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              Ireland

              • Sunday, 5 January, 2025
                Steep costs of Irish reunification deter Dublin despite tax windfall

                Ending division between north and south could lead to €20bn bill every year for two decades

                A road sign at a roundabout on the border between Northern Ireland and Ireland with directions to Belfast and Dublin
              • Tuesday, 31 December, 2024
                News in-depthTravel & leisure industry
                Who killed the rave? Late-night dancing falls into global decline

                From Berlin to New York, clubbers in the world’s party capitals are heading home earlier

                A montage of people dancing and a chart
              • Friday, 27 December, 2024
                News in-depth
                Ireland’s vineyards win global recognition

                Warming climate and hybrid grapes make country better known for whiskey an unlikely source of award-winning wines

                David Llewellyn stands inside a polytunnel at Lusca vineyard in Lusk, north Dublin.
              • Monday, 23 December, 2024
                Eurozone interest rates
                Irish central banker says uncertainty for rate-setters higher now than in lockdown

                Makhlouf speaks out against ‘insurance’ cuts by ECB, despite fears of a US-instigated trade war

                Central Bank of Ireland governor Gabriel Makhlouf
              • Wednesday, 18 December, 2024
                Shipping
                Holyhead port closure risks ‘shortages’ in Ireland, hauliers warn

                Shipments delayed or rerouted after Storm Darragh damaged berths at north Wales terminal

                A ferry in the background at Holyhead. In the forground are trucks
              • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
                Ireland urged to set aside more of its corporate tax windfall

                Country’s independent fiscal watchdog calls for Norwegian-style approach to saving surplus cash

                The river Liffey in the city centre of Dublin
              • Sunday, 1 December, 2024
                Ireland election puts big-spending parties on track to retain power

                Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael prepare to continue coalition after support for opposition Sinn Féin drops

                Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin celebrates with Irish EU commissioner Michael McGrath as McGrath’s brother Seamus is elected to parliament
              • Saturday, 30 November, 2024
                Early election tallies suggest Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael set for fresh Irish coalition

                Neither party will seek to form coalition with Sinn Féin, which analysis suggests is in third place

              • Saturday, 30 November, 2024
                Sinn Féin takes narrow lead in Ireland general election exit poll

                Current coalition government partners Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil are both close behind, survey finds

                Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald casting her vote in Dublin
              • Friday, 29 November, 2024
                News in-depth
                Ireland heads to the polls as Trump’s tax threat looms

                Country’s fiscal bonanza at risk from US president-elect’s pledge to match low corporation tax rate

                An election warehouse manager  walks among rows of empty ballot boxes in a warehouse in Dublin, Ireland. He is holding a sign that reads "Polling Station / Ionad Vótála"
              • Friday, 29 November, 2024
                FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
                France’s bond market sell-off

                Political uncertainty in France sends shockwaves through the country’s sovereign bond market

              • Wednesday, 27 November, 2024
                ReviewTheatre
                James Joyce’s The Dead becomes an infectiously festive promenade piece

                Immersive Dublin production of the short story is performed in a playful, easy-going style

                A woman and a man in formal evening wear from the early 20th century stand together in a room, smiling
              • Tuesday, 26 November, 2024
                House & Home
                Where I write . . .  John Banville’s place of ‘happy nothingness’

                The Irish author needs a blank wall, a wide desk and a menagerie of inanimate creatures — ferocious Chinese dragons and a wooden mouse in a polka-dot frock among them — to work

                A wooden desk cluttered with papers, books, pens, decorative objects and a lamp
              • Sunday, 24 November, 2024
                News in-depth
                Crime boss takes on Sinn Féin leader and Brussels veteran in Dublin election

                Constituency highlights cost-of-living and housing concerns in next week’s Irish vote

                An election poster for Gerry Hutch on a Dublin lamp post
              • Thursday, 21 November, 2024
                Prime property
                ‘It takes a particular kind of madness’: new life for Ireland’s Big Houses

                The country has not had an easy relationship with the once grand homes of the Anglo-Irish elite — leading many to be torched, repurposed or left to rot. But a new appreciation is being nurtured, and a ‘reckoning with the past’

                A large countryside manor or castle with three stories and several large windows. The structure is surrounded by lush greenery and sits on a slight elevation
              • Tuesday, 19 November, 2024
                Special ReportDiversity Leaders
                Ireland shifts diversity dial to stay with the pace

                Progress is an ‘unstoppable trend’ but blockages remain in some areas

              • Friday, 15 November, 2024
                Corporation tax
                Apple upgrades Ireland’s credit rating outlook

                Good craic

              • Wednesday, 6 November, 2024
                Irish PM Harris plans to hold general election on November 29

                The 38-year-old coalition government leader hopes to capitalise on bumper corporate tax receipts

                Fine Gael leader and Ireland’s incoming Prime Minster, Simon Harris waving as he leaves Leinster House, the seat of the Irish parliament, after being voted in as Ireland’s new prime minister on April 9 2024
              • Wednesday, 30 October, 2024
                ReviewFiction
                John Banville’s The Drowned — cold, compelling and seamlessly plotted

                The latest outing for the Booker winner’s Dublin pathologist again leads readers into a morass of deception and betrayal

                A black-and-white photo of a figure getting into a Morris Minor car on a rainswept harbour
              • Monday, 21 October, 2024
                Drug trafficking
                Ireland signs extradition treaty with UAE in effort to catch Kinahan cartel

                Daniel Kinahan is one of Europe’s most wanted criminals and prominent member of Dubai-based ‘super cartel’

                Ireland’s Garda presenting a screen with images of Christopher, Daniel and Christy Kinahan, offering rewards of up to $5mn each from the US Drug Enforcement Administration in April 2022
              • Thursday, 17 October, 2024
                Exchange traded funds
                UK investors seize advantage and feast on bargain passive funds

                Analysts suggest kickbacks might explain how, in contrast, 89% of flows to Luxembourg funds went to active vehicles

                A train passes over the Pulvermuhl viaduct as skyscrapers and high rise buildings stand beyond in the Plateau de Kirchberg district on Luxembourg city
              • Monday, 14 October, 2024
                Sinn Féin
                Scandal-hit Sinn Féin on back foot ahead of Irish elections

                Leader Mary Lou McDonald vows to stay at helm of party despite resignations of two deputies

                Mary Lou McDonald, president of Sinn Féin, at the party’s headquarters in Dublin
              • Thursday, 10 October, 2024
                Jude Webber
                Ireland is awash with cash but needs an infrastructure vision

                Country struggling to catch up on needs of its expanding population amid near full employment

                View of the new children’s hospital being built in Dublin
              • Monday, 7 October, 2024
                News in-depthIrish economy
                Ireland struggles to consolidate role as data centre hub

                Dublin goes from ‘leader to flounderer’ as planning and energy supply problems lead tech groups to invest elsewhere

                The Equinix DB5 Data centre campus in Dublin, Ireland
              • Sunday, 6 October, 2024
                Middle East war
                Ireland slams Israel’s ‘outrageous’ demands to its peacekeepers

                Irish president rejects Israeli calls for UN battalion to withdraw from southern Lebanon

                A UN armoured personnel carrier
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