Irish Independent

18/07/2025

“You may not see each other for 10, 15, 20 years, but you just pick up where you left off.”

Just a few meters behind one end of the pitch is the Salt Lake, which feeds out directly to the Atlantic Ocean, and on either end, we can see impressive mountainscapes reach for the sky. We’re at the home turf of Connemara RFC – aka the All Blacks – just outside the coastal town of Clifden, to...

18/07/2025

Parents who pay rent for their college-going children can claim up to €2,000 in tax credits if they are jointly assessed

The continuation of the rent tax credit available to the parents of third-level students has been thrown into doubt.

18/07/2025

Ireland’s outgoing President has recorded an album of spoken word tracks, Against All Certainty, and it will be put out by Claddagh Records later this year

A date for this year’s presidential election is yet to be set, and Michael D Higgins still has a few months left in Áras an Uachtaráin, but his next project has already been confirmed.

18/07/2025

Pope Leo XIV on Thursday renewed his call for an immediate ceasefire in response to the attack

An Israeli shell slammed into the compound of the only Catholic church in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing three people and wounding 10 others, including the parish priest, according to church officials. The late Pope Francis, who died in April, had regularly spoken to the priest about the war's....

18/07/2025

Mr Flynn said residents’ gardens were being “used as lavatories” and a walkway had turned into “an open sewer and a drug den”

Dublin councillors have urged gardaí to disperse crowds that gather along the Grand Canal in Ranelagh during sunny weather.

17/07/2025

Friends and loved ones have described Clodagh Ferguson (28) as a “beautiful, one of a kind” woman who “had her whole life ahead of her”

Heartfelt tributes have been pouring in for a young Limerick mother whose body was discovered in a hotel on Steamboat Quay, Limerick, on Wednesday night.

17/07/2025

It may be tempting to wage war on digital devices, but the best way to get to the root of the problem is to help the whole family find lasting balance

There’s a new phrase doing the rounds among teenagers: “brain rot”. While it’s often used half-jokingly to describe the effects of endless scrolling on TikTok or bingeing YouTube shorts, there’s an uncomfortable grain of truth beneath the sarcasm. When teenagers talk about “brain rot,”...

17/07/2025

With the Liam MacCarthy Cup staying in Munster for the eighth consecutive year, hurley makers from both counties reveal the skills required in the manufacturing process.

17/07/2025

Lawyers for the developers said this week the development is being built for the council as social housing – but the enforcement order issued by the local authority deems it to be an unauthorised development, because the dwellings sit at an elevation 3 to 4 metres higher than permitted

A nearly-completed 28-unit housing development in Co Waterford may have to be demolished in order to comply with a planning enforcement order issued by the local authority, the High Court has heard.

17/07/2025

The Luas tram that was set alight and severely damaged during the Dublin riots of November 2023 will not be back in service until the beginning of next year

The Luas tram set alight and severely damaged during the Dublin riots of November 2023 will not be back in service until the beginning of next year.

17/07/2025

Mother of Darragh Cahill (16) says he has been on the waiting list for surgery for eight months

In November 2017, Crumlin Children’s Hospital apologised to Darragh Cahill, at the time a seven-year-old boy who had waited 15 months for surgery to correct a curve in his spine.

17/07/2025

Ben Healy loses yellow jersey in searing heat as Tadej Pogacar makes huge statement in Pyrenees