Can we hold off on the Christmas celebrations until Christmas?

Weirdly, tree thefts show how much we value our Christmas traditions

Spoils of war – Ray Burke on Crimean War cannons in Irish towns

Gardaí are appealing for information after the theft of an All-Ireland Hurling winners medal from 1948 occured on Friday

An appeal for information has been launched after an All-Ireland hurling medal from 1948 was stol...

Ireland were edged 59-56 by Netherlands in FIBA Women’s EuroBasket 2023 Qualifiers

IRELAND FELL TO an agonising 59-56 defeat to the Netherlands, after leading for the majority of t...

Eddie Hearn has claimed that a deal for Katie Taylor to fight in Croke Park is getting closer

LEGENDARY BOXING PROMOTER Eddie Hearn has claimed today that Katie Taylor's long awaited fight in...

Leinster's Robbie Henshaw is out until the new year due to wrist injury

LEO CULLEN has provided fresh injury updates for Leinster supporters today and it is not good new...

Seamus Power and Shane Lowry have been included in the Great Britain & Ireland Hero Cup team for next January

BOTH SEAMUS POWER AND SHANE LOWRY have been included in the Great Britain and Ireland team to fac...

Kevin Kilbane claims his former teammate was'xenophobic' over a Canadian TV role jibe

FORMER IRELAND INTERNATIONAL Kevin Kilbane has accused a former teammate of being xenophob...

Hall of Famer Linda Gorman dreams of World Cup glory for Ireland's women's team next year

FAI Hall of Fame inductee Linda Gorman believes her dreams will come true again next year when Ve...

This beef and Guinness stew recipe is the perfect way to warm yourself up this winter

STEW is classically Irish. Guinness is classically Irish. Great taste is classically Irish. Why n...

Data Protection Commission fines Meta €265 million due to personal data breach

IRELAND'S DATA Protect Commission (DPC) regulator has imposed a €265 million fine on social media...

Threatening big stick measures won't work

Many, many moons ago, when loyalists tried to destroy power-sharing, wreck the economy and intimidate the public of Northern Ireland, the then...

We need to be honest with the public over hospital changes

Not surprisingly there has been anger, dismay, fear and confusion since it was announced by the Western Health and Social Care Trust that emergency...

If I stare death in the face, I’d want the option to end my life

THE results of a new poll commissioned by Dignity in Dying in the UK, and published this month, found 72% of people who have seen a terminally ill...

Can magic mushroom potion be a remedy for depression?

MOST of us are well aware that depression is an all-too-common problem in our society. While rates spiked during Covid lockdowns, the truth is that...

Andrée Viollis in Ireland – A French journalist’s view of the Civil War

Life in Ukraine: 'When soldiers broke into my mother's house, she simply asked not to kill her'

“TODAY, MY DOG’S stroller broke down. I don’t know how I’m going to walk him now,” Nataliya, a 70-year-old pensioner, tells her daughter....

Money Diaries: A mum with a young family who recently moved home to Ireland after 15 years away

WELCOME TO HOW I Spend My Money, a series on The Journal that looks at how people in Ireland really handle their finances. We’re asking readers...

Keano going at it while RTÉ's new panel comes out of the shadows

A leak that took seven years to fix - no wonder I hit the roof!

IT’S an undeniable truth that we all tend to see things through our own, rather narrow lens, but sometimes life treats you to the odd flash of...

John Walsh: Housing crisis is poised to deepen as supply of funding is increasingly constrained

With public sector debt at €240 billion, private sector funding limited, developers facing eroding profits and institutional investment on the...

Removal of state supports may reveal a worrying wobble in SME sector

While our eyes have been diverted to the giant tech companies and their recent job cuts, have we missed a wider underlying problem with our small...

Matt Cooper: Fifa’s dirty laundry includes a load of blatant World Cup greenwashing

The world football organiser claims the 2022 World Cup in Qatar is ‘a fully carbon-neutral event’, but there are arguments that the tournament...

EU must put its money where its mouth is on Green Deal

US president Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act should prompt Europe to switch its rules on state aid and subsidise clean-tech industries that...

Editorial: Cable reminds us of the power of the European connection

The Celtic Interconnector symbolises Ireland’s strengthening ties with our European partners and helps us acknowledge what we owe to the EU

Mild recession clouds gather with a low level of job losses

Most economic forecasters expect economies to stagnate next year but rates of joblessness are predicted to remain low

Our ‘hidden waiting list’ of delays in access to medicines is costing lives

An independent review of our entire drugs reimbursement system is urgently needed as patients wait far longer here for new drugs than in most of...

Tom Maguire: Why it’s important to KEEP going on employee share options

Amendments to the Key Employee Engagement Programme qualification conditions and extension of the scheme to 2025 are positive moves, but there’s...

This working life: Time out of work means money out of your pension

Job sharing, unpaid parental leave and reduced hours may be attractive ways to improve work-life balance, but they must be considered when planning...

Marion McKeone: Last of the young guns battles to win over the Maga zealots

It seems GOP minority leader Kevin McCarthy is willing to do pretty much anything to secure the role of House speaker, one he has coveted for over...

Judicial review process in clear need of a complete overhaul

The current expensive and sluggish planning laws allow critical infrastructure and housing developments to be held up for years