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Ireland

  • Tuesday, 31 December, 2024
    News in-depthTravel & leisure industry
    Who killed the rave? Late-night dancing falls into global decline

    From Berlin to New York, clubbers in the world’s party capitals are heading home earlier

    A montage of people dancing and a chart
  • Friday, 27 December, 2024
    News in-depth
    Ireland’s vineyards win global recognition

    Warming climate and hybrid grapes make country better known for whiskey an unlikely source of award-winning wines

    David Llewellyn stands inside a polytunnel at Lusca vineyard in Lusk, north Dublin.
  • Monday, 23 December, 2024
    Eurozone interest rates
    Irish central banker says uncertainty for rate-setters higher now than in lockdown

    Makhlouf speaks out against ‘insurance’ cuts by ECB, despite fears of a US-instigated trade war

    Central Bank of Ireland governor Gabriel Makhlouf
  • Wednesday, 18 December, 2024
    Shipping
    Holyhead port closure risks ‘shortages’ in Ireland, hauliers warn

    Shipments delayed or rerouted after Storm Darragh damaged berths at north Wales terminal

    A ferry in the background at Holyhead. In the forground are trucks
  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    Ireland urged to set aside more of its corporate tax windfall

    Country’s independent fiscal watchdog calls for Norwegian-style approach to saving surplus cash

    The river Liffey in the city centre of Dublin
  • Sunday, 1 December, 2024
    Ireland election puts big-spending parties on track to retain power

    Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael prepare to continue coalition after support for opposition Sinn Féin drops

    Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin celebrates with Irish EU commissioner Michael McGrath as McGrath’s brother Seamus is elected to parliament
  • Saturday, 30 November, 2024
    Early election tallies suggest Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael set for fresh Irish coalition

    Neither party will seek to form coalition with Sinn Féin, which analysis suggests is in third place

  • Saturday, 30 November, 2024
    Sinn Féin takes narrow lead in Ireland general election exit poll

    Current coalition government partners Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil are both close behind, survey finds

    Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald casting her vote in Dublin
  • Friday, 29 November, 2024
    News in-depth
    Ireland heads to the polls as Trump’s tax threat looms

    Country’s fiscal bonanza at risk from US president-elect’s pledge to match low corporation tax rate

    An election warehouse manager  walks among rows of empty ballot boxes in a warehouse in Dublin, Ireland. He is holding a sign that reads "Polling Station / Ionad Vótála"
  • Friday, 29 November, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
    France’s bond market sell-off

    Political uncertainty in France sends shockwaves through the country’s sovereign bond market

  • Wednesday, 27 November, 2024
    ReviewTheatre
    James Joyce’s The Dead becomes an infectiously festive promenade piece

    Immersive Dublin production of the short story is performed in a playful, easy-going style

    A woman and a man in formal evening wear from the early 20th century stand together in a room, smiling
  • Tuesday, 26 November, 2024
    House & Home
    Where I write . . .  John Banville’s place of ‘happy nothingness’

    The Irish author needs a blank wall, a wide desk and a menagerie of inanimate creatures — ferocious Chinese dragons and a wooden mouse in a polka-dot frock among them — to work

    A wooden desk cluttered with papers, books, pens, decorative objects and a lamp
  • Sunday, 24 November, 2024
    News in-depth
    Crime boss takes on Sinn Féin leader and Brussels veteran in Dublin election

    Constituency highlights cost-of-living and housing concerns in next week’s Irish vote

    An election poster for Gerry Hutch on a Dublin lamp post
  • Thursday, 21 November, 2024
    Prime property
    ‘It takes a particular kind of madness’: new life for Ireland’s Big Houses

    The country has not had an easy relationship with the once grand homes of the Anglo-Irish elite — leading many to be torched, repurposed or left to rot. But a new appreciation is being nurtured, and a ‘reckoning with the past’

    A large countryside manor or castle with three stories and several large windows. The structure is surrounded by lush greenery and sits on a slight elevation
  • Tuesday, 19 November, 2024
    Special ReportDiversity Leaders
    Ireland shifts diversity dial to stay with the pace

    Progress is an ‘unstoppable trend’ but blockages remain in some areas

  • Friday, 15 November, 2024
    Corporation tax
    Apple upgrades Ireland’s credit rating outlook

    Good craic

  • Wednesday, 6 November, 2024
    Irish PM Harris plans to hold general election on November 29

    The 38-year-old coalition government leader hopes to capitalise on bumper corporate tax receipts

    Fine Gael leader and Ireland’s incoming Prime Minster, Simon Harris waving as he leaves Leinster House, the seat of the Irish parliament, after being voted in as Ireland’s new prime minister on April 9 2024
  • Wednesday, 30 October, 2024
    ReviewFiction
    John Banville’s The Drowned — cold, compelling and seamlessly plotted

    The latest outing for the Booker winner’s Dublin pathologist again leads readers into a morass of deception and betrayal

    A black-and-white photo of a figure getting into a Morris Minor car on a rainswept harbour
  • Monday, 21 October, 2024
    Drug trafficking
    Ireland signs extradition treaty with UAE in effort to catch Kinahan cartel

    Daniel Kinahan is one of Europe’s most wanted criminals and prominent member of Dubai-based ‘super cartel’

    Ireland’s Garda presenting a screen with images of Christopher, Daniel and Christy Kinahan, offering rewards of up to $5mn each from the US Drug Enforcement Administration in April 2022
  • Thursday, 17 October, 2024
    Exchange traded funds
    UK investors seize advantage and feast on bargain passive funds

    Analysts suggest kickbacks might explain how, in contrast, 89% of flows to Luxembourg funds went to active vehicles

    A train passes over the Pulvermuhl viaduct as skyscrapers and high rise buildings stand beyond in the Plateau de Kirchberg district on Luxembourg city
  • Monday, 14 October, 2024
    Sinn Féin
    Scandal-hit Sinn Féin on back foot ahead of Irish elections

    Leader Mary Lou McDonald vows to stay at helm of party despite resignations of two deputies

    Mary Lou McDonald, president of Sinn Féin, at the party’s headquarters in Dublin
  • Thursday, 10 October, 2024
    Jude Webber
    Ireland is awash with cash but needs an infrastructure vision

    Country struggling to catch up on needs of its expanding population amid near full employment

    View of the new children’s hospital being built in Dublin
  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
    News in-depthIrish economy
    Ireland struggles to consolidate role as data centre hub

    Dublin goes from ‘leader to flounderer’ as planning and energy supply problems lead tech groups to invest elsewhere

    The Equinix DB5 Data centre campus in Dublin, Ireland
  • Sunday, 6 October, 2024
    Middle East war
    Ireland slams Israel’s ‘outrageous’ demands to its peacekeepers

    Irish president rejects Israeli calls for UN battalion to withdraw from southern Lebanon

    A UN armoured personnel carrier
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    The Big Read
    Has Sinn Féin missed its chance to govern Ireland?

    After watching its support slip dramatically, the pro-unity party has its work cut out to stage a comeback in a looming election

    Garda officers watch protesters at the entrance to the site of the former Crown Paints factory in Coolock, north Dublin, recently painted in the colours of the Irish tricolour
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