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In a tough, competitive and demanding industry, creativity, John and Sally McKenna found that resolve and professionalism mark out the best from the rest in the top 100 restaurants in Ireland this year. Read the full list early here 📰🥂
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CCTV reveals diverse ethnicities involved in last year’s Dublin disorder, complicating case against the far right.
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Human bones washed up on a Canadian beach are the remains of three Irish children who were fleeing the Great Hunger, scientists have confirmed.
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Fans from 151 countries paid to watch Niall Horan perform with his live band last Saturday night. Organisers estimated that each stream had two to three people watching, suggesting an audience of more than 300,000
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Ireland will be unable to veto a new EU trade deal with South America, which will lead to 99,000 tonnes of beef coming into the European market and which the Irish Farmers’ Association has described as “reckless and wrong”
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The father of one of the three teenagers scarred in an acid attack in Waterford earlier this year is considering a High Court challenge against the decision not to prosecute two of his son’s attackers
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🔺 EXCLUSIVE: Clare Daly, the independent Dublin MEP, gave a Russian spy contact details for a paramilitary held liable for the Omagh bombing and facing extradition on terrorism charges, The Sunday Times can reveal. @JohnMooneyIRL .
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Gardai are investigating new complaints of child sexual abuse against George Gibney, after being contacted by victims who listened to a podcast series about the former Olympic swimming coach
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A billboard illustration of the Donegal-born actress Amybeth McNulty has been displayed in New York’s Times Square in an effort to persuade Netflix to renew a cancelled series
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🔺 EXCLUSIVE: Clare Daly, the independent Dublin MEP, gave a Russian spy contact details for a paramilitary held liable for the Omagh bombing and facing extradition on terrorism charges, The Sunday Times can reveal.
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Today marks 10 years since Savita Halappanavar died from severe sepsis at University Hospital Galway. She would be really proud as she has helped a lot of women, her best friend said.
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The classroom is now the frontline of gender wars according to teachers, who have admitted that they are “walking on eggshells” and terrified
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🔺 EXCLUSIVE: Lot of people will vote for me, claims activist Gavin Pepper.
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Warning Graphic Content: young calves exported from Ireland are being beaten and brutalised an investigation has found. Read the story here:
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A man who left Ireland to fight for Isis in Syria in 2013 has had his citizenship revoked by Helen McEntee, the justice minister
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Spectrum idea is dropped from Ireland’s gender learning plan for schools
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Renjith, now 41, said Halappanavar would be “really proud” of the impact she has had on women in Ireland. “She did something to the world, something great,” she said.
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The former boyband member Niall Horan on his new album, headlining Electric Picnic, turning 30 and taking on the world, says Louise Bruton. #EP23.
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To the thousands of you who have subscribed to The Sunday Times and @thetimesIE, thank you. By supporting quality journalism you are making investigations like this possible. Subscribe here:
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🔺NEW: A year after the killing of Ashling Murphy, the Co Offaly schoolteacher, the government has come under fire for its slow response to tackling violence against women
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China ‘kills own sailors with trap set for US and British vessels’.
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A united Ireland would be fitting tribute to innocent victims of Bloody Sunday, writes Justine McCarthy
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The list of Irish people known by their first name alone is small — and @donie might be the youngest person on it
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Sinn Fein has surged to 35% — 10 points higher than its general election result — in the first opinion poll held since the vote
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An internal garda inquiry has upheld the claim made on the Pulse intelligence system that Barry Cowen tried to evade a checkpoint when he was caught drink-driving four years ago
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Ireland is expected to maintain a 14-day quarantine for travellers from the British mainland next month, despite its plans to form air bridges with other European countries, including Spain and Greece
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Halappanavar worked as a dentist with Renjith in Galway and the pair became close friends. They got married the same year and also became pregnant at the same time. “We had almost everything the same,” Renjith said with a laugh.
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Ireland could become the first European country to introduce legislation allowing for the dismissal of “abusive” defamation cases that are taken only to deter public interest discussion and investigative journalism
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Réada Cronin, a newly elected Sinn Fein TD, accused the Israeli secret service of “sinister” interference in the UK general election to ensure defeat for Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party
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A Muslim charity that has been branded a terrorist organisation by the United Arab Emirates has established a registered branch in Ireland.
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🔺 NEW: Florence Pugh was back in Ireland last night for the premiere of latest film 'The Wonder' which took place in Dublin's Light House cinema. The star spoke of her time in Ireland and grabbing a Guinness first-thing when she arrived this week.
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🔺 EXCLUSIVE: The Irish soldier shot dead in south Lebanon last week was murdered by Hezbollah to try to deter the UN from patrolling villages where the terrorists store weapons
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Broadcaster Miriam O’Callaghan is suing Facebook for defamation in a landmark Irish case.
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Halappanavar died from severe sepsis at University Hospital Galway after her request for an abortion was denied on legal grounds. She was 17 weeks pregnant with a baby girl and just 31 years old, with no previous medical problems.
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Kitty Holland, who won a journalism award for her reporting about Savita Halappanavar, has launched defamation proceedings against former colleague John Waters for accusing her of lying about the cause of the dentist’s death
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We're thrilled to announce that Tom Doorley is joining HOME in the Sunday Times from this weekend. In his new column Tom invites readers into his garden in Cork and writes about what he's growing, harvesting and eating each week
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A majority of voters in Northern Ireland support joining a united Ireland either now or within the next 15 to 20 years, according to the latest opinion poll by LucidTalk
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'The lack of outrage on behalf of the Israeli women brutalised by Hamas on October 7 is shameful'.
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The HSE has begun transferring medical staff who have refused to get a Covid-19 vaccine off frontline duties. Some workers have been sent home on full pay after risk assessments
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Delaney has access to hundreds of tickets that he allocates to friends, family and influential people, he uses the FAI crredit card to buy rounds for fans and his girlfriend's friends and family get VIP treatment in the Aviva.
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“It should never have happened. She should be here today. We couldn’t accept it for years, we still can’t accept it really,” said Shilpa Rose Renjith at her home in Galway.
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Any doctor performing an abortion on a child without parental consent should be guilty of assault, writes Brenda Power.
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Documents published by the Hungarian government indicate that Ireland turned down the option of buying 875,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine for delivery in the second half of this year
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In 2011, Dowdall made a political donation of €1,000 to McDonald directly — and not to her constituency office as Sinn Fein had previously claimed — for her general election campaign.
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🔺 NEW: Mandatory face masks should be reintroduced in crowded indoor settings — including public transport, shops, workplaces and university lecture theatres — as Ireland heads into its third winter with Covid-19, an immunologist has said.
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Peter Casey has urged the government to put the “freeloaders” in Ireland’s direct provision system “ back on the plane”
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🔺 EXCLUSIVE: Christy Kinahan - one of the world’s most wanted men who is on the run from cops in Europe, America and the UK - likes to post where he's been on Google Maps. @beaudonelly @JohnMooneyIRL @bellingcat.
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On the cusp of its 30th birthday, @UL has scooped our University of the Year award for the second time
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🔺 EXCLUSIVE: Sinn Fein’s Mary Lou McDonald has said it will take her party two terms of office in government to introduce measures to make Ireland “fairer”
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One by one, they vowed to solve the HSE trolley crisis — and all failed
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Yousef Palani, who last week pleaded guilty to the murder of two gay men whose mutilated bodies were found at separate locations in Sligo, had drawn up a list of targets he planned to seduce and kill before he was arrested.
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🔎 In depth: Protests against housing asylum seekers in an East Wall office block last week were seized upon by some of Ireland’s most vocal right-wing activists
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Denise Chaila has been propelled into the musical stratosphere but the artist is most pleased by the welcome from her home town of Limerick
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Ireland awoke to its own horror story on Tuesday with the news that the sole remaining consortium bidding for the state’s €1bn-plus broadband contract features an outfit owned by Denis O’Brien.
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The government is to make it a criminal offence for anyone other than a veterinary surgeon to “put down” a greyhound, following controversy over the alleged euthanising of “thousands” of dogs in the Irish greyhound industry
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A trans student has blasted Enoch Burke amid accusations that the sacked teacher has been using his dispute with Wilson’s Hospital School “as a way of promoting himself and getting attention”
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How a promising triathlete was left bedridden by cruel disease.
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Photos have emerged of former Irish Air Corps member Lisa Smith posing with weapons just before she travelled to Syria to join Isis
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Gardai in Limerick are the subject of one of the largest internal corruption inquiries of recent years, with at least two officers under investigation for serious corruption and malpractice.
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The former Tipperary hurler hopes to help 200 families by running the brutal Antarctic marathon next month in aid of suicide and mental health charities.
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A speech by Holly Cairns, a first-term TD for Cork South-West, has ignited a debate that could mark a watershed moment for greyhound racing in Ireland
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"Even today, Ireland fancies itself as a child-loving nirvana, while thousands of children suffer the stigma and potential lifelong damage of homelessness or confinement to direct provision centres," writes Justine McCarthy
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"Leftist ideology was responsible for some of the worst crimes of the 20th century, but these atrocities are rarely held against the left in the same way that fascist crimes are held against the right," writes @DavQuinn
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The Sunday Times is to take action against John Delaney to recover legal costs it incurred in opposing the former Football Association of Ireland chief executive’s failed attempted to injunct the newspaper in March
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🔺 EXCLUSIVE: Ireland is now considered one of the most vulnerable countries in the EU.
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John Delaney issued an instruction to the FAI’s finance department to pay his then girlfriend €15,000 in 2014, internal records seen by The Sunday Times show
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John Delaney, the executive vice-president of the Football Association of Ireland (FAI), spent almost €40,000 on his work credit card in the last six months of 2016, a Sunday Times investigation has found.
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Irish actress Simone Kirby on the difficulty of playing nice as she stars in HBO’s His Dark Materials
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An HSE investigation following Halappanavar’s death found there was a “lack of recognition of the gravity of the situation and of the increasing risk to the mother which led to passive approaches and delays in aggressive treatment”. Read more here:
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Former foreign affairs minister says Fine Gael and the government have an obligation ‘to protect every community in Ireland’
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Pat McDonagh, owner of Supermac’s, and his wife, Una, have been revealed as the owners of land in Limerick, Clare and Galway bought from the National Asset Management Agency for a fraction of its original value after the financial crisis
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"RTE needs to drop the double standards, ditch the agendas, and allow a balanced debate on all the big issues of the day," writes @DavQuinn
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Asylum seekers in direct provision centres in Dublin, Cork, Wicklow, Waterford and Galway have tested positive for Covid-19 and some have been taken to hospital, it has emerged
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Claims by senior gardai that no one came to harm as a result of the cancellation of 999 calls have been disputed by security sources who say that some of the emergency calls related to rapes, domestic violence and assaults on women and children
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🔺 EXCLUSIVE: RTE told Ryan Tubridy’s agent to send a British media company invoices, labelled as “consultancy services”, which the broadcaster used for €150,000 in top-up salary payments to its star presenter.
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“She was never a person for herself. She was always about others, and that’s exactly what she did when she left us.”.
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The director of public prosecutions is considering bringing a charge of IRA membership against a senior adviser to Sinn Fein over his alleged role in a paramilitary investigation into child sex abuse
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Emilia Clarke, who now stars in Chekhov’s The Seagull, tells Louis Wise that the HBO fantasy series made her feel like a "small cog in a big machine"
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U2 drummer Larry Mullen Jr has been invited to join the ranks of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the US body whose members vote for Oscar winners every year
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"The reintroduction of emergency measures would be wholly disproportionate now that more than 90 per cent of adults are fully vaccinated" | @DavQuinn
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The singer @ToluMakay tells Larissa Nolan how she discovered her love of music at church while growing up in Co Offaly — and how going to university helped to shape her understanding of the way that people think
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She is one of the most outspoken and controversial young feminists on social media, and now she’s publishing a guidebook to dating men. Chidera Eggerue talks to Jonathan Dean about why women owe nobody niceness
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"We have tolerated the teachers’ tantrums long enough," writes Brenda Power
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The head of CervicalCheck said some women claiming through the tribunal on the service’s failures know “in their heart and soul that they haven’t been wronged” but are using the process as they “might get some money”
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The number of new daily cases of Covid-19 in the Republic has fallen below 100 for the first time in two months, as the country embarks on the first phase of lifting travel and shopping restriction
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Interview 🎙️ | “If you’re slightly afraid of doing something, that’s often an indication that you’re doing the right thing,” says @ImeldaOfficial
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A sale has been agreed for a house owned by Michael D Higgins in Galway for around its asking price of €470,000 — €100,000 more than the president paid six years ago
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Renjith said: “She had already made plans for her daughter’s life, she had big hopes and dreams. When Mary, my daughter, was born, I felt Savita in her. I was always thinking about her.”.
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A letter delivered by Heather Humphreys to the Department of Agriculture, which led to the withdrawal of animal cruelty charges against a farmer, contained a veiled threat to disclose information the department would not wish to see in the public domain
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She said Halappanavar always wanted a girl and had planned to name her Prasa — a combination of Savita’s own name and that of her husband Praveen.
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Out today - The Sunday Times 100 Best Restaurants list is the definitive guide to dining out in Ireland. @McKennasGuides and their nationwide team of restaurant critics, reveal the best food, service and ambience the island currently has to offer #ST100Best2020
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The classroom is now the frontline of gender wars according to teachers, who have admitted that they are “walking on eggshells” and terrified
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The Chinese embassy in Dublin has claimed the ceann comhairle Seán Ó Fearghaíl praised the country’s “very important protection of human rights” during a meeting with its ambassador He Xiangdong
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Meet Anthony Boyle — the Irish actor starring in Masters of the Air.
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Any doctor performing an abortion on a child without parental consent should be guilty of assault, writes Brenda Power.
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A woman who claims she was Ghislaine Maxwell’s first victim has described in shocking detail how the British socialite allegedly “groomed” her from the age of 13
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Renowned for its inclusive, people-first approach, Dublin City University has not allowed the pandemic to knock it off course, reports Senay Boztas
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We won News Journalist of the Year!. Brilliant recognition for @SunTimesIreland and @marktigheST for his tireless work, breaking story after story. #JournoAwards18. One of the award-winning pieces is here: .
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