15+ hour, 21+ min ago   (600+ words) Proposals to toughen the requirements for acquiring Irish citizenship through naturalisation have been drawn up with an eye to “what the rules are in other countries”, according to Minister for Justice Jim O’Callaghan. So how does Ireland compare? The length…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (265+ words) July 1972. I was 11 years old. In a country tense with uniformed killings and violent recrimination, my mother’s Austin A40 made a tortuous one-day journey to Toormore Bay in west Cork. It was a warm summer, but televised outrage had kept the…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (436+ words) Telling their five-decade love story in my new biography Mary & Padraic Colum: Lives and the Dream (UCD Press) has become a chronicle of the cultural and political foment of early 20th-century Ireland, James Joyce’s emigre circle in 1930s Paris, and the…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (645+ words) A priest told the funeral of a teenager killed in a hit-and-run in Co Clare that parents and grandparents in Ireland are “full of fear” of the society their children and grandchildren are growing up in. Fr Richard Davern was…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (201+ words) Hundreds of protestors attended a rally at Shannon Airport as Air Force One carrying President Donald Trump landed on Saturday. Video: Bryan O'Brien US president expressed support for Irish unity in a press conference with Taoiseach Micháel Martin. US president…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (135+ words) Gardaí have released a second man arrested in connection with a fatal shooting in Dún Laoghaire in July. The man aged in his 40s was arrested on Thursday as part of the Garda investigation into the death of Mark Cullen (39). Cullen…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (755+ words) We have more from Jack Horgan Jones in the Phoenix Park. “We have our first TD. And it’s Cork East’s James O’Connor (Fianna Fáil), who is pressing the flesh already as the first bus of proper guests seems to have…...

3+ day, 4+ min ago   (602+ words) A planning notice for the Dublin District Heating Project has been issued, opening a six-week period for public submissions on the long-promised scheme. The project, meant to begin a decade ago, will take heat generated by burning household waste at…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (830+ words) The Irish Times Under new citizenship proposals, my 4.5 years in Ireland are being erased I have completed a master’s degree, built a career and paid Irish taxes throughout Sir, – Time spent in Ireland under the Temporary Protection Directive…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (705+ words) Middle-income earners will see a “significant impact” from the budget, Minister for Finance and Tánaiste Simon Harris has said. His comments come after Minister for Public Expenditure Jack Chambers sought to manage expectations in recent days, saying that despite plans…...