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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