Irish Times
# irish-times - Monday 17 June, 2013
Joan Burton is the most popular cabinet minister – new poll
An Ipsos MRBI poll for the Irish Times reveals a 41pc approval rating for Burton, but only 13pc for James Reilly.
# irish-times - Saturday 15 June, 2013
55% of voters in new poll ready to bid farewell to Seanad
Support for scrapping the Seanad is highest among males, those over 50 and residents in Connacht and Ulster
# irish-times - Saturday 1 June, 2013
Profit-making childhood services to pay ‘significant registration fee’
Chief executive-designate of the Child and Family Agency Gordon Jeyes described the portrayal of childcare in RTÉ Prime Time’s investigation as “truly horrifying”.
# irish-times - Sunday 26 May, 2013
Extract: ’8,848 metres and I’m sitting on the summit of the world’
Twenty years ago this week, Dawson Stelfox became the first Irish person to reach the summit of Mount Everest. This extract from Everest Calling: The Irish Journey, chronicles the last leg of this challenging expedition.
# irish-times - Thursday 21 February, 2013
Newspapers record falls in circulation in second half of 2012
Every national title recorded a drop in its average circulation, though some fared better than others.
# irish-times - Monday 11 February, 2013
Poll finds 85 per cent support abortion ‘in certain circumstances’
The Ipsos MRBI poll in the Irish Times also finds that only 37 per cent of people believe abortion should be permitted where a woman deems it to be in her best interests.
# irish-times - Friday 8 February, 2013
# irish-times - Saturday 5 January, 2013
Oireachtas to question newspapers over ‘paying for linking’
Labour TD Seán Kenny is asking the National Newspapers of Ireland (NNI) to appear before an Oireachtas committee to explain its stance on linking.
# irish-times - Thursday 6 December, 2012
Budget 2013: How today’s front pages reacted
From respite care to maternity benefit to PRSI, today’s newspapers saw Budget 2013 as a broad hit on many groups in society.
# irish-times - Monday 26 November, 2012
The 9 at 9: Monday
The nine stories you need to know as you start your day.
Voters want to scrap Seanad, give diaspora the vote and review Constitution
Ipsos MRBI has polled a number of issues that will be up for discussion at the constitutional convention which gets under way this weekend.
# irish-times - Sunday 4 November, 2012
VIDEO: Irish Times to launch redesigned newspaper tomorrow
The new-look newspaper with its narrower pages and an overhauled design is the biggest single change to the paper in twelve years.
# irish-times - Friday 19 October, 2012
Joan Burton the most popular of the high-profile ministers
A new poll has also revealed that voters are in support of means testing child benefit payments.
# irish-times - Wednesday 17 October, 2012
They’re back: Fianna Fáil bounce into second place in new opinion poll
It is the first time in two years that Fianna Fáil has overtaken Sinn Féin and Labour in an Ipsos MRBI opinion poll.
@ireland.com email users slam ‘disgraceful’ decision to end service
Some 15,000 active users of the email facility will now have to transfer their data and set up a new email account as the service will shutdown next month.
# irish-times - Friday 5 October, 2012
Who’s that Irish person in today’s Google Doodle?
Google wishes an Irish legend a happy birthday…
# irish-times - Saturday 29 September, 2012
Irish Times records pre-tax losses despite increase in turnover
Accounts for The Irish Times Ltd also show a significant increase in the pensions deficit at the newspaper publisher.
# irish-times - Sunday 23 September, 2012
Time Machine: Here’s how 26 popular websites used to look
Have you ever seen the very first version of RTE.ie? Or wondered what the name ‘Daft’ came from?
# irish-times - Sunday 16 September, 2012
Kate Fitzgerald’s father pleads for information about the death of his daughter
Tom Fitzgerald has written in the Sunday Independent that he and his family ‘can’t accept suicide as the only option anymore’.
# irish-times - Wednesday 12 September, 2012
Department plays down report over €324bn shortfall
The Irish Times cited an unpublished report from KPMG that indicated the State was facing a massive pensions and social welfare shortfall by 2066 in a story today that the government has played down.
# irish-times - Friday 24 August, 2012
Latest figures show continued fall in Irish newspaper sales
An ABC report shows sales in both the daily and Sunday newspaper segments as having fallen in the last 12 months.
# irish-times - Tuesday 21 August, 2012
Aoife Quinn: We have no media advisors
Aoife Quinn contacted the George Hook show to say she offered to speak on-the-record with the Irish Times’ Fintan O’Toole, but he said this was not what he was offered.
# irish-times - Tuesday 7 August, 2012
Browne accuses O’Brien of using ‘considerable wealth to stifle criticism’
Vincent Browne’s Politico.ie publishes correspondence from Denis O’Brien – including threats of legal action.
# irish-times - Thursday 19 July, 2012
Column: The Fine Gael revolt against abortion ‘liberalisation’ is misguided. Here’s why.
The expert group on abortion isn’t looking to loosen the rules about abortion – merely to give effect to what the constitution already says, writes Fiona de Londras.
# irish-times - Monday 16 July, 2012
Column: The groupthink in decision-making positions in Ireland must end
Groupthink, cronyism and lack of accountability are largely to blame for the disastrous mess Ireland is now in, writes Clara Fischer.
# irish-times - Friday 6 July, 2012
# irish-times - Monday 28 May, 2012
# irish-times - Saturday 26 May, 2012
Referendum: First of three polls shows Yes campaign continue to lead
The number of undecideds has fallen but they will be crucial to deciding the outcome of the Fiscal Compact referendum next week, according to the latest poll.
# irish-times - Friday 25 May, 2012
Column: How the news industry is missing the point
News organisations have lost their way. Why? Because they’ve forgotten what business they’re in, writes Dylan Collins.
# irish-times - Thursday 19 April, 2012
# irish-times - Monday 26 March, 2012
Bertie Ahern describes ‘emotional wrench’ at leaving Fianna Fáil
Writing in today’s Irish Times, the former Taoiseach said he was “deeply wounded” by the Mahon Tribunal findings.
# irish-times - Thursday 23 February, 2012
New figures show falling circulation for most Irish daily newspapers
ABC figures show the Sunday World as the highest-selling paper in Ireland, marginally ahead of the Sunday Independent.
# irish-times - Tuesday 24 January, 2012
WATCH: Paul Kimmage and Ian O’Riordan’s heated discussion about Martin Fagan
‘He cheated. He was caught. We’re all in a better place now.’
# irish-times - Monday 9 January, 2012
Column: It is wrong to assume all asylum seekers are faking it – and the media is to blame
Thousands of people applied to become Irish citizens last year – but the media only focuses on scare stories about immigration, writes Greg Straton.
# irish-times - Friday 16 December, 2011
Irish Times responds to criticism from parents of Kate Fitzgerald
Kate Fitzgerald’s parents today said they were “deeply hurt” by how the newspaper handled an article written by their daughter before she took her own life.
# irish-times - Tuesday 15 November, 2011
Denis O’Brien hits back at ‘malicious’ allegations over his editorial influence
In a broadside attack published today in the Irish Times, the media tycoon attacked Eamon Dunphy and much of the Irish media for its coverage of him.
# irish-times - Saturday 29 October, 2011
D-Day for the dragon slayer: Michael D takes over the front pages
There’s only one story dominating the papers today….
# irish-times - Monday 24 October, 2011
Gallagher retains major lead in Irish Times Áras opinion poll
With three days to go until polling, Seán Gallagher holds a 15 per cent lead over the field – the largest his lead has been in any poll.
# irish-times - Friday 7 October, 2011
Sinn Féin rises to second in latest party polling
Sinn Féin has overtaken Labour and Fianna Fáil – making it the second most popular political part in Ireland, according to today’s poll.
# irish-times - Thursday 7 July, 2011
Eminent sports writer and Irish Times columnist George Kimball dies
Boxing writer died in his sleep last night after a long battle with cancer.


























































