champions League semi-final place

He Knows No Fear, with Chris Hayes up, left, races past Agitare, to win the Irish Stallion Farms EBF maiden 3 year old plus race at Leopardstown in Dublin at 300/1. Photo by David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile

Horse Racing

'This may not occur again in my lifetime' - 300/1 horse sets new Irish record for longest-priced winner

Mark Selby hit back impressively against Ronnie O'Sullivan to take a 9-7 lead after two sessions.

Snooker

Ronnie O'Sullivan takes frustrations out on the table as Mark Selby hits back in world semi-final

Nicholas Roche will be taking part in a unique virtual event that will take place on the Zwift online cycling platform to celebrate the 2020 Tour de France.

Cycling

Ride the Irish Independent Zwift special event with Nicholas Roche on August 20

12 August 2020; Zelfa Barrett and Eric Donovan, right, with promoter Eddie Hearn during a press conference at Matchroom Fight Camp in Brentwood, Essex, England, ahead of their IBF Inter-Continental Super Feather Title clash on Friday Night. Photo by Mark Robinson / Matchroom Boxing via Sportsfile

Boxing

What time, what channel and what's at stake - all you need to know about the biggest fight of Eric Donovan's career

Play it again for Sam: Clones was supposed to host Monaghan’s Ulster SFC clash with Cavan in May, a game that is now scheduled for the last weekend in October. Photo: Sportsfile

GAA Premium

Dick Clerkin Opinion National show must go on - no matter how bad the GAA's finances are

Podcasts

TD Michael Healy-Rae. Photo: Tom Burke

The Floating Voter

The Floating Voter: Michael Healy-Rae won’t make customers wear masks in his shop

The Big Tech Show

The Big Tech Show: Go big or go home, how to raise millions abroad

This week, Adrian talks to Alan Holland, founder and CEO of Cork-based Keelvar, a procurement AI technology firm that recently raised €16m in a funding round.

Real Health Podcast

The Real Health Podcast: What if you had a second chance at life? Brian Pennie’s tips for living life on your terms

Opinion & Analysis

New cases: New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern - a resurgence of Covid in her remote island nation has dealt a blow to the idea that we seal Ireland off from the rest of the world. Photo: Mark Mitchell/New Zealand Herald via AP

Comment Premium

Dan O'Brien Opinion We can't hide from virus forever - those of us at low risk need to get back to work

On the march: Beijing has come down sharply in Hong Kong on dissenters against the new laws imposed on the former British colony. Photo: REUTERS/Tyrone Siu

Comment Premium

SF faces questions as MEP abstains from condemnation of Hong Kong crackdown

Clouds on the horizon: The European Central Bank HQ in Frankfurt

Irish Premium

David Chance Opinion Negative rates are here to stay as debt levels ramp up

As a nation we need to talk about grief

Roslyn Dee

Department bureaucrats seem to be using Covid crisis to punish fee-paying schools

Ronan Mullen

As first black and Asian female on presidential ticket, Harris will have to break rules of how women in politics are perceived

Videos

Man (20s) dies after stabbing incident at house in Clontarf

Micheál Martin meets Boris Johnson for first time as Taoiseach

Heart-stopping moment wheelchair user is pulled from tracks as oncoming train approaches

Paul Williams: The murder of Adrian Donohue

Explainer: The colour-code system for Covid-19 outbreaks

Life

Keeping it local: Auriel Robinson runs Seatrails at Streedagh Beach in Co Sligo. Photo: James Connolly

Ireland Premium

Welcome to my patch: Meet the locals-turned-tour guides unlocking hidden gems for tourists

We don’t think that face mask will cut it

Sex & Relationships Premium

You can try telling people how to have sex in a pandemic, but they won't listen

One of the best ways to keep children safe from Covid-19 is to simply encourage regular handwashing

Parenting

A September like no other: How to help your kids settle back in to life at school

Blades of glory: Daniela Sinnott and her daughter Molly in Father Collins Park in Clongriffin, Dublin. Picture: Arthur Carr

Health & Wellbeing

Skater girls: Why rollerblading is this summer's hot trend

Country roads: ‘I eventually want to move home for good. To hopefully live in my own home, though,’ says Amy. Picture: Arthur Carron

Life Premium

'You can't beat that culchie sense of solidarity' - why I'll swap Dublin for country living

Vogue and Spencer

Parenting

En Vogue: How best to decide on your baby's name

Style

Fashion Premium

How this H&M dress became the summer's big hit

Up close and personal: The new book about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle offers insight into the early stages of their romance, their struggles within the royal family and their relationships with those close to them. PHOTO: DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS/Getty Images

Celebrity Premium

Fights, fall outs and announcing her pregnancy at Princess Eugenie's wedding - 13 things we learn about Meghan and Harry in royal tell-all book

Photo: Getty Images

Celebrity News

Baby joy for Ed Sheeran and his wife Cherry

Stefanie Preissner

Voices Premium

Stefanie Preissner Opinion I don't want to be alone with my shame any more - the cafe trip that left me #morto

(Photo by DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS/AFP via Getty Images)

Celebrity

Meghan Markle trained to curtsy and survive kidnapping, new book claims

Kylie Jenner kept her baby news secret from her fans for the duration of her pregnancy (Ian West/PA)

Celebrity

Thirteen of the biggest celebrity baby announcements

Entertainment

Acrobatic wit: Belfast-based author Susannah Dickey. Photo by James Dickey

Books

'There's an enthusiasm for writing about the messiness and uncertainties of sex'

Social distance: Aidan Turner as Leonardo da Vinci and Matilda De Angelise as his muse Caterina of Cremona. Photo: PA

Irish News

Aidan Turner's historical drama 'Leonardo' has coronavirus precautions down to a fine art

I propose a toast: Christine Quinn met her tech baron fiancé Christian Richard while showing him a house on ‘Selling Sunset’

Television Premium

Not hooked on 'Selling Sunset' yet? Here's why you soon will be

Fair City's Nyree Yergainharsian and George McMahon pictured in 2017

TV News

'We all wear our masks to the shops and sanitise our hands in the scenes' - how Fair City will reflect pandemic life as coronavirus is written into revamped soap

People during the Sam Fender concert at the Virgin Money Unity Arena, a pop-up venue in Gosforth Park, Newcastle. Fans in groups of up to five people are watching the show from 500 separate raised metal platforms at what the promoters say is the world's first socially-distanced gig. Photo: PA Media

Entertainment

UK's first socially distanced concert took place last night

Behind the scenes at Fair City (Photos: RTÉ Press Office)

Entertainment

Long-distance romance for Fair City couples as coronavirus written into revamped soap

Travel

If you go down to the woods...: A lodge at Cabü by the Lakes

Ireland Premium

Forget Center Parcs - Ireland's newest forest retreat gives cabin fever a whole new meaning

Limerick: Dolores O’Riordan of The Cranberries featured in an overlay mural near King John’s Castle. Mural: AchesDub Photo: Pól Ó Conghaile

Ireland

Ireland Unlocks: 10 great reasons to visit Limerick this summer

Family Get-togethers. Photo: Getty Images/Caiaimage

Ireland Premium

Top 25 family walks in Ireland: Get kids of all ages into the outdoors!

Park life: Journalist Orla Neligan and husband Alan with their children, twins Ruby and Martha (8) and Flynn (7) having a temperature check at Tayto Park. Photo: Mark Condren

Ireland Premium

Staycation Nation: What's it like to visit Ireland's museums, theme parks and attractions in the 'new normal'?

A cruise ship drops anchor. Stock Photo: Getty

Cruise

Cruising is still cancelled, but here's what holidaymakers can expect when it returns

Sheep near Portsalon Beach, Co. Donegal. Photo: Getty

Ireland Premium

100 great things to do in Ireland this summer - from secret beaches to flying boats

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