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WATCH THIS COMEDY SHOW In the News THE ORIGINS OF CONTROVERSIAL LANDLORD MARC GODART’S RENTAL EMPIRE Listen | 28:55 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscriber Only A FARE FAREWELL: LUXEMBOURG MARKS THREE YEARS OF FREE PUBLIC TRANSPORT Ireland GARDA ARRESTED FOR DRUG POSSESSION AT DUBLIN AIRPORT Business TRUMP’S MULTIMILLION VALUATION OF CLARE RESORT HE ‘COULDN’T CARE LESS ABOUT’ Europe RUSSIA WARPLANE ‘ACCIDENTALLY BOMBS CITY OF BELGOROD’ Soccer MANCHESTER UNITED COLLAPSES HAPPENING ‘TOO OFTEN’ AS ERIK TEN HAG QUESTIONS HIS TEAM’S CHARACTER Subscriber Only WHY SMALLER MEN EARN LESS AND HOW THE FIRST LETTER OF YOUR SURNAME CAN HELP WIN THAT JOB OPINION JUSTINE MCCARTHY: BRITISH MEDIA WAS RIGHT - JOE BIDEN’S IRELAND BELONGS TO DARK AGES The code was 'don’t mention the war', whether cultural wars or American wars, and just surrender to the heart-warming nostalgia of it all By Justine McCarthy STEPHEN COLLINS: OLD-FASHIONED AMERICAN VIEW OF IRELAND DOES US LITTLE HARM By Stephen Collins MARTYN TURNER DIARMAID FERRITER DIARMAID FERRITER: IT’S TIME TO TALK ABOUT THE SUFFERING OF VICTIMS THE IRISH TIMES VIEW ON CUTTING MOTORING EMISSIONS: TIME TO ACCELERATE THE IRISH TIMES VIEW ON SPENDING THE BUDGET SURPLUS: A CHANCE TO FUND THE FUTURE LATEST STORIES ‘WE NEED A BIT OF QUADE MAGIC’ - COOPER BACK FROM INJURY TO STAKE CLAIM FOR WALLABIES WORLD CUP PLACE FORMER DCC DIVISION SOLD TO US PRIVATE EQUITY FIRM DEAD RINGERS: RACHEL WEISZ IS HAVING A HOOT PLAYING SOCIOPATHIC TWINS BUT THE STYLISH PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR LACKS SUBSTANCE ANTIDRONE TECHNOLOGY TO BE DEPLOYED AT DUBLIN AIRPORT IN WEEKS, SAYS DAA RAINY MARCH DAMPENS SHOPPER SPENDING IN BRITAIN MOST READ 1 GARDA ARRESTED FOR DRUG POSSESSION AT DUBLIN AIRPORT -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 THE 2 JOHNNIES: THE BLOKEY SWAGGER IS WEARING VERY THIN -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 ABORTION REVIEW TO RECOMMEND SWEEPING CHANGES TO EXISTING LAW -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 JONATHAN DOWDALL NOW USELESS AS FUTURE WITNESS, SAY GARDAÍ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 BOY (13) CONVICTED OF SEXUALLY ASSAULTING YOUNG WOMAN HE FOLLOWED AS SHE WALKED HOME IN CORK -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HIGHLIGHTS GREG MCWILLIAMS: ‘WE WILL ALWAYS PUT ON THE JERSEY AND FIGHT FOR EVERY INCH WE CAN’ CONTRASTING KENNEDYS: SCIONS OF POWERFUL POLITICAL FAMILY PROJECT VERY DIFFERENT IMAGES FLANEUR REVIEW: THIS DUBLIN BISTRO WILL NOT WIN ANY PRIZES FOR SOPHISTICATION - BUT IT IS AFFORDABLE AND TASTY MIRIAM LORD: A JAW-DROPPING, ARROGANT PERFORMANCE FROM ROBERT WATT – THE PRINCE OF PERMANENT GOVERNMENT BELFAST AGREEMENT AT 25 ‘WE CAN’T HAVE FULL PEACE WITHOUT PROSPERITY AND I DO FEEL WHAT IS THERE TO CELEBRATE?’ SUNAK URGES UNIONISTS TO ‘WORK WITH US’ TO RESTORE POWERSHARING GEORGE MITCHELL BELIEVES CURRENT CRISIS IN NORTH WILL BE RESOLVED HUME AND TRIMBLE ‘PUT THEIR CAREERS AND LIVES ON THE LINE’ FOR PEACE, SAYS BILL CLINTON BELFAST AGREEMENT A ‘MODEL’ OF PEACEBUILDING FOR OTHER GLOBAL CONFLICTS, HILLARY CLINTON SAYS WARRINGTON BOMBING: JOHN MAJOR RECALLS ‘DARK AND DESPERATE’ DAY WHEN PEACE PROCESS ALMOST DIED SPORT GREG MCWILLIAMS: ‘WE WILL ALWAYS PUT ON THE JERSEY AND FIGHT FOR EVERY INCH WE CAN’ Ireland women’s coach says his side have prepared well for daunting encounter with England in Cork MANCHESTER UNITED COLLAPSES HAPPENING ‘TOO OFTEN’ AS ERIK TEN HAG QUESTIONS HIS TEAM’S CHARACTER ED BYRNE AND LEINSTER LOOKING TO FINISH REGULAR SEASON ON A HIGH NOTE AGAINST BULLS LONG, HOT SUMMER OF PROTEST LIKELY AS ACTIVISTS TARGET MORE SPORTING EVENTS CIAN BOLAND: DUBLIN CAN EXPECT TIGHT CONTEST IN CHAMPIONSHIP OPENER IN BELFAST HAMMERS HIT BACK TO BEAT GENT AND REACH EUROPA CONFERENCE LEAGUE SEMI-FINALS CHRIS FORRESTER AND ST PATRICK’S ATHLETIC BUOYED BY RECENT RUN AHEAD OF SHAMROCK ROVERS CLASH BUSINESS FINAL 63 ULSTER BANK BRANCHES CLOSE TODAY WITH BANK TO START SELLING BUILDINGS BEFORE YEAR-END Lender lays groundwork to repatriate €4.24bn in capital to UK parent as it closes its remaining branch network on Friday ULSTER BANK LAYS GROUND FOR €4BN TRANSFER TO UK AS BRANCHES CLOSE ALLIANZ IRELAND TAKES €154M PAPER HIT ON INVESTMENTS AMID RISING RATES ULSTER BANK IS SHUTTING ITS DOORS: WHAT NEXT FOR LOCAL BANKING? IRISH ENERGY PRICES REMAIN HIGH AS EUROPEAN RATES FALL LOW IRISH DEPOSIT RATES ‘SUBSIDISING’ MORTGAGE HOLDERS, MAKHLOUF SAYS RAINY MARCH DAMPENS SHOPPER SPENDING IN BRITAIN LIFE & STYLE People ‘I’VE PROBABLY GOT MORE FROM THE LIFEBOATS THAN I HAVE GIVEN’ Your Wellness BRIGID O’DEA: WE LIVE LIFE IN SEARCH OF A GOOD STORY Your Family PREGNANCY AFTER MISCARRIAGE: SOCIETY AND MEDICINE’S VIEWS APPEAR TO BE CHANGING People WANT TO KNOW HOW TO USE THEY/THEM PRONOUNS PROPERLY? WATCH THIS COMEDY SHOW Fashion TWO LUXURIOUS CITY SPA TREATMENTS THAT ARE WORTH THE COST CULTURE TV & Radio DEAD RINGERS: RACHEL WEISZ IS HAVING A HOOT PLAYING SOCIOPATHIC TWINS BUT THE STYLISH PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR LACKS SUBSTANCE Culture EARTH DAY: 11 IRISH VISIONS OF THE FUTURE TV & Radio ‘I WOULD LIKE YOU TO STOP TALKING SO TRAGICALLY ABOUT YOUR LIFE,’ CHRIS EUBANK HISSES AT GAZZA TV & Radio THE 2 JOHNNIES: THE BLOKEY SWAGGER IS WEARING VERY THIN Film THE MOVIE QUIZ: WITH THE NEW EVIL DEAD RISE, HOW MANY FILMS DOES THAT MAKE IN THE SERIES? WORLD THE WINE INTERVENTION: DUTCH NUNS APPEAL FOR HELP WITH BOOZE GLUT Extremely hot and dry year leaves Sint-Catharinadal Convent’s vineyard with excess of 64,000 bottles CANADIAN POLICE INVESTIGATING €13.5M GOLD HEIST AT TORONTO AIRPORT RUSSIA WARPLANE ‘ACCIDENTALLY BOMBS CITY OF BELGOROD’ SUDAN’S PARAMILITARY RSF AGREES TO 72-HOUR TRUCE ON HUMANITARIAN GROUNDS A FARE FAREWELL: LUXEMBOURG MARKS THREE YEARS OF FREE PUBLIC TRANSPORT BEIJING LETTER: AN OLD STORY THROWS LIGHT ON THE PLIGHT OF MILLIONS OF CHINESE GRADUATES CASE AGAINST ALEC BALDWIN OVER FATAL RUST SHOOTING DROPPED, SAY LAWYERS CRIME & LAW SPEEDING MOTORISTS TARGETED IN 24-HOUR GARDA OPERATION Garda speed traps and Go Safe speed-detection vans are expected on all main roads from 7am on Friday ABORTION REVIEW TO RECOMMEND SWEEPING CHANGES TO EXISTING LAW JONATHAN DOWDALL NOW USELESS AS FUTURE WITNESS, SAY GARDAÍ BOY (13) CONVICTED OF SEXUALLY ASSAULTING YOUNG WOMAN HE FOLLOWED AS SHE WALKED HOME IN CORK PUBLICAN FRANK GLEESON SECURES TEMPORARY ORDERS PREVENTING RECEIVER FROM SELLING DUBLIN LANDS OFF-DUTY PSNI DETECTIVE SHOT BY DISSIDENT REPUBLICANS DISCHARGED FROM HOSPITAL AFTER TWO MONTHS GARDAÍ TOLD TO REVIEW DOCUMENT STORAGE SYSTEM AFTER SEXUAL ASSAULT FILE DESTROYED POLITICS OIREACHTAS COMMITTEE TO SEEK FURTHER HEARINGS ON BOTCHED TONY HOLOHAN APPOINTMENT AFTER FRACTIOUS WATT SESSION Oireachtas committee members were ‘shocked’ after a fractious session with Department of Health secretary general Robert Watt STEPHEN COLLINS: OLD-FASHIONED AMERICAN VIEW OF IRELAND DOES US LITTLE HARM STITCHING SEVERAL COUNTIES INTO ONE DÁIL CONSTITUENCY SHOULD BE ‘ABANDONED PERMANENTLY’ VARADKAR PROMISES INCOME TAX CUTS AND WELFARE SPENDING PACKAGE IN BUDGET ‘MANY SERIOUS QUESTIONS’ UNANSWERED BY SF LEADER MARY LOU MCDONALD, DÁIL TOLD IMPORTANT ROBERT WATT CONTINUES IN POSITION DUE TO ‘BIGGER ISSUES’ FACING HEALTH, MARTIN SAYS ABSENCE OF ABORTION SERVICES IN EIGHT MATERNITY HOSPITALS ‘TOTALLY AND UTTERLY UNACCEPTABLE’ 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 BRIGID O’DEA: WE LIVE LIFE IN SEARCH OF A GOOD STORY PREGNANCY AFTER MISCARRIAGE: SOCIETY AND MEDICINE’S VIEWS APPEAR TO BE CHANGING ABORTION REVIEW TO RECOMMEND SWEEPING CHANGES TO EXISTING LAW TWO-THIRDS OF PATIENTS AT LONG COVID NEUROLOGY CLINIC YET TO RETURN TO WORK FULLY, SEMINAR TOLD PROPERTY WHAT WILL €320,000 BUY IN FRANCE, SPAIN, DENMARK, MEXICO AND DUBLIN? GRAND GEORGIAN RESIDENCE AND A VICTORIAN MANOR ON IMPRESSIVE BOYNE VALLEY ESTATE FOR €10M SLICK DESIGN AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY AT NEW BLACKROCK HOUSING SCHEME FROM €590,000 SEA VIEWS, SIX BEDS AND A SWEEPING GARDEN ON DALKEY HILL FOR €1.65M DON'T MISS EUROPE’S DECADE-LONG HOUSING BOOM GRINDS TO A HALT FAMILY FACING EVICTION NEXT MONTH TELLS OF ‘NIGHTMARE’ TRYING TO FIND NEW HOME SAVINGS: IF YOU HAVE CASH ON DEPOSIT YOU’RE LOSING MONEY. NOT JUST A BIT, BUT A LOT THE ONLY WAY IS UP IF IRFU LISTEN TO PEOPLE WHO ‘GIVE A F**K’ ABOUT WOMEN’S RUGBY IS IT INHERENTLY WRONG TO BE A LANDLORD? ‘I’VE SPENT MY ENTIRE LIFE EXPLAINING’: DECADES ON, PLAYERS ARE FINALLY AWARDED THEIR IRELAND CAPS YOUR MONEY HOW SHOULD THE STATE’S €16 BILLION SURPLUS BE SPENT? HERE ARE 16 IDEAS WHY AREN’T OUR ENERGY PRICES FALLING? COUNTING THE COST OF HAVING A BABY FOOD TWO ITALIAN WINES PERFECT FOR SPRING AND SUMMER DRINKING TAKEAWAY REVIEW: BEYOND SHAWARMA AND KEBABS, THE UNUSUAL DISHES ARE HARD TO RESIST FLANEUR REVIEW: THIS DUBLIN BISTRO WILL NOT WIN ANY PRIZES FOR SOPHISTICATION - BUT IT IS AFFORDABLE AND TASTY IRELAND ARCHBISHOP EAMON MARTIN: I WAS VERY TORN WHEN MARTIN MCGUINNESS DIED DUBLIN PORT MASTERPLAN MAY RUN AGROUND ON EAMON RYAN’S OBJECTIONS GARDA ARRESTED FOR DRUG POSSESSION AT DUBLIN AIRPORT ABROAD ‘MY JOB IS NOT IN THE DETAIL. IT’S PROVIDING THE NORTH STAR FOR THE ORGANISATION’ ‘IF ONE COMMUNITY IN LONDON HAS SHOWN ITS RESILIENCE OVER THE PAST 60 YEARS, IT IS THE IRISH’ THE IRISH NUN WHO BECAME THE ‘ANGEL OF AA’ CLIMATE CRISIS EARTH DAY: 11 IRISH VISIONS OF THE FUTURE BIODIVERSITY CRISIS: TIME TO STOP ALL DEVELOPMENTS ON SPECIAL AREAS OF CONSERVATION A NEW AGE OF WEATHER FORECASTING IS ON THE HORIZON EDUCATION SURGE IN NUMBER OF STUDENTS EXPERIENCING SERIOUS FINANCIAL PROBLEMS SINCE 2019, SURVEY SHOWS OVERSEAS SCHOOLS TARGET IRISH TEACHERS WITH SALARIES OF UP TO €70,000 AUTISM CHARITY PRESSED OVER ‘SUBSTANTIAL’ ASSETS OF €10 MILLION PODCASTS Inside Business WITH ONLY THREE BIG BANKS LEFT, ARE IRISH CONSUMERS BEREFT OF CHOICE? Listen | 34:00 Inside Politics DOES THE DOWDALL CONNECTION HARM SINN FÉIN? Listen | 49:08 In the News WHAT NEXT FOR GERARD ‘THE MONK’ HUTCH? Listen | 23:49 In the News PODCAST: WHY WAS GERARD HUTCH FOUND NOT GUILTY? Listen | 17:40 SUBSCRIBER ONLY Subscriber Only JUSTINE MCCARTHY: BRITISH MEDIA WAS RIGHT - JOE BIDEN’S IRELAND BELONGS TO DARK AGES By Justine McCarthy Subscriber Only WANT TO KNOW HOW TO USE THEY/THEM PRONOUNS PROPERLY? WATCH THIS COMEDY SHOW By Emer McLysaght Subscriber Only SCHOENBERG STRING TRIO; REGAMEY QUINTET – FINELY GRADED PERFORMANCES PACK A PUNCH By Michael Dervan VIDEO The Taoiseach has said he expects Department of Health secretary general Robert Watt to fully implement the report into the botched secondment of Tony Holohan. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PHOTOGRAPHY Gallery A selection of Thursday's best pictures as chosen by Deputy Picture Editor Laura Hutton -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DUBLIN EAMON RYAN RAISES ‘SIGNIFICANT CONCERNS’ OVER DUBLIN PORT REVAMP PLANS 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 ARCHBISHOP EAMON MARTIN: I WAS VERY TORN WHEN MARTIN MCGUINNESS DIED CHURCH SERVICES ‘SIGNIFICANT’ WITNESS AT STARDUST INQUEST UNABLE TO ATTEND DUE TO ‘MEDICAL REASONS’ TECHNOLOGY ‘FAREWELL BLUE TICK, OLD FRIEND’: BEYONCE AND POPE FRANCIS LOSE VERIFIED TWITTER STATUS REFURBED TEAMS UP WITH TEKEIR TO OFFER REFURBISHED TECHNOLOGY WHY WE SHOULD BE ALARMED AT GARDA PLANS FOR FACIAL RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY TRANSPORT ANTIDRONE TECHNOLOGY TO BE DEPLOYED AT DUBLIN AIRPORT IN WEEKS, SAYS DAA A FARE FAREWELL: LUXEMBOURG MARKS THREE YEARS OF FREE PUBLIC TRANSPORT DAA RETURNED TO PROFIT LAST YEAR AS PANDEMIC EBBS HISTORY ANTI-TREATY IRA GENERAL LIAM LYNCH A VICTIM OF ‘CRUDE’ REVISIONISM, COMMEMORATION HEARS EASTER SUNDAY COMMEMORATION MARKS 107 YEARS SINCE 1916 RISING ‘I FOUND MYSELF IN BETWEEN TWO GREAT MEN’: BONO FINDS PRIDE IN THE NAME OF PEACE OBITUARIES OBITUARY: CRAIG BREEN NORA FORSTER OBITUARY: GERMAN MUSIC PROMOTER, AND WIFE OF JOHN LYDON FOR MORE THAN FOUR DECADES BRIG GEN JERRY ENRIGHT OBITUARY: A MILITARY MAN OF COURAGE AND DECISIVENESS TUARASCÁIL IARRACHT PHOBAIL AR SON ‘RÍ AN CHEABAIRÉ' RÓNÁN MAC AODHA BHUÍ AN LAIDIN BHARBARTHA GAELSCOLAÍOCHT: GLUAISEACHT A SPREAG MÓRTAS TEANGA LE CAOGA BLIAIN ANUAS MOTORS OUR TEST DRIVE: BYD ATTO 3 PEUGEOT 408: GOOD LOOKS CAN ONLY GET YOU SO FAR UNLOVED, UNSUNG, UNSOLD: THE CARS WE SHOULD BE BUYING, BUT ARE NOT YOU MAY ALSO LIKE... 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