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Restaurant review: As I sit down, I am already doing mental maths. The A5 Japanese wagyu is €150

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Small talk is a powerful workplace asset, but can exclude new and diverse staff

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Sea walls and Dart views

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Six Nations -- Opens in new window

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Crosswords & Puzzles

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Help Centre -- Opens in new window

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Chronic absences at school linked to poorer mental health in later life – ESRI

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Half of gifts accepted by gardaí broke anti-corruption rules

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More rain forecast as spring approaches

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Newton Emerson: Visitors to Britain must now pay £16. This hasn't had the predicted results

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Try today's Daily Eight: A new eight-clue Irish Times crossword

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Look inside: Revamped Victorian home in Sandycove exudes coastal elegance

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How a Manchester byelection is potentially seismic for shape of British politics

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Changing names of places like Herzog Park may be 'legally unsafe' due to 'extraordinary' legal gap

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Ireland signs agreement with France for joint military training and intel sharing

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American Michael Kelley charged with murder of Kerry farmer Michael Gaine

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Podcast: Michael Gaine murder charge, new transport police and the next GAA president

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Finn McRedmond: Love Bono or loathe him, you'd have to be a dreadful cynic to dislike U2's new EP

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Planners may axe Dublin Airport night-flight limit

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Planning permission for apartments at Cork's Bessborough mother and baby home is 'wrong'

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New public-transport security force to have powers of arrest

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Hillary Clinton to testify as Epstein inquiry forces her back into the spotlight

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The most significant overhaul of asylum law in three decades shouldn't be this rushed

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Kathy Sheridan: Boys should be told about the heroes as well as the villains in Gisele Pelicot's story

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Clare Moriarty: Parents of children with special needs should not have to fight for everything

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Curling and dead drummers leave me cold

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An Irish Diary

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Haunted by Hamlet: Frank McNally on the sad story of Ireland's greatest Shakespearean scholar

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Letter of the Day - Opens in new window

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Here's a capital idea for 'honest' Micheál Martin

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The art of the low bar in Trump's State of the Union address

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Construction industry needs huge expansion to meet State goals

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Malin CEO to leave and chair take on executive role as portfolio shrinks

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Gerry Thornley: Andy Farrell is getting Ireland ready for the 2027 Rugby World Cup

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Ciarán Murphy: The alarm clock is sadly already set to end the Mayo dream of Kobe McDonald

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Aaron Wainwright will carry Welsh comeback hopes into the Aviva on Friday week

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FAI tip their cap to protesters but bow to expediency on Israel games

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Refusing to play Israel 'not within the best interest of Irish football', says FAI chief

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Katie Taylor's impact on her sport wasn't just enormous, it was defining

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If it is too dangerous for Constitution Hill to race at Cheltenham, what does it say about jump racing?

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Construction sector 'needs up to 111,000 more workers' to hit housing targets

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Apartments at Dundrum Town Centre set to generate €3m a year in rental income for owners

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Tech is overwhelming. Are AI agents the answer?

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Demand for electricity to increase by nearly one-fifth over next 10 years

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Emer McLysaght: I got Botox for the first time and was gripped by a lust for more

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Katherine Short, daughter of actor Martin Short, dies aged 42

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'It was quiet. Too quiet': A trial run at the empty nest

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Bafta N-word Tourette fallout has done nobody any good and there is no easy fix

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Scrubs on Disney+ review: Older, sadder, and moderately wiser – but with its funny bone intact

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Patrick Freyne: The Muppets' body horror might seem extreme, but children need to learn

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Favourite books: Irish authors and stars name their best reads

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The Music Quiz: Welsh singer Duffy released a song named after which London Tube station?

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Marco Rubio warns on Iran's ballistic missiles ahead of talks

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Cuba says four killed on US-registered speedboat were heavily armed exiles

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Talk of European states developing their own nuclear umbrella is fanciful

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Ireland's EU presidency: How it works and what to expect

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Europe's support for Ukraine has surpassed expectations

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US national jailed for four years for possession of cannabis worth over €400,000

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Murder trial jury to hear evidence that 49-year-old man died after head stomped on

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Man arrested after €1.5m cannabis and cocaine seizure in Limerick

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The Burkes are back in town (again) – and they insist the judge won't win

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Search connected with disappearances of Deirdre Jacob and Jo Jo Dullard concludes

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Sports Minister and Taoiseach give mixed messages on restoring astro pitch funding

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Starmer faces crucial byelection as Martin issues fresh State apology

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Survivors of thalidomide drug to be offered formal State apology

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Infrastructure delivery reforms should speed up two 'critical' water projects, says Minister

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Minister questions why 11 Sinn Féin TDs had to speak on a single amendment to International Protection Bill

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Sinn Féin councillor Janice Boylan selected to contest Dublin Central byelection

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Volunteering and dementia: 'They won't want to speak to you every time, that's not realistic'

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Evolution's gift of fierce, wise and generous grandmothers

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Plan to relocate Rotunda maternity hospital to Blanchardstown is 'some distance in future'

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'He was failed when he needed help the most': Calls for separate units for mental health emergencies

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Five homes on view this week in Dublin and Wicklow from €465,000

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McCann FitzGerald on the lookout for new Dublin headquarter office

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Private Irish investors closing in on knockdown €20m deal for Dublin 4 office block

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Gardiner Street serviced apartment business guiding at €5.25m

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'Mexico is losing everything': Expats in Ireland react to violence at home

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'My sibling turns every family event into a scene where they are the star'

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Skoda Fabia 130 review: A warm hatch for the sensibly inclined

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Cash is a long way from dead just yet

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Kevin bought his daughter a bed online. It was a 'Very' frustrating experience

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Stay-at-home parents too often forgotten when it comes to measuring their value

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The Irish restaurants Michelin says offer 'tremendous value'

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Grapes of weather wrath: the new white wine varieties emerging due to climate change

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An Post announces 300 new jobs in postal delivery staff

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Winning ticket sold in €11m Lotto draw

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Surge in potato imports led to seizures of Egyptian vegetables affected by 'tuber moth'

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It's easier to be healthy and fit when work stops at 6pm

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The Irishman sailing Indonesia's remote islands: 'I don't really see this as work'

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Selling Berlin: 'Ryanair added extra flights at one stage for the number of Irish property investors'

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Nuclear energy is a distant prospect – wind and solar are here now

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Voucher scheme to encourage repair of consumer goods to be piloted next year

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The trouble with the Deposit Return Scheme: 'They're sitting on a pile of unclaimed deposits'

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The old Irish goat is a living link to Ireland's Bronze Age

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Special-needs assistants protest outside Leinster House demanding 'job security'

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Inside the Black Axe raid: What gardaí found in operation targeting global crime gang

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Maria Steen: 'If you are in the centre and everybody else moves left, all of a sudden you look right wing'

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Could Trump's new global tariff scupper the US-EU trade deal?

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New deal for Defence Forces, Imma squares up against OPW, and a major Garda raid

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AI community overlooks philosophical assumptions, AI explains

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Dublin city was paved equine waste produce

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Donald Trump's State of the Union hails US economy, rounds on Democrats

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'I would like to preserve the square': Rathgar has mixed views on Kenilworth Square plan

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Fresh legal challenge to almost 1,000 new homes at former Central Mental Hospital Dundrum

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'What happened to you was wrong': Survivors of institutional abuse receive State apology

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State faces imminent test to match powerful apologies with action

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Immigration law overhaul: Five issues that have divided the Dáil

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Nvidia's results beat estimates

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Homedics Glo Body Analyser review: Smart scale keeps it simple at a budget price

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Mobile phone use behind the wheel worsens: 'We've seen motorway drivers watching Netflix'

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Minister makes big play of a cut in funding for etaxis

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John Redmond should have accepted the inevitability of partition

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Queen's University's cutting of George Mitchell ties: prudent or premature?

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'All forms of heritage connect children to their past and help them make sense of the present'

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Geraldine Barniville obituary: Irish tennis and squash number one who also made her mark in sports administration

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Gladys West obituary: Gifted mathematician who helped develop GPS

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Jesse Jackson obituary: A trailblazer who helped open the door to a black presidency

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Máistir an ghearrscéil

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Rópa muintearais idir Éire agus an Airgintín

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Dacia Bigster Hybrid 4x4 can really mix it in the mud

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Chinese car makers surge in Europe, but how do we feel about them in Ireland?

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