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THE IRISH TIMES

Monday, 30 March, 2026

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Politics

National Concert Hall embroiled in row over Alan Shatter fundraiser for Israeli charity

Event set to proceed, but only after NCH board talks and discussions with Irish diplomats and the Department of Culture

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Middle East

Trump wants to ‘take the oil’ in Iran

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Housing & Planning

‘We need a culture where people don’t just sell their house to the highest bidder’

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Business

A west Cork hotelier: ‘There’s no money in food. We had to diversify into bedrooms’

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Ireland

‘She wasn’t speeding. There was no swerve’: Why did Bronagh English die on a Tipperary road?

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People

The life of an Irish house buyer: Forget that one house. Lower your standards. Go for it

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Soccer

Ken Early: Ireland’s attempt to reach the World Cup was, in one way, a spectacular success

You have to wonder whether the players were affected by people totally losing their heads

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Your Money

‘I’m losing the will to live’: Eir’s repeated let-downs overwhelm a pensioner customer

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Early Edition Podcast

National Concert Hall, auto-enrolment pensions, and children’s mental health waiting lists

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Abroad

After 35 years in Boston, has my Irishness been flattened out?

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Ireland

Speeding drivers in Co Tyrone hauled up before ‘Kids’ Court’ to explain themselves

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Opinion

Una Mullally: How the American chicken wing franchise took Ireland by storm

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Groundbreaking short-form learning project graduates to mainstream

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Louise Nealon: ‘I don’t want to cancel Leonard Cohen, but it’s disappointing how he treated women’

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Clocks go forward tonight: Shorter Sunday lie-in, but brighter summer evenings are ahead

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Tana French: ‘In Ireland, things are coded. You don’t necessarily have the code when you arrive’

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Russia-bound cargo ship seen dropping anchor near subsea cables off Irish coast

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National League finals: Donegal dominate Division 1 decider against Kerry – as it happened

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