Irish Times
'It's really making books cool': Limerick students catch the reading bug
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- 'It's really making books cool': Limerick students catch the reading bug
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- 3:07
- Date posted
- 11 hours ago
- Description
- First published: 9/11/2026
Laura Williams teaches at St Josephs NS, Rathkeale, where reading is promoted, encouraged and supported in many ways.
Video: Bryan O'Brien
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- Irish Guide Dogs at 50: ‘He made the difference of being able to leave the house or not’
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- 1:56
- Date posted
- 2 days ago
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- At Ann Casey’s home in Mullingar, her guide dog Finlay, a black retriever, bounds out the front door to greet us wagging his tail. You might expect a quiet companion reassuringly poised in the background, not a scampering pup. Yet, as soon as Casey calls his name and slips his smart leather harness over his neck, it’s an instant transformation – like she’s hit an on-button.
Now calm and alert, Finlay surveys the room, awaiting Casey’s movement. As she makes her way towards the door, he takes the lead.
Finlay is the seventh guide dog Casey has owned, following Luther, Quiver, Carrie, Cliff, Tayto and Zebidee.
Casey was born with a rare degenerative eye condition called retinitis pigmentosa, which meant her eyesight gradually went very bad. Having been diagnosed at birth, she attended a boarding school for the blind, and learned Braille at the age of eight. “I was quite a good typist at 11,” she says.
Article: Conor Healy<...
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- Kia PV5 Review: Space, Style and Surprising Value | Car Review
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- 13:20
- Date posted
- 5 days ago
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- The all-electric Kia PV5 promises a rare combination: genuine practicality, generous space and a style that does not sacrifice either.
Neil Briscoe gets behind the wheel of the PV5 to find out whether this electric van-influenced model delivers on its promise - and whether its price point makes it one of the more compelling electric vehicles on the Irish market right now.
Full story: irishtimes.com
🎥 Video: Neil Briscoe
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- 'There Was No Question of Going Home' - Ireland's Last Nuns in Africa | Mini-doc
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- 9:42
- Date posted
- 6 days ago
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- In 1965, a 22-year-old woman from Co Tipperary boarded a steamer bound for west Africa. More than 60 years later, Sister Ailbe is still there.
At its peak, Ireland was said to have more Catholic missionaries per head than any other nation, with an estimated 6,000 Irish missionaries working across Africa by the 1960s. Today that pipeline has almost dried up. This mini-doc travels to Tambacounda, Senegal, to meet Sister Ailbe and the remaining Sisters of St Joseph of Annecy - and to ask what happens when the last Irish missionaries are gone.
Full story: irishtimes.com
🎥 Video: Caitlin Kelly
✂️ Edit: Eoin Ronayne
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- 'It's Mad But So Special': Wicklow Couple on Life with Triplets
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- 1:34
- Date posted
- 7 days ago
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- A Wicklow couple are adjusting to life with four children under three after welcoming triplets Theo, Bella and Kai into their family.
Clare Perez-Wildes and Claudio Perez spoke about the joys and challenges of their new reality, with the trio joining big brother Enzo, aged two. "It's mad, but it's so special," Clare says - and this short film captures exactly why.
Full story: irishtimes.com
🎥 Video: Bryan O'Brien
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- From Luther to Finlay: Ann Casey's 46 Years with Guide Dogs
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- 1:55
- Date posted
- 7 days ago
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- Ann Casey received her first guide dog, Luther, in 1980. Forty-six years later, her latest companion is Finlay.
In this short film, Ann reflects on nearly five decades of life with Irish Guide Dogs - from her earliest days with Luther to her current partnership with Finlay. Her story spans almost the entire history of the Irish Guide Dogs Association and offers a quiet, personal account of the difference these animals make.
Full story: irishtimes.com
🎥 Video: Nick Bradshaw
✂️ Edit: Eoin Ronayne
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- Dublin's Buckingham Village: How a regeneration project became the city's worst slum
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- 2:43
- Date posted
- 7 days ago
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- Buckingham Village was meant to breathe new life into Dublin's north inner city. Instead, it became one of the capital's worst slums - and closely linked with organised crime.
Conor Gallagher reports on how the 1991 development came to be associated with money laundering, gangland violence and the 2016 Regency Hotel attack, and why some locals say it should be torn down.
Full story on irishtimes.com
🎥 Video: Enda O'Dowd
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- U2 Play Surprise Grafton Street Gig for Their 50th Anniversary
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- 4:32
- Date posted
- 8 days ago
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- U2 brought their 50th anniversary celebrations to the streets of Dublin with a surprise gig from the balcony of Bewleys on Grafton Street.
Full story: irishtimes.com
🎥 Video: Enda O'Dowd
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- Anthony Scaramucci on where America went wrong | Inside Politics
- Runtime
- 45:06
- Date posted
- 8 days ago
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- Anthony Scaramucci spent years inside the Maga movement. Now he says he knows exactly where it went wrong.
Scaramucci - Wall Street financier, former Trump White House communications director and co-presenter of The Rest is Politics US - joins Hugh Linehan to discuss his new book All the Wrong Moves. He identifies three policy failures he believes were catastrophic, arguing they fuelled the populist anger that brought Donald Trump to power.
🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
Full story: irishtimes.com
✂️ Edit: Alyson Henry
0:00 The decline of America
3:24 Three catastrophic mistakes
14:24 The rise of Donald Trump
26:14 Pathways to political reform
40:01 Looking ahead at the future
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- Inside Dandora: The Dump Where 2,000 Tonnes of Waste Arrive Daily | Quick Take
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- 2:32
- Date posted
- 8 days ago
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- Kenya's recycling industry is growing - but for the waste pickers who work at Nairobi's Dandora dump site, that boom is threatening their livelihoods.
An estimated 2,000 tonnes of waste arrive at Dandora every day, where it is sorted by local collectors who depend on it for their income. As formal recycling operations expand, these workers are being squeezed out of the system they have sustained for years.
Full story: irishtimes.com
🎥 Video: Hannah McCarthy
Edit: David Dunne
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- Meet Fido, the Robot Dog Turning Heads at the Ploughing Championships
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- 1:26
- Date posted
- 8 days ago
- Description
- First published: 15th September 2026
A robot dog named Fido is drawing crowds at this year's National Ploughing Championships - and it could be a sign of things to come for Irish farming.
At the Engineers Ireland stand, two robots - one humanoid, one dog-like - are commanding attention with their every automated move. Keelan Keoghan, the policy officer who programmed Fido, says farming has always been good at adopting technology, even if uptake of new innovations is slow. "Eventually, robotics and drones will be used in farming, it's just a matter of time," he says.
Full story: irishtimes.com
🎥 Video: Stephen Conneely
Edit: Eoin Ronayne
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- How U2 Was Formed 50 Years Ago in a Dublin School | Mini-doc
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- 1:19
- Date posted
- 8 days ago
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- Fifty years ago, a handwritten noticeboard ad in a Dublin school set in motion one of the most remarkable stories in music history.
In 1976, a group of teenagers at Mount Temple Comprehensive School in Dublin formed a band that would become U2. Roisin Ingle traces the origins of the group, from that first rehearsal in a kitchen in Artane to the stages of the world's biggest arenas. This mini-doc marks half a century since the band came together.
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- How U2 Was Formed 50 Years Ago in a Dublin School | Mini-doc
- Runtime
- 8:32
- Date posted
- 8 days ago
- Description
- Fifty years ago, a handwritten noticeboard ad in a Dublin school set in motion one of the most remarkable stories in music history.
In 1976, a group of teenagers at Mount Temple Comprehensive School in Dublin formed a band that would become U2. Roisin Ingle traces the origins of the group, from that first rehearsal in a kitchen in Artane to the stages of the world's biggest arenas. This mini-doc marks half a century since the band came together.
Full story: irishtimes.com
🎥 Video: Enda O'Dowd
0:00 The spark at Mount Temple
1:21 The environment of the band
2:39 Early rehearsals and members
4:30 First performances and trials
6:03 From local band to stardom
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- Sometimes life can take an unexpected turn | Detours
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- 25:52
- Date posted
- 8 days ago
- Description
- In episode two of Detours, an Irish Times Content Studio podcast created in association with Volvo, host Craig Doyle takes a drive with clothing brand entrepreneur and 'accidental activist' Conor Buckley.
Listen in as Conor shares his personal experiences of racism and the reasons behind his move into activism. #freedomtomove
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- 'I needed space to get my writing head on again' - Denise Chaila
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- 1:03
- Date posted
- 11 days ago
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- Trump has undeniable political instincts - Anthony Scaramucci
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- 1:11
- Date posted
- 11 days ago
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- Why Are Irish Politicians Facing Abuse and Violence? | Inside Politics
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- 50:39
- Date posted
- 15 days ago
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- An unprovoked attack on Kerry TD Michael Healy-Rae this week raised serious questions about the safety of public representatives in Ireland - and what is driving the shift from political criticism to abuse and physical violence.
Ellen Coyne and Jack Horgan-Jones join Hugh Linehan to look back on a busy week in politics. They discuss the growing threat facing elected officials, Donald Trump's comments on a united Ireland and the optics of his Doonbeg resort visit, Ursula von der Leyen's suggestion of EU associate membership for Canada, the Sinn Féin Bill to remove the three-day abortion wait, and a potential vote transfer pact between Aontú and Independent Ireland.
The panel also pick their favourite Irish Times pieces of the week.
🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
Full story: irishtimes.com
✂️ Edit: Alyson Henry
0:00 The crisis of political abuse
11:33 Trump's visit and legacy
16:5...
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- Can BMW’s New iX3 Really Do 800km on a Single Charge?
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- 13:30
- Date posted
- 18 days ago
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- BMW’s new electric SUV feels like a proper Beemer to drive.
We’ve already been so impressed with the BMW iX3 that we gave it The Irish Times Motors car of the year award, but now it’s time for the Munich-made electric SUV’s toughest test yet — taking on Irish roads and Irish conditions to see exactly how long the battery lasts when it’s on actual tarmac, rather than in a test lab. Plus; how well does the cool full-width digital ‘Panoramic View’ display, which takes up the entire lower part of the windscreen, actually work and is the iX3 as practical as it should be?
0:00 Introduction and pricing
1:34 Range and efficiency
3:06 Exterior styling
4:11 Interior and technology
7:43 Practicality and space
10:05 Driving dynamics
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- Kyla Cobbler: The moment I stopped judging my parents
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- 0:28
- Date posted
- 18 days ago
- Description
- Read more: /podcasts/the-womens-podcast/kyla-cobbler-thats-the-thing-with-coercive-control-it-didnt-look-like-abuse/.
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- ‘It is a huge honour’: Ship traces journey Spanish Armada sailors made in 1588
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- 0:55
- Date posted
- 19 days ago
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- It is no surprise that those seafaring forebears of the ill-fated Spanish Armada of 1588 were on the mind of Captain Miguel Cuesta Almansa of the Galeón Andalucía as his craft rolled in heavy seas around Malin Head and down the Co Donegal coastline early on Tuesday morning.
But the sea god, Manannán Mac Lir, was clearly in a benevolent mood as the waves relented and the sun began to shine on the world’s largest replica of a traditional Spanish galleon. Indeed conditions became so favourable around midmorning that a winchman from Rescue 118, the coastguard helicopter based at Sligo Airport, landed on the deck to say “hello” off Glen Head in southwest Donegal.
“It is a huge honour to be able to sail in these same waters as Spanish sailors did nearly 500 years ago now. I understand the difficulties of sailing these waters as it is difficult even now these days with all of the advances in technology one has,” Captain Almansa told The Irish Times.
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- One phone call that changed everything | Detours
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- 0:40
- Date posted
- 20 days ago
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- Sponsored Content: What happens when the path you planned takes an unexpected turn?
Dermot Bannon reveals the surprising moments that have shaped his life in Detours, the new podcast from the Irish Times Content Studio, created in association with Volvo.
Listen in as Craig Doyle and Dermot Bannon take a drive down memory lane in the Volvo ES90. From Dermot’s formative childhood abroad to a career-defining change of direction, this is an honest conversation about ambition, uncertainty and finding purpose in life’s detours. #freedomtomove
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- 'First time ever': Special school students receive recognised Senior Cycle results
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- 2:05
- Date posted
- 21 days ago
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- For the first time, senior cycle pupils at an Irish special school have received officially recognized national qualifications alongside Leaving Certificate students nationwide. Students, families, and teachers share what this historic milestone means for special education in Ireland.
Video: Clodagh Kilcoyne
Editor: Eoin Ronayne
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- Trump Skips Ground Zero on September 11 - What It Signals | Inside Politics
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- 42:45
- Date posted
- 22 days ago
- Description
- Trump chose the Pentagon over Ground Zero to mark September 11 - and the Inside Politics team unpacks what that decision says about his presidency.
Hugh Linehan is joined by Harry McGee and Pat Leahy to review a packed week in Irish and international politics. They cover Green Party proposals, small party challenges, budget and fiscal discipline, public sector management, immigration policy changes, and Ireland's place in a shifting international landscape.
🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
Full story: irishtimes.com
✂️ Edit: Alyson Henry
0:00 The Green Party proposals
2:55 Small party challenges
7:23 Political thinking season
12:37 Budget and fiscal discipline
17:20 Public sector management
22:07 Immigration policy changes
33:13 International relations
37:40 Donald Trump's visit
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- 'Far From Umami We Were Reared': Inside Ireland's Oyster Harvest
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- 2:13
- Date posted
- 22 days ago
- Description
- On the shores of Cromane Bay in Co Kerry, a fourth-generation shellfish family shows what it really takes to bring an oyster from seabed to plate.
Sharon Sugrue, her brother Micheál, and business partner Emmet Casey run Réalt na Mara Shellfish - a working oyster and mussel operation nestled between the Dingle and Iveragh peninsulas. Their grandfathers fished the same waters in the 1960s. Today the family opens the beds to visitors, offering tours, tastings, and a glimpse of the tides, birds, and patience that define life on Castlemaine Harbour.
Full story: irishtimes.com
🎥 Video: Bryan O'Brien
✂️ Edit: Eoin Ronayne
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- Jack Chambers promises 'greater controls' as he looks to crack down on HSE overspending
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- 38:42
- Date posted
- 23 days ago
- Description
- The Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Services, Reform and Digitalisation, Jack Chambers, was speaking to Jack Horgan-Jones.
0:00 Managing the budget
3:04 Energy costs and excise
8:36 Carbon tax policy
13:26 Public sector accountability
20:30 Tax and childcare plans
25:44 Public pay negotiations
28:59 Infrastructure reform
33:00 Fiscal policy and leadership
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- Kyla Cobbler: Everyone is surprised my husband is a ride
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- 0:20
- Date posted
- 23 days ago
- Description
- Read more: /podcasts/the-womens-podcast/kyla-cobbler-thats-the-thing-with-coercive-control-it-didnt-look-like-abuse/.
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- Chimes, flakes, and nostalgia: The lasting magic of the Irish ice cream van
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- 1:02
- Date posted
- 23 days ago
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- My family’s been in ice-cream for about 40 years. My grandmother bought her first van back in the early 1980s. I grew up around the business, and I had a feel for it.
I was working as a taxi and limousine driver when the last recession hit, and I said to myself: “Okay, what else can I do?”
I bought my van in 2008 and went from there. I have two now, and I still use the same colours as my grandmother: Yellow, purple and white.
It’s a territorial business. It can be hard to get into, to know where to go and what to do. There were times in the first two years I was saying to myself: “Do I even know what I’m doing? Is this for me?”
Video: Nick Bradshaw
Editor: Eoin Ronayne
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- 'It’s dancing as yourself': The revival of Irish sean-nós dancing
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- 2:00
- Date posted
- 24 days ago
- Description
- The dancer and choreographer Edwina Guckian believes the Irish tradition of dancing for pleasure was stolen from us - she’s on a mission to bring back the joy.
Video: Bryan O'Brien
Editor: Eoin Ronayne
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- Thinking of buying an old home? Here's what you need to know
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- 0:30
- Date posted
- 24 days ago
- Description
- Read more: /podcasts/better-with-money/when-youre-buying-an-old-house-assume-everything-needs-to-be-done/.
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- Dacia’s Spring is back for another go at the affordable EV market
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- 8:29
- Date posted
- 25 days ago
- Description
- Dacia’s dinky little Spring electric car made a valiant effort at being not only the cheapest electric car on sale in Ireland but also actually the cheapest car of all for a time.
Sadly for the Spring, it was hamstrung by a cabin as small as its battery and an attitude to corners that could best be described as ‘unenthusiastic’.
It also had the poor fortune to arrive at basically the same time as the Hyundai Inster, which was (and is) slightly more expensive but also on a different planet in terms of sophistication and usability. Quietly, the Spring was withdrawn from sale in Ireland when it was clear customers were staying away.
Now though, the Spring is back. Or at least it will be by next July, in time for 272 registrations, and it’s considerably more sophisticated than it used to be.
Primarily, that’s thanks to sharing a platform, batteries, etc with the new Renault Twingo, which arrives here in January or February next year. The...
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- Croagh Patrick on Reek Sunday: Ireland’s mountain pilgrimage
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- 1:03
- Date posted
- 25 days ago
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- When Mayo trailed Kerry by seven points early in Sunday’s big game, it looked as if, as the time-honoured cliche puts it, they had a mountain to climb. Luckily on this occasion, many of the team’s supporters had already climbed it.
This was the first year ever that “Reek Sunday” coincided with an All-Ireland final involving Mayo. And thousands of the county’s faithful ascended Croagh Patrick well in time for throw-in, hoping that if they didn’t have God on their side, exactly, they at least had the national saint.
At the foot of Ireland’s holy mountain, his statue’s crozier was accessorised for the day with a Mayo flag, the green and red flying proudly straight in a stiff breeze from Clew Bay.
His other hand, meanwhile, held up a shamrock. That’s always there, but this time some close observers saw the three-leafed plant as the saint’s way of predicting the margin by which Mayo would at last prevail.
From there up,...
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- Paul Howard: 'An equal-opportunities satirist' | Inside Politics
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- 42:20
- Date posted
- 26 days ago
- Description
- Paul Howard, creator of Ross O'Carroll Kelly, has turned his satirical eye on one of Ireland's biggest political questions.
In his new novel A Nation Once Again, Howard imagines a government department set up to prepare for Irish reunification - exploring both the absurdity of the border's existence and the ridiculousness of trying to remove it. He joins Hugh Linehan on the Inside Politics podcast to discuss the book's origins as a sitcom idea, how growing up in Ireland with an English accent sharpened his ear for phonetic and cultural quirks, and why Ireland's Call might actually be the ideal anthem for a united Ireland.
🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
Full story: irishtimes.com
Edit: Alyson Henry
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- How Morgan is melding artisanal car making with cutting-edge tech
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- 16:00
- Date posted
- 26 days ago
- Description
- Morgan has been making sports cars in the same factory in a small town in England since the early 1910s, but it’s not just a heritage car maker — this is a company which BMW has allowed to use its engines, and whose sports car get high-tech, lightweight chassis with bonded aerospace-style aluminium panels. Mixed in with all that is hand-made bodywork that’s still gently curved and hammered over an ash wood frame.
Now, Morgan has fitted a highly-tuned 407hp BMW straight-six turbo engine to create the mighty Supersports 400; a car that looks like Bertie Wooster might drive it, but which is closer to Max Verstappen in its performance. That’s good and all, but there’s more fun to be had with the toy-like Morgan Super 3, a tiny two-seater with just three wheels, no windscreen, and which is more fun than a roomful of puppies…
Video: Neil Briscoe
0:00 Introduction to Morgan Super 3
2:33 Interior and design features
4:47 Road test...
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- Paul Howard: 'An equal-opportunities satirist' | Inside Politics
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- 2:24
- Date posted
- 26 days ago
- Description
- Paul Howard, creator of Ross O'Carroll Kelly, has turned his satirical eye on one of Ireland's biggest political questions.
In his new novel A Nation Once Again, Howard imagines a government department set up to prepare for Irish reunification - exploring both the absurdity of the border's existence and the ridiculousness of trying to remove it. He joins Hugh Linehan on the Inside Politics podcast to discuss the book's origins as a sitcom idea, how growing up in Ireland with an English accent sharpened his ear for phonetic and cultural quirks, and why Ireland's Call might actually be the ideal anthem for a united Ireland.
🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
Full story: irishtimes.com
Edit: Alyson Henry
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- Inside Dublin Comic Con: 'A place to express yourself'
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- 2:10
- Date posted
- 26 days ago
- Description
- A medieval knight, a storm trooper and a superhero all walk into a convention centre.
On Saturday morning, thousands of pop culture fans gathered at the Dublin Convention Centre in cosplays of their favourite characters to celebrate Dublin Comic Con.
Some attendees did not dress in reference to specific fictional characters, but instead in more general costumes.
Sarah Doyle and Charlotte Rose Keating were dressed as ghosts and were both novices to the event.
“I only experienced Comic Con before in San Diego and I’ve always wanted to come here – it is an absolute blast. Look at all these characters every where,” said Keating.
“It’s a bit like Disneyland – you go in and you want to see it all and do it all.”
Tickets for the weekend event start at €52, but add-ons such as costume items, guest signatures and selfies can bring the prices for the attendees well north of that.
The appe...
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- The Tallow Horse Fair returns to Waterford
- Runtime
- 1:41
- Date posted
- 26 days ago
- Description
- The Tallow Horse Fair returns to Waterford
Video: Chris Maddaloni
Editor: Eoin Ronayne
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- The Women's Podcast at Electric Picnic: Dearbhla Mescal on the advice she gave her children
- Runtime
- 0:43
- Date posted
- 26 days ago
- Description
- Read more: /podcasts/the-womens-podcast/miss-you-the-dublin-fringe-show-inspired-by-irelands-missing-women/.
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- Inside Phoenix Park's Reopened 300-Year-Old Military Fort
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- 2:42
- Date posted
- 27 days ago
- Description
- The historic Magazine Fort in Dublin’s Phoenix Park, once one of the most important military sites in the city, is finally open to the public following a €5 million repair and conservation project.
The fort was built in 1736 on the orders of the duke of Dorset, then lord lieutenant of Ireland, to store gunpowder and ammunition that had until then been kept at Dublin Castle, perilously close to the heart of the city.
The chosen site in the Phoenix Park was a high spot on its southern side with commanding views over the river Liffey and the Dublin mountains, a prime location for a military fortification. Unfortunately, it was already occupied by Phoenix House, a Jacobean mansion built the previous century and once home to Henry Cromwell, son of Oliver, but such was the importance of the site from a strategic vantage, that the house was razed.
The fort was expanded between 1739 and 1801, with work to raise its parapets and widen its ramparts to a...
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- 'The bars on the windows kept the cows out' - Fethard's medieval past | From the Archive
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- 1:31
- Date posted
- 28 days ago
- Description
- In the Co Tipperary town of Fethard, the medieval past is not just remembered - it is still visible in the stone walls, the barred windows, and the stories passed down by locals.
First Published: 26/08/2026
Fethard is one of Ireland's best-preserved medieval walled towns, and a local community group is working to keep knowledge of that history alive. The so-called 'horse money' tradition is among the historic customs still associated with the town. Vincent 'Jasper' Murphy, owner of McCarthy's pub - and an undertaker operating from the rear of the same premises - is among those who carry the character of Fethard across generations.
Full story: irishtimes.com
🎥 Video: Bryan O'Brien
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- DCU Students Built Ireland's First Solar-Powered Racing Car | From the Archive
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- 1:47
- Date posted
- 29 days ago
- Description
- DCU students put Ireland's first solar-powered racing car through its paces at Mondello Park, testing the vehicle ahead of competing in Belgium.
First Published: 27/08/2026
A team from Dublin City University designed and built the solar car as part of an international student racing programme. The footage, filmed at Mondello Park, captures the car on track during pre-competition trials. The team was set to race in Belgium within weeks of this test. The project marked a milestone in Irish student engineering and renewable energy innovation.
Full story: irishtimes.com
🎥 Video: Enda O'Dowd
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- One phone call that changed everything | Detours
- Runtime
- 16:14
- Date posted
- 29 days ago
- Description
- What happens when the path you planned takes an unexpected turn?
Dermot Bannon reveals the surprising moments that have shaped his life in Detours, the new podcast from the Irish Times Content Studio, created in association with Volvo.
Listen in as Craig Doyle and Dermot Bannon take a drive down memory lane in the Volvo ES90. From Dermot’s formative childhood abroad to a career-defining change of direction, this is an honest conversation about ambition, uncertainty and finding purpose in life’s detours. #Freedomtomove
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- 'We want to make it really enjoyable': a first look at Glovers Alley restaurant
- Runtime
- 0:57
- Date posted
- 30 days ago
- Description
- Adam Nevin, head chef at Dublin's Glovers Alley, says his aim is to create a restaurant "where it's fun for people."
Video: Bryan O'Brien
Editor: Eoin Ronayne
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- Inside One of the EU's Deadliest Migration Routes - Seen From the Air
- Runtime
- 2:15
- Date posted
- 30 days ago
- Description
- Irish Times correspondent Sally Hayden flies over one of the EU's deadliest migration routes, offering a rare aerial view of the perilous path taken by people fleeing war, poverty and persecution.
Murky migration deals between the EU and Libyan militias - described as 'extremely violent' - are preventing people from reaching safety, raising serious questions about European border policy and its human cost. Hayden reports from above the route to examine what these arrangements mean on the ground.
Full story: irishtimes.com
🎥 Video: Sally Hayden
✂️ Edit: Eoin Ronayne
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- 'I saw grown men cry': Legendary FAI kitman Charlie O’Leary on the Jack Charlton era
- Runtime
- 2:35
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Key to Charlie O’Leary’s long life, he believes, is his “sense of humour”. The 102-year-old, who lives in Harmonstown, Dublin, “always saw the funny side of everything” and “rarely fell out with anyone”.
The attributes served him and Irish soccer well during an almost century-long career.
The diminutive O’Leary is best known as the self-described “little fellah” who, between 1988 and 2000, was kitman to the Republic of Ireland team during its glory years of the 1988 European Championship and 1990 and 1994 World Cups under Jack Charlton.
“Football crazy” since his childhood days around the streets of East Wall, he cofounded the famous street leagues in the late 1940s, a footballing firmament where many of the game’s brightest stars first shone.
This evening, his services to Irish football will be honoured with a presentation by Lord Mayor Ray McAdam of the Lord Mayor’s award.
The first public ...
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- Opel Frontera aims downmarket for a clash with Dacia
- Runtime
- 27:51
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- This is possibly the first time that Opel has consciously reached down. Not that there haven’t been affordable Opels before. The German brand has had decade upon decade of the Corsa, for instance, while other models such as the Karl and the Adam were designed to be either affordable but chic, or just plain old affordable.
This is the first time, though, which I can remember, that Opel has moved at least a little bit away from its long-held self-image of a quasi-premium German brand, and is aiming its new car at bargain-bucket buyers who would otherwise buy a Dacia.
This new car has an old name − Frontera − once applied to a badge-engineered Isuzu in the 1990s, which gave Opel its first SUV long before that term was even invented, or at least popularised.
Revived for this new model, the 2025 Frontera (we’re driving it now but it won’t actually go on sale in Ireland until April) is no longer a competitor for a big Land Rover, but instead i...
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- Liffey Valley Park: From Dump to National Park to Housing | From the Archive
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- 2:08
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- The future of Liffey Valley Park - a green corridor stretching from Chapelizod to Lucan on the western edge of Dublin - has been contested for decades.
First Published: 21/08/2026
Once used as a dump, the land was later earmarked as a national park before housing proposals shifted the debate once more. This quick-take traces how plans for the site have changed over the years and what remains at stake for the communities that border it.
Full story: irishtimes.com
🎥 Video: Bryan O'Brien
✂️ Edit: Eoin Ronayne
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- From the archives: The Irishman building famous landmarks out of Lego
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- 1:08
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- From the archives - July 2nd 2026
David Fennell builds recreations of Irish landmarks out of Lego - entirely from a shed in his back garden.
Ahead of Brick Féile 2026, Ireland's annual Lego fan convention, we visited Fennell to see his latest builds up close and find out what drives the passion project.
Full story: irishtimes.com
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- EU presidency hits Wicklow
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- 8:22
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- All 27 EU foreign ministers have gathered in Druids Glen in Wicklow for a “Gymnich” meeting. What is that you ask, it is characterised as a more informal chat with no expectation of any hard decisions being made. The lull of August will now give way to a hectic calendar culminating in difficult choices around the next seven-year EU budget.
Watch this highlight from Friday's episode of Inside Politics and listen back to the full episode on all podcast platforms.
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- Plunge Into the Sea After a Sauna - Ireland's Floating Helios Sauna Reviewed
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- 1:02
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- From the archive: 28th May 2026
We sent journalist Niamh Browne to test out Ireland's first floating sauna in Dún Laoghaire harbour.
Helios Sauna sits on a new floating pontoon off the Old Quay, sheltered by the West Pier. The compact brass and wood structure is wood-fired, and the movement of the water beneath adds to the experience. When the heat gets too much, a 1.2-metre steel cage plunge pool filled with cold harbour seawater sits alongside for bathers to cool off in.
Full story: irishtimes.com
Video: Bryan O'Brien
Editor: Eoin Ronayne
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- 'Day 13 or 14 was when people started dying': Only 36 of 200 survived the Atlantic crossing
- Runtime
- 1:45
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- More than 200 people set sail from west Africa bound for Europe. Only 36 survived.
Sally Hayden reports from the Atlantic migration route - described as the deadliest in the world - where survivors recount what happened when people began dying on day 13 or 14 of the crossing. Their accounts reveal the scale of loss on a journey taken by those with little choice but to try.
Full story: irishtimes.com
🎥 Video: Sally Hayden
✂️ Edit: Eoin Ronayne
