:quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/STK77MM7XXVX7YAXWKSU7EOJUE.jpg "Cathy Sweeney: Almost everyone I know who rents in Ireland is now desperate to find a way out of it")
Flicking through the television channels recently and landing on show after show featuring house and garden renovations – Escape to the Chateau; A Place in the...
:quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/ZXY27ADXBFCAJERH3ZLGHKGVEU.jpg "Áine Kerr: I must remain caffeinated at all times or I might stop and never get going again")
How agreeable are you? It depends! I’m very agreeable, for example, when it comes to wanting more women in leadership roles and believing in the capacity...
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Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) get a bad press but their increasing dominance on supermarket shelves and overwhelming evidence they are responsible for a range of health problems...
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Are there half tins of paint in your shed? You’re not alone. We’ve all bought the wrong shade – maybe it took painting two whole walls...
:quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/BZKOMOUUIJCMXLS4UU3LIUJKPE.jpg "Cocaine and Irish women: ‘I’m a wife. I’m a mother. I have a career. I’m a user’")
Earlier this week the Health Research Board (HRB) revealed that, along with recording the highest number of drug treatment cases on record last year, there has...
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Many of Ireland’s renters are living in fear that one change in circumstance could leave them homeless overnight. The main reason people contact homelessness-prevention organisation Threshold...
:quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/U4CACS576JHXTNL6RXKAA2UEYU.JPG "Why did a south Dublin institution, Newpark Academy of Music, announce it was closing suddenly?")
Looking at its website earlier this week, you’d never know what was going on in Newpark Academy of Music (NAM), apparently bursting with classes and activities...
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Independent Ireland’s courts, established 100 years ago this week, are a window into a changing society. In the latest in an occasional series on landmark cases,...
:quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/YE5FQ7G3KRJRDAY6XBJP6HXBDI.jpg "Fergal Keane: At a time of deep division on this island Andy Irvine’s music kicked the door off its hinges")
Towards the end of John Steinbeck’s epic novel of dispossession and migration, The Grapes of Wrath, the central character, Tom Joad, talks about an itinerant preacher...
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How agreeable are you? Extremely. If the people around me are happy then so am I. Life is less stressful when you’re easy-going. What’s your middle...
:quality(70):focal(4665x1576:4675x1586)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/BJGEBEKUVZCFJBJU2XSWLM4QMQ.jpg "Prof Hugh Brady: ‘Quality of Irish university experience is slipping, and going to get worse over time’")
Despite an obsession with world university rankings in higher education, most college presidents like to give the impression they are above such tawdry business. To his...
:quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/PHJEJSLR7IJYHEME2ZICXMBOHU.jpg "Fundamental differences over economics may damage EU-wide right-wing alliance")
Europe is moving away from the centre, and movements in financial markets reflect this. In the past week, the chief economist of the European Central Bank...