Irish Times
March 2026
Sort your finances out over a few drinks with friends: The ‘admin party’ that saved €1,169
Cash missing from Garda stations, mortgage approvals and Israeli forces in southern Lebanon
Transfer rumour mill runs hot as Irish provinces gear up for Europe
Dublin homes sold at or above asking price reaches 84% this year, says DNG
We are still witnessing competitive bidding by multiple parties on the vast majority of homes offered for sale so far this year,
The historically low levels of supply coming to the resale market in recent times remain a concern for the residential property market and have resulted in strong competition for available properties, meaning prices are being pushed upwards, particularly for properties in walk-in condition with good energy efficiency ratings,
I want to buy UK state pension years but I have heard nothing back and deadline is looming
‘We will die or stay’: Families in south Lebanon confront threat of renewed Israeli occupation
By the seafront in the southern Lebanese city of Saida, a family discusses the possibility of a new prolonged Israeli occupation
Israel wants everything for herself because they don’t have the treasure that we have in the south,
Israel cannot dare to take any centimetre of our land, we’ll put our blood in the street,
This is the most beautiful country in the world,
Hizbullah is protecting us now, we don’t trust anyone, not the president, not the prime minister,
More than a dozen cases of money going missing from Garda stations, Dáil committee told
Value of mortgage approvals in February highest for month since 2011
The Revenue Commissioners recently reported 27,899 Help-to-Buy applications from first-time buyers in 2025, which was an increase of 15.6 per cent on 2024 while the number of claims increased by 12.1 per cent to 9,575,
Donald Trump is like a child pulling the wings off flies — all means and no end
We were beginning to see that we were encountering one of the greatest, perhaps the greatest, miscalculation of the war.”
Munster Rugby has been mismanaged for years. The chickens are now coming home to roost
Could a €5 tourist tax help solve Dublin’s problems? Conor Pope vs Eoghan O’Mara Walsh
Election posters plaster Budapest — but Orban is nowhere to be seen
Indeed, visitors to Budapest, never mind Hungarian voters, could be forgiven for wondering where Moscow-sympathising strongman Orban is in all this — you would be hard-pressed to see his picture on any of his party’s posters
German chancellor’s stand on Iran war puts Berlin at odds with Trump
Trump hit out at Merz and his cabinet members as “cowards” after the German leader described US strategy in the region as “a massive, open-ended escalation”
This is not our war.”
Let’s start that with the withdrawal of US troops from Germany,
Merz is now, as they say in Trump circles, on the s**t list.”
When I heard the head of Germany say, ‘this is not our war’ about Iran, I said: ‘Well, Ukraine’s not our war, we helped, but Ukraine’s not our war’.”
Iran could fire a ballistic rocket that could reach Berlin [yet] the German government doesn’t accept the risk from Iran,
I have great doubts that there is a strategy,
If the necessary conditions are met, then Germany will of course be prepared to make its contribution to free ship traffic in the Strait of Hormuz,
Republic of Ireland v North Macedonia: Pain of Prague will be laid bare by empty seats at ‘sold-out’ Aviva
For me, the most important thing is the performance that we show,
Obviously it’s been tough,
Give me an e-scooter over a single occupancy car any day
One local radio station is making a documentary programme about e-scooters because they get more listener comments about them than anything else
Explosions heard in Dubai as four people injured; Israel prepared for weeks more fighting
Short, sharp, decisive — this is the illusion that lured the present US president into his disastrous war on Iran,... The wide gap between ambition and outcome — this is the measure of his folly. That gap is an abyss into which human lives are hurled: as of last Sunday, according to the independent Iranian Human Rights Activists News
It appears markets have gone from just mechanically trading headlines... into a little bit more of a fear mode, taking risk off the table,
How Ireland performs within the EU in the screening, prevention and treatment of cancer
Between 2011 and 2021 cancer mortality decreased by 21 per cent among men and 16 per cent among women, surpassing reductions seen in countries that are our economic peers.”
Good ideas have no borders,
We were sending our children to Britain for these Car T-cell therapies. We cannot continue to do that. We have to align ourselves with Europe more,
There’s a lot of work being done on early detection and biomarkers, where we’re kind of leading the way in those,
Gordon Elliott has lead of over €350,000 as trainers’ title race with Willie Mullins nears finish
Our priority is always to provide the best possible racing surface for top-class jump racing. Throughout the very wet winter, we have experienced a number of issues on the track and working with drainage experts, we have identified an area that would benefit from being upgraded.... This will
‘I had a Macedonia’: Ireland’s tricky opponents are proud minnows with record of surprises
A few weeks later I got the bill from Fifa for the door and I’ve no choice but to pay it.”
This year we should build a statue of Eljif Elmas. He understands football.”
Inflation spikes just as prices were coming down on many consumer goods
Admittedly this was before the Government introduced a range of measures to ease the impact of fuel increases, including a reduction in excise duties, to reduce the cost at the pumps for motorists
Lebanon is paying for others’ failure to sanction Israel over Gaza
Trump’s chilling threats must not go unchecked
Surely, the time has come for democratically elected leaders to publicly and unambiguously denounce Trump — and to call for an immediate end to this reckless war
Air Canada CEO to step down over failure to speak French
Pilots Antoine Forest and Mackenzie Gunther were killed when an Air Canada Express plane operated by Jazz Aviation collided with a fire truck on a runway at LaGuardia airport earlier this month
Can Mongolia’s third prime minister in under a year stay in the job?
A financial model will be developed and negotiations will continue,