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","type":"text"},{"_id":"EK7MTBCYNBFJFHOZS37HBHWVD4","additional_properties":{},"content":"With stock markets in turmoil, gold prices continue to climb with the price of wedding and engagement rings climbing in lockstep. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"GHSTGFHQ2RGBLPJBIFMBT4ULTA","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Things are going to get very tricky for jewellers particularly those who buy from wholesalers,” says Martin Gear, who owns a business based on Dublin’s Mary Street which buys gold from the public to be recycled into new pieces.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6AZ2CFQSGZFAHBCUKWUCHUYHWQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Anyone looking to buy new stock is going to see significant increases. 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","type":"text"},{"_id":"VACH5WKLZBHIZISYJBWB5FS3BQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"“It’s hurting our margins and we will hold our prices for as long as we can, but if gold stays where it is much longer we’ll have to look at it – and that is happening everywhere.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"44JUCCLHJVGKFAUEZ4AVOTLFTU","additional_properties":{},"content":"She says there isn’t much that jewellery makers can do in the face of a geopolitical crisis. “We can make choices about the world we want to live in,” she says. “We could go switch to a cheaper gold source but we’re not going to do that. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"VQ2KCZA2ZNF3JNNXRWPINQG3KQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"“For us, it’s really important our gold is recycled. There’s enough gold above ground and we don’t actually need to mine another gramme out of the ground. 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","type":"text"},{"_id":"JC773WFMWNDPHDX4P5DST4GQIQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I have been working in the business since I was a child, I started in 1980 in the family business in Dolphin’s Barn, so I have seen everything from recessions and robberies to floods and fires, and this is just another challenge – and I am actually looking forward to them. 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","type":"text"},{"_id":"EK7MTBCYNBFJFHOZS37HBHWVD4","additional_properties":{},"content":"With stock markets in turmoil, gold prices continue to climb with the price of wedding and engagement rings climbing in lockstep. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"GHSTGFHQ2RGBLPJBIFMBT4ULTA","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Things are going to get very tricky for jewellers particularly those who buy from wholesalers,” says Martin Gear, who owns a business based on Dublin’s Mary Street which buys gold from the public to be recycled into new pieces.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6AZ2CFQSGZFAHBCUKWUCHUYHWQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Anyone looking to buy new stock is going to see significant increases. 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","type":"text"},{"_id":"VACH5WKLZBHIZISYJBWB5FS3BQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"“It’s hurting our margins and we will hold our prices for as long as we can, but if gold stays where it is much longer we’ll have to look at it – and that is happening everywhere.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"44JUCCLHJVGKFAUEZ4AVOTLFTU","additional_properties":{},"content":"She says there isn’t much that jewellery makers can do in the face of a geopolitical crisis. “We can make choices about the world we want to live in,” she says. “We could go switch to a cheaper gold source but we’re not going to do that. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"VQ2KCZA2ZNF3JNNXRWPINQG3KQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"“For us, it’s really important our gold is recycled. There’s enough gold above ground and we don’t actually need to mine another gramme out of the ground. 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","type":"text"},{"_id":"JC773WFMWNDPHDX4P5DST4GQIQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I have been working in the business since I was a child, I started in 1980 in the family business in Dolphin’s Barn, so I have seen everything from recessions and robberies to floods and fires, and this is just another challenge – and I am actually looking forward to them. 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His decision to pause many of the tariffs he introduced with such fanfare last week for 90 days to allow for negotiation came out of the blue and ran counter to everything else he has been saying. It was also wrapped up in a further hike in tariffs on <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/china/\" target=\"_self\">China</a> – though as tariffs on both sides there were already high enough to effectively stop all trade, that does not really matter.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GO5LMZGEE5GLPGGRM2F5S3WPYI","additional_properties":{"_id":1744232271640},"content":"But the 90-day halt on much of the tariffs on other countries is a big move. What Trump is doing is leaving a 10 per cent tariff in place on all imports (except for those from China). Tariffs above this level announced last week are being put on hold. So the EU – and Ireland – are expected, for now, to face a 10 per cent tariff, rather than the 20 per cent previously signalled.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WQC4AO4DF5EGDI2LVLSY2MJP3I","additional_properties":{"_id":1744236639857},"content":"Tánaiste Simon Harris said this would come as a relief for Irish exporters. However his statement referred to engagement and clarification being needed between Washington and Brussels on this. Statements from the US side referred to expectations that the EU would hold back on retaliatory measures, though the detail here is unclear.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J2YLUWBNDJF4PL3J5M53QSAWHU","additional_properties":{"_id":1744232271641},"content":"However it does appear that the EU tariff will fall to 10 per cent and that this rate will apply to all other countries except China for at least the next 90 days. The threat remains that tariffs on the EU could rise again if a deal is not done, renewing fears of a transatlantic trade war. For now, a 10 per cent tariff would be lot easier to cope with than a 20 per cent one for Irish food and drink exporters worst hit by last week’s move.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GF24VGINFRFHTK2WNQ4NG2Y7UE","additional_properties":{"_id":1744236639859},"content":"Also, worryingly for Ireland, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/video/ireland/2025/04/09/trump-flags-major-tariff-on-pharmaceuticals/\" target=\"_self\">special tariffs on pharma</a> remain on the table, according to Trump at his signing ceremony last night, While perhaps not too much attention should be paid to his mention of possible charges of 50, 100 or 200 per cent, there is no doubting his determination to get -pharma investment for the US market located at home. This is partly a security argument for controlling the supply line for a vital product , as well an an economic goal. The Tánaiste said he hoped the 90-day period would give a chance to negotiate on this issue, too. But dangers remain here for Irish jobs and tax revenue.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3QOI3WRCFZCK7CFZRMTYTTN3AQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1744232271643},"content":"There is no doubt that the tariff delay is a major reversal by Trump. Comments afterwards by treasury secretary <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/scott-bessent/\" target=\"_self\">Scott Bessent</a> and other senior figures, implying that this was part of some masterplan by the president, are not in any way credible. Up to now a bullish Trump has insisted there is no going back. Now that is exactly what he is doing. Trump himself gave a more convincing explanation saying that “people were getting a little bit yippy ” and he had to show some flexibility.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MPWEGXS45ND3BH2RPDDJTFCP3Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1744232271644},"content":"Why did he do it? We must look at what happened in the last 24 hours. Trump had shrugged off the big falls in the US equity markets, even though these were causing pain to investors big and small. But overnight the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/business/markets/2025/04/09/asian-stocks-tumble-again-as-us-hits-china-with-104-tariffs/\" target=\"_self\">US government bond market – the treasury market – had taken a hit</a>. Bond prices had fallen and US long-term interest rates went up.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DDN7P5UDURAM5LMX526TOZUKPM","additional_properties":{"_id":1744232271645},"content":"This is about as big a financial warning light as you can get. Usually when equities – or shares – fall, bond prices rise because investors buy them as a safe haven. The sell-off of US bonds pointed to a wider disposal of US assets of all types – and perhaps a scramble by some investors to raise cash. And there were warnings that this was causing big problems for hedge funds – which buy and sell actively on markets. Some kind of financial upheaval requiring a big intervention by the US central bank, the Federal Reserve Board, was feared.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TBZAJ7WDXNAM5ELWORFUKAQX3I","additional_properties":{"_id":1744232271646},"content":"Tariffs Q&A: How will Irish consumers be affected?","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"VPYPR2ASJZESZOPRM3YPH7BG4I","additional_properties":{"_id":1744232271647},"content":"This appears the likely cause of Trump’s about-turn, though this will never be conceded by him or his team. It has opened the door for negotiations and weakened Trump’s hand in these.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GVUSRLFUQ5A45NCRQTIOB7C3I4","additional_properties":{"_id":1744232271648},"content":"Much uncertainty lies ahead – and remember, steel and aluminium tariffs remain, as do tariffs on automobiles. So does a big trade war between China and the US. 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The northeast of England has the second-highest proportion of deprived areas, at 21 per cent, while the West Midlands of England has the third-highest levels, at 16.5 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M46WWZNFH5DBNCHGB2EZC72KGI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Living in deprivation: ‘I felt so ashamed that I couldn’t provide properly for my children’","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"OHVUJIYHTVDJPGZKEBSAHCVCEU","additional_properties":{},"content":"The researchers also examined data on health deprivation. This data was self-reported by census respondents. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"3H2XYRD2JJEO3OSMEAACJLLPEY","additional_properties":{},"content":"They found health deprivation is particularly high in Northern Ireland, with nearly 28 per cent of areas ranked among the most deprived in health across the UK. 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","type":"text"},{"_id":"EK7MTBCYNBFJFHOZS37HBHWVD4","additional_properties":{},"content":"With stock markets in turmoil, gold prices continue to climb with the price of wedding and engagement rings climbing in lockstep. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"GHSTGFHQ2RGBLPJBIFMBT4ULTA","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Things are going to get very tricky for jewellers particularly those who buy from wholesalers,” says Martin Gear, who owns a business based on Dublin’s Mary Street which buys gold from the public to be recycled into new pieces.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6AZ2CFQSGZFAHBCUKWUCHUYHWQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Anyone looking to buy new stock is going to see significant increases. A wedding ring that was €1,000 a year ago could easily be €1,400 now,” he warns. “I don’t think people are aware of the price increases.” ","type":"text"},{"_id":"72FFAWHGVVFVLFSDJZWQ6VCZ7A","additional_properties":{},"content":"One person who is definitely aware is jewellery designer and retailer Chupi Sweetman, and while higher prices are not necessarily keeping her up at night, they are not sending her off to an easy sleep either. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZJBVRSSFGNFVFAYYW4HGLXJUOE","additional_properties":{},"content":"“My colleague likes to send me the daily gold prices and I had to say stop because I can’t deal with the ups downs and the stress of the everyday rises so once a week is enough,” she says. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y5V7IKEUJ5FCBL4DFFAYHT6ZWA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Gold prices rose back above $3,000 per ounce on Tuesday, about 15 per cent higher than the price at the beginning of the year. In April 2024, it was about $2,300 an ounce. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"IXZ4YUW675HTRDILAZYPY5JM4I","additional_properties":{},"content":"Ms Sweetman notes that for a decade from 2011, prices were “reasonably steady”, but since 2022, everything has changed. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"OCB7QKNWOJE4LG6AQN4453WPYA","additional_properties":{},"content":"“The price has doubled in recent years and it is up by well over 10 per cent since Trump took office,” she says. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"BT5ARRI3BZDWZAHJOG4XPE6VOM","additional_properties":{},"content":"She has managed to protect herself and her customers from recent volatility by hedging her gold purchases, but past prudence will only be of benefit for a limited time into the future. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"X5CTKFIDJFBVZKGPIPZZYYOPS4","additional_properties":{},"content":"She warns that the impact of higher prices will be felt most significantly in wedding bands, which might be made with 4g of gold. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"VACH5WKLZBHIZISYJBWB5FS3BQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"“It’s hurting our margins and we will hold our prices for as long as we can, but if gold stays where it is much longer we’ll have to look at it – and that is happening everywhere.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"44JUCCLHJVGKFAUEZ4AVOTLFTU","additional_properties":{},"content":"She says there isn’t much that jewellery makers can do in the face of a geopolitical crisis. “We can make choices about the world we want to live in,” she says. “We could go switch to a cheaper gold source but we’re not going to do that. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"VQ2KCZA2ZNF3JNNXRWPINQG3KQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"“For us, it’s really important our gold is recycled. There’s enough gold above ground and we don’t actually need to mine another gramme out of the ground. 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None of that is true. We sat peacefully, as you can see on the videos on social media.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MKARVMWTUNEOJG66HGVJQO4D74","additional_properties":{},"content":"“The women didn’t move from their positions at all. There was no threat.” ","type":"text"},{"_id":"NLNYSLMSMFFZNLGGGYTY2RFGHI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Justine McCarthy: Strip-search of protesters is a scandal of unadulterated hypocrisy","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"TNY5ITLGHNDTZCOYGX6L4ZHZOE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Hundreds of people gathered at the Merrion Street entrance to Leinster House on Wednesday evening in support of the campaigners. 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It remains to be seen how the EU will respond to the latest move.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EMEC424EJFCO7EGQFAOMRPOTCM","additional_properties":{"_id":1744227659141},"content":"If the EUs tariffs go ahead what products will be impacted?","type":"header"},{"_id":"EVDRFAL66RFZTF2FZAWDKZUGUI","additional_properties":{"_id":1744227659142},"content":"The list is very, very long and covers everything from machine parts and manufacturing equipment to niche crafting products and diamonds and things commonly found on Irish supermarket shelves.","type":"text"},{"_id":"L3UXBLIQVZB7DIQYYJSNAWEXJM","additional_properties":{"_id":1744227659143},"content":"Sounds random.","type":"header"},{"_id":"ZS36PBZLPJGYTPXCQDHYVYRMCY","additional_properties":{"_id":1744227659144},"content":"It represents a “careful mix” of products drafted with an eye to the potential for a targeted US backlash against sectors of the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/european-union/\" target=\"_self\">EU</a> economy, according to one EU diplomat.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CNIC7NIVDZAUJNBNRDVZIC2BBE","additional_properties":{"_id":1744227659145},"content":"Trump tariffs live updates: China raises levies on US goods to 84% as trade standoff escalates","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"CC5KH7OICJDLZHI7GU757C2HVI","additional_properties":{"_id":1744227659146},"content":"Can you give me a flavour of what is on the list?","type":"header"},{"_id":"JJVBKEH5NBAPVA5XULDGN5PEPU","additional_properties":{"_id":1744227659147},"content":"In the first instance, goods such as cranberries, cranberry juices, oranges and orange juices were due to be hit with 25 per cent tariffs, kicking in on April 15th. On May 16th, a 25 per cent tariff was planned to hit a second batch of products including steel, meat, certain chocolates and hundreds of other products. And from December 1st, tariffs could be imposed on nuts, soybeans and more.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MJU2XRUWDFCI7F45WY3LMCNS3U","additional_properties":{"_id":1744227659148},"embed":{"config":{},"id":"acast_podcast-93715","url":"/"},"subtype":"acast_podcast","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"BAIN2DMIHZGYXPPZCH6M4DF42U","additional_properties":{"_id":1744227659149},"content":"I’ve heard US yachts and motor boats will be taxed but that won’t affect me. What will?","type":"header"},{"_id":"TLJXQHVEPJDEZJ74UGT2QBTTAQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1744227659150},"content":"Certain products are niche for sure but many things that might be impacted will be commonly found in Irish shops and Irish homes. 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Typically, what happens is the cost is spread along the supply chain, with companies, distributors, retailers and consumers all taking a hit.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PLCQMM57DVDO3PFECJI4E3QB4A","additional_properties":{"_id":1744227659155},"content":"Michael McDowell: Tariff war a major self-inflicted wound for the United States","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"MOEVHHLVMREFBIPBYYTXMI53MA","additional_properties":{"_id":1744227659156},"content":"So if a 25 per cent tariff is imposed on my US perfume how much will I pay?","type":"header"},{"_id":"NAJVTZFI75GDJDLDK2RDTBG2RE","additional_properties":{"_id":1744227659157},"content":"The entirely speculative answer is between 5 and 10 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ORK5PP4XGVFLXMGIJ4CIG7PQKI","additional_properties":{"_id":1744227659158},"content":"What else is likely to happen?","type":"header"},{"_id":"Y3QUFTIGXRAOPBRZTFZQZNCETA","additional_properties":{"_id":1744227659159},"content":"The situation is fluid as the US president’s Wednesday evening announcement showed. 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The US will probably suffer an “inflationary shock”, but economists in Europe are confident the disinflation trend is “solid” while the euro’s rise since Trump announced his tariffs will help contain upward price pressures.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DX6O3UHLSNBUFMEZRG2H3HZYJE","additional_properties":{"_id":1744227659160},"content":"Grocery price inflation surges to more than 4.5%","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"JDJDFE3JSNESPDW67LXCIAQONY","additional_properties":{"_id":1744227659161},"content":"What does that mean?","type":"header"},{"_id":"MSV3SOBQRZBENNAONYJS7I7ESI","additional_properties":{"_id":1744227659162},"content":"It means the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/european-central-bank-ecb/\" target=\"_self\">European Central Bank</a> is expected to cut its <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/interest-rates/\" target=\"_self\">interest rates</a> by a quarter of a point next week and follow it up with a similarly-sized rate cut in June. There could be four rate cuts between now and September, which would see the rate at which tens of thousands of Irish mortgages are priced falling to 1.65 per cent. It should also put downward pressure on variable rates and fixed rates in the future. However, it will negatively affect savers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CHHAD7EHAVBAXMCSQDXTGSEAL4","additional_properties":{"_id":1744227659163},"content":"What about oil prices?","type":"header"},{"_id":"CXZJSIRYJZGS5IHN43MXWPRLWM","additional_properties":{"_id":1744227659164},"content":"Oil always suffers when there is talk of recession and it has been taking a hammering on global markets ever since the US administration announced details of its global tariffs. Crude is priced at levels not seen since 2021. That should filter down to Irish forecourts by early May and will see petrol and diesel prices fall, perhaps considerably. 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I tried to reason that [I] had flown with that same bag countless times with Ryanair but had to fork out €75 to get on the flight.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BPHHZQPWLNBVRAVWCM4QF4ZG6I","additional_properties":{},"content":"The Irish Times brought these stories – and more – to Ryanair and explained that they represented just a fraction of the stories shared with us after the first piece appeared. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"SEX7HPDQINC7JJFSL72KUJAHAQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"We noted that the stories contradicted what the Ryanair press office had told us – and, by extension, our readers. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"OHTYBTDG7JDA5I3AHRBUOLYKU4","additional_properties":{},"content":"This is what came back. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"OOOVZX53Y5CTPPIHYNI5CCBITU","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Passengers ‘sharing their stories’ is not indicative of anything other than misinformed passengers. 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I think we need to really phase out third-level fees. I’ve strong views on that.” ","type":"text"},{"_id":"JLQYCZBJXRHFRKIRGEAT2QBHV4","additional_properties":{},"content":"The year was 2024. The month was November. As the students of Ireland were tucking themselves into beds in their childhood bedrooms countrywide, or in shared rooms in damp flats, or as their phones were precariously close to their faces under duvets on friends’ couches, or perhaps they were already asleep because their college commute would begin in pitch darkness in the early hours of the following morning, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/simon-harris/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/simon-harris/\">Fine Gael leader Simon Harris </a>was on Instagram again: “When you see our manifesto at the weekend, you’ll see how we intend to do that too.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"MHQME2KWKBENBJJHMM7EJWNIDA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Cut to that manifesto: “Fine Gael will: Phase out Student Contribution Fees: We will continue to decrease the Student Contribution Fee over the Government’s term, easing the financial burden on students and families at the start of each academic year.” ","type":"text"},{"_id":"UFYW66AMJ5A2BPF2Y76I5JKLL4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Students condemn potential €1,000 rise in third-level fees","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"YLPIADPARZDY7LBGMBXQR5BXNQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Cut to the programme for government, same thing. 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The <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/james-lawless/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/james-lawless/\">Minister of State for Further Education is James Lawless</a>, a Fianna Fáil member, barrister and landlord, born in the 1970s and educated in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/education/2024/02/02/students-from-trinity-college-and-kings-inns-universities-secure-places-in-irish-times-debate-final/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/education/2024/02/02/students-from-trinity-college-and-kings-inns-universities-secure-places-in-irish-times-debate-final/\">Trinity College </a>and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/education/2024/02/02/students-from-trinity-college-and-kings-inns-universities-secure-places-in-irish-times-debate-final/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/education/2024/02/02/students-from-trinity-college-and-kings-inns-universities-secure-places-in-irish-times-debate-final/\">King’s Inns</a>. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"THDTPFDPKBDM7JV4CXJRL4BDGY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Turns out Harris’s reign as Tánaiste will not be marked by a sustained fall in student fees. Turns out Fine Gael and Harris will be part of a Government that, in effect, increases those fees by €1,000.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LGR4TFVHAFHR7IEOWSOYOAJAX4","additional_properties":{},"content":"The €3,000 annual “student contribution” has been lowered to €2,000 for the past three years, but this “cost-of-living support” may now be scrapped, in which case more than half of third-level students would pay higher college fees this year. A final decision has not been made. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"CNMDHLCDRJEGVIUHD6AZDWBJLU","additional_properties":{},"content":"In March, Lawless said that cuts to student fees – as declared in the Programme for Government – were “not fair or proportionate”. And yet abolishing student fees was a key campaign message of both Harris and Fine Gael to lure the youth vote, or what’s left of it, considering a good deal of it is now in Australia. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"KSCWUIAYQRGZLEAH6LS2MOSQQ4","additional_properties":{},"content":"The thing students need to understand is that Lawless doesn’t believe that previous reductions emerging from the pandemic era were ever going to last. He has said as much. He said that the cut from €3,000 to €2,000 was “not intended to be a permanent solution or to become part of the fabric”. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"7TACHY6UGVBPXMX4367IG3VYTA","embed":{"config":{},"id":"acast_podcast-5716","url":"/"},"subtype":"acast_podcast","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"LHEYPFKLHBH7DP56DZ6DF43F5I","additional_properties":{},"content":"Again, the programme for government states: “The Government will ... continue to reduce the Student Contribution Fee over the lifetime of the Government to ease the financial burden on students and families at the start of each academic year, in a financially sustainable manner.” ","type":"text"},{"_id":"RXYWP2PQQFDRXHUPM7QX454E4I","additional_properties":{},"content":"It appears that the Government’s version of “a financially stable manner” when it comes to reducing something is increasing it. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y3RWA6YT5RD6LNLMO4CVMUGKRI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Lawless is using the excuse of the student accommodation crisis for this proposed 33 per cent increase in fees, saying it would add more money for building student apartments. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"3DJ64ZWU5JGLZGPDLU32H2B63Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"There is no shortage of money to build housing. That’s not the issue. The issue is policy. Purpose-built student accommodation – much of it plonked in working-class areas of the capital where young people face numerous obstacles in progressing to third level – has failed as an intervention in the housing market because it’s unaffordable. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"NAMEMHGEJVDSDCE65ATSQUYKOI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Scrolling through the options for student accommodation in Dublin right now, and all of them are expensive. A 12sq m room – about the size of a parking space – in one student accommodation block costs €254 a week to rent. Listed features include a coat hook and “adjustable lighting by the bed”. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"WRMCMQ4DOVCCHLLTVCCNSVUH4U","additional_properties":{},"content":"More than half of all third-level students could face an increase of up to €1000 in college fees this year","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"U4ULFD6BLNFQTDRWENWKV3DIPE","additional_properties":{},"content":"If you wanted to rent a one-room apartment in Highfield House close to the TUD Grangegorman campus, with a separate bedroom, bathroom, and living area, that will cost you €643 a week, €25,077 for 39 weeks (excluding “service charges”). ","type":"text"},{"_id":"QY3UWGZGNNB5VM2NLEB3OWGW5E","additional_properties":{},"content":"The student movement should, and I presume will, fight this proposed cruel increase. It comes on top of exorbitant rent costs, a cost-of-living crisis that cripples students, means lectures are missed because of long commutes, denies social life because they can’t live close to where they study or share homes with friends. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"5Q6PP5YLTRA63D5I2QEBQRTBEI","additional_properties":{},"content":"It’s an increase that will exert even further pressure on them to earn more cash working extra shifts and additional jobs while they’re meant to be studying, building relationships and enjoying life. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"0be0695a-a24f-4c3c-872a-32aa07dcbe4b","additional_properties":{},"subtype":"irish-times-video","type":"video"},{"_id":"HBJ2SLFW75HVPBZUZROGLSG5JE","additional_properties":{},"content":"In tandem with the proposed fee increase, some changes to grants were announced. The proposed increase in the threshold for student fee grants will mean those whose “reckonable income” is below €115,000 will be eligible for a €500 grant. This means little if the fees themselves are to increase by €1,000. A 15 per cent increase in maintenance grants is also proposed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JJKMPM4NVNAIRB3CPFHYFHROCI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Many students now view going to university as a stepping stone to emigration. People in their 20s and 30s are denied independence, autonomy, privacy and a sense of self-worth by Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil housing policy. They are denied the opportunity to envisage a future in this country. They are gaslit by the Government, lied to, disregarded and patronised. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"GQ45CIOLSBHABFLU6SWGN3GHEA","additional_properties":{},"content":"They are meant to feel lucky that they’re not paying the exorbitant kinds of fees we see in the United States and United Kingdom, as if that’s an acceptable comparison. It’s no wonder students and graduates turn away from the political sphere – and a future in Ireland – and towards Terminal 2. 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Pro-Palestinian marchers tell a different tale: <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2024/08/25/pro-palestinian-marchers-tell-of-arbitrary-violence-by-berlin-police/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2024/08/25/pro-palestinian-marchers-tell-of-arbitrary-violence-by-berlin-police/\">regular and often unprompted violence from police officers they say act with impunity and political protection</a>. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZSNFRY3MSVEWTMANYLEJTYAN2M","additional_properties":{},"content":"Caught up in the middle of this 18-month stand-off are two Irish citizens – Bert Murray (31) and Shane O’Brien (29). They made headlines around Europe last week <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/04/01/two-irish-citizens-ordered-to-leave-germany-over-pro-palestinian-protests-despite-no-convictions/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/04/01/two-irish-citizens-ordered-to-leave-germany-over-pro-palestinian-protests-despite-no-convictions/\">after being served with orders to leave Germany </a>by April 21st, along with a Polish and a US citizen, arising from their participation in pro-Palestinian marches.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JOR2U4COVVGI3MRALTCOOCBBLI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Murray, a Berlin-based artist who uses the pronouns they/them, indicated no plans to leave and an intention to seek an injunction against the order. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"ADEKIAIAPVANJMYHTGTFSK4UNI","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I refuse to believe that a judge will allow this fascist political repression to go any further,” Murray told the In the News podcast. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"JUZJO4YAAJCKLESC2AJBVCHOM4","embed":{"config":{},"id":"acast_podcast-43790","url":"/"},"subtype":"acast_podcast","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"GF36C7Q7ZVE7XOPY355YA4SX2M","additional_properties":{},"content":"The case has prompted protest in Dublin from Opposition TDs, with Taoiseach Micheál Martin saying the cases raised “a fundamental concern in terms of their freedom of movement”, a fundamental right enjoyed by all EU citizens.","type":"text"},{"_id":"V73ND4SKDVEHJBRCJDABAF3QQY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Such expulsions must clear a high legal hurdle, proving that a person’s presence poses a serious threat to the country’s security. 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Similarly, the orders against O’Brien and Murray to leave, though of German-wide significance, are an initiative of the city-state of Berlin: issued by Berlin’s migration office on orders by the state interior ministry.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5JHUJCQZNJAYJNSEKG7KBWNBXY","additional_properties":{},"content":"The latter said the decision to terminate their residence was based on legal provisions on a case-by-case assessment of “the danger posed by the individual, their social, professional, and cultural integration, as well as the purpose and duration of the stay”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HSYKFCZCQRBK5OWEWYCKLKVR2U","additional_properties":{},"content":"A key element of the orders against Murray and O’Brien, resident in Berlin for several years, is a pro-Palestinian protest on October 17th last year at Berlin’s Free University (FU). Amid a heated, if largely peaceful protest, police say a smaller group of about 40 sprayed graffiti on and near the building housing the university president and administration. Press images from that day show, in red letters: “Still Complicit” and “Fre [sic] Gaza”. Police say this group caused “considerable damage” by entering the building and causing damage requiring six-figure repairs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SIJYVN5MKVCGHEMAXE47U6VTWI","additional_properties":{},"content":"An FU spokesman said that none of those facing deportation were registered as university students and that employees in the building on October 17th “did not perceive the incident as an attempted occupation, rather a violent attack”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7LZL2L5PPNGYBNAYPY76U4UU5I","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Some of the affected employees are still reeling from the events and employees were offered psychological support immediately after the attack,” said the spokesman.","type":"text"},{"_id":"L7V6DZH2TBDI7INOXXKQRXKYGU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Taoiseach to raise case of two Irish nationals facing deportation with German authorities","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"SEDONKN7WZHQRA3TYZ7YACX6UA","additional_properties":{},"content":"One staff member said: “It was a deeply traumatic experience, one that still hasn’t left me.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"J35KKHVRAJA3NKUZNP24LKU7B4","additional_properties":{},"content":"The university’s student union has a different take. In a report, it noted a “wide range of reactions” among staff in the building targeted by protesters, with two people “visibly shaken”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"K4C63TN53FC6RDMBFMWW2MCP3Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"“The staff members we talked to did not report any instances of physical violence being used against them,” the report adds, noting no efforts by police at de-escalation or dialogue: “One of [the protesters] was brutally thrown to the ground by at least three policemen and later three others were caught, one of which appeared to be a bystander.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"PAZM6RSFMBDWXORH4DJFZXHJUE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Lawyers for Murray and O’Brien decline to discuss the events of October 17th as they have yet to receive the case files or details of charges.","type":"text"},{"_id":"T4PNEOFDXNFHVOF3URI43Y2MOM","additional_properties":{},"content":"For fellow protester Shane O’Brien, the order against him lists at least 14 incidents bringing him into conflict with the police, some dropped and others ongoing. A criminal police assessment said it was “noteworthy that, of the offences listed here, none took place beyond pro-Palestinian scene events”, O’Brien having not come to police attention outside of his protest activities.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UXET2JYBKVEZPI4FV4QY6SU33M","additional_properties":{},"content":"The Murray-O’Brien cases have attracted considerable media attention in Germany, in particular, whether the two represent a real risk to public order or are facing a political intervention in the justice system.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MQ7EZK26TRAKDFXDUW5LUYVZHE","additional_properties":{},"content":"The lead official in their cases is a Berlin state interior ministry official called Christian Oestmann. He is a member of Berlin’s co-governing Social Democratic Party (SPD), which controls the state interior ministry, and a former judge at Berlin’s state administrative court. A decade ago, in this latter function, he struck down a deportation order against a Turkish woman, raised and resident in Berlin, who had assault and manslaughter convictions but had been diagnosed with a serious psychological disorder.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Q7YRJBJAJNFHFJSY64XNTBRJAQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"In the ruling, he wrote: “The direct deportation of a foreign national ... must comply with the principle of proportionality and the requirement to guarantee effective legal protection.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"QODDI6H76FHDZLIKJJJRYWYQVI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Christian Oestmann is on holiday until April 22nd and unavailable for comment, but Berlin-based migration lawyer Martin Manzel, a fellow member of the SPD, describes Oestmann as “not some ruthless hardliner”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GITQ3LCARFCTRGKL4CEOFELMQM","additional_properties":{},"content":"“He has a good legal mind and knows what he is doing when it comes to deportations,” he said. “He is not someone who yields to political pressure from above, so I can’t imagine that his actions here are motivated by anything other than legal concerns.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"4KF4L6GQB5AKRFFJQXBXZ5X4AY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Others take a different view, with one well-placed political observer in Berlin describing Oestmann as a “politically-oriented party person”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4ZDIP6ZG3ZBYJDR6KMGIQZ5LJY","additional_properties":{},"content":"“None of this originated with him; this is him enacting someone else’s political will,” said the source, suggesting Berlin mayor Kai Wegner and interior senator Iris Spranger are “coming under pressure for appearing to have done nothing” to date on the FU incident.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OWKNHTXDTFGCDF5UTKRVO3WSUU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Berlin’s state interior ministry declined to say why the two Irish citizens were selected for proceedings and on whose initiative, saying the ministry “does not comment on speculation or rumours”.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Derek Scally"}},"name":"Derek Scally"}]},"description":{"basic":"Bert Murray (31) and Shane O’Brien (29) are fighting efforts to remove them. 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Change in the Catholic Church is usually a dance of two steps forward and sometimes one (or two or even three) steps back. Even the looming spectre of “the last priests in Ireland”, now a mathematical inevitability in a short number of years, has to date failed to move mountains of resistance. Yet, against all the odds, change is beginning to percolate out of sheer necessity as inviolable defences thought to be proofed against reform are coming under siege.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QM5DSTETDNCRJPLAJKGKFC7IHM","additional_properties":{"_id":1743700409029},"content":"Bishops have received a curt letter from Rome telling them that they need to get their act together in responding to the synodal reforms – effectively another version of Vatican II. The clear message from Pope Francis is that bishops cannot choose <i>not</i> to be synodal. Priests are being reminded that parish pastoral councils are now mandatory and no longer at the mercy of a parish priest’s veto. Dioceses, bishops’ conferences and parishes, hoping that the demand to receive and embed synodality would go away, are beginning to realise that there’s no opt-out clause.","type":"text"},{"_id":"36AEGZMNIZHO7NTNG3I6L3KXZU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743700409031},"content":"Suddenly, in terms of much-needed reform, a reluctance to name difficult truths is giving way to a more realistic assessment of the need for a more determined response to critical issues. As with the comment of Bishop Kevin Doran, at his installation as Bishop of Achonry last Sunday, that “structures appropriate to the needs of the 21st century” are now needed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AVUCZ5Q4CBECVDF3DTQIH4AFBI","additional_properties":{"_id":1743700409032},"content":"An example of sorting out one such anomaly is the robust effort now to reform the outdated borders of Irish dioceses. At present, a series of neighbouring dioceses are being unashamedly shoved together even if it upends more than 900 years of immovable boundaries sacrosanct since the Synod of Ráth Breasail in the noteworthy year of 1111.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XVZMJKSMNNARBOA5DE4CLBFMBE","additional_properties":{"_id":1743700409033},"content":"As recently as 2022, when the dioceses of Galway and Clonfert were being united under one bishop, care was taken not to ruffle any feathers so everyone involved had to be reassured that, God forbid, nothing as outrageous as an amalgamation was taking place.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LLFROMWMSFG73A54XYXERO3ZQY","additional_properties":{"_id":1743700409034},"content":"However, just a year later, in 2023, when a new papal nuncio, Luis Mariano Montemayor, arrived at the Bishops’ House in Killala to discuss the appointment of a successor to John Fleming, who had retired, I was among a number of priests, grandly though inaccurately called the “consultors”, who were informed gently but very persuasively that our diocese would be “merging” (ie a synonym for “amalgamating”) with either Achonry or Tuam.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KMZLWPZ2BRG3TETNXESRQZBEGQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1743700409035},"content":"Someone asked would either union be along the lines of Galway and Clonfert? 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This is despite the visit to Rome of a high-powered episcopal delegation seeking special exemptions for Northern dioceses.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NEIG2WJDHFA5RLL7P2W2VBXXLQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1744048172161},"content":"Other mergers are listed for Ferns and Ossory, Clogher and Kilmore, Armagh and Dromore, though a rumour that an effort was being made to merge Cork and Kerry is regarded, unsurprisingly, as a bridge too far.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DSBMJTCXGZDE3FTJAXDQO2KS4M","additional_properties":{"_id":1744048172162},"content":"Pope Francis shows intention to carry on as pontiff, starting process to examine Catholic reforms","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"WXAJLF72TZDVPJC63XF32E453I","additional_properties":{"_id":1743700409037},"content":"What has happened is that, as Gerry O’Hanlon explained to Diarmaid Ferriter, the operative image of the Church as a pyramid, with the pope, bishops, priests and lay faithful in descending order of priority, has been flipped by Pope Francis, with the people (the baptised) at the top of an inverted pyramid and below them pope, bishops and priests in the service of a People’s Church.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DC6YFA6YINHCFEFA72WJCVQ7IE","additional_properties":{"_id":1744048172164},"content":"This, as might be expected, is welcomed by the vast majority of Catholics, and where “the laity” are given a fair wind, almost everything becomes possible.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M5OGGUQLBFH27PB7YFEICIIJWU","additional_properties":{"_id":1743700409038},"content":"An example of this is in the diocese of Killala where a week ago 64 women and men graduated after a two-year course in Theology, Culture and Ministry.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2CCCPS4PHZDHVHWNYJQFKRSUOM","additional_properties":{"_id":1744048172166},"content":"Of them, 62 are to be commissioned in a number of lay ministries, one of which is as funeral ministers. This will involve lay women and men co-leading with priests all of the standard funeral services with the exception of the funeral Mass.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BJADNYZ7BFBF7HRGPMYNFH7SI4","additional_properties":{"_id":1744048172167},"content":"Funeral ministers will accompany the priest to the wake house or funeral home; they will co-lead the prayers for the reception of the remains at the church; they will co-lead the final prayers at the end of the funeral liturgy; and they will co-lead the prayers in the cemetery at the graveside.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CZPAD2O73VENDAE5QPN75EX7VI","additional_properties":{"_id":1744048172168},"content":"In Holy Week, as part of the Mass of Chrism on Tuesday, April 15th at 6.30pm in St Muredach’s Cathedral in Ballina, Co Mayo, these 62 lay leaders will be commissioned by Archbishop of Tuam Francis Duffy.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OPEH73TKNZBNRBF5OLINJ2UHWI","additional_properties":{"_id":1744048172169},"content":"In preparation, pastoral placements were undertaken in six host parishes over the two-year course period, and the lay leaders will commence their ministries in a voluntary capacity at parish level over coming weeks.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AHPD6ADB6VB4RHDEEQP3N4557M","additional_properties":{"_id":1743700409040},"content":"It is a matter not just of regret but shame that it took 60 years after the close of the Second Vatican Council for the vision it proposed for the Church to get a fair wind and a following sea.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2SBLXQEMINEGLO4KKPTUD64M3I","additional_properties":{"_id":1743700409041},"content":"<i>Brendan Hoban is a priest of the Diocese of Killala.</i>","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Brendan Hoban"}]},"description":{"basic":"Church leaders are at last embracing much-needed change"},"display_date":"2025-04-06T15:32:20.599Z","headlines":{"basic":"Pope Francis’s synodal reforms: Vatican II 60 years on","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"OJZ5C4TTNAH2YR2LRAAX6V3MSU","auth":{"1":"edb7fdcb49051b4f1bdd6fad4d1a454b056a35ebe99f9cc6d20d529539eb1996"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/OJZ5C4TTNAH2YR2LRAAX6V3MSU.jpg"}},"subtype":"opinion","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Opinion"},{"name":"Ireland"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/opinion/2025/04/06/pope-franciss-synodal-reforms-vatican-ii-for-slow-learners/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/opinion","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Opinion"}}}},{"_id":"CEJUEO34PVCQDOCE35KZYUFPFQ","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":172,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/ab2a0466-4e65-41dc-92de-77dab9055b12/versions/1743941522/media/d8653ddc1a418ae503dd9e04aceb98cd_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/environment/2025/04/06/hoopoe-hoopla-in-my-40-years-of-birding-ive-never-seen-anything-like-this-spring/","content_elements":[{"_id":"KCF2OVUFMJBS5O3MRDHQVVIUBM","additional_properties":{},"content":"The Irish birding world is abuzz with talk of the hoopoe. This striking springtime visitor is having a moment in the spotlight along the south coast, where sightings this year are the highest they have ever been.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ICPDGVOL4VFMXNCORO6RJNEWWI","additional_properties":{},"content":"“In my 40 years of birding, I’ve never seen anything like this spring,” said Paul Connaughton, an ornithologist who sits on the Irish Rare Birds Committee, on a weekend hunt for the usually little-seen hoopoe. “It’s truly unbelievable.” ","type":"text"},{"_id":"P3PTSFFFVRHFJPYV32KEK6ANDE","additional_properties":{},"content":"His excitement at the chance to see another one is palpable, despite spotting eight the day before.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ROADIM3ZKRDJZBQJ3O4UTDB6I4","additional_properties":{},"content":"“They’re the most beautiful, exotic birds,” he said. “I think it’s only the hoopoe and the waxwing that draw such attention in Ireland. They’re just so striking.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"QZWEMCDKINAUFOR7MX6RAN2WEU","additional_properties":{},"content":"The Eurasian hoopoe landing here migrates in the summer from Africa northwards to continental Europe, but prevailing easterly winds this year have blown an unusually large cohort of them off course. This is known as ‘overshooting’ their range, and sightings in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/cork/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/cork/\">Cork</a> and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/kerry/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/kerry/\">Kerry</a> have been record-breaking as a result.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BR73QIOQ3REINBZI5N3QFDQABM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Many sightings have been reported at Galley Head, just south of Clonakilty at the heart of west Cork. The laneways of the stunning peninsula, tipped by a small lighthouse, are dotted with birdwatchers donning binoculars. Even spotted was Fianna Fáil Minister of State for Housing Christopher O’Sullivan taking part in the search.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ISP26HHOGJHM7JL2XXWEESAXFE","additional_properties":{},"content":"“When birds are migrating at night, they can be attracted to land by lighthouses,” said Connaughton. “And when they hit land they could be getting tired, so they normally just bunk down on the nearest bit of coast they can find. That’s why headlands are good for them.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"N7OIUKHFPNFUNGUPHAO42A6PA4","additional_properties":{},"content":"After searching a few lanes, Connaughton spotted the notoriously shy bird in a nearby tree, its beautiful black-and-white striped wings on show. And when we heard its distinctive ‘hoo hoo hoo’ call, there was no doubt.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QM3HB6HRSBCXNJWAC2LACBK2PE","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"MQUPPWEZSZEH3LZZWW3PP5UUCY","additional_properties":{},"content":"It was shortly joined by another, which flew down and plucked the short grass along the road, eating insects and leatherjackets, only occasionally bothered by other birds such as robins.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XF7PQQW62FBT7LIACZPXBCIHPU","additional_properties":{},"content":"“They [robins] don’t like hoopoes because they’re so unfamiliar,” explained Connaughton. “Any of our birds haven’t seen them before, so they’re going: What the hell is that thing?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"YG2NDMO6PRGQJG4MESKZKFG37U","additional_properties":{},"content":"He’s hopeful that if the birds are given space, Ireland could get its own breeding pair at some point in the future, however unlikely it may be.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UVDL64KIPNBFLO4KJCM2V6QSEM","additional_properties":{},"content":"“There have been a couple of waves of [hoopoes] landing here so far [this spring]. 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The two-vehicle collision occurred in the early hours of Sunday morning, the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/police-service-of-northern-ireland-psni/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/police-service-of-northern-ireland-psni/\">Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI</a>) said. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"VB25SUGBBREITADQBEXP67QC3E","additional_properties":{},"content":"The victim has been named as Morgan Henry (18) from the Tandragee area.","type":"text"},{"_id":"L3XQM673AJFMJG3HO2S4RE54UQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Insp Cherith Adair, from the PSNI’s collision investigation unit, said: “At approximately 1.40am police received a report of a two-vehicle road traffic collision on the Dungannon Road involving a blue BMW 330 and a red Vauxhall Corsa. 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The alma mater of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/imelda-may/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/imelda-may/\">Imelda May</a>, it has a proud history of running a children’s choir. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"63QW6N42MJC75BNCYPORTG7LVU","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"GMP5UCQEXFE3DM5CC7TIYD6SBA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Though their programme was disrupted by the pandemic, the school jumped at the chance to revive it by working with the National Children’s Choir for the first time.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3SPCJARK3ZHSBJAI6TQQDA5INE","additional_properties":{},"content":"“The fabulous [NCC musical director] Anne Purcell offered to direct the school choir, and she has been doing that now since September with our fifth and sixth classes,” says principal Thérèse Gamble. 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For a lot of the children here, when they go home, they may not have, say, a play area to go and play in. We do a lot of after school classes and the teachers here are fantastic at volunteering their time. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"C2G5NHL6PJHANIQLSCFJTSOFEI","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Football, Lego, dancing, art, jewellery-making – it’s really important that they get a broader [experience] rather than just focus on the curriculum. The staff here are a hugely, highly dedicated staff and they give above and beyond.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"VNJX72WALFDOZL3HPNVPG7R56A","additional_properties":{},"content":"Katie Guinan teaches sixth class at St Brigid’s and has been working alongside Purcell with the choir. She says the experience has inspired some of the children to take music as a subject for secondary school and, while the concert in Tallaght will be surreal, the school’s focus on arts and performance means they are well prepared. 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There was a sense of pride among all that attended the launch, particularly one pupil who recounted his experience to Gamble.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NOYMZ456K5FTJAOYDV7KHEEDIA","additional_properties":{},"content":"“One of the boys is from Poland and he said that when he stood in the National Concert Hall, [he thought about how] his granny had said he would always be famous,” she says. “He put his arms out and said, ‘look where I am now – I’m so proud of myself.’ ","type":"text"},{"_id":"XW326M3GJJB6JJFI6CDPKRZK7E","additional_properties":{},"content":"“One of the girls behind him started to cry because she was so proud of him. These children – next Monday night they will be with about 450 other children in the Basketball Arena in Tallaght and that is going to be some experience for them. 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We’ve grown from having a concert the first year with about 250 to having a concert of 615 schools involved.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"7LD7RKC3CZEZPI3HMFRJRO6BLE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Everything the NCC has accomplished over its 40 years can be traced back to Seán Creamer, a music inspector for the Department of Education who had the idea for the choir as a celebration of the European Year of Music, 1985. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"ERW4LMGF6JARBHMV4L6IH6NMUI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Seán Creamer understood the power of choirs","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"IQFRIYYNUJHBXH6IQDEXMIGAHE","additional_properties":{},"content":"He was McPaul’s music lecturer in college, and when she began teaching on Marlborough St in Dublin in the early 2000s, he would come into her school to rehearse each week with his Park Singers’ choir. 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","type":"text"},{"_id":"PIGESPLGCRG77D6RONUKHWWN6M","additional_properties":{},"content":"The list for the fourth quarter will presumably include what sounds like his most lucrative outside gig: fronting the Marty Party holiday package in the Costa del Sol last October where holidaymakers were entertained by the likes of Tommy Fleming and Sharon Shannon.<b> </b>Where does he get time for the day job?","type":"text"},{"_id":"6FHSOVJ33RESRGPJJEB5K5EWX4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Not that Morrissey, who <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2023/07/06/marty-morrissey-sorry-for-error-of-judgment-in-accepting-car-from-renault/#:~:text=Marty%20Morrissey%20issued%20a%20statement,the%20centre%20of%20the%20controversy.&text=RT%C3%89%20broadcaster%20Marty%20Morrissey%20has,of%20more%20than%20five%20years.\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2023/07/06/marty-morrissey-sorry-for-error-of-judgment-in-accepting-car-from-renault/#:~:text=Marty%20Morrissey%20issued%20a%20statement,the%20centre%20of%20the%20controversy.&text=RT%C3%89%20broadcaster%20Marty%20Morrissey%20has,of%20more%20than%20five%20years.\">had to return his free Renault last year </a>after the Ryan Tubridy payments scandal, was the only sports presenter juggling jobs last year. 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I’ve no aunts, uncles or first cousins’","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"32F64PGA2VHAJDGWC2IU2LTB5Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"The second and third most requests came from the sport department, with presenter Darragh Maloney seeking permission for 17 outside gigs during the two quarters and fellow broadcaster Jacqui Hurley seeking 15, including presumably hard-hitting interviews with retired rugby star Brian O’Driscoll about his Land Rover Defender and Q&As with rugby player James Ryan and jockey Rachel Blackmore on behalf of Volvo.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MZ3HOOV2N5FUFJ6SMBO3UAGYCU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Michael O’Leary’s painted into a corner over rent ","type":"header"},{"_id":"LJDRPXFMX5H3FDZU7K73UG26RU","additional_properties":{},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/michael-oleary/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/michael-oleary/\">Michael O’Leary</a> is estimated to be worth about €900 million, mostly down to his stake in Ryanair. But he also has an expanding property portfolio with his 2,000-plus acres in Co <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/westmeath/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/westmeath/\">Westmeath</a> leading to the nickname “The Mullingar Magnier” after the Coolmore Stud boss, who is estimated to own more than 10,000 acres in Co Tipperary. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"DLDV6O54CVCUJK3VMIJ5L2EDGU","additional_properties":{},"content":"In Dublin, O’Leary owns several period piles which he lets out, including houses on Raglan Road and Clyde Road in Dublin 4. When it comes to pursuing his rent, he’s not shy of a trip to the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/residential-tenancies-board-prtb/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/residential-tenancies-board-prtb/\">Residential Tenancies Board</a> (RTB), the arbiter of landlord-tenant disputes, even if it’s over only €754. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"D4DMB2B2OVCLNOOEN7IRF6FNJU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Last week the RTB published a judgment following a case taken by Bradley Investments, O’Leary’s investment vehicle, against a couple who underpaid their €2,260 monthly rent at a property his company owns in Blackrock, Dublin by about €754 one month. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"KYSY5HPKGFDT3DK62CZY2QJRWM","additional_properties":{},"content":"The couple said they had cut the rent for one month because they had been forced to move out while the house was painted, which took 10 days. They say they initially objected to the house being painted, arguing it would be “too disruptive”. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"V3RRCTLFJ5C7ZOGDPLDLT3Y4KQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"When O’Leary’s company suggested a reduction in their rent for the month of the painting, they said this was “an insult” as it did not include any compensation. However, when Bradley Investments insisted it needed to paint the place, they moved out for 10 days and reduced the amount they paid.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WXW73LDP6RBZRF422OLSSGMESU","additional_properties":{},"content":"At the RTB O’Leary’s representative argued the tenants had rejected the suggestion that a portion of the rent would be waived, adding there was no proof they moved out for the 10-day period and should have paid their rent in full.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2CHVFHQZV5CKVAV4FESU7A2KHM","additional_properties":{},"content":"However, the RTB found in favour of the tenants, ruling O’Leary’s representatives did not have “carte blanche” to carry out painting or repairs at the expense of the tenants’ right to “peaceful occupation”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MOWWESBQRRAXLF4SN6I7EHQFZM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Perhaps the reason O’Leary was so keen to keep up the house’s appearance was because of a former resident – it’s where his wife Anita Farrell lived before marrying the Mullingar man.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XEPHBHPPR5BZDA64W7NVGM6GPU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Anne-Marie O’Brien climbs aboard Horse Racing Ireland","type":"header"},{"_id":"SRHQMVZJZZBDFPKIN6L34752UU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Speaking of Coolmore Stud, the latest addition to the board of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/horse-racing-ireland-hri/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/horse-racing-ireland-hri/\">Horse Racing Ireland</a> is Anne-Marie O’Brien, the wife of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/aidan-o-brien/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/aidan-o-brien/\">Aidan</a>, the trainer at <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/john-magnier/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/john-magnier/\">John Magnier</a>’s Ballydoyle Stables. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"S35XEGJOTZBTDDNFJICS2ABZPI","additional_properties":{},"content":"A trainer in her own right, she grew up in the business – her father Joe Crowley was previously Coolmore’s head trainer. 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We can guess which way neighbour <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/dermot-desmond/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/dermot-desmond/\">Dermot Desmond</a>, an honorary life member of the club and devotee of padel, voted. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"T2HDCQJZ6BE7HPQ3GJUWAL7RIE","additional_properties":{},"content":"The Michael Lynn story continues ","type":"header"},{"_id":"I44MLKG3BRHHLAUF6RSYM662BM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Rogue lawyer <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/michael-lynn/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/michael-lynn/\">Michael Lynn</a> has obviously been keeping busy in prison reading journalist Michael O’Farrell’s book about him. <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/06/01/fugitive-the-michael-lynn-story-the-morningside-among-others/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/06/01/fugitive-the-michael-lynn-story-the-morningside-among-others/\">Fugitive: The Michael Lynn Story</a> was published a year ago by Merrion Press and Irish Academic Press. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"XQS6QNS5VVFHDCGHUEBASBLVGE","additional_properties":{},"content":"But it was only last week that Lynn, represented by John P O’Donohoe solicitors in Waterford, filed a High Court defamation action against O’Farrell and the book’s publishers. Perhaps he discovered it in the prison library.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5HYR7M745JBP3NM6EBKG7ZKKYU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Talbot Street and a quest for the soul of Éire","type":"header"},{"_id":"OLYED7E5SFHLDBXGYGLETGAOFY","additional_properties":{},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/mediahuis/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/mediahuis/\">Mediahuis</a> boss <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/peter-vandermeersch/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/peter-vandermeersch/\">Peter Vandermeersch</a> has been living in Ireland since taking over as publisher of the Independent stable of newspapers in 2019. Now he is turning his journalist’s eye on the “history, culture and paradoxes” of Ireland in a new book aimed at the Dutch market. Described as “not a classic travel guide”, it is instead “a quest for the soul of Éire”. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"6NCX5HUWMJFJFN2QRAHSSDUAMA","additional_properties":{},"content":"‘Talbot Street is known as Tablet Street now’: Will a €2m makeover be enough to turn things around?","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"QJ7D4DWPEZHC7M5KFVG6HONLGE","additional_properties":{},"content":"We wonder if he’ll mention Talbot Street, his favourite Dublin street and the location of Mediahuis HQ. In a blog post five years ago, he rhapsodised about the cosmopolitan stretch where you will find the most “junkies, nutters and crackpots” in the capital. And no, he wasn’t talking about his colleagues. 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So I haven’t regretted for one moment leaving the country with my child who is a special-needs child.","type":"text"},{"_id":"R7BIMFISCZC4VOXY5KRYRPU3BY","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I was horrified that he has dissolved the Department of Education, which is going to affect children with autism and all kinds of needs in many horrible ways in the United States.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"VIBTTFKB5ZHEXB2VDIBB4COYTE","additional_properties":{},"content":"On autism services in Ireland, Ms O’Donnell said that while she has only been living here for a short period, she feels there is “definitely” a need for more resources.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5YK2G2JUNFGJLDHJ3FDEROPGGQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Rosie O’Donnell calls Trump a ‘cheater’ and ‘Russian asset’ after Oval Office insult","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"3HK3I6IXUNHEDJJKAUIXTETBTU","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Clay was in a neurodivergent school for the past four-and-a-half years,” she said. “There are a quite a few of them in Los Angeles. 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