By-elections in Dublin Central and Galway west will take place on 22nd May. Who’s standing? And what issues are likely to sway voters?

Sinn Féin’s Ard Fheis will begin today with the keynote address from Michelle O’Neill on Friday night.

Ten per cent of Ireland’s homeless population is being concentrated on a single street in Dublin city centre, according to figures raised in the Dáil.

A former High Court judge has said character references do not mitigate the severity or gravity of crimes after revelations that a former TD gave one ahead of the sentencing of Daniel Ramamoorthy for child sex offences.

Trade union leaders are warning of a potential winter of discontent amid a rising cost of living and the current public sector pay deal expiring at the end of June.

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Of around 7,000 children who live in Dublin’s southwest inner city, fewer than four in every ten of them go to secondary school, while a new study finds crime rates and drug deaths are twice the national average there.

Since applications opened for the first cost-rental housing development in Balbriggan in north Dublin in July 2021, every scheme has been vastly over-subscribed. But recent viability assessments are putting a question mark over the model’s future.

The attempted murder of veteran criminal and upcoming by-election candidate Gerry Hutch (59) is one of the conspiracies in which the State will allege cartel leader Daniel Kinahan (48) was involved when he goes on trial.

Hollywood actor Chris O’Dowd is reminiscing about his formative years playing for Roscommon - as the current team gears up to take on Mayo in this weekend’s Connacht semi-final.

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Daniel Kinahan is expected to face just one charge of directing organised crime when he’s tried at the Special Criminal Court.

Hildegarde Naughton is the seventh education minister to tackle Catholic school divestment. Can she succeed where others have failed?

Ed Power reminisces on Michael Jackson’s 1988 concert at Páirc Uí Chaoimh, and how hindsight shows us something much darker was happening at the time.

Women in the US are being pushed from the frying pan into a five-alarm authoritarian fire, according to Margaret E Ward in her World of Work column today.

A new exhibition at EPIC called No Irish Need Apply is telling the often painful story of Irish emigration to Britain, a story that stretches back more than 200 years.

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Ministers will be warned today that tighter spending controls are required in their departments in order to stick within agreed budgets at a time of growing international threats to the Irish economy.

The arrest of alleged cartel boss Daniel Kinahan in Dubai last week marks a significant new phase to efforts by An Garda Síochána to get him back in Ireland.

A group from the Ancient Order of Hibernians speaks to The Irish Times on a visit to the North.

Former footballers for University College Dublin retrace their steps in China where they toured in 1976. 

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The government underreported the number of US military aircraft flying over Irish airspace, an Irish Times investigation has found.

A “crisis” response group to overcrowding in prisons is to meet next week as records show the Director General of the Irish Prison Service sought more urgent action to tackle “unprecedented” overcrowding.

Rising fuel prices are hitting people across the country, but for some households, heating their home has become a luxury rather than a basic need.

Medical students at Trinity College Dublin will be assessed on their capacity for love and human connection from next year. It’s the first medical school in Ireland to treat it as a formal graduate outcome. 

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The Fianna Fáil parliamentary party is rallying around Michaél Martin amid pressure for new leadership of the party, the Irish Times understands.

Electricity prices could rise as soon as May or June, energy industry sources have said.

A man who took the social media giant, X, to court for unfair dismissal has had his payout reduced to €201,000 down from more than €500,000.

It’s three years since the start of the war in Sudan this week. The UN has described it as the worlds worst humanitarian crisis.

Records of the 1926 census are to be published on Saturday, the first to be made public since the State became independent. 

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Europe faces higher gas prices “for years” to come even in the best-case scenario, and possible shortages in the supply of diesel and jet fuel in the short term if the Strait of Hormuz remains blocked, the European Union’s energy commissioner Dan Jørgensen has warned.

The oil and gas shock caused by the US-Israeli attack on Iran and Tehran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz has caused the cost of electricity to sharply diverge in Europe, with some countries cushioned while others feel the pain.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin is facing renewed backbencher unrest in the wake of a destabalising week of protest and the resignation of former Independent minister Michael Healy Rae.

More than 1,300 people over the last two years who had left direct provision sought emergency accommodation in Dublin because they were homeless, a report provided to a Dáil committee reveals.

With his $1bn fortune blown, Floyd Mayweather might just need to fight again. Now 49, the former world champion is being pursued by the taxman for millions. A Netflix payday may beckon.

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The government has survived a confidence vote in the Dáil but what could the impact of the resignation of Michael Healy-Rae as a Minister for Agriculture mean?

Cuts to fuel excise duty came into effect at midnight, but motorists are being warned not to expect an immediate fall in prices.

The Basic Income for the Arts scheme has caused “segregation in the artistic community” and allowed people to take advantage of the system, artists have said.

Residents at Dublin’s oldest Traveller housing site are “devastated” at news its redevelopment, promised for almost 30 years, is not going ahead.

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Gardaí are warning that fuel protesters who block roads or slow traffic on motorways will now face arrest, detention and will have their vehicles towed away.

Cuts to fuel excise duty will kick in at midnight tonight, but oil prices continue to surge after the US began a blockade of Iranian ports near the Strait of Hormuz.

The building housing the National Museum of Ireland’s collection “presents a significant long-term risk”, the chair of the museum board’s chair has said.

Job losses as a result of artificial intelligence could have a much greater impact on the economy than the crash of 2008, and will impact the mental health of Irish citizens. 

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The government has announced a €505million package to help support the rising cost of fuel following a week of protests across Ireland.

Ryanair was the most complained about company in Ireland last year according to new data released by the consumer watchdog.

It’s the 75th anniversary of the resignation of Noël Browne as health minister over the cabinets refusal to support the mother and child healthcare scheme.

Children are being exposed to gambling sites run overseas which don’t require age verification, according to the Gambling Regulatory Authority of Ireland.

Rory McIlroy has become only the 4th golfer to win The Master’s back to back. 

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