2+ hour, 36+ min ago   (451+ words) An online casino and sports betting website that bills itself as the “world’s largest” has been shut down to Irish users after an intervention by the Gambling Regulatory Authority of Ireland (GRAI). Stake, which claims to have more than 44 million…...

2+ hour, 52+ min ago   (269+ words) Sir, – Listening from my home in Siem Reap to Irish radio coverage of Ireland’s latest Pisa (Programme for International Student Assessment) results, it is difficult not to be struck by the contrast with the country in which I have lived…...

2+ hour, 52+ min ago   (825+ words) irishtimes.com Budget unlikely to resolve surging energy prices Coalition determined to defend data centres with fossil fuel price cuts as they siphon 23% of our energy supply Sir, – Cliff Taylor rightly highlights how the upcoming budget is unlikely to…...

2+ hour, 55+ min ago   (600+ words) Proposals to toughen the requirements for acquiring Irish citizenship through naturalisation have been drawn up with an eye to “what the rules are in other countries”, according to Minister for Justice Jim O’Callaghan. So how does Ireland compare? The length…...

3+ hour, 52+ min ago   (586+ words) The State-owned Irish Shipping company had ordered a large bulk carrier, which was built in a shipyard in Glasgow. When it was finished in 1973, because of its size and its specialised function, on its maiden voyage it would not come…...

8+ hour, 52+ min ago   (453+ words) The number of people with private pensions has risen significantly over the past year, but less than half believe they will be able to afford a good standard of living in retirement, new research from the Competition and Consumer Protection…...

22+ hour, 53+ min ago   (701+ words) Some workplaces are more territorial than others. In newsrooms, for example, most reporters guard their own “beats” jealously and give toe-treaders short shrift. I suspect we are a special case, but even so, the majority of organisations have a pretty…...

11+ hour, 44+ min ago   (755+ words) US president Donald Trump made the surprise announcement that he would remove tariffs from Irish whiskey at the end of his two-day visit to Ireland. It came shortly before he presented golfer Shane Lowry with the winner’s trophy after he…...

15+ hour, 27+ min ago   (551+ words) Sam Altman and Elon Musk have backed a call from the head of Anthropic, Dario Amodei, to “slow the pace” of artificial intelligence development after he warned that an AI swarm could otherwise become capable of “taking over the entire…...

13+ hour, 52+ min ago   (537+ words) George Bernard Shaw is said to have remarked after spending time at the enormous castle built by the American newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst in California, that it was what God would have built if God had had the money....