Young Munster players get chance to impress as Argentina visit Thomond Park
McMillan is now in the home dugout for this game and knows there is something special about these sort of games for Munster. There’s some pressure to live up to the rich history of Munster teams doing really well against the touring international side. Two other players, outside centre Fionn Gibbons (formerly Castleknock College and now Young Munster RFC) and tighthead Ronan Foxe (a product of Midland Warriors and Tullamore RFC) are poised for their first starts after making two and six appearances respectively off the bench. Replacements: M Clein, M Donnelly, K Ryan, F Wycherley, L Murphy, J O’Riordan, JJ Hanrahan, B O’Connor. Replacements: J M Vivas, D Correa, O Filippa, L Colidio, J P Bernasconi, E Pregot, B Farise, A Fraga.
Source:The Irish Times
November 01, 2025 10:33 UTC
‘Is Orange a proxy for Prod?’ - what the presidential election says about a united Ireland
“There’s very little apparent dynamism in the Northern Ireland Executive, so that anything will be seized upon. “Does everyone who uses the Orange Order name mean Prod? “There’s an awful lot of work to be done on how Northerners with a British identity can be accommodated in a united Ireland. The united Ireland discussion has again gained traction in recent weeks. “I have no doubt that the new president will find ways of reaching out to Protestants and others in Northern Ireland,” said one leading Church of Ireland figure.
Source:The Irish Times
November 01, 2025 10:33 UTC
High stakes at Cop30: ‘Climate denialism is back at a point we thought we’d moved on from’
The global climate negotiation process was initiated in Brazil with the Rio Earth Summit in the hopeful 1990s. “Climate denialism is back at a point we thought we’d moved on from,” Fitzpatrick says. NDCs are climate action plans that set out how each country will reduce its own greenhouse gas emissions in the immediate future and longer term. The country’s appetite for climate action has wavered in the past but in his second term Donald Trump has turned reservation into disdain. It is clear that the absence from global climate negotiations of the world’s biggest economy and second-largest emitter diminishes the process.
Source:The Irish Times
November 01, 2025 10:33 UTC
Who runs the country’s hospital system?
HSE chief executive Bernard Gloster and Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill say voluntary hospitals should use the integrated financial management system used by HSE institutions. At the PAC hearing on October 16th Fine Gael TD Joe Neville questioned why the system had not been installed in the voluntary hospitals. The absence of a modern centralised financial information system has been a key issue for health service management for many years. The HSE maintained its service-level agreement would provide a framework for the introduction of the new ICT system into the voluntary hospitals. Three days later on October 20th, Chambers sent a letter to MacNeill which was copied to voluntary hospitals.
Source:The Irish Times
November 01, 2025 10:31 UTC
‘The system for sharing tips is grossly unfair’: Fresh flashpoint at The Ivy in Dublin
Following a long-running controversy about how customers’ tips were handled in Dublin’s Ivy restaurant several years ago, another bone of contention about fairness there has arisen. [ The waiters who took on the Ivy restaurant – and wonOpens in new window ]At The Ivy, waiters have kept their tips in full since then. “Peter” says there is a lot of pressure and staff don’t feel supported, but tips are the biggest issue for kitchen staff. Realising that “a floor manager got €1,500 from tips, while kitchen staff got nothing” was “very frustrating”. The Ivy was queried regarding the card tips system, specifically where kitchen staff are excluded.
Source:The Irish Times
November 01, 2025 10:31 UTC
Irish influence in the US is waning, says new report from influential think-tank
The document describes Irish success in cultivating access and influence in the US, while translating this into investment by US multinationals here. Photograph: iStockIrish influence in Washington is waning and the future of its economic model under increasing threat at a time of heightened focus on foreign policy stances contrary to the positions of the Trump administration, according to a new report from an influential London think-tank. At the same time, the report says, Ireland has deflected attempts by the EU to interfere with its tax regime. This has provoked extensive commentary amongst the Trump administration and its congressional allies,” it says. In a foreword to the report, Robert O’Brien, a former National Security Adviser for the first Trump Administration, notes: “The Trump administration and the American people expect better burden sharing from our allies and partners.
Source:The Irish Times
November 01, 2025 10:31 UTC
Simon Harris defends comments that migration numbers in Ireland are too high
Tánaiste Simon Harris has defended his earlier comments that migration numbers in Ireland are too high. Mr Harris, who is also Minister for Foreign Affairs, said a discussion on migration would help social cohesion. “More broadly, are migration numbers too high outside of international protection? “Fulfilling our international obligations under international protection – great. “But if eight of the 10 people who are seeking international protection don’t qualify, we have to say, what more can we do?”He said it was “common sense” to ask those who are in international protection and working to pay rent, and that proposals on this were “very nearly ready”.
Source:The Irish Times
November 01, 2025 10:05 UTC
Halfway through the account of DJ Carey’s career as a swindler, the atmosphere changed – The Irish Times
Former hurling All-Star DJ Carey is in jail. Friday’s courtroom atmosphere changed about halfway through this jaw-dropping account of DJ Carey’s thriving career as a swindler. The former hurler didn’t miss a trick. Thomas Butler, who gave more than €16,000 to DJ Carey. DJ Carey walked down many tunnels when he wore the black and amber of Kilkenny.
Source:The Irish Times
November 01, 2025 10:01 UTC
Man jailed for coercive control and threats to publish intimate images of woman
A probation report placed him at high risk of reoffending in relation to emotional abuse and coercive control. The Central Criminal Court heard how when the man and woman met, she was vulnerable, having suffered a significant bereavement. He pleaded guilty to assault causing harm, threats to kill or cause serious harm, coercive control and threats to publish intimate images without consent on dates between April and December 2022. The court heard the man told gardaí he was “hot-headed” and while he never sent the images he accepted he had said he would. The man accepted in Garda interview he had sent threatening messages, but said he would never have carried them out.
Source:The Irish Times
November 01, 2025 09:42 UTC
Apple predicts return to growth as revenue dips in China
Apple blamed a surprise decline in China revenue on supply disruptions, predicting it will return to growth in the world’s biggest smartphone arena as the iPhone 17 gains momentum. Revenue dipped nearly 4 per cent to $14.5 billion (€12.5 bilion) in the three months through September, the company said Thursday. Even so, Apple’s upgraded and redesigned iPhone 17 products are drawing consumers back to stores, and the novel iPhone 17 Air may add another boost to interest this quarter. The strong results from AWS, the world’s largest cloud provider, followed stellar cloud revenue growth reported on Wednesday by Microsoft’s Azure and Google Cloud, the number two and number three players in the industry, respectively. The unit reported revenue growth of 17.5 per cent in the second quarter.
Source:The Irish Times
October 31, 2025 08:46 UTC
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Source:The Irish Times
October 31, 2025 08:15 UTC
Ireland needs six to eight more large developers to meet 2030 housing targets, says agency chief
The Government has committed to building more than 300,000 homes between 2025 and the end of 2030. Photograph: iStockIreland needs between six and eight more stock market listed home builders if it is to meet the Government’s housing target of 300,000 homes by 2030, the chief executive of the Housing Agency has said. That’s the reality of it,” Martin Whelan, the chief executive of the Housing Agency told The Irish Times in an interview. At present, Cairn Homes and Glenveagh Homes are the only two property developers listed on the Irish stock market. Housing Agency chief executive Martin Whelan.
Source:The Irish Times
October 31, 2025 08:01 UTC
Miriam O’Callaghan: ‘Receptiongate was the most stressful moment of my entire career’
Miriam O’Callaghan has been doing one thing since she was a schoolgirl that “no one can believe”. Catherine Connolly and Heather Humphreys with Miriam O’Callaghan and Sarah McInerney in the Prime Time studio. Photograph: Bryan O’BrienO’Callaghan, who is now 65, is the second of five children born to Jerry, from Co Kerry, and Miriam, aka “the real Miriam O’Callaghan”, from Co Laois. “Yeah, everyone else is at it.”Congrats to him on having his great career, but my career is my career. Miriam: Life, Work, Everything by Miriam O’Callaghan is published by Penguin Sandycove
Source:The Irish Times
October 31, 2025 07:33 UTC
‘There’s a darkness to that place’: A night in Northern Ireland’s most haunted castle
There is no sound within its thick walls, and in the corner a small window overlooks Ballygally Bay on the dramatic east Antrim coastline. The 'haunted' room. Hotel bar manager Mark Lappin from Armagh was urged by his wife, a New Yorker, to spend the night in one of the haunted tower rooms. We couldn’t get over the fact no one wanted to stay below the ghost room,” he says. She said there was a couple staying in the room below the ghost room one night who told her there were strange things happening all night.
Source:The Irish Times
October 31, 2025 07:31 UTC
New measures planned as State runs out of space to house Ukrainians
Newly arrived Ukrainian migrants may have their time in State accommodation cut substantially while those already in State accommodation could face relocations. These “immediate” measures are under consideration amid fears the Government is going to “exhaust” its capacity to house people by the end of next month. The Government would also refuse to accommodate anyone coming to Ireland from Ukraine via a second country, or who had previously been granted temporary protection in another European member state. The measures are being considered because of an increase in recent weeks in the number of people fleeing the war who have been granted temporary protection here. And Ireland would “refuse to provide accommodation to beneficiaries of temporary protection who arrive from secondary movement and have previously held temporary protection in another member state”, the briefing says.
Source:The Irish Times
October 31, 2025 07:31 UTC