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Monday 18 February 2019

Brexit, we are increasingly told, is what is keeping the current hybrid and ramshackle Dáil and Government together and in office. Stock photo: Niall Carson/PA

John Downing: 'Our hybrid Government is well beyond its sell-by date - but Brexit makes it duty-bound to struggle on'

For some of us it has been a very short three years, as the evaporating weeks quickly turned into months and became years. Others will argue that the time has dragged by with leaden feet.

Standing together: Bronagh Murphy and Orlagh McCormack on strike with the nurses and midwives at the Coombe Hospital. Photo: Kyran O’Brien

Comment

Lorraine Courtney: 'Our tax system must be redesigned so the young are not left to pay such a heavy price'

The recent nurses strike was supposed to be all about retaining healthcare graduates and we shouldn't just forget about that now. It's clear that the money we spend training young doctors and nurses is going to...

'Through stinging hailstones, blazing sun and wicked midge bites, we stand patiently, rod in hand, always content in surroundings that are never less than bewitching.' Stock Image

Comment

John Daly: 'Hooked on outwitting a slippery prey'

Up and down the country this week a multitude of hearts and fingers are thrumming and twitching to the rhythm of a climatic spring melody drifting alluringly across the waters and the wild.

Editorial

Editorial: 'Our political culture is in need of a full-scale reboot'

Let us be honest. Nobody, least of all its principals, quite expected this strange hybrid-minority Coalition to last the greater part of three years.

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg. Photo: Getty

Letters

Letters to the Editor: 'Children should continue the climate crusade at weekends'

Greta Thunberg’s idealism is hard not to admire (‘Take action on climate, children urge politicians’, Irish Independent, February 14).

Time to celebrate: Jobs are easier to find for new graduates. Stock Image

Comment

Katherine Donnelly: 'Students graduating into healthy economy but challenges lie ahead'

The ease with which graduates walk straight into a job, and one for which they have been educated, is a key barometer of national fortunes.

Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid. Photo: REUTERS/Ints Kalnins

Comment

Kevin Doyle: 'Hard reality check is needed on both sides of the Irish Sea'

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is not famed for 'working the room' - but he is going to have to take on the British prime minister in a game of schmoozing this week.

SNARL-UP: Traffic congestion is an inevitable cost of having a successful and attractive city. Stock picture

Comment

Conor Skehan: 'Q: How do we fix Dublin's traffic problems? A: Start in Galway'

Traffic jams are like strokes and heart attacks - caused by blockages. When I was young, they seemed to be the most common reason for funerals. Mourners, back then, would dream that...

We're on the road to nowhere - city is one of world's worst congested

DISGRACED: Former US cardinal Theodore McCarrick who was defrocked by Pope Francis
yesterday over accusations he sexually abused minors 50 years ago. Picture: AFP/Getty

Comment

Paddy Agnew: 'Is Dan Brown writing the script at Vatican?'

The only question to be asked around the Vatican this week is who is writing the script - Dan Brown or Robert Harris?

REPRESSION: Ayatollah Khomeini addresses an audience in the airport building in Tehran in February 1979 following his arrival from 14 years of exile

Comment

Eoghan Harris: 'Irish silence only condones Imam Khomeini's killing cranes in Iran'

My own policy for making peace is very simple: speak loudly about crimes committed by your own side, and shame the other side into doing the same - if they don't you win the battle of world opinion.

IRA: A statue of Sean Russell in Fairview Park, Dublin, was decapitated in 2005. Its replacement was also vandalised

Comment

Ruth Dudley Edwards: 'Yet another memorial to why Sinn Fein is not fit to govern'

'I want to build a Belfast, which is a City for All," wrote SDLP Councillor Tim Attwood in a recent letter to a Belfast newspaper, protesting about an attack in Belfast City Council on the late Paddy Devlin - one of those proposed by all parties except Sinn Fein as a suitable subject for a commemorative...

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Kevin Doyle: 'Hard reality check is needed on both sides of the Irish Sea' Comment

Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar TD and the UK Prime Minister Theresa May Photo: Maxwell

Kevin Doyle: 'We might have backed wrong horse by placing blind faith in May as... Comment

Lorraine Courtney: 'Our tax system must be redesigned so the young are not left to pay... Comment

John Downing: 'Our hybrid Government is well beyond its sell-by date - but Brexit... Comment

It also shows that the gender pay gap remains an issue for graduates, with a difference of almost €4,000 recorded between young men’s and women’s pay. Stock Image: PA

Teachers top the pay league for new graduates but gender pay gap remains Education

Spring cycle: Corinna Flood from Raheny with her children twins Ben and Louis (5) and Oliver, (3) at St Anne’s Park, Raheny, Dublin. Photo: Caroline Quinn

Ireland to be hotter than the French Riviera as temperatures set to reach 15C Weather

‘This is not a cut at individual players. CJ Stander is an obvious example. I love his style and commitment, but that still doesn’t make him Irish and certainly doesn’t make the system right’ Photo by Ramsey Cardy/Sportsfile

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Shane Ross: Transport Minister was questioned over insurance. Photo: Gareth Chaney, Collins

Thousands seek green cards to drive in UK as insurers waive fees Brexit

Vision: An artist’s impression of the new hospital

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John Downing: 'Our hybrid Government is well beyond its sell-by date - but Brexit makes it duty-bound to struggle on'

Lorraine Courtney: 'Our tax system must be redesigned so the young are not left to pay such a heavy price'

John Daly: 'Hooked on outwitting a slippery prey'

Editorial: 'Our political culture is in need of a full-scale reboot'

Letters to the Editor: 'Children should continue the climate crusade at weekends'

Katherine Donnelly: 'Students graduating into healthy economy but challenges lie ahead'

Kevin Doyle: 'Hard reality check is needed on both sides of the Irish Sea'

Conor Skehan: 'Q: How do we fix Dublin's traffic problems? A: Start in Galway'

Paddy Agnew: 'Is Dan Brown writing the script at Vatican?'

Eoghan Harris: 'Irish silence only condones Imam Khomeini's killing cranes in Iran'

Ruth Dudley Edwards: 'Yet another memorial to why Sinn Fein is not fit to govern'

Ciara Kelly: 'I have often thought I'm just like a bloke... in a 'couldn't care less... Opinion

Kevin Doyle: 'Hard reality check is needed on both sides of the Irish Sea' Comment

Kevin Doyle: 'We might have backed wrong horse by placing blind faith in May as... Comment

Lorraine Courtney: 'Our tax system must be redesigned so the young are not left to pay... Comment

John Downing: 'Our hybrid Government is well beyond its sell-by date - but Brexit... Comment

Teachers top the pay league for new graduates but gender pay gap remains Education

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Tony Ward: 'Great players though they are, 'Paddy-come-latelies' are benefiting from... Other Rugby

Thousands seek green cards to drive in UK as insurers waive fees Brexit

Construction firm behind children's hospital gave Taoiseach two-hour ultimatum for apology Politics

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Lorraine Courtney: 'Our tax system must be redesigned so the young are not...

Paddy Agnew: 'Is Dan Brown writing the script at Vatican?'

Comment

John Daly: 'Hooked on outwitting a slippery prey'

Lorraine Courtney: 'Our tax system must be redesigned so the young are not left to pay such a heavy price'

Kevin Doyle: 'Hard reality check is needed on both sides of the Irish Sea'

Katherine Donnelly: 'Students graduating into healthy economy but challenges lie ahead'

Conor Skehan: 'Q: How do we fix Dublin's traffic problems? A: Start in Galway'

Eoghan Harris: 'Irish silence only condones Imam Khomeini's killing cranes in Iran'

Ruth Dudley Edwards: 'Yet another memorial to why Sinn Fein is not fit to govern'

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This Man's Life: 'My mind reeling on the 'freeway' to Cork with Baby Shark on a loop'

Sophie Donaldson: 'Jen throws a fab 50 and embraces the ex-factor'

Columnists

Colm McCarthy: 'Punishing Ireland will only send carbon emissions higher still'

Colm McCarthy: 'Punishing Ireland will only send carbon emissions higher still'

Gene Kerrigan: 'We're being governed by D'Unbelievables'

Thy Kingdom come - all the way to London

John Downing: 'Two things we do not need: an early election and further delays in the children's hospital project'

John Masterson: 'Setting my body and mind clocks back to home'

Fab Gabriel to light up London with pal John

Roddy Doyle's Charlie Savage: 'We were turned down for a mortage but then the bank manager had a heart attack'

Mary Kenny: 'The Oireachtas proposes revising sex education. But can the full truth about sexuality ever be taught?'

Ian O'Doherty: 'We've gone back to the future with all the nuclear sabre rattling'

Letters

Letters to the Editor: 'Children should continue the climate crusade at weekends'

Letters to the Editor: 'Our forgotten heroes'

Letters to the Editor: 'Brexit has opened up all the old paranoias in North – and know-nothing Tories are to blame'

Letters to the Editor: 'Church should go back to the spiritualism of its past'

Letters to the Editor: 'My answer to the NCH fiasco comes for cut-price fee of €15'

Letters to the Editor: 'If only Hume was still showing way'

Letters to the Editor: 'The people of Ireland know nurses are striking to achieve a better health service for everyone'

Letters to the Editor: 'Despite their assurances, we shouldn’t naïvely trust EU'

Letters to the Editor: 'Forgotten election was seismic event in shaping our future'

Letters to the Editor: 'New waste crackdown is like a return of the Poor Laws'

Editorial

Editorial: 'Our political culture is in need of a full-scale reboot'

Editorial: 'Martin's FF critics need to face reality'

Editorial: 'Preoccupation with PR will backfire for government'

Editorial: 'EU cannot allow us to burn as may fiddles over brexit'

Editorial: 'Time has come for the UK and EU to signal a Brexit delay'

Editorial: 'Welcome news on rental inflation'

Editorial: 'No universal agreement on absolving Harris of his sins'

Editorial: 'Ill wind of low growth blows good for mortgages'

Editorial: 'The importance of the EU being earnest with Mrs May'

Editorial: 'This is no time for the EU to deliver a different message'