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'We need clear rules': Couple charged over €1k in monthly service fees for Galway flat
A case that saw tenants charged close to €14,000 in one year for added-on service charges has been highlighted by renter groups.
Yesterday
9th May 2026
How well do you remember these May songs?
'Another slap in the face of workers': Four winners and two losers from the political week
Government candidate frontrunner, UK politicians riding high and low and another bike shed.
Oliver Bond resident fears new plan for complex risks repeating mistakes of the past
Here's What Happened Today: Saturday
Connacht defeat Munster 26-7 in URC
Summer festival supports: At PsyCare, we aim to be the calm in the chaos
Deirdre Mullins
'Not what we want': Crowds protest against redesign of Stephen's Green Shopping Centre
Amid a boycott and with past winners steering clear, what can we expect from Eurovision 2026?
Ireland v Wales, Women's Six Nations
Waterford v Cork, Munster senior hurling championship
'He'd had a space cake then airport drinks': Reader stories of passengers 'hammered' on flights
Ryanair chief executive Michael O’Leary wants pre-flight morning pints banned in airports. We asked our readers for their thoughts.
Postmortem exam of woman believed to have died in childbirth at Tipperary home completed
'A gay, single mum-to be': MEP Maria Walsh reveals she's expecting a baby through IVF
Motorcyclist (20s) dies following single-vehicle crash in Co Wexford
Thousands take part in Darkness into Light walks across the country
Surrealing in the Years: Come on guys, we don't have it in the locker to pull off nuclear energy
Carl Kinsella
Clare man (65) who sexually assaulted girl 19 years ago is jailed
Pope Leo has called for peace over 400 times, and it’s put him on a collision course with Trump
A recent poll found that 30% of US adults are against Pope Leo ‘urging peace and rejecting war’.
Car love: I have that strange affliction of seeing cars as having personalities and souls
Paddy Comyn
‘Mum would be proud’: Brothers racing through 32 marathons raise over €1m for inherited dementia
Jordan and Cian Adams recently surpassed €1 million in donations, with 20 marathons to go.
One Palestinian winemaker refuses to give up amid illegal settler expansion in the West Bank
Reporter Hannah McCarthy meets Sari Khoury, a winemaker fighting to preserve Palestinian identity in an increasingly dangerous occupied West Bank.
'It's like they’re barely in these days': Why are some primary schools on a May midterm break?
Some parents have found the May mid-term break inconvenient, as they juggle work and childcare.
Last week
3rd May 2026 - 9th May 2026
Language Commissioner to probe incorrect version of Irish proverb on Kerry hospital bike shed
Woman alleges gardaí targeted her relationship through ‘ruse’ apartment search
Woman who swallowed €80k worth of cocaine sought help from Dublin hotel fearing pellet could burst
'Covid 2.0': Pandemic-era conspiracies return after the hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship
Did the Covid vaccine cause hantavirus? No. But that hasn’t stopped people saying so.
EU, UK and Canada condemn 'violent' Israeli settlers after Irish Aid-backed West Bank school destroyed
Here's What Happened Today: Friday
This country is expected to hold a referendum on joining the EU
Woman fears ex-partner’s ‘next victim may not survive’, court hears
Mother and baby found dead following suspected medical tragedy at house in Co Tipperary
Coimisinéir Teanga ag fiosrú bothán rothair ospidéal Chiarraí faoi seanfhocal Gaeilge mícheart
Kneecap denied UK number one album as Michael Jackson greatest hits compilation takes top spot
Pope praises Naples for its care of refugees in address to mark his first year in office
The Journal Friday Newshound Quiz
New report reveals majority of drug intimidation cases linked with cocaine
Judge criticises insufficient mental health services as he jails man who attacked four women