The Irish Times

30/08/2025

Review: He is passionate about the subject, but, standing at the back of the audience, his speech twists in the wind slightly

With new tunes Hozier has pivoted into thunderous soul-pop, which blazes like a glitterball strapped to a bulldozer

30/08/2025

Extra pension tax relief, hotel breaks and mortgage costs: Four things you’ll love about being in your 50s – and one you won’t, says Fiona Reddan.

You’re not quite in the golden years yet, but there are still a good few advantages to be had

30/08/2025

Many high earners spend to match their income and now there are signs of nervousness as Trump targets tech sector, Cliff Taylor writes

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/08/30/cliff-taylor-irelands-quiet-prosperity-boom-number-of-those-earning-over-100000-doubles/

30/08/2025

“Marriage equality felt like quite a quick victory for a lot of people, because they came in late. But people were fighting for years.” Michael Barron, the activist and co-founder of the LGBTQ+ youth organisation Belong To, says more money is put into three anti-LGBT organisations in the US than the entire LGBT movement globally

Cofounder of the LGBTQ+ youth organisation Belong To discusses the rise of anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric across the world

30/08/2025

Frank McNally: I began to feel some Swiftian indignation on the part of the innocent Americans who were listening to the tour guide’s claim

I began to feel some Swiftian indignation on the part of the innocent Americans who were listening to the tour guide’s claim

30/08/2025

Women didn’t always have it easy,” says Mary ‘May’ McGee, who with her husband Seamus took a landmark Supreme Court case leading to the overturning of the 1935 law banning contraception. “The suffragettes, they put up with an awful lot. I admire them. They got some awful treatment, but they persevered. We’re definitely a stronger breed. That’s how we’re still here.”

As a mosaic is unveiled in her honour, she reflects on her 1973 Supreme Court victory in overturning the ban on contraception

30/08/2025

‘It is a concern for us’

Pressing threats to the State include espionage, misinformation, cyberattacks and suspicious maritime activity

30/08/2025

In The Irish Times this weekend: How a hurling club in east Cork inspired the year’s biggest chart anthem. Subscribe now to read The Irish Times exactly as it appears in print on ePaper.

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30/08/2025

"‘What the hell, why is there 11? That’s ridiculous!’ I knew that it was going to create a big sound. That was something I wanted. I wanted it to feel like the energy when we’re playing a session at 4am in a kitchen at a house party. I wanted it to feel chaotic, real, raw, imperfect, a bit mad, full of life, full of human.”

Canny, who put the 11-strong ‘girlband’ together, on the soaring popularity of Irish trad, hitting it off with Ed Sheeran, and how her lilting side project became a hit with neurodivergent people

30/08/2025

Cliff Taylor: Many high earners spend to match their income and now there are signs of nervousness as Trump targets tech sector

Many high earners spend to match their income and now there are signs of nervousness as Trump targets tech sector

30/08/2025

Children of the crash come of age: “I obviously had a very extreme year in 2008, but I don’t think that my circumstances are uncommon, because I think a lot of people lost parents, whether they took their own lives or families fell apart, or people split up or became depressed,” says Flynn

CMAT song has connected with her peers in their 20s and 30s who are processing their childhoods in the recession years and questioning how it affects them now

30/08/2025

Dev’s mother appears to have filled out separate versions of his birth certificate herself, new documentary reveals

Dev’s mother appears to have filled out separate versions of his birth certificate herself, new documentary reveals