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Crime & Law CHRONIC OVERCROWDING IN PRISONS ALLOWS BULLIES TO ‘THRIVE’ AND WILL ONLY GET WORSE, MINISTER TO HEAR Subscriber Only NEWTON EMERSON: NOW IRELAND IS ROLLING IN CASH, WHO SHOULD PAY FOR A UNITED IRELAND? Courts LAW GRADUATE SENTENCED TO FOUR YEARS FOR RAPE OF STUDENT WHO WITHDREW CONSENT DURING SEX Politics ‘EARNERS WHO PAY TOO MUCH TAX’ TO BE PRIORITISED IN BUDGET, SAYS VARADKAR Subscriber Only PAYING FOR TWITTER BLUE HAS IRONICALLY ROBBED VERIFICATION OF VALUE OPINION LIEUT GEN SEÁN CLANCY: OUR PEOPLE FEEL SHAME AND ANGER. THE DEFENCE FORCES MUST CHANGE Chief of Staff on a 'watershed moment' and the transformation needed to build a Defence Forces of which Ireland can continue to be proud By Lieut Gen Seán Clancy ENGLISH NATIONALISM HAS NOTHING ON THE IRISH VARIETY By Finn McRedmond FROM HOME RULER MP TO ANTI-TREATY TD – BRIAN MAYE ON LAURENCE GINNELL NEWTON EMERSON NEWTON EMERSON: NOW IRELAND IS ROLLING IN CASH, WHO SHOULD PAY FOR A UNITED IRELAND? THE IRISH TIMES VIEW ON THE REPORT ON ABORTION LEGISLATION: A NATIONWIDE SERVICE IN NAME ONLY THE IRISH TIMES VIEW ON INDIA’S RISING POPULATION: OVERTAKING CHINA LATEST STORIES FORMER AUDITORS OF WIRECARD’S IRISH UNIT FINED AND REPRIMANDED TREVOR BRENNAN IS DEFINITELY SUPPORTING TOULOUSE THIS WEEKEND DESANTIS REJECTS DISNEY LAWSUIT AGAINST HIM AS POLITICAL MAN ARRESTED AS PART OF INQUIRY INTO GSOC INVESTIGATOR’S ATTENDANCE AT HUTCH PARTY TV VIEW: ARTETA’S ‘WINNING CULTURE’ FAILS TO MATERIALISE AT THE ETIHAD MOST READ 1 ‘I WAS OTHERED FROM THE AGE OF FOUR’: READERS SHARE THEIR STORIES OF NARCISSISTIC PARENTS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 LAW GRADUATE SENTENCED TO FOUR YEARS FOR RAPE OF STUDENT WHO WITHDREW CONSENT DURING SEX -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 PEACE BREAKS OUT BRIEFLY IN LEINSTER HOUSE AS MARY LOU REACHES FOR THE RIGHT WORDS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 THOUSANDS MORE CIVIL SERVANTS NEEDED TO KEEP UP WITH GROWTH IN ECONOMY, EAMON RYAN SAYS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 NINE COUNTIES HAVE FEWER THAN FIVE GPS PROVIDING ABORTION CARE -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HIGHLIGHTS MICHAEL HARDING: MARRIAGE IS A JOURNEY WHERE EACH ONE BECOMES THE CUSTODIAN OF THE OTHER’S DREAMS ANN LOVETT WOULD BE 55. THIS FILM ABOUT HER AWFUL DEATH IS A BRAVE, AT TIMES DARING TRIBUTE THIS DYSON IS A FLOOR LAMP WITH A DIFFERENCE. BUT AT €700 IT WOULD WANT TO BE THE LIGHT OF YOUR LIFE WHO IS NIALL COLLINS, THE FIANNA FÁIL JUNIOR MINISTER WHO CAN’T SHAKE OFF CONTROVERSIES? SPORT TREVOR BRENNAN: ‘LEINSTER GAVE ME MY FIRST CHANCE AND TOULOUSE GAVE ME MY SECOND’ His son Josh will miss Saturday’s Champions Cup semi-final due to a concussion TEAMS WHO EXIT THE HURLING ROUND-ROBINS AREN’T UNLUCKY, THEY’RE USUALLY TERRIBLE ALL-IRELAND AND TAILTEANN CUP DRAWS TAKE PLACE NEXT TUESDAY, HERE’S HOW THEY’LL WORK JOANNE O’RIORDAN: I’M FOND OF A GOOD PROTEST, A LITTLE DISRUPTION CAN BE HEALTHY REFEREE MAGGIE FARRELLY: ‘YOU SEE MAD MEN AND MAD WOMEN GOING BONKERS ALONG THE LINE’ TV VIEW: ARTETA’S ‘WINNING CULTURE’ FAILS TO MATERIALISE AT THE ETIHAD MANCHESTER CITY TAKE CONTROL OF TITLE RACE PROVING FOUR TOO GOOD FOR ARSENAL BUSINESS FORMER AUDITORS OF WIRECARD’S IRISH UNIT FINED AND REPRIMANDED Sanctions come less than a month after wider Widercard group’s one-time auditors were fined by German authorities WEST COAST WIND COULD POWER COUNTRY, BUT TECHNOLOGY NEEDED STILL A DECADE AWAY - EIRGRID CHIEF HOTEL GROUP DALATA SAYS ROOM REVENUE FOR FIRST FOUR MONTHS OF YEAR 28% AHEAD OF SAME PERIOD PRE-COVID HOW DO FINTECH BANKING OPTIONS LIKE REVOLUT AND MONEY JAR MEASURE UP? KERRY GROUP’S MARGINS NARROW IN FIRST QUARTER DESPITE STRONG REVENUES AVOLON TO ORDER 40 ‘FUEL-EFFICIENT’ BOEING JETLINERS CONSUMERS MORE UPBEAT BUT CONCERNS OVER COST OF LIVING LINGER LIFE & STYLE Your Family ‘I WAS OTHERED FROM THE AGE OF FOUR’: READERS SHARE THEIR STORIES OF NARCISSISTIC PARENTS Your Wellness IF YOU SAW A PERSON HURT LYING ON THE GROUND, WOULD YOU BE A GOOD SAMARITAN OR, LIKE MANY, WALK ON BY? Your Wellness THE SECRECY OF . . . MENOPAUSE People MICHAEL HARDING: MARRIAGE IS A JOURNEY WHERE EACH ONE BECOMES THE CUSTODIAN OF THE OTHER’S DREAMS Food GOVERNMENT ‘RELUCTANT’ TO INTRODUCE PRICE CONTROLS FOR FOOD, TAOISEACH SAYS CULTURE Art ‘THE MAZE WASN’T JUST THE PRISONERS. IT WAS ALL OF NORTHERN IRELAND. IT WAS A WAR’ Culture SHOULD IRISH UNIVERSITIES INTRODUCE MANDATORY FREE SPEECH CLASSES? TV & Radio THE SILENT CIVIL WAR REVIEW: A GRIPPING STORY OF ORDINARY PEOPLE WHO FELT THEY HAD TO DO TERRIBLE THINGS TV & Radio MELANIE SYKES ON WHY SHE QUIT TV AND BEING DIAGNOSED AS AUTISTIC LATER IN LIFE Music WILD YOUTH AND OTHERS CUT TIES WITH CREATIVE DIRECTOR AHEAD OF EUROVISION WORLD DESANTIS REJECTS DISNEY LAWSUIT AGAINST HIM AS POLITICAL Company claims ‘retaliation’ for its stance on ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law violated its constitutional rights AFRICAN STATES, US RACE TO EXTEND SUDAN TRUCE AS ARMY BACKS TALKS PROPOSAL TUCKER CARLSON IN TIRADE AGAINST US MEDIA AND POLITICAL SYSTEM FUGEES RAPPER CONVICTED IN US OVER LOBBYING CAMPAIGNS WITH MALAYSIAN FINANCIER DEFAMATION LAWYER ‘WARNED PRINCE ANDREW NOT TO DO DISASTROUS NEWSNIGHT INTERVIEW’ THAI CONSERVATIVES VOW TO LEGALISE SEX TOYS IN BID TO SHAKE UP ELECTION IN SEARING DETAIL, TRUMP’S RAPE ACCUSER TELLS HER STORY CRIME & LAW MAN ARRESTED AS PART OF INQUIRY INTO GSOC INVESTIGATOR’S ATTENDANCE AT HUTCH PARTY Arrested man held for questioning under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act CHRONIC OVERCROWDING IN PRISONS ALLOWS BULLIES TO ‘THRIVE’ AND WILL ONLY GET WORSE, MINISTER TO HEAR STARDUST: HOW THE NORTHERN IRELAND INQUEST MODEL PROVIDES TEMPLATE FOR FAMILIES SEEKING JUSTICE FAMILY OF MAN ABDUCTED AND MURDERED ALMOST 50 YEARS AGO ‘FAILED BY POLICE’ TRIBUTES PAID TO MARY KERRIGAN, FORMER BARRISTER, JOURNALIST AND POLITICAL ADVISER STONEMASONS DROWNED WHEN CAGE THEY WERE HARNESSED INTO FELL INTO SHANNON, INQUEST HEARS HSE AWARDED LEGAL COSTS INCURRED WHILE SUCCESSFULLY DEFENDING BREAST CANCER DIAGNOSIS CLAIM POLITICS MAJOR CUTS TO PUBLIC SERVICES IN NORTHERN IRELAND EXPECTED IN BUDGET AMID STORMONT IMPASSE Chris Heaton-Harris is due to meet the main parties at Hillsborough Castle on Thursday to discuss the budgetary picture RYAN CALLS FOR EXPANSION OF STATE AS VARADKAR AGAIN RAISES PROSPECT OF TAX CUTS PODCAST: WE NEED A BIGGER STATE TO DEAL WITH CHALLENGES, SAYS EAMON RYAN Listen | 53:54 AN BORD PLEANÁLA EXPECTS TO GET BACK ON TRACK IN TACKLING BACKLOG, TDS TO HEAR NINE COUNTIES HAVE FEWER THAN FIVE GPS PROVIDING ABORTION CARE FAMILY OF MAN ABDUCTED AND MURDERED ALMOST 50 YEARS AGO ‘FAILED BY POLICE’ ‘EARNERS WHO PAY TOO MUCH TAX’ TO BE PRIORITISED IN BUDGET, SAYS VARADKAR News Digests Stay on top of the latest news with our daily newsletters each morning, lunchtime and evening Sign up On The Money Save money and make smart spending decisions with our weekly personal finance digest Subscribe HEALTH ‘I WAS OTHERED FROM THE AGE OF FOUR’: READERS SHARE THEIR STORIES OF NARCISSISTIC PARENTS IF YOU SAW A PERSON HURT LYING ON THE GROUND, WOULD YOU BE A GOOD SAMARITAN OR, LIKE MANY, WALK ON BY? THE SECRECY OF . . . MENOPAUSE SINN FÉIN TDS WILL NOT BE GIVEN A FREE VOTE ON ABORTION LAW CHANGES PROPERTY LAVISH HOME ON A LANDSCAPED ACRE IN FOXROCK FOR €8.45M DARGLE DEMESNE: A NEW ‘GARDEN SUBURB’ EMERGES AT THE GATES OF POWERSCOURT ESTATE WHAT WILL €295,000 BUY IN WEST CORK AND DUBLIN? CRAMPTON-BUILT HOME AT HERBERT PARK A RARE OFFERING FOR €5M DON'T MISS RYAN CALLS FOR EXPANSION OF STATE AS VARADKAR AGAIN RAISES PROSPECT OF TAX CUTS ‘NARCISSISTIC PARENTS HAVE ONE FACE FOR EVERYONE ELSE AND ONE FACE FOR THE SCAPEGOAT CHILD’ ENGLISH NATIONALISM HAS NOTHING ON THE IRISH VARIETY ‘WHY DOES MY HUSBAND ACT LIKE THIS? AN AFFAIR I COULD DEAL WITH’ DARRAGH Ó SÉ: THE LONG ROAD BACK FOR MEATH HAS ALREADY BEGUN, THEY CAN’T FALL ANY LOWER THAN THIS RÓISÍN INGLE: I’VE COME EXTREMELY LATE TO THE CONCEPT OF ‘WHOLESOME CONTENT’, BUT I LOVE IT YOUR MONEY RETURNING TO IRELAND? HERE’S WHAT TO CONSIDER BEFORE MAKING THE BIG MOVE UNINSURED DRIVERS INVOLVED IN 40 INCIDENTS EACH WEEK WHY UNDER-INSURING YOUR HOME COULD COST YOU THOUSANDS OF EURO FOOD RESTAURANT REVIEW: WOOD-FIRED GRILLS AND A ROCKING VIBE FROM THE MAN BEHIND 777 IRISH AND GERMAN ACADEMICS TRACE ORIGINS OF LAGER TO 17TH CENTURY BREWERY GOVERNMENT ‘RELUCTANT’ TO INTRODUCE PRICE CONTROLS FOR FOOD, TAOISEACH SAYS IRELAND MOTORCYCLIST KILLED IN CAVAN ROAD INCIDENT WEST COAST WIND COULD POWER COUNTRY, BUT TECHNOLOGY NEEDED STILL A DECADE AWAY - EIRGRID CHIEF TRIBUTES PAID TO MARY KERRIGAN, FORMER BARRISTER, JOURNALIST AND POLITICAL ADVISER ABROAD RETURNING TO IRELAND? HERE’S WHAT TO CONSIDER BEFORE MAKING THE BIG MOVE ‘MY FATHER SWAPPED MY BRITISH PASSPORT FOR AN IRISH ONE’ ‘MY JOB IS NOT IN THE DETAIL. IT’S PROVIDING THE NORTH STAR FOR THE ORGANISATION’ CLIMATE CRISIS LOCAL CLIMATE ACTION PLANS OFFER AN OPPORTUNITY FOR PLACE-BASED LEADERSHIP A NEW DAWN FOR IRISH PEATLANDS? REMAINDER OF IRELAND’S NATIVE FORESTS BEING ‘ECOLOGICALLY TRASHED’, NATURE CAMPAIGNER SAYS EDUCATION TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN TO ‘DENAME’ BERKELEY LIBRARY DUE TO PHILOSOPHER’S LINK TO SLAVERY FROM SCHOOL PRINCIPAL TO GAA CHIEF: ‘I’M NOT AGAINST INTEGRATED EDUCATION, BUT I AM FOR CATHOLIC EDUCATION’ TOILETS, UNIFORMS AND PRONOUNS HAVE BEEN THE SUBJECT OF DEBATE. THE SCHOOL CURRICULUM MAY BE NEXT PODCASTS Inside Business WHY DO SOME SHAREHOLDERS IN THE REPUBLIC’S LARGEST PRIVATE RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD FEEL SHORTCHANGED? Listen | 40:06 In the News SUDAN: HOW TWO POWER-HUNGRY GENERALS ARE BRINGING THE COUNTRY TO ITS KNEES Listen | 23:46 In the News WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED FROM THE PENTAGON LEAKS? Listen | 27:49 Ross O'Carroll-Kelly ROSS O’CARROLL-KELLY: ‘I’VE BEEN POLYAMOROUS SINCE THE LATE 1990S’ Listen | 06:07 SUBSCRIBER ONLY Subscriber Only €10M GUIDE PRICE ON HIGH-END HOWTH MANSION HEADS SOUTH By Jessica Doyle Subscriber Only THE SECRECY OF . . . MENOPAUSE By Geraldine Walsh Subscriber Only BEFORE AND AFTER PHOTOS OF MARIUPOL THEATRE REVEAL CHARRED REMAINS, IN GOOGLE EARTH UPDATE By Naomi O'Leary VIDEO Some 50 young farmers walked from Athy to Government buildings in Dublin to highlight issues they face in rural Ireland. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PHOTOGRAPHY Gallery Wednesday's Images of the Day selected by Picture Editor Brenda Fitzsimons -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DUBLIN EAMON RYAN EXPRESSES SCATHING CRITICISM OF DUBLIN PORT PLANS IN UNPRECEDENTED INTERVENTION DROWNING INQUEST HEARS CONCERNS RAISED ABOUT LACK OF SAFETY BARRIERS ON ROYAL CANAL STRETCH ARMY OFFICER DISMISSED FROM DEFENCE FORCES FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT OF FEMALE SOLDIER SOCIAL AFFAIRS ‘THEY GAVE US VERY STRONG VALUES’: GRADUATES REUNITE WITH NUNS WHO TAUGHT THEM UNACCEPTABLE ONLY 11 OF COUNTRY’S 19 MATERNITY UNITS PROVIDING ABORTION SERVICES, SAYS DONNELLY CABINET SPLIT ON PROPOSED CHANGES TO ABORTION LAW AS GREENS BACK REFORM TECHNOLOGY THIS DYSON IS A FLOOR LAMP WITH A DIFFERENCE. BUT AT €700 IT WOULD WANT TO BE THE LIGHT OF YOUR LIFE PAYING FOR TWITTER BLUE HAS IRONICALLY ROBBED VERIFICATION OF VALUE HOW DO FINTECH BANKING OPTIONS LIKE REVOLUT AND MONEY JAR MEASURE UP? TRANSPORT AVOLON TO ORDER 40 ‘FUEL-EFFICIENT’ BOEING JETLINERS WRIGHTBUS WINS STAGECOACH ORDER FOR ZERO-EMISSION BUSES HEATHROW AIRPORT POSTS €68M LOSS IN FIRST QUARTER HISTORY THE SILENT CIVIL WAR REVIEW: A GRIPPING STORY OF ORDINARY PEOPLE WHO FELT THEY HAD TO DO TERRIBLE THINGS TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN TO ‘DENAME’ BERKELEY LIBRARY DUE TO PHILOSOPHER’S LINK TO SLAVERY FROM THE GREEN FIELDS OF FRANCE TO WALTZING MATILDA: AN ANZAC DAY PLAYLIST OBITUARIES MARK STEWART, POP GROUP FRONTMAN AND REVERED POST-PUNK PIONEER, HAS DIED AGED 62 BARRY HUMPHRIES OBITUARY: OUTRAGEOUS CARICATURES DAME EDNA EVERAGE AND SIR LES PATTERSON TOOK THE ONE-MAN SHOW TO NEW HEIGHTS ANNE PERRY OBITUARY: CRIME NOVELIST WHOSE PART IN A NOTORIOUS MURDER WAS PORTRAYED IN THE FILM HEAVENLY CREATURES TUARASCÁIL AN CHUAIRT ÚD LÁ MÓR NA GAEILGE CHUN 130 BLIAIN D’ATHBHEOCHAN NA GAEILGE A CHEILIÚRADH IARRACHT PHOBAIL AR SON ‘RÍ AN CHEABAIRÉ' RÓNÁN MAC AODHA BHUÍ MOTORS MERC’S NEW E-CLASS BOASTS 115KM ELECTRIC RANGE OUR TEST DRIVE: JEEP AVENGER QUICK TEST: BYD DOLPHIN AND SEAL YOU MAY ALSO LIKE... 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