FF’s Áras contender Jim Gavin says he’s ‘great’ in first public remarks since ending campaign
Life is not linear [and] resilient people understand that,” he told the Club Carlow Business Summit, organised to raise money for Carlow GAA. Mr Gavin said he was sure there were people attending the Carlow event “where things didn’t go right for them”. Mr Gavin subsequently repaid his former tenant after ending his campaign. Asked at the Carlow event if he had relied on his resilience over the past few weeks, he said he had. You move on to the next thing you want to do in life and that’s what resilience is all about,” he said.
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November 15, 2025 06:26 UTC
This red fungus has been rarely recorded in Ireland
Jane Touhey, Dublin 14This is indeed a fungus, Clathrus ruber, the red latticed stinkhorn. It has been rarely recorded in Ireland. Anthony Woods, DublinYes, they are spotted snake millipedes, recognisable by their pale colour and red spots along the sides. I found this funnel-shaped spider’s web located in the long grass. They hang upside-down from ceilings and the one on the left is carrying its loosely wrapped eggs in its jaws.
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November 15, 2025 06:19 UTC
Ireland’s Changing Suburbs: Fintan O’Toole on the commodification of Crumlin
This article is part of Ireland’s Changing Suburbs, an Irish Times series exploring our fast-growing new towns, changing older neighbourhoods, and shrinking rural landscapes. Video: Google Maps/Paul ScottIn early maps of Dublin, the suburbs, too shameful to be represented, were literally rubbed out. This contradiction was never really resolved: suburbs remain in Irish culture places to look down on and to revel in. Just as they have continued to do in every alleged Outer Siberia beyond every Irish city. In the 2022 census, Dublin city and its official suburbs had 3,659 people for every square kilometre.
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November 15, 2025 06:19 UTC
How the Dublin riots of November 2023 inspired a broadcaster to become a garda
Amy Ní Riada was working as a freelance journalist based in east Africa when the Dublin riots of November 2023 erupted. On Friday she was one of 194 newly attested gardaí to pass out at the Garda College, Templemore, Co Tipperary. “When I was abroad, the riots happened in November 2023 in Dublin. “It was something about the Garda response ... the regular members on regular units picked up their armour and just went up to Dublin. Garda Jeremiah Bourke, 51, the oldest-ever recruit to graduate from the Garda College.
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November 15, 2025 06:18 UTC
They had seven years to prepare and yet the inauguration was only grand – The Irish Times
Ruth Coppinger waits to take a photo with President Catherine Connolly after her inauguration. Seven years – that’s how long the powers-that-be had to plan Tuesday’s big bunfight. [ After their grand day out at Dublin Castle, TDs were rolling in the aisles in DáilOpens in new window ]It was a good inauguration. After the inauguration, one judge tried to board a coach reserved for politicians but she wasn’t allowed. On Wednesday, he filled in for Taoiseach Micheál Martin at the Irish Journalism Awards luncheon in the Mansion House.
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November 15, 2025 06:16 UTC
When the Border was being drawn, my grandad tried to put Derry in the Free State
The Anglo-Irish Treaty established the Irish Free State, and the following year in 1922 partitioned the country via a provisional “six-counties” Border. At the time, there was an expectation by the nationalists and the Irish government that the final Border would be adjusted in favour of the Irish Free State. Tracy was commissioned by the Nationalist Association of Derry to prepare a case for the inclusion in the Irish Free State. However, by the time the brief was finalised, the nationalists recommended that the Waterside be retained with Derry city in the Irish Free State. What if Derry city was included in the Irish Free State or Donegal included in Northern Ireland?
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November 15, 2025 06:13 UTC
Irish solo sailor Gráinne Costigan completes Atlantic crossing in low-technology craft
An Irish woman has reached land after sailing across the Atlantic solo as part of a “low-technology” race. At around 6pm, Dubliner Gráinne Costigan had “just finished” the Mini Transat 2025 competition which took her from France to Guadeloupe in the Caribbean via the Canary Islands, her mother Gerardine Costigan confirmed. Gráinne Costigan is the first Irish woman to make the crossing in the Mini Transat 6.5, a six and a half metre boat. However, even she is “reluctant” to say she is the first Irish woman to sail the Atlantic solo as she is not sure, explained her sister Meadhbh Costigan. Gráinne Costigan sailed from France to the Caribbean“She has a lot of experience in that boat now and you just have to trust someone that they know what they’re doing,” said her sister.
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November 15, 2025 06:01 UTC
Almost a third of newly qualified doctors from Irish universities move abroad
Almost a third of newly qualified doctors from Irish universities move abroad in the years after they finish their studies with fewer than half returning within 10 years, new figures from the Central Statistics Office suggest. The statistics do not take account of the significant proportion of medical students attending Irish universities who are from overseas to begin with. [ How rewarding is a degree in medicine?Opens in new window ]A majority of nurses registering for the first time in Ireland in recent years qualified abroad. Irish graduates of all medical disciplines are routinely the targets of recruitment campaigns in other locations such as Australia. Seventy per cent of nurses/midwives and 71 per cent of doctors who qualified in 2013 were employed within the public health service 10 years later, the figures indicate.
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November 15, 2025 05:58 UTC
Letters to the Editor, November 15th: On the housing crisis, Ireland’s EU relationship and lost in translation
Sir, – The Irish housing crisis is no longer just a matter of supply and demand, it’s now a crisis of accountability. As the Government abandons annual housing targets, the mantra “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it” rings truer than ever. If you won’t target the availability of housing for families, you can evade thorough responsibility for the homelessness crisis. Sir, – Eoin Drea’s article on Ireland’s EU presidency provides many examples of “an Ireland that is totally directionless on EU affairs”. As the late Manchán Magan reminded us, names for things in Ireland have lost their original depth of meaning through translation.
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November 15, 2025 05:34 UTC
Seven killed, 27 injured in explosion at police station in India’s Kashmir
At least seven people were killed and 27 injured when a large pile of confiscated explosives in a police station in India’s Kashmir detonated late on Friday, broadcaster NDTV reported. Most of those killed are policemen and forensic team officials who were examining the explosives stored at the police station, the report said. The death toll could climb further, with five of the injured still in critical condition, NDTV said. Earlier, a local police official told Reuters that an explosion had ripped through Nowgam police station. The blast comes four days after a deadly car explosion in Delhi, which killed at least eight people in what India has called a terror incident.
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November 15, 2025 05:33 UTC
Storm Claudia: Three counties still under orange rain alert with flood risk to continue through tomorrow
Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford remain under an orange rain alert with the worst still to come, forecasters warned last night. Road users were urged to exercise extreme caution while travelling on Friday night and people have been asked to avoid unnecessary journeys until at least 8am tomorrow when the orange warning for the three counties is lifted. A separate yellow rain warning for Carlow, Dublin, Kildare, Kilkenny, Louth, Meath, Wexford, Wicklow, Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary and Waterford is in place until 9am. The National Director for Fire and Emergency Management Keith Leonard warned that Storm Claudia had caused “significant flooding right across the country and there was probably more to come”. High winds uprooted trees and made roads impassible in Wexford while there was significant flooding in Laois and Offaly where no weather warnings were in place.
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November 15, 2025 01:28 UTC
Reeves ditches plan to raise income tax, triggering gilt self-off
File photo dated 26/09/25 of Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves speaks during the Global Progress Action Summit, at Methodist Central Hall in Westminster, London. The Financial Times first reported that Ms Reeves was ditching the planned income tax rise. It said she could instead cut the thresholds at which people pay different rates of income tax. Meanwhile, Ms Reeves needs to fill a budget hole of as much as £35 billion. A government official said senior members of the administration were concerned that Reeves appeared to be about to raise income tax without providing a compelling narrative to the public for why she was doing so.
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November 14, 2025 21:53 UTC
Russia pounds Ukraine with drone and missile attacks
Russia launched a heavy drone and missile attack on Ukraine early on Friday, killing six people in Kyiv and two more in the south in strikes on energy facilities, apartment buildings and infrastructure, Ukrainian officials said. Russian drones also struck the Black Sea city of Chornomorsk, killing two people, the regional governor said. Pictures posted on social media showed different sites in flames and residents gathering in rubble-strewn streets outside apartment buildings. The governor of Kyiv region outside the capital said drone and missile attacks injured one person and triggered fires in several localities. Ukraine’s air force reported that Russian drones and guided bombs were targeting several other regions.
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November 14, 2025 21:43 UTC
High Court sanctions termination of 15-year-old girl’s pregnancy
The president of the High Court has approved an application by the Health Service Executive (HSE) for termination of the pregnancy of a 15-year-old girl. Mr Justice David Barniville found the evidence established she lacked legal and mental capacity to make a decision on termination. The HSE made its application in private before the High Court on October 21st. Dr M also considered there was a risk of serious harm to the girl’s life, the foetus was not currently viable, and a termination may be carried out to avert the risk of serious harm. The judge found the requirements of section 9.1 of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy) 2018 Act were met.
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November 14, 2025 21:24 UTC