tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87492930040352440572024-03-24T00:11:13.513-07:00Wealth Management Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8749293004035244057.post-67015578959777959372023-07-27T13:37:00.000-07:002023-07-27T13:37:21.618-07:00Most Read News Articles on 27th July 2023 <p> </p><h2 class="list__title" style="background-color: #fff1e5; font-family: MetricWeb, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem;">Most read</h2><ol class="list__items-wrapper" style="background-color: #fff1e5; color: #33302e; counter-reset: item 0; display: flex; flex-direction: column; font-family: sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; width: 256.97px;"><li style="display: block; position: relative; width: 256.97px;"><div class="list__item" data-id="most-read-variant-2" data-name="list" data-subtype="most-read" data-trackable-context-story-position="0" data-trackable-context-story-siblings="5" data-trackable-context-story-type="list" data-trackable="story:list" data-type="list" style="display: inline-block; 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font-size: 1rem; font-weight: 500 !important; line-height: 1.25rem; vertical-align: middle;">Rhodes fires: A walk along Glystra beach</span></a></div></span></li><li class="gel-layout__item gs-o-faux-block-link gel-1/2@m gel-1/5@xxl gs-u-mt+ gs-u-float-left@m gs-u-clear-left@m gs-u-float-none@xxl" data-entityid="most-popular-watched#2" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: left !important; display: inline-block; float: left !important; margin-top: 16px !important; padding-left: 16px; position: relative; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 495.992px;"><span class="gs-o-media" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block;"><span class="nw-c-most-watched__rank gs-o-media__img gel-canon" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #b80000; float: left; font-size: 2.75rem; line-height: 3rem; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: -4px;">2</span><div class="gs-o-media__body" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden;"><a class="gs-c-promo-heading nw-o-link gs-o-bullet__text gs-o-faux-block-link__overlay-link gel-pica-bold gs-u-pl@xs" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-66332670" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: text-top;"><span class="gs-c-media-indicator__icon gel-icon" data-icon="gel-icon-video" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 1em; vertical-align: middle; width: 1em;"><span class="qa-offscreen gs-u-vh" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; width: 1px;">VIDEO</span><svg aria-hidden="true" focusable="false" viewbox="0 0 32 32"><polygon points="3,32 29,16 3,0"></polygon></svg></span></span><span class="gs-c-promo-heading__title gel-pica-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: ReithSerif, Helvetica, Arial, serif !important; font-size: 1rem; font-weight: 500 !important; line-height: 1.25rem; vertical-align: middle;">Dachshund stolen in home burglary caught on camera</span></a></div></span></li><li class="gel-layout__item gs-o-faux-block-link gel-1/2@m gel-1/5@xxl gs-u-mt+" data-entityid="most-popular-watched#4" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-top: 16px !important; padding-left: 16px; position: relative; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 495.992px;"><span class="gs-o-media" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block;"><span class="nw-c-most-watched__rank gs-o-media__img gel-canon" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #b80000; float: left; font-size: 2.75rem; line-height: 3rem; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: -4px;">4</span><div class="gs-o-media__body" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden;"><a class="gs-c-promo-heading nw-o-link gs-o-bullet__text gs-o-faux-block-link__overlay-link gel-pica-bold gs-u-pl@xs" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-66321024" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; 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The Most Read list shows the stories with the highest number of page views over the previous 12 hours</span></div><div class="custom-divider border border_solid border_color_themes_dark-grey slim single-divider" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 2px 0px 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1rem;"></div></div></div><div class="row advanced-grid" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #191919; column-gap: 1rem; display: grid; flex-flow: row wrap; font-family: "Noto Serif JP", serif; font-size: 18px; grid-auto-flow: dense; grid-template-columns: 1fr 1fr 1fr 1fr 1fr 1fr 1fr 1fr 1fr 1fr 1fr 1fr; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; width: 997.799px;"><section class="col-sm-md-12 col-lg-xl-8 advanced-grid-desktop-main-area" style="border-right: 1px solid rgb(218, 218, 218); box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 auto; grid-column-start: span 8; max-width: none; padding: 0px 2rem 0px 0px; width: 659.864px;"><div class="advanced-grid-2 layout-section" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="numbered-list-container layout-section" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px;"><div class="numbered-list-item numbered-item-margins" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; justify-content: space-between; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"><a class="headline-list-anchor" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/2023/07/26/sinead-oconnor-acclaimed-dublin-singer-dies-aged-56/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #191919; display: flex; flex-grow: 1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;"><p class="secondary-font__SecondaryFontStyles-x1tol1-0 fJyqVy list-item-number" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 2.5rem; font-family: star-font, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">1</p><h2 class="primary-font__PrimaryFontStyles-o56yd5-0 jtdjEJ headline-text" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sinéad O’Connor, acclaimed Dublin singer, dies aged 56</h2></a><a aria-hidden="true" class="list-anchor-image vertical-align-image" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/2023/07/26/sinead-oconnor-acclaimed-dublin-singer-dies-aged-56/" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 calc(25% + 16px); padding-left: 1rem; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;" tabindex="-1"><picture class="Image__StyledPicture-sc-8yioqf-0 iKCNis" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s;"><source media="screen and (min-width: 992px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/0QQAvfEALVtNnVlyVA40JBHCg_k=/274x183/filters:format(jpg):quality(70):focal(765x961:775x971)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/4ERWPSLUXBEJLHXRGQYHXOZ2DI.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><source media="screen and (min-width: 768px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/hvyFg47WIukVneSe0uVLVTnTHrg=/105x70/filters:format(jpg):quality(70):focal(765x961:775x971)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/4ERWPSLUXBEJLHXRGQYHXOZ2DI.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><source media="screen and (min-width: 0px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/hvyFg47WIukVneSe0uVLVTnTHrg=/105x70/filters:format(jpg):quality(70):focal(765x961:775x971)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/4ERWPSLUXBEJLHXRGQYHXOZ2DI.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img height="183" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/0QQAvfEALVtNnVlyVA40JBHCg_k=/274x183/filters:format(jpg):quality(70):focal(765x961:775x971)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/4ERWPSLUXBEJLHXRGQYHXOZ2DI.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: middle; width: 156.726px;" width="274" /></picture></a></div><hr style="background-color: #dadada; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; height: 1px; margin: 0px;" /><div class="numbered-list-item numbered-item-margins" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; justify-content: space-between; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"><a class="headline-list-anchor" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/2023/07/27/sinead-o-connor-dies-latest-news-age-56-died-in-london/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #191919; display: flex; flex-grow: 1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;"><p class="secondary-font__SecondaryFontStyles-x1tol1-0 fJyqVy list-item-number" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 2.5rem; font-family: star-font, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">2</p><h2 class="primary-font__PrimaryFontStyles-o56yd5-0 jtdjEJ headline-text" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sinéad O’Connor: Vigil held in Dublin in honour of singer</h2></a><a aria-hidden="true" class="list-anchor-image vertical-align-image" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/2023/07/27/sinead-o-connor-dies-latest-news-age-56-died-in-london/" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 calc(25% + 16px); padding-left: 1rem; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;" tabindex="-1"><picture class="Image__StyledPicture-sc-8yioqf-0 iKCNis" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s;"><source media="screen and (min-width: 992px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/2wda4GhOaqVbA4wLSMaAIoVHcaU=/274x183/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/477YYH3ZZRB55HMCYVJOKUUT3M.JPG" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><source media="screen and (min-width: 768px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/H2_md02ooWuNVDk287eFxKhkaGQ=/105x70/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/477YYH3ZZRB55HMCYVJOKUUT3M.JPG" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><source media="screen and (min-width: 0px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/H2_md02ooWuNVDk287eFxKhkaGQ=/105x70/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/477YYH3ZZRB55HMCYVJOKUUT3M.JPG" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img height="183" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/2wda4GhOaqVbA4wLSMaAIoVHcaU=/274x183/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/477YYH3ZZRB55HMCYVJOKUUT3M.JPG" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: middle; width: 156.726px;" width="274" /></picture></a></div><hr style="background-color: #dadada; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; height: 1px; margin: 0px;" /><div class="numbered-list-item numbered-item-margins" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; justify-content: space-between; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"><a class="headline-list-anchor" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/death-of-sinead-o-connor-s-son-referred-to-nrp-for-investigation-1.4772479" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #191919; display: flex; flex-grow: 1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;"><p class="secondary-font__SecondaryFontStyles-x1tol1-0 fJyqVy list-item-number" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 2.5rem; font-family: star-font, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">3</p><h2 class="primary-font__PrimaryFontStyles-o56yd5-0 jtdjEJ headline-text" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Death of Sinéad O’Connor’s son referred to NRP for investigation</h2></a><a aria-hidden="true" class="list-anchor-image vertical-align-image" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/death-of-sinead-o-connor-s-son-referred-to-nrp-for-investigation-1.4772479" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 calc(25% + 16px); padding-left: 1rem; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;" tabindex="-1"><picture class="Image__StyledPicture-sc-8yioqf-0 iKCNis" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s;"><source media="screen and (min-width: 992px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/esxa-XqkcLJROfZrkc60Xoqwu0g=/274x183/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/2F5FWBXSXX7BSZP3K3U773WQ54.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><source media="screen and (min-width: 768px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/APOINdFdVqP7sbRHE0NeGAZZ9A8=/105x70/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/2F5FWBXSXX7BSZP3K3U773WQ54.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><source media="screen and (min-width: 0px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/APOINdFdVqP7sbRHE0NeGAZZ9A8=/105x70/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/2F5FWBXSXX7BSZP3K3U773WQ54.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img height="183" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/esxa-XqkcLJROfZrkc60Xoqwu0g=/274x183/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/2F5FWBXSXX7BSZP3K3U773WQ54.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: middle; width: 156.726px;" width="274" /></picture></a></div><hr style="background-color: #dadada; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; height: 1px; margin: 0px;" /><div class="numbered-list-item numbered-item-margins" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; justify-content: space-between; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"><a class="headline-list-anchor" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2023/07/27/coalition-rift-sparked-by-varadkar-comments-on-multibillion-euro-rail-plan/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #191919; display: flex; flex-grow: 1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;"><p class="secondary-font__SecondaryFontStyles-x1tol1-0 fJyqVy list-item-number" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 2.5rem; font-family: star-font, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">4</p><h2 class="primary-font__PrimaryFontStyles-o56yd5-0 jtdjEJ headline-text" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">‘Do these f***ers not read the news?’: Coalition rift sparked by Varadkar comments on rail plan</h2></a><a aria-hidden="true" class="list-anchor-image vertical-align-image" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2023/07/27/coalition-rift-sparked-by-varadkar-comments-on-multibillion-euro-rail-plan/" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 calc(25% + 16px); padding-left: 1rem; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;" tabindex="-1"><picture class="Image__StyledPicture-sc-8yioqf-0 iKCNis" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s;"><source media="screen and (min-width: 992px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/NNIVA3OllKBjdRItWVilNvt509Q=/274x183/filters:format(jpg):quality(70):focal(2009x926:2019x936)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/FDH4HN33ZAN4BHGB64YAHYX4UA.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><source media="screen and (min-width: 768px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/ubxxIdmE2uKD5S9EaVt0hczQzj0=/105x70/filters:format(jpg):quality(70):focal(2009x926:2019x936)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/FDH4HN33ZAN4BHGB64YAHYX4UA.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><source media="screen and (min-width: 0px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/ubxxIdmE2uKD5S9EaVt0hczQzj0=/105x70/filters:format(jpg):quality(70):focal(2009x926:2019x936)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/FDH4HN33ZAN4BHGB64YAHYX4UA.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img height="183" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/NNIVA3OllKBjdRItWVilNvt509Q=/274x183/filters:format(jpg):quality(70):focal(2009x926:2019x936)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/FDH4HN33ZAN4BHGB64YAHYX4UA.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: middle; width: 156.726px;" width="274" /></picture></a></div><hr style="background-color: #dadada; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; height: 1px; margin: 0px;" /><div class="numbered-list-item numbered-item-margins" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; justify-content: space-between; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"><a class="headline-list-anchor" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/2023/07/26/sinead-oconnor-1966-2023-a-life-in-pictures/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #191919; display: flex; flex-grow: 1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;"><p class="secondary-font__SecondaryFontStyles-x1tol1-0 fJyqVy list-item-number" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 2.5rem; font-family: star-font, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">5</p><h2 class="primary-font__PrimaryFontStyles-o56yd5-0 jtdjEJ headline-text" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sinéad O’Connor 1966-2023: A life in pictures</h2></a><a aria-hidden="true" class="list-anchor-image vertical-align-image" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/2023/07/26/sinead-oconnor-1966-2023-a-life-in-pictures/" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 calc(25% + 16px); padding-left: 1rem; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;" tabindex="-1"><picture class="Image__StyledPicture-sc-8yioqf-0 iKCNis" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s;"><source media="screen and (min-width: 992px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/UIN2K1I6EAEIygS7K72b3HRRlzo=/274x183/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/V2GKX5KPT5EVXOMLQEXGCKJPA4.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><source media="screen and (min-width: 768px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/OULpqVcWW-xux6ySF6v2O8sMy7w=/105x70/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/V2GKX5KPT5EVXOMLQEXGCKJPA4.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><source media="screen and (min-width: 0px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/OULpqVcWW-xux6ySF6v2O8sMy7w=/105x70/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/V2GKX5KPT5EVXOMLQEXGCKJPA4.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img height="183" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/UIN2K1I6EAEIygS7K72b3HRRlzo=/274x183/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/V2GKX5KPT5EVXOMLQEXGCKJPA4.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: middle; width: 156.726px;" width="274" /></picture></a></div><hr style="background-color: #dadada; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; height: 1px; margin: 0px;" /><div class="numbered-list-item numbered-item-margins" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; justify-content: space-between; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"><a class="headline-list-anchor" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/2023/07/26/sinead-oconnor-1966-2023-a-take-no-prisoners-defiance-in-the-face-of-trauma/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #191919; display: flex; flex-grow: 1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;"><p class="secondary-font__SecondaryFontStyles-x1tol1-0 fJyqVy list-item-number" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 2.5rem; font-family: star-font, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">6</p><h2 class="primary-font__PrimaryFontStyles-o56yd5-0 jtdjEJ headline-text" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sinéad O’Connor: A take-no-prisoners defiance in the face of trauma</h2></a><a aria-hidden="true" class="list-anchor-image vertical-align-image" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/2023/07/26/sinead-oconnor-1966-2023-a-take-no-prisoners-defiance-in-the-face-of-trauma/" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 calc(25% + 16px); padding-left: 1rem; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;" tabindex="-1"><picture class="Image__StyledPicture-sc-8yioqf-0 iKCNis" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s;"><source media="screen and (min-width: 992px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/EZiRY25lU2eqGbOjH-0j7jTgUZc=/274x183/filters:format(jpg):quality(70):focal(861x326:871x336)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/74AN23LA4VC4XH6UYH3234FEBU.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><source media="screen and (min-width: 768px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/kJchyb7tYnSyQb3UUp3sVuAWbCY=/105x70/filters:format(jpg):quality(70):focal(861x326:871x336)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/74AN23LA4VC4XH6UYH3234FEBU.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><source media="screen and (min-width: 0px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/kJchyb7tYnSyQb3UUp3sVuAWbCY=/105x70/filters:format(jpg):quality(70):focal(861x326:871x336)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/74AN23LA4VC4XH6UYH3234FEBU.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img height="183" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/EZiRY25lU2eqGbOjH-0j7jTgUZc=/274x183/filters:format(jpg):quality(70):focal(861x326:871x336)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/74AN23LA4VC4XH6UYH3234FEBU.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: middle; width: 156.726px;" width="274" /></picture></a></div><hr style="background-color: #dadada; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; height: 1px; margin: 0px;" /><div class="numbered-list-item numbered-item-margins" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; justify-content: space-between; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"><a class="headline-list-anchor" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2023/07/26/harry-de-bromhead-father-of-grand-national-trainer-henry-has-died/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #191919; display: flex; flex-grow: 1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;"><p class="secondary-font__SecondaryFontStyles-x1tol1-0 fJyqVy list-item-number" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 2.5rem; font-family: star-font, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">7</p><h2 class="primary-font__PrimaryFontStyles-o56yd5-0 jtdjEJ headline-text" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Harry de Bromhead, father of Grand National trainer Henry, has died</h2></a><a aria-hidden="true" class="list-anchor-image vertical-align-image" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2023/07/26/harry-de-bromhead-father-of-grand-national-trainer-henry-has-died/" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 calc(25% + 16px); padding-left: 1rem; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;" tabindex="-1"><picture class="Image__StyledPicture-sc-8yioqf-0 iKCNis" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s;"><source media="screen and (min-width: 992px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/81g7DJnySrrx_3grcu7frp_6Ydw=/274x183/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/QZ2NPPLPNJFCPGHKNQC7BBPYMI.PNG" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><source media="screen and (min-width: 768px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/AS2cq3I6nisMyGJCa7W_JJkeltg=/105x70/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/QZ2NPPLPNJFCPGHKNQC7BBPYMI.PNG" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><source media="screen and (min-width: 0px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/AS2cq3I6nisMyGJCa7W_JJkeltg=/105x70/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/QZ2NPPLPNJFCPGHKNQC7BBPYMI.PNG" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img height="183" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/81g7DJnySrrx_3grcu7frp_6Ydw=/274x183/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/QZ2NPPLPNJFCPGHKNQC7BBPYMI.PNG" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: middle; width: 156.726px;" width="274" /></picture></a></div><hr style="background-color: #dadada; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; height: 1px; margin: 0px;" /><div class="numbered-list-item numbered-item-margins" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; justify-content: space-between; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"><a class="headline-list-anchor" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/abroad/2023/07/27/im-determined-to-find-that-happy-medium-between-doing-nothing-and-doing-absolutely-nothing/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #191919; display: flex; flex-grow: 1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;"><p class="secondary-font__SecondaryFontStyles-x1tol1-0 fJyqVy list-item-number" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 2.5rem; font-family: star-font, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">8</p><h2 class="primary-font__PrimaryFontStyles-o56yd5-0 jtdjEJ headline-text" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">‘I’m determined to find that happy medium between doing nothing and doing absolutely nothing’</h2></a><a aria-hidden="true" class="list-anchor-image vertical-align-image" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/abroad/2023/07/27/im-determined-to-find-that-happy-medium-between-doing-nothing-and-doing-absolutely-nothing/" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 calc(25% + 16px); padding-left: 1rem; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;" tabindex="-1"><picture class="Image__StyledPicture-sc-8yioqf-0 iKCNis" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s;"><source media="screen and (min-width: 992px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/9NBMC-Vcq0AybyIvaSxXZhoEn24=/274x183/filters:format(jpg):quality(70):focal(1698x1684:1708x1694)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/EY4CIDMOYNC6FI6453UPB2TNQ4.JPG" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><source media="screen and (min-width: 768px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/qPJMZ78lOUGRhnM2MXfwttj1jG8=/105x70/filters:format(jpg):quality(70):focal(1698x1684:1708x1694)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/EY4CIDMOYNC6FI6453UPB2TNQ4.JPG" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><source media="screen and (min-width: 0px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/qPJMZ78lOUGRhnM2MXfwttj1jG8=/105x70/filters:format(jpg):quality(70):focal(1698x1684:1708x1694)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/EY4CIDMOYNC6FI6453UPB2TNQ4.JPG" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img height="183" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/9NBMC-Vcq0AybyIvaSxXZhoEn24=/274x183/filters:format(jpg):quality(70):focal(1698x1684:1708x1694)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/EY4CIDMOYNC6FI6453UPB2TNQ4.JPG" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: middle; width: 156.726px;" width="274" /></picture></a></div><hr style="background-color: #dadada; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; height: 1px; margin: 0px;" /><div class="numbered-list-item numbered-item-margins" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; justify-content: space-between; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"><a class="headline-list-anchor" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/2023/07/27/una-mullally-sinead-oconnor-rejected-the-easy-life-for-one-of-truth-telling/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #191919; display: flex; flex-grow: 1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;"><p class="secondary-font__SecondaryFontStyles-x1tol1-0 fJyqVy list-item-number" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 2.5rem; font-family: star-font, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">9</p><h2 class="primary-font__PrimaryFontStyles-o56yd5-0 jtdjEJ headline-text" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sinéad O’Connor was quiet and loud. Brilliant and bashful. She oozed a kind of creative lava</h2></a><a aria-hidden="true" class="list-anchor-image vertical-align-image" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/2023/07/27/una-mullally-sinead-oconnor-rejected-the-easy-life-for-one-of-truth-telling/" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 calc(25% + 16px); padding-left: 1rem; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;" tabindex="-1"><picture class="Image__StyledPicture-sc-8yioqf-0 iKCNis" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s;"><source media="screen and (min-width: 992px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/sGhNVka3U3iwAcL4Nu42rcIuS_A=/274x183/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/H4RER34RJNGMDNAY6XFVLYOJMY.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><source media="screen and (min-width: 768px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/yKYIezdkeZ7_x99UaaGPmtBt--g=/105x70/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/H4RER34RJNGMDNAY6XFVLYOJMY.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><source media="screen and (min-width: 0px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/yKYIezdkeZ7_x99UaaGPmtBt--g=/105x70/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/H4RER34RJNGMDNAY6XFVLYOJMY.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img height="183" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/sGhNVka3U3iwAcL4Nu42rcIuS_A=/274x183/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/H4RER34RJNGMDNAY6XFVLYOJMY.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: middle; width: 156.726px;" width="274" /></picture></a></div><hr style="background-color: #dadada; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; height: 1px; margin: 0px;" /><div class="numbered-list-item numbered-item-margins" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; justify-content: space-between; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"><a class="headline-list-anchor" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/food/restaurants/review/2023/07/27/an-incredibly-beautiful-new-restaurant-from-a-talented-chef/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #191919; display: flex; flex-grow: 1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;"><p class="secondary-font__SecondaryFontStyles-x1tol1-0 fJyqVy list-item-number" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 2.5rem; font-family: star-font, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">10</p><h2 class="primary-font__PrimaryFontStyles-o56yd5-0 jtdjEJ headline-text" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">An incredibly beautiful new restaurant from a talented chef</h2></a><a aria-hidden="true" class="list-anchor-image vertical-align-image" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/food/restaurants/review/2023/07/27/an-incredibly-beautiful-new-restaurant-from-a-talented-chef/" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 calc(25% + 16px); padding-left: 1rem; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;" tabindex="-1"><picture class="Image__StyledPicture-sc-8yioqf-0 iKCNis" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s;"><source media="screen and (min-width: 992px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/jzPprbnKW7Cdy00RAxqzzGDGqFc=/274x183/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/BT6GKEARZBDXVHY4FPPDVIXAAY.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><source media="screen and (min-width: 768px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/maqQyz39LFDnSE5yvJ122DDHvLA=/105x70/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/BT6GKEARZBDXVHY4FPPDVIXAAY.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><source media="screen and (min-width: 0px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/maqQyz39LFDnSE5yvJ122DDHvLA=/105x70/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/BT6GKEARZBDXVHY4FPPDVIXAAY.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img height="183" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/jzPprbnKW7Cdy00RAxqzzGDGqFc=/274x183/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/BT6GKEARZBDXVHY4FPPDVIXAAY.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: middle; width: 156.726px;" width="274" /></picture></a></div><hr style="background-color: #dadada; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; height: 1px; margin: 0px;" /><div class="numbered-list-item numbered-item-margins" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; justify-content: space-between; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"><a class="headline-list-anchor" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2023/07/27/family-of-us-tourist-who-was-assaulted-have-arrived-in-dublin-say-they-never-expected-any-of-this/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #191919; display: flex; flex-grow: 1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;"><p class="secondary-font__SecondaryFontStyles-x1tol1-0 fJyqVy list-item-number" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 2.5rem; font-family: star-font, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">11</p><h2 class="primary-font__PrimaryFontStyles-o56yd5-0 jtdjEJ headline-text" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Family of assaulted US tourist say they ‘never expected any of this’ as they arrive in Dublin</h2></a><a aria-hidden="true" class="list-anchor-image vertical-align-image" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2023/07/27/family-of-us-tourist-who-was-assaulted-have-arrived-in-dublin-say-they-never-expected-any-of-this/" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 calc(25% + 16px); padding-left: 1rem; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;" tabindex="-1"><picture class="Image__StyledPicture-sc-8yioqf-0 iKCNis" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s;"><source media="screen and (min-width: 992px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/DQL63BMKItUaM2fafVloOBKF_VU=/274x183/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/4D3MW5Q3XFEZFPGYAZT72R4RYU.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><source media="screen and (min-width: 768px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/Im-wtNPXcamP85Db3mllkrzR07w=/105x70/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/4D3MW5Q3XFEZFPGYAZT72R4RYU.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><source media="screen and (min-width: 0px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/Im-wtNPXcamP85Db3mllkrzR07w=/105x70/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/4D3MW5Q3XFEZFPGYAZT72R4RYU.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img height="183" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/DQL63BMKItUaM2fafVloOBKF_VU=/274x183/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/4D3MW5Q3XFEZFPGYAZT72R4RYU.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: middle; width: 156.726px;" width="274" /></picture></a></div><hr style="background-color: #dadada; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; height: 1px; margin: 0px;" /><div class="numbered-list-item numbered-item-margins" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; justify-content: space-between; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"><a class="headline-list-anchor" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2023/07/26/family-of-missing-man-sues-state-after-gardai-recovered-remains-25-years-before-identification/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #191919; display: flex; flex-grow: 1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;"><p class="secondary-font__SecondaryFontStyles-x1tol1-0 fJyqVy list-item-number" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 2.5rem; font-family: star-font, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">12</p><h2 class="primary-font__PrimaryFontStyles-o56yd5-0 jtdjEJ headline-text" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Family of missing man sues State after gardaí recovered remains 25 years before identification</h2></a><a aria-hidden="true" class="list-anchor-image vertical-align-image" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2023/07/26/family-of-missing-man-sues-state-after-gardai-recovered-remains-25-years-before-identification/" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 calc(25% + 16px); padding-left: 1rem; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;" tabindex="-1"><picture class="Image__StyledPicture-sc-8yioqf-0 iKCNis" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s;"><source media="screen and (min-width: 992px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/OhUgFV8NJQjH5CXureQg04qLoxw=/274x183/filters:format(jpg):quality(70):focal(806x1610:816x1620)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/EVSNH7WO3ZEWVKJ5J53YPWZAYQ.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><source media="screen and (min-width: 768px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/zSevZlnYqdvkMgLI7YntSKkdgYI=/105x70/filters:format(jpg):quality(70):focal(806x1610:816x1620)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/EVSNH7WO3ZEWVKJ5J53YPWZAYQ.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><source media="screen and (min-width: 0px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/zSevZlnYqdvkMgLI7YntSKkdgYI=/105x70/filters:format(jpg):quality(70):focal(806x1610:816x1620)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/EVSNH7WO3ZEWVKJ5J53YPWZAYQ.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img height="183" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/OhUgFV8NJQjH5CXureQg04qLoxw=/274x183/filters:format(jpg):quality(70):focal(806x1610:816x1620)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/EVSNH7WO3ZEWVKJ5J53YPWZAYQ.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: middle; width: 156.726px;" width="274" /></picture></a></div><hr style="background-color: #dadada; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; height: 1px; margin: 0px;" /><div class="numbered-list-item numbered-item-margins" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; justify-content: space-between; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"><a class="headline-list-anchor" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/2023/07/27/sinead-oconnors-death-just-tragic-but-not-inevitable-at-all-neil-jordan/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #191919; display: flex; flex-grow: 1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;"><p class="secondary-font__SecondaryFontStyles-x1tol1-0 fJyqVy list-item-number" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 2.5rem; font-family: star-font, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">13</p><h2 class="primary-font__PrimaryFontStyles-o56yd5-0 jtdjEJ headline-text" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sinéad O’Connor’s death ‘just tragic, but not inevitable at all’ - Neil Jordan</h2></a><a aria-hidden="true" class="list-anchor-image vertical-align-image" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/2023/07/27/sinead-oconnors-death-just-tragic-but-not-inevitable-at-all-neil-jordan/" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 calc(25% + 16px); padding-left: 1rem; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;" tabindex="-1"><picture class="Image__StyledPicture-sc-8yioqf-0 iKCNis" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s;"><source media="screen and (min-width: 992px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/AVHsrgiqcDoQtn4oM5J3xrlyeSk=/274x183/filters:format(jpg):quality(70):focal(2908x2465:2918x2475)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/WJ77MDAZHVGURDTR2MAT4E4THE.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><source media="screen and (min-width: 768px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/ekH68zBRYkK1LwyUGUXi9C7iCB8=/105x70/filters:format(jpg):quality(70):focal(2908x2465:2918x2475)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/WJ77MDAZHVGURDTR2MAT4E4THE.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><source media="screen and (min-width: 0px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/ekH68zBRYkK1LwyUGUXi9C7iCB8=/105x70/filters:format(jpg):quality(70):focal(2908x2465:2918x2475)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/WJ77MDAZHVGURDTR2MAT4E4THE.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img height="183" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/AVHsrgiqcDoQtn4oM5J3xrlyeSk=/274x183/filters:format(jpg):quality(70):focal(2908x2465:2918x2475)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/WJ77MDAZHVGURDTR2MAT4E4THE.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: middle; width: 156.726px;" width="274" /></picture></a></div><hr style="background-color: #dadada; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; height: 1px; margin: 0px;" /><div class="numbered-list-item numbered-item-margins" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; justify-content: space-between; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"><a class="headline-list-anchor" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2021/05/22/sinead-oconnor-her-defiance-was-red-hot-but-there-was-a-tenderness-a-lightness-and-a-sense-of-skittish-youthful-fun-1.4560611/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #191919; display: flex; flex-grow: 1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;"><p class="secondary-font__SecondaryFontStyles-x1tol1-0 fJyqVy list-item-number" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 2.5rem; font-family: star-font, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">14</p><h2 class="primary-font__PrimaryFontStyles-o56yd5-0 jtdjEJ headline-text" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sinéad O’Connor: Her defiance was red hot, but there was a tenderness, a lightness and a sense of skittish youthful fun</h2></a><a aria-hidden="true" class="list-anchor-image vertical-align-image" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2021/05/22/sinead-oconnor-her-defiance-was-red-hot-but-there-was-a-tenderness-a-lightness-and-a-sense-of-skittish-youthful-fun-1.4560611/" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 calc(25% + 16px); padding-left: 1rem; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;" tabindex="-1"><picture class="Image__StyledPicture-sc-8yioqf-0 iKCNis" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s;"><source media="screen and (min-width: 992px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/6J4ZAfg2t8vKm06p-7pB9ulQFCI=/274x183/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/3B7YLPA2KONWQF2IZAUM2JJV64.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><source media="screen and (min-width: 768px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/q7W_t_6VFOKqkGCMsQc7c7ZxXzs=/105x70/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/3B7YLPA2KONWQF2IZAUM2JJV64.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><source media="screen and (min-width: 0px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/q7W_t_6VFOKqkGCMsQc7c7ZxXzs=/105x70/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/3B7YLPA2KONWQF2IZAUM2JJV64.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img height="183" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/6J4ZAfg2t8vKm06p-7pB9ulQFCI=/274x183/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/3B7YLPA2KONWQF2IZAUM2JJV64.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: middle; width: 156.726px;" width="274" /></picture></a></div><hr style="background-color: #dadada; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; height: 1px; margin: 0px;" /><div class="numbered-list-item numbered-item-margins" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; justify-content: space-between; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"><a class="headline-list-anchor" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2023/07/27/how-the-world-reported-sinead-oconnors-death/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #191919; display: flex; flex-grow: 1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;"><p class="secondary-font__SecondaryFontStyles-x1tol1-0 fJyqVy list-item-number" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 2.5rem; font-family: star-font, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">15</p><h2 class="primary-font__PrimaryFontStyles-o56yd5-0 jtdjEJ headline-text" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">How the world reported Sinéad O’Connor’s death</h2></a><a aria-hidden="true" class="list-anchor-image vertical-align-image" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2023/07/27/how-the-world-reported-sinead-oconnors-death/" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 calc(25% + 16px); padding-left: 1rem; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;" tabindex="-1"><picture class="Image__StyledPicture-sc-8yioqf-0 iKCNis" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s;"><source media="screen and (min-width: 992px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/z7ehuC8RxVWDyHgeuYOeG0J6gOA=/274x183/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/YCT2DVPC6BATNCJ6ZUACVTI5TA.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><source media="screen and (min-width: 768px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/BawDw6_juCjQ0U8LgpC32PLp_zQ=/105x70/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/YCT2DVPC6BATNCJ6ZUACVTI5TA.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><source media="screen and (min-width: 0px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/BawDw6_juCjQ0U8LgpC32PLp_zQ=/105x70/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/YCT2DVPC6BATNCJ6ZUACVTI5TA.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img height="183" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/z7ehuC8RxVWDyHgeuYOeG0J6gOA=/274x183/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/YCT2DVPC6BATNCJ6ZUACVTI5TA.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: middle; width: 156.726px;" width="274" /></picture></a></div><hr style="background-color: #dadada; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; height: 1px; margin: 0px;" /><div class="numbered-list-item numbered-item-margins" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; justify-content: space-between; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"><a class="headline-list-anchor" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2023/07/27/newton-emerson-dublins-lingering-air-of-menace-fits-neatly-into-sinn-fein-election-agenda/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #191919; display: flex; flex-grow: 1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;"><p class="secondary-font__SecondaryFontStyles-x1tol1-0 fJyqVy list-item-number" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 2.5rem; font-family: star-font, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">16</p><h2 class="primary-font__PrimaryFontStyles-o56yd5-0 jtdjEJ headline-text" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Newton Emerson: Dublin’s lingering air of menace fits neatly into Sinn Féin election agenda</h2></a><a aria-hidden="true" class="list-anchor-image vertical-align-image" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2023/07/27/newton-emerson-dublins-lingering-air-of-menace-fits-neatly-into-sinn-fein-election-agenda/" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 calc(25% + 16px); padding-left: 1rem; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;" tabindex="-1"><picture class="Image__StyledPicture-sc-8yioqf-0 iKCNis" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s;"><source media="screen and (min-width: 992px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/pyNjBTIG4TzW0sZbFacj8c2r4iU=/274x183/filters:format(jpg):quality(70):focal(2085x1638:2095x1648)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/E7U2PWIHZRQWZJIPN5UIZ752YQ.JPG" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><source media="screen and (min-width: 768px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/d5Ft7-H0G9Pwif5FhPs_pwkbOcY=/105x70/filters:format(jpg):quality(70):focal(2085x1638:2095x1648)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/E7U2PWIHZRQWZJIPN5UIZ752YQ.JPG" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><source media="screen and (min-width: 0px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/d5Ft7-H0G9Pwif5FhPs_pwkbOcY=/105x70/filters:format(jpg):quality(70):focal(2085x1638:2095x1648)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/E7U2PWIHZRQWZJIPN5UIZ752YQ.JPG" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img height="183" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/pyNjBTIG4TzW0sZbFacj8c2r4iU=/274x183/filters:format(jpg):quality(70):focal(2085x1638:2095x1648)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/E7U2PWIHZRQWZJIPN5UIZ752YQ.JPG" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: middle; width: 156.726px;" width="274" /></picture></a></div><hr style="background-color: #dadada; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; height: 1px; margin: 0px;" /><div class="numbered-list-item numbered-item-margins" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; justify-content: space-between; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"><a class="headline-list-anchor" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2023/07/27/tiktok-plan-to-close-cafe-to-public-at-dublin-office-undesirable-says-council/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #191919; display: flex; flex-grow: 1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;"><p class="secondary-font__SecondaryFontStyles-x1tol1-0 fJyqVy list-item-number" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 2.5rem; font-family: star-font, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">17</p><h2 class="primary-font__PrimaryFontStyles-o56yd5-0 jtdjEJ headline-text" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">TikTok plan to close cafe to public at Dublin office ‘undesirable’, says council</h2></a><a aria-hidden="true" class="list-anchor-image vertical-align-image" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2023/07/27/tiktok-plan-to-close-cafe-to-public-at-dublin-office-undesirable-says-council/" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 calc(25% + 16px); padding-left: 1rem; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;" tabindex="-1"><picture class="Image__StyledPicture-sc-8yioqf-0 iKCNis" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s;"><source media="screen and (min-width: 992px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/Dy7wJd0c6HGHxmjk79xfK-7xas0=/274x183/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/5ESY3QAWJ4YPQDIRNX64V3FLA4.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><source media="screen and (min-width: 768px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/gkLxL2LQvgXAWH9PnPKYHidZqN8=/105x70/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/5ESY3QAWJ4YPQDIRNX64V3FLA4.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><source media="screen and (min-width: 0px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/gkLxL2LQvgXAWH9PnPKYHidZqN8=/105x70/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/5ESY3QAWJ4YPQDIRNX64V3FLA4.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img height="183" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/Dy7wJd0c6HGHxmjk79xfK-7xas0=/274x183/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/5ESY3QAWJ4YPQDIRNX64V3FLA4.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: middle; width: 156.726px;" width="274" /></picture></a></div><hr style="background-color: #dadada; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; height: 1px; margin: 0px;" /><div class="numbered-list-item numbered-item-margins" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; justify-content: space-between; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"><a class="headline-list-anchor" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/2023/07/27/canadian-media-reaction-canada-turn-the-ship-around-to-deliver-fatal-ireland-defeat/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #191919; display: flex; flex-grow: 1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;"><p class="secondary-font__SecondaryFontStyles-x1tol1-0 fJyqVy list-item-number" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 2.5rem; font-family: star-font, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">18</p><h2 class="primary-font__PrimaryFontStyles-o56yd5-0 jtdjEJ headline-text" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">World Cup: How Canada’s media reacted to Ireland’s defeat</h2></a><a aria-hidden="true" class="list-anchor-image vertical-align-image" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/2023/07/27/canadian-media-reaction-canada-turn-the-ship-around-to-deliver-fatal-ireland-defeat/" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 calc(25% + 16px); padding-left: 1rem; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;" tabindex="-1"><picture class="Image__StyledPicture-sc-8yioqf-0 iKCNis" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s;"><source media="screen and (min-width: 992px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/crqayFXpiijAfpCHUaadkcZ4X78=/274x183/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/WLIZMKMC2UNYNN3EUWECLPHP2A.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><source media="screen and (min-width: 768px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/ebBe_c95UUv5vNbOk2IK9xjzeS0=/105x70/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/WLIZMKMC2UNYNN3EUWECLPHP2A.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><source media="screen and (min-width: 0px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/ebBe_c95UUv5vNbOk2IK9xjzeS0=/105x70/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/WLIZMKMC2UNYNN3EUWECLPHP2A.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img height="183" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/crqayFXpiijAfpCHUaadkcZ4X78=/274x183/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/WLIZMKMC2UNYNN3EUWECLPHP2A.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: middle; width: 156.726px;" width="274" /></picture></a></div><hr style="background-color: #dadada; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; height: 1px; margin: 0px;" /><div class="numbered-list-item numbered-item-margins" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; justify-content: space-between; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"><a class="headline-list-anchor" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/health/your-wellness/2023/07/26/my-family-dont-particularly-like-me-and-i-despair-about-retiring-and-spending-more-time-with-them/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #191919; display: flex; flex-grow: 1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;"><p class="secondary-font__SecondaryFontStyles-x1tol1-0 fJyqVy list-item-number" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 2.5rem; font-family: star-font, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">19</p><h2 class="primary-font__PrimaryFontStyles-o56yd5-0 jtdjEJ headline-text" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">‘My family don’t particularly like me and I despair about retiring and spending more time with them’</h2></a><a aria-hidden="true" class="list-anchor-image vertical-align-image" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/health/your-wellness/2023/07/26/my-family-dont-particularly-like-me-and-i-despair-about-retiring-and-spending-more-time-with-them/" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 calc(25% + 16px); padding-left: 1rem; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;" tabindex="-1"><picture class="Image__StyledPicture-sc-8yioqf-0 iKCNis" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s;"><source media="screen and (min-width: 992px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/F2siDh8EC-m2TCM-MVxRvSyTmRM=/274x183/filters:format(jpg):quality(70):focal(1325x954:1335x964)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/NIXUH5WHPVB47NNRF2XERBWBWA.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><source media="screen and (min-width: 768px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/BAx-cunvRcxji9SNWsW7Z8FkE-k=/105x70/filters:format(jpg):quality(70):focal(1325x954:1335x964)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/NIXUH5WHPVB47NNRF2XERBWBWA.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><source media="screen and (min-width: 0px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/BAx-cunvRcxji9SNWsW7Z8FkE-k=/105x70/filters:format(jpg):quality(70):focal(1325x954:1335x964)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/NIXUH5WHPVB47NNRF2XERBWBWA.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img height="183" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/F2siDh8EC-m2TCM-MVxRvSyTmRM=/274x183/filters:format(jpg):quality(70):focal(1325x954:1335x964)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/NIXUH5WHPVB47NNRF2XERBWBWA.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: middle; width: 156.726px;" width="274" /></picture></a></div><hr style="background-color: #dadada; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; height: 1px; margin: 0px;" /><div class="numbered-list-item numbered-item-margins" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; justify-content: space-between; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"><a class="headline-list-anchor" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2023/07/27/mother-was-under-duress-when-she-pleaded-guilty-to-harassing-doctor-over-two-year-period/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #191919; display: flex; flex-grow: 1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;"><p class="secondary-font__SecondaryFontStyles-x1tol1-0 fJyqVy list-item-number" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 2.5rem; font-family: star-font, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">20</p><h2 class="primary-font__PrimaryFontStyles-o56yd5-0 jtdjEJ headline-text" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Mother was ‘under duress’ when she pleaded guilty to harassing doctor over two-year period, court hears</h2></a><a aria-hidden="true" class="list-anchor-image vertical-align-image" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2023/07/27/mother-was-under-duress-when-she-pleaded-guilty-to-harassing-doctor-over-two-year-period/" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 calc(25% + 16px); padding-left: 1rem; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;" tabindex="-1"><picture class="Image__StyledPicture-sc-8yioqf-0 iKCNis" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s;"><source media="screen and (min-width: 992px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/nYgJA9u9zXzj4AT-FwBQXXV_xdk=/274x183/filters:format(jpg):quality(70):focal(2319x1393:2329x1403)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/SFSFO6ZHQRJB57TDWEJRYJJLB4.JPG" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><source media="screen and (min-width: 768px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/tUOh8M7we4tiTUnUCuXOX2WokzM=/105x70/filters:format(jpg):quality(70):focal(2319x1393:2329x1403)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/SFSFO6ZHQRJB57TDWEJRYJJLB4.JPG" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><source media="screen and (min-width: 0px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/tUOh8M7we4tiTUnUCuXOX2WokzM=/105x70/filters:format(jpg):quality(70):focal(2319x1393:2329x1403)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/SFSFO6ZHQRJB57TDWEJRYJJLB4.JPG" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img height="183" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/nYgJA9u9zXzj4AT-FwBQXXV_xdk=/274x183/filters:format(jpg):quality(70):focal(2319x1393:2329x1403)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/SFSFO6ZHQRJB57TDWEJRYJJLB4.JPG" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: middle; width: 156.726px;" width="274" /></picture></a></div><hr style="background-color: #dadada; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; height: 1px; margin: 0px;" /><div class="numbered-list-item numbered-item-margins" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; justify-content: space-between; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"><a class="headline-list-anchor" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/health/your-family/2023/06/27/claire-byrne-i-know-that-im-never-at-100-any-day-im-never-getting-it-fully-right-and-that-disappoints-me/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #191919; display: flex; flex-grow: 1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;"><p class="secondary-font__SecondaryFontStyles-x1tol1-0 fJyqVy list-item-number" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 2.5rem; font-family: star-font, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">21</p><h2 class="primary-font__PrimaryFontStyles-o56yd5-0 jtdjEJ headline-text" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Claire Byrne: ‘I had lived an adult life up to the age of 38 not having had children, so I know what that freedom is like’</h2></a><a aria-hidden="true" class="list-anchor-image vertical-align-image" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/health/your-family/2023/06/27/claire-byrne-i-know-that-im-never-at-100-any-day-im-never-getting-it-fully-right-and-that-disappoints-me/" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 calc(25% + 16px); padding-left: 1rem; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;" tabindex="-1"><picture class="Image__StyledPicture-sc-8yioqf-0 iKCNis" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s;"><source media="screen and (min-width: 992px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/1Cq0azp3AyZA4wMHR-Yz3meErCQ=/274x183/filters:format(jpg):quality(70):focal(1748x1120:1758x1130)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/N2RHZPG3KBCH7HR4P4JV74KW3E.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><source media="screen and (min-width: 768px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/-bbPEvJiCqlOU1FtdJ4yMZSqU4M=/105x70/filters:format(jpg):quality(70):focal(1748x1120:1758x1130)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/N2RHZPG3KBCH7HR4P4JV74KW3E.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><source media="screen and (min-width: 0px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/-bbPEvJiCqlOU1FtdJ4yMZSqU4M=/105x70/filters:format(jpg):quality(70):focal(1748x1120:1758x1130)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/N2RHZPG3KBCH7HR4P4JV74KW3E.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img height="183" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/1Cq0azp3AyZA4wMHR-Yz3meErCQ=/274x183/filters:format(jpg):quality(70):focal(1748x1120:1758x1130)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/N2RHZPG3KBCH7HR4P4JV74KW3E.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: middle; width: 156.726px;" width="274" /></picture></a></div><hr style="background-color: #dadada; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; height: 1px; margin: 0px;" /><div class="numbered-list-item numbered-item-margins" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; justify-content: space-between; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"><a class="headline-list-anchor" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/2023/07/27/sinead-oconnors-10-most-important-songs-from-mandinka-to-the-skye-boat-song/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #191919; display: flex; flex-grow: 1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;"><p class="secondary-font__SecondaryFontStyles-x1tol1-0 fJyqVy list-item-number" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 2.5rem; font-family: star-font, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">22</p><h2 class="primary-font__PrimaryFontStyles-o56yd5-0 jtdjEJ headline-text" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sinéad O’Connor’s 10 most important songs: From Mandinka to The Skye Boat Song</h2></a><a aria-hidden="true" class="list-anchor-image vertical-align-image" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/2023/07/27/sinead-oconnors-10-most-important-songs-from-mandinka-to-the-skye-boat-song/" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 calc(25% + 16px); padding-left: 1rem; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;" tabindex="-1"><picture class="Image__StyledPicture-sc-8yioqf-0 iKCNis" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s;"><source media="screen and (min-width: 992px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/RukM-7zN1SdAQ0v-RFIlMfT80Qw=/274x183/filters:format(jpg):quality(70):focal(917x468:927x478)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/74AN23LA4VC4XH6UYH3234FEBU.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><source media="screen and (min-width: 768px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/YXzg_bWVu78Fv5WmpoMK-eY4Ve8=/105x70/filters:format(jpg):quality(70):focal(917x468:927x478)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/74AN23LA4VC4XH6UYH3234FEBU.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><source media="screen and (min-width: 0px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/YXzg_bWVu78Fv5WmpoMK-eY4Ve8=/105x70/filters:format(jpg):quality(70):focal(917x468:927x478)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/74AN23LA4VC4XH6UYH3234FEBU.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img height="183" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/RukM-7zN1SdAQ0v-RFIlMfT80Qw=/274x183/filters:format(jpg):quality(70):focal(917x468:927x478)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/74AN23LA4VC4XH6UYH3234FEBU.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: middle; width: 156.726px;" width="274" /></picture></a></div><hr style="background-color: #dadada; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; height: 1px; margin: 0px;" /><div class="numbered-list-item numbered-item-margins" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; justify-content: space-between; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"><a class="headline-list-anchor" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/2023/07/26/sinead-oconnors-first-irish-times-interview-i-dont-need-to-drink-or-take-drugs-all-i-need-to-do-is-sing/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #191919; display: flex; flex-grow: 1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;"><p class="secondary-font__SecondaryFontStyles-x1tol1-0 fJyqVy list-item-number" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 2.5rem; font-family: star-font, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">23</p><h2 class="primary-font__PrimaryFontStyles-o56yd5-0 jtdjEJ headline-text" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sinéad O’Connor’s first Irish Times interview, from 1986: ‘I don’t need to drink or take drugs. All I need to do is sing’</h2></a><a aria-hidden="true" class="list-anchor-image vertical-align-image" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/2023/07/26/sinead-oconnors-first-irish-times-interview-i-dont-need-to-drink-or-take-drugs-all-i-need-to-do-is-sing/" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 calc(25% + 16px); padding-left: 1rem; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;" tabindex="-1"><picture class="Image__StyledPicture-sc-8yioqf-0 iKCNis" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s;"><source media="screen and (min-width: 992px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/3JqCyR_LXgCGRyEu7qbvEOJ0Sog=/274x183/filters:format(jpg):quality(70):focal(1220x690:1230x700)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/GEAZBZBXGZHCVMQPX7VK4GLBOI.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><source media="screen and (min-width: 768px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/HbliQy4gUpCV2ePKTN8-aibudSI=/105x70/filters:format(jpg):quality(70):focal(1220x690:1230x700)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/GEAZBZBXGZHCVMQPX7VK4GLBOI.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><source media="screen and (min-width: 0px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/HbliQy4gUpCV2ePKTN8-aibudSI=/105x70/filters:format(jpg):quality(70):focal(1220x690:1230x700)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/GEAZBZBXGZHCVMQPX7VK4GLBOI.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img height="183" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/3JqCyR_LXgCGRyEu7qbvEOJ0Sog=/274x183/filters:format(jpg):quality(70):focal(1220x690:1230x700)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/GEAZBZBXGZHCVMQPX7VK4GLBOI.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: middle; width: 156.726px;" width="274" /></picture></a></div><hr style="background-color: #dadada; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; height: 1px; margin: 0px;" /><div class="numbered-list-item numbered-item-margins" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; justify-content: space-between; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"><a class="headline-list-anchor" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/2023/07/27/ciaran-murphy-ticket-for-final-day-a-fitting-reward-for-club-stalwarts/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #191919; display: flex; flex-grow: 1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;"><p class="secondary-font__SecondaryFontStyles-x1tol1-0 fJyqVy list-item-number" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 2.5rem; font-family: star-font, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">24</p><h2 class="primary-font__PrimaryFontStyles-o56yd5-0 jtdjEJ headline-text" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">In the battle for All-Ireland final tickets, you’ll always find a few chancers</h2></a><a aria-hidden="true" class="list-anchor-image vertical-align-image" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/2023/07/27/ciaran-murphy-ticket-for-final-day-a-fitting-reward-for-club-stalwarts/" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 calc(25% + 16px); padding-left: 1rem; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;" tabindex="-1"><picture class="Image__StyledPicture-sc-8yioqf-0 iKCNis" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s;"><source media="screen and (min-width: 992px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/e5rsXDnv1RQT_e9O-3vfEnDdb7I=/274x183/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/4EEYD3R5SRAMRDOXNTTEO56Z3U.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><source media="screen and (min-width: 768px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/-Vc-g5b5-KBtKi0adJhf4flnZhA=/105x70/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/4EEYD3R5SRAMRDOXNTTEO56Z3U.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><source media="screen and (min-width: 0px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/-Vc-g5b5-KBtKi0adJhf4flnZhA=/105x70/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/4EEYD3R5SRAMRDOXNTTEO56Z3U.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img height="183" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/e5rsXDnv1RQT_e9O-3vfEnDdb7I=/274x183/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/4EEYD3R5SRAMRDOXNTTEO56Z3U.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: middle; width: 156.726px;" width="274" /></picture></a></div><hr style="background-color: #dadada; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; height: 1px; margin: 0px;" /><div class="numbered-list-item numbered-item-margins" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; justify-content: space-between; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"><a class="headline-list-anchor" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2023/07/26/mcentee-offers-to-meet-family-of-us-tourist-attacked-in-dublin-and-says-ireland-a-safe-place-to-visit/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #191919; display: flex; flex-grow: 1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;"><p class="secondary-font__SecondaryFontStyles-x1tol1-0 fJyqVy list-item-number" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 2.5rem; font-family: star-font, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">25</p><h2 class="primary-font__PrimaryFontStyles-o56yd5-0 jtdjEJ headline-text" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">McEntee offers to meet family of US tourist attacked in Dublin and says Ireland is safe to visit</h2></a><a aria-hidden="true" class="list-anchor-image vertical-align-image" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2023/07/26/mcentee-offers-to-meet-family-of-us-tourist-attacked-in-dublin-and-says-ireland-a-safe-place-to-visit/" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 calc(25% + 16px); padding-left: 1rem; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;" tabindex="-1"><picture class="Image__StyledPicture-sc-8yioqf-0 iKCNis" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s;"><source media="screen and (min-width: 992px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/sOoIALidN45djkLS23_MIBza7RU=/274x183/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/BQT5WF65OVERPDQOOIH6XS3JKU.webp" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><source media="screen and (min-width: 768px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/OToqz74gLsfMFj9NM08BM_Nadms=/105x70/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/BQT5WF65OVERPDQOOIH6XS3JKU.webp" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><source media="screen and (min-width: 0px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/OToqz74gLsfMFj9NM08BM_Nadms=/105x70/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/BQT5WF65OVERPDQOOIH6XS3JKU.webp" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img height="183" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/sOoIALidN45djkLS23_MIBza7RU=/274x183/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/BQT5WF65OVERPDQOOIH6XS3JKU.webp" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: middle; width: 156.726px;" width="274" /></picture></a></div><hr style="background-color: #dadada; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; height: 1px; margin: 0px;" /><div class="numbered-list-item numbered-item-margins" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; justify-content: space-between; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"><a class="headline-list-anchor" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2023/07/27/man-who-sexually-assaulted-nine-different-women-in-dublin-in-one-month-jailed-for-three-and-a-half-years/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #191919; display: flex; flex-grow: 1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;"><p class="secondary-font__SecondaryFontStyles-x1tol1-0 fJyqVy list-item-number" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 2.5rem; font-family: star-font, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">26</p><h2 class="primary-font__PrimaryFontStyles-o56yd5-0 jtdjEJ headline-text" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Man who sexually assaulted nine different women in Dublin in one month jailed for 3½ years</h2></a><a aria-hidden="true" class="list-anchor-image vertical-align-image" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2023/07/27/man-who-sexually-assaulted-nine-different-women-in-dublin-in-one-month-jailed-for-three-and-a-half-years/" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 calc(25% + 16px); padding-left: 1rem; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;" tabindex="-1"><picture class="Image__StyledPicture-sc-8yioqf-0 iKCNis" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s;"><source media="screen and (min-width: 992px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/fMkcEK6EE1iIKFIW295Ri21R3YA=/274x183/filters:format(jpg):quality(70):focal(297x149:307x159)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/76VOAEL7E3ZZFS2JJ6ND2RE23Y.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><source media="screen and (min-width: 768px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/oHpK86B9gwuNU9IIH5pAgmd7jck=/105x70/filters:format(jpg):quality(70):focal(297x149:307x159)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/76VOAEL7E3ZZFS2JJ6ND2RE23Y.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><source media="screen and (min-width: 0px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/oHpK86B9gwuNU9IIH5pAgmd7jck=/105x70/filters:format(jpg):quality(70):focal(297x149:307x159)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/76VOAEL7E3ZZFS2JJ6ND2RE23Y.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img height="183" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/fMkcEK6EE1iIKFIW295Ri21R3YA=/274x183/filters:format(jpg):quality(70):focal(297x149:307x159)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/76VOAEL7E3ZZFS2JJ6ND2RE23Y.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: middle; width: 156.726px;" width="274" /></picture></a></div><hr style="background-color: #dadada; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; height: 1px; margin: 0px;" /><div class="numbered-list-item numbered-item-margins" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; justify-content: space-between; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"><a class="headline-list-anchor" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2023/07/27/ecb-hikes-rates-for-ninth-time-in-12-months-amid-war-on-inflation/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #191919; display: flex; flex-grow: 1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;"><p class="secondary-font__SecondaryFontStyles-x1tol1-0 fJyqVy list-item-number" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 2.5rem; font-family: star-font, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">27</p><h2 class="primary-font__PrimaryFontStyles-o56yd5-0 jtdjEJ headline-text" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">ECB hikes rates for ninth time in 12 months amid war on inflation</h2></a><a aria-hidden="true" class="list-anchor-image vertical-align-image" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2023/07/27/ecb-hikes-rates-for-ninth-time-in-12-months-amid-war-on-inflation/" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 calc(25% + 16px); padding-left: 1rem; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;" tabindex="-1"><picture class="Image__StyledPicture-sc-8yioqf-0 iKCNis" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s;"><source media="screen and (min-width: 992px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/h2E8pUbxVVW1ySIN2HGfDeU8Gag=/274x183/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/JSUIMPPK3ZHRKJQ5JXRGQMSJ64.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><source media="screen and (min-width: 768px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/av2-EDTFKWxXAZ6iBDjbSXLv9Uc=/105x70/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/JSUIMPPK3ZHRKJQ5JXRGQMSJ64.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><source media="screen and (min-width: 0px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/av2-EDTFKWxXAZ6iBDjbSXLv9Uc=/105x70/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/JSUIMPPK3ZHRKJQ5JXRGQMSJ64.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img height="183" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/h2E8pUbxVVW1ySIN2HGfDeU8Gag=/274x183/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/JSUIMPPK3ZHRKJQ5JXRGQMSJ64.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: middle; width: 156.726px;" width="274" /></picture></a></div><hr style="background-color: #dadada; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; height: 1px; margin: 0px;" /><div class="numbered-list-item numbered-item-margins" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; justify-content: space-between; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"><a class="headline-list-anchor" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/environment/climate-crisis/2023/07/25/gulf-stream-could-collapse-as-early-as-2025-study-suggests/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #191919; display: flex; flex-grow: 1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;"><p class="secondary-font__SecondaryFontStyles-x1tol1-0 fJyqVy list-item-number" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 2.5rem; font-family: star-font, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">28</p><h2 class="primary-font__PrimaryFontStyles-o56yd5-0 jtdjEJ headline-text" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Gulf stream could collapse for first time in 12,000 years as early as 2025, study suggests</h2></a><a aria-hidden="true" class="list-anchor-image vertical-align-image" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/environment/climate-crisis/2023/07/25/gulf-stream-could-collapse-as-early-as-2025-study-suggests/" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 calc(25% + 16px); padding-left: 1rem; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;" tabindex="-1"><picture class="Image__StyledPicture-sc-8yioqf-0 iKCNis" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s;"><source media="screen and (min-width: 992px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/cvBGuzPrHhc1UW94JX5VwQsdZHU=/274x183/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/6W2G2K34DSCXXHJ57ZQUUHVBCY.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><source media="screen and (min-width: 768px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/fGGNs6t7sKmGNvZqxgisPt_l9Hg=/105x70/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/6W2G2K34DSCXXHJ57ZQUUHVBCY.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><source media="screen and (min-width: 0px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/fGGNs6t7sKmGNvZqxgisPt_l9Hg=/105x70/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/6W2G2K34DSCXXHJ57ZQUUHVBCY.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img height="183" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/cvBGuzPrHhc1UW94JX5VwQsdZHU=/274x183/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/6W2G2K34DSCXXHJ57ZQUUHVBCY.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: middle; width: 156.726px;" width="274" /></picture></a></div><hr style="background-color: #dadada; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; height: 1px; margin: 0px;" /><div class="numbered-list-item numbered-item-margins" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; justify-content: space-between; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"><a class="headline-list-anchor" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2023/06/15/man-paid-girls-as-young-as-14-to-pose-for-pornographic-videos-sent-to-him-over-snapchat/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #191919; display: flex; flex-grow: 1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;"><p class="secondary-font__SecondaryFontStyles-x1tol1-0 fJyqVy list-item-number" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 2.5rem; font-family: star-font, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">29</p><h2 class="primary-font__PrimaryFontStyles-o56yd5-0 jtdjEJ headline-text" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Man paid girls as young as 14 to pose for child sex abuse videos sent to him over Snapchat</h2></a><a aria-hidden="true" class="list-anchor-image vertical-align-image" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2023/06/15/man-paid-girls-as-young-as-14-to-pose-for-pornographic-videos-sent-to-him-over-snapchat/" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 calc(25% + 16px); padding-left: 1rem; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;" tabindex="-1"><picture class="Image__StyledPicture-sc-8yioqf-0 iKCNis" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s;"><source media="screen and (min-width: 992px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/vM7UgzIi23UwCaKN0o6MYigKTzQ=/274x183/filters:format(jpg):quality(70):focal(2999x1852:3009x1862)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/D23NYCAKYZFDNASATWY6ZTLRFY.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><source media="screen and (min-width: 768px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/3iZ2Jw_njRj_LGJptXdJ62YMqWI=/105x70/filters:format(jpg):quality(70):focal(2999x1852:3009x1862)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/D23NYCAKYZFDNASATWY6ZTLRFY.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><source media="screen and (min-width: 0px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/3iZ2Jw_njRj_LGJptXdJ62YMqWI=/105x70/filters:format(jpg):quality(70):focal(2999x1852:3009x1862)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/D23NYCAKYZFDNASATWY6ZTLRFY.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img height="183" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/vM7UgzIi23UwCaKN0o6MYigKTzQ=/274x183/filters:format(jpg):quality(70):focal(2999x1852:3009x1862)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/D23NYCAKYZFDNASATWY6ZTLRFY.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: middle; width: 156.726px;" width="274" /></picture></a></div><hr style="background-color: #dadada; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; height: 1px; margin: 0px;" /><div class="numbered-list-item numbered-item-margins" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; justify-content: space-between; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 1rem;"><a class="headline-list-anchor" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2023/07/27/london-is-no-longer-an-economic-eden-compared-to-dublin-it-just-wears-its-faults-more-gracefully/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #191919; display: flex; flex-grow: 1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;"><p class="secondary-font__SecondaryFontStyles-x1tol1-0 fJyqVy list-item-number" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 2.5rem; font-family: star-font, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">30</p><h2 class="primary-font__PrimaryFontStyles-o56yd5-0 jtdjEJ headline-text" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">London is no longer an economic Eden compared to Dublin, it just wears its faults more gracefully</h2></a><a aria-hidden="true" class="list-anchor-image vertical-align-image" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2023/07/27/london-is-no-longer-an-economic-eden-compared-to-dublin-it-just-wears-its-faults-more-gracefully/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #7f7f7f; flex: 0 0 calc(25% + 16px); padding-left: 1rem; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;" tabindex="-1"><picture class="Image__StyledPicture-sc-8yioqf-0 iKCNis" style="box-sizing: inherit; opacity: 0.7; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s;"><source media="screen and (min-width: 992px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/SwpprNE7w6n_3Q5C3d5wEtWatzk=/274x183/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/KMKIUTN2PYVGLL2IORTHJ7AV44.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><source media="screen and (min-width: 768px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/DwcxRb36_Ntwu0pkm7dJnpiYlus=/105x70/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/KMKIUTN2PYVGLL2IORTHJ7AV44.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><source media="screen and (min-width: 0px)" srcset="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/DwcxRb36_Ntwu0pkm7dJnpiYlus=/105x70/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/KMKIUTN2PYVGLL2IORTHJ7AV44.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></source><img height="183" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/SwpprNE7w6n_3Q5C3d5wEtWatzk=/274x183/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/KMKIUTN2PYVGLL2IORTHJ7AV44.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; opacity: 0.7; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: middle; width: 156.726px;" width="274" /></picture></a></div></div></div></section></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8749293004035244057.post-46682169426543231052023-06-26T06:07:00.000-07:002023-06-26T06:07:19.958-07:00Top Eight Fundamental Requirements for Successful Wealth Management <p><span style="background-color: #f7f7f8; color: #374151; font-family: Söhne, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here are some of the top most important things in wealth management:</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f7f7f8; color: #374151; font-family: Söhne, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Goal Setting: </b>Clearly defining your financial goals is crucial in wealth management. Whether it's saving for retirement, purchasing a home, or funding a child's education, setting specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART) goals helps guide your wealth management strategy.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f7f7f8; color: #374151; font-family: Söhne, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Financial Planning: </b>Developing a comprehensive financial plan is essential. This involves assessing your current financial situation, including income, expenses, assets, and liabilities, and creating a roadmap to achieve your goals. A financial plan should consider factors such as budgeting, tax planning, risk management, and investment strategies.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f7f7f8; color: #374151; font-family: Söhne, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Risk Management:</b> Assessing and managing risk is a critical aspect of wealth management. This includes identifying potential risks to your financial well-being, such as market volatility, inflation, and unexpected life events, and implementing strategies to mitigate those risks. Adequate insurance coverage, diversification of investments, and estate planning are common risk management techniques.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f7f7f8; color: #374151; font-family: Söhne, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Investment Management: </b>Efficiently managing your investments is a key component of wealth management. This involves creating an investment portfolio that aligns with your financial goals, risk tolerance, and time horizon. Diversification, asset allocation, and regular portfolio rebalancing are essential to optimize returns while managing risk.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f7f7f8; color: #374151; font-family: Söhne, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Tax Planning: </b>Minimizing tax liabilities is an important aspect of wealth management. Working with tax professionals or financial advisors knowledgeable in tax strategies can help you optimize your tax situation, take advantage of tax-efficient investment vehicles, and utilize tax deductions, credits, and exemptions to your advantage.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f7f7f8; color: #374151; font-family: Söhne, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Estate Planning: </b>Developing an estate plan ensures the orderly transfer of your wealth to your intended beneficiaries while minimizing taxes and potential disputes. It involves creating wills, trusts, and powers of attorney, as well as designating beneficiaries for retirement accounts and life insurance policies.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f7f7f8; color: #374151; font-family: Söhne, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Regular Monitoring and Review: </b>Wealth management is an ongoing process that requires regular monitoring and review. This includes tracking your progress toward financial goals, evaluating the performance of your investments, and making necessary adjustments to your financial plan based on changes in your life circumstances, market conditions, or tax laws.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f7f7f8; color: #374151; font-family: Söhne, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Continual Education and Professional Advice:</b> Staying informed about financial markets, investment strategies, and changing regulations is important in wealth management. Seeking advice from qualified professionals, such as financial advisors, tax specialists, and estate planning attorneys, can provide valuable expertise and guidance to help you make informed decisions.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8749293004035244057.post-44801144247215651252022-10-31T14:19:00.002-07:002022-10-31T14:19:46.764-07:00What is The Difference Between Wealth Management and Asset Management? An Explanation by Mary Erdoes<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_exLZPC9qwc?start=35" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8749293004035244057.post-2804122200069895442022-10-30T11:42:00.001-07:002022-10-30T11:42:18.464-07:00How to get rich quick - This is what Warren Buffet has to say about getting rich <p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: SourceSansPro, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.05px;">Wealth management is an investment advisory service that combines other</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: SourceSansPro, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.05px;"> </span><a data-component="link" data-ordinal="1" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" href="https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/financial_sector.asp" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c40d0; font-family: SourceSansPro, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.05px;">financial services</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: SourceSansPro, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.05px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: SourceSansPro, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.05px;">to address the needs of affluent clients. Using a consultative process, the advisor gleans information about the client’s wants and specific situation, then tailors a personalized strategy that uses a range of financial products and services.</span></p><div class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block" id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: SourceSansPro, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.05px;"></div><p class="comp mntl-sc-block finance-sc-block-html mntl-sc-block-html" id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-3" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; counter-reset: section 0; font-family: SourceSansPro, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.05px; margin-bottom: 1.75rem; margin-top: 0px;">Often, a holistic approach is taken within wealth management. To meet the complex needs of a client, a broad range of services—such as investment advice, <a data-component="link" data-ordinal="1" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" href="https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/estateplanning.asp" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c40d0;">estate planning</a>, accounting, retirement, and tax services—may be provided. While fee structures vary across <a data-component="link" data-ordinal="2" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" href="https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/091815/what-fees-do-financial-advisors-charge.asp" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c40d0;">comprehensive wealth management services</a>, typically, fees are based on a client’s <a data-component="link" data-ordinal="3" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" href="https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/aum.asp" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c40d0;">assets under management</a> (AUM).</p>
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<b>Wealth managers</b> are maintaining only a tenuous grip on their client bases—and technology, or lack thereof, may be to blame. A recent report by PricewaterhouseCoopers casts light on just how unsatisfied clients are, generally, with the advice they're <b>...</b></div>
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Personal service and rapport with clients differentiate <b>wealth managers</b> from other financial offerings, but digital and algorithmic innovation is creating the possibility of the <b>wealth manager's</b>role being increasingly delegated to technology — and <b>...</b></div>
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<b>WEALTH management</b> is among the least technologically-literate financial services sub-sectors globally, and already finds itself well adrift of other industries in this regard, a report has concluded. The report by accountancy firm <b>...</b></div>
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<b>Wealth management</b> is one of the least tech-literate sectors of the financial services industry, and is falling well behind other industries, a report published today by PwC finds. 'Sink or swim: why <b>wealth management</b> can't afford to miss the digital <b>...</b></div>
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Only one quarter of <b>wealth managers</b> globally offer digital channels beyond email and the digital strategies currently offered in the <b>wealth management</b> sector are sharply at odds with what HNWIs expect, the report said. The report pulls from interviews <b>...</b></div>
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As high-net worth individuals migrate to new technologies, <b>wealth managers</b> risk being left behind. In recent research, London-based PricewaterhouseCoopers found that <b>wealth management</b> is one of the least tech-literate sectors of the financial services ...</div>
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For those firms which don't respond now to the 'digital wave', they will not survive in the medium to long term. The report is entitled 'Sink or swim: why <b>wealth management</b> can't afford to miss the digital wave', and is published by PwC. It shows that <b>...</b></div>
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<b>Wealth management</b> is one of the least tech-literate sectors of the financial services industry, and is falling well behind non-financial services industries, according to the PwC report. Only one quarter of <b>wealth managers</b> globally offer digital <b>...</b></div>
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Financial advisers who are counting on their wealthy clients for referrals may be disappointed. Just 39% of people with investible assets of $1 million or more are likely to recommend their <b>wealth manager</b> to others, and the figure is an even lower 23 <b>...</b></div>
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Investors with $10 million or more are apparently even less impressed with their <b>wealth managers</b>. Only 23% of ultra high net worth respondents said they would make a recommendation, the publication writes. However, UHNW investors typically have ...</div>
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A whopping 52 percent of high net worth individuals are worried about being taken advantage of by<b>wealth managers</b> and 55 percent worry they'll lose money, according to the survey. And this could translate into a new opportunity for the budding class of ...</div>
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THE majority of high net worth individuals (HNWIs) believe it is important for their financial adviser or <b>wealth manager</b> to have a digital offering, but <b>wealth management</b> is one of the least tech-literate sectors of the financial services industry. A <b>...</b></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Investec Wealth & Investment is one of the UK's leading investment management companies, with responsibility for over £26.5 billion* of client assets.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have worked closely with clients and their trusted advisers for many years and gained a unique understanding of the specific needs of our clients.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our services are the result of that expertise, and allows us to deliver a comprehensive range of investment options to our clients - be they individuals, companies, trusts or pension funds.</span></div>
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In these acquisitions, the presumptions often include operational synergies with accompanying decreased costs and that the sellers will be able to transition their clients. In a great many cases, these premises are in error resulting in “bad feelings” and the sellers failing to obtain all the monies they expected. For example, there is regularly the belief that the sellers will grow their practices for a period of time even when they were apparently not able to do so before the sale. Moreover, many times the operational synergies do not occur.<br />
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Demographics are a shorthand for all of Japan’s troubles. A declining labor force and an aging population seem like potent trends. But they are just excuses.<br />
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That’s according to Alexander Kinmont of Milestone Asset Management this week at a Heard on the Street Live event in Tokyo. “The reason the birthrate is low may be that nobody has got any money. It’s worth thinking about. Small houses, long commutes, no money. Is that an environment that’s conducive to a very fertile society? The problem to be resolved is money, not people.”<br />
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An attendee asked why companies like Honda continue to invest abroad, if demographics aren’t a problem? “The boardrooms of Japanese companies are filled with people whose careers are identified with the expansion of non-Japanese capacity, and they can’t turn around and say we were totally wrong, we misread the situation entirely…They dress it up as this waffle about demographics. It’s just a way of them saying, ‘We weren’t wrong.’”<br />
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The ECB pledged on Thursday to continue its €60bn-a-month bond buying quantitative easing plan until March 2017 and cut a key interest rate to a fresh record low of minus 0.3 per cent. But <a href="http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/0cc5498e-9a70-11e5-9228-87e603d47bdc.html#axzz3tCpCdkII" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e6e9e; text-decoration: none;" title="Market forecasts revisited after ECB springs surprise">the measures disappointed investors</a> that have come to rely on Mr Draghi to smash expectations, with a broad market sell-off after the ECB failed to deliver deeper cuts and an increase in the pace of QE.</div>
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That these forecasts have consistently been proven wrong year after year has not deterred the sellside brains trust. The 10-year Treasury yield will rise from its current 2.17 per cent to 2.8 per cent by the end of 2016, and just a whisker below 3 per cent in the first few months of 2017, according the average forecast of analysts polled by Bloomberg.</div>
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To be fair, there are solid reasons to believe that this is the year that US government debt will finally suffer at least a mild sell-off. First and foremost, the Federal Reserve will in all likelihood tighten monetary policy later this month, drawing a curtain on the era of zero interest rates.</div>
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While Fed officials have been at pains to stress that the coming tightening cycle will be gradual and shallow, the first rate rise is likely to abruptly crystallise in investors’ minds the fact that even dovish policymakers forecast a higher rate path than the market is pricing in. It could become a bleak midwinter for investors positioned complacently, especially in the shorter two-to-five year end of the Treasury bond curve (bills are likely to be inoculated by ravenous money market fund demand).</div>
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Moreover, central bank reserves are eroding in the developing world, undercutting one of the main pillars of support for the past two decades, a process that Deutsche Bank has dubbed “quantitative tightening”.</div>
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Yet there are also powerful, fundamental factors that will restrain US Treasury yields, especially longer-term ones, which could even push them lower in the coming year.</div>
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Firstly, supply is going to fall sharply in 2016. The US government was forced to restrict bill sales this year because of the debt ceiling stand-off, but with that lifted it is going to boost issuance of shorter-term debt significantly to meet the increasingly ravenous demand from money market funds. At the same time, a narrowing budget deficit reduces the need for the US to borrow money.</div>
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As a result, George Goncalves at Nomura estimates that net US debt issuance will fall by a quarter to below $1tn in 2016, below that mark for the first time since 2008. Excluding bills the net supply of Treasury bonds will slip by 14 per cent to just $323bn. And the Fed is not going to deflate its balance sheet any time soon.</div>
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Second, powerful <a href="http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/f09d46ba-9913-11e5-9228-87e603d47bdc.html#axzz3tCRqyrZ5" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e6e9e; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Markets Outlook 2016: policy divergence looms over bond traders">international forces </a>will help keep a lid on Treasury yields. The European Central Bank disappointed this week, but unveiled another deposit rate cut and extended its <a href="http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/88d23588-99b6-11e5-987b-d6cdef1b205c.html#axzz3tCRqyrZ5" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e6e9e; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="ECB pledges to extend easing until March 2017 ‘or beyond’ - FT">quantitative easing programme</a>. The Bank of Japan will probably soon follow suit, and most other central banks are very much in easing mode. US Treasury yields may seem desultorily low to many Americans, but they are salivatingly high to Europeans and Japanese investors.</div>
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That could counteract any further selling by overseas central banks. JPMorgan estimates that while they offloaded $162bn of Treasuries this year, foreign private institutions bought $195bn over the same period.</div>
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Money managers are therefore mostly less negative on Treasuries than analysts. Many are betting that “curve” of the US government debt market — the slope set by the yields of the various maturities — will flatten considerably in 2016, as Fed hikes lifts short-term yields, but robust demand and falling supply keep longer-term yields in check.</div>
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This seems like a reasonable assumption. Yet the possibility — faint but real — that longer bond yields could actually fall remain under-appreciated. Investors should remember that betting on a Japanese bond sell-off has been the proverbial “widow-maker” trade for decades. Only two of 73 analysts polled by Bloomberg predict the 10-year Treasury yield will fall below 2 per cent again. Perhaps there lies the real complacency?</div>
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The <a href="http://www.ft.com/topics/organisations/European_Central_Bank" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e6e9e; text-decoration: none;" title="ECB news headlines - FT.com">European Central Bank</a> pledged to continue <a href="https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/tvservices/webcast/html/webcast_151203.en.html" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e6e9e; text-decoration: none;" title="ECB press conference feed">its €60bn-a-month bond buying programme </a>for another six months until March 2017 “or beyond”. Policymakers also cut a key interest rate to a historic low of minus 0.3 per cent and pledged to buy more assets with the proceeds of its existing bond purchases.</div>
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But these measures, which were supported by a decision to buy municipal bonds in addition to standard government debt, failed to impress investors who had hoped for deeper rate cuts and more monthly bond purchases.</div>
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The announcement prompted a sell-off in European equity and bond markets and <a href="http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/b7f719ec-9965-11e5-9228-87e603d47bdc.html#axzz3tCpCdkII" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e6e9e; text-decoration: none;" title="Global Market Overview">the euro climbed to a one-month high </a>against the US dollar.</div>
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“The ECB delivered at the very low end of expectations,” said Andrew Balls, chief officer for fixed income at Pimco. “There wasn’t much to get excited about . . . markets were expecting an increase in the monthly purchase size.”</div>
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Some analysts were less critical.</div>
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“Today’s decisions reflect the desire to keep some powder dry in case more stimulus is needed down the road,” said Marco Valli, chief eurozone economist at UniCredit. “Keeping the big bazooka for another day may not be a bad strategy. It just needed better communication.”</div>
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The euro extended gains as Mario Draghi, the ECB president, delivered his latest effort to boost an economy that <a href="http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/a159dc78-98df-11e5-95c7-d47aa298f769.html#axzz3tCpCdkII" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #2e6e9e; text-decoration: none;" title="Subdued eurozone inflation paves way for more quantitative easing">remains exposed to weak inflation </a>and outside shocks. The single currency surged 2.4 per cent to $1.086 by the close of London trade, with the euro’s rise reflecting concerns the measures have proved less aggressive than markets had anticipated.</div>
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The index of Europe’s 300 largest listed companies dropped 2.9 per cent in the wake of the ECB announcement. Germany’s Dax fell 3 per cent, France’s CAC 40 lost 3.2 per cent and the UK’s FTSE 100 dipped 1.9 per cent in late-afternoon trading.</div>
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In the US, the yield on two-year Treasuries hit a new high for the year of 0.97 per cent, while the 10-year yield rose 13 basis points to 2.31 per cent.</div>
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Some analysts also noted that the sell-off reflected the fact investors had bet too heavily on an aggressive expansion of stimulus.</div>
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“The market had a lot of similar positions,” said Nicholas Wall, portfolio manager at Invesco. “So we are seeing some of these positions get rapidly unwound.”</div>
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The ECB president defended the package of measures, saying they would “reinforce the momentum of the eurozone’s recovery and strengthen its resilience against global shocks”.</div>
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The measures passed were broadly in line with a proposal tabled to the governing council earlier on Thursday by Peter Praet, the ECB’s chief economist, who along with Mr Draghi has led the charge for more easing.</div>
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More aggressive stimulus would have probably run into German-led opposition from a significant minority on the council, placing the ECB president and his chief economist in an awkward position. The council tends to act only when measures are supported by a broad consensus.</div>
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While support for the package was not unanimous Mr Draghi said a “very large majority” was in favour of the measures.</div>
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The central bank’s latest forecasts — also published on Thursday — presented stronger figures for growth but downgraded projections for inflation. The ECB now sees inflation at 0.1 per cent in 2015, 1 per cent in 2016, and 1.6 per cent in 2017.</div>
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Mr Draghi said the ECB expects the region’s economic recovery to proceed, supported by monetary policy and structural reforms.</div>
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Low oil prices should support private consumption and investment, he added, but the recovery “continues to be damped” by weak growth in EMs and weak trade.</div>
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The ECB held its main refinancing rate at 0.05 per cent.</div>
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<em>* The FT published an earlier story saying the ECB had kept rates unchanged. This was a story written before the decision that was published in error.</em></div>
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Welcome to a comprehensive web site on investment banking careers. <b>Investment Banks</b> help companies and governments issue securities, help investors purchase securities, manage financial assets, trade securities and provide financial advice. The top investment banks including <a href="http://www.gs.com/" target="_blank">Goldman Sachs</a>, <a href="http://www.jpmorgan.com/" target="_blank">JP Morgan</a> and <a href="http://www.ms.com/" target="_blank">Morgan Stanley</a>are said to be in the <i>bulge bracket</i>.</div>
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Other investment banks are regionally oriented or situated in the middle market (e.g. <a href="http://www.piperjaffray.com/" target="_blank">Piper Jaffray</a>). Others are small, specialized firms called boutiques which might be oriented toward an industry vertical, bond-trading, M&A advisory, technical analysis or program trading. Firms have lots of different areas and groups within them. In most firms, there is sales and trading which works with owners of securities, investment banking which works with issuers of securities (firms and governments) and capital markets which goes in between the other two.</div>
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<dt><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0071497331/bizjobs" target="_blank">Investment Banking Explained: An Insider's Guide to the Industry</a></dt>
<dd>Provides a complete overview of investment banking in its modern form; defines key terms and discusses the functions of investment banks.<br />
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<dt><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0446676950/bizjobs/" target="_blank">Monkey Business: Swinging through the Wall Street Jungle</a>.</dt>
<dd>By John Rolfe and Peter Troob.</dd><dd>Many a starry-eyed megalomaniac has followed the siren song of Wall Street. Money, prestige, and power await them as they waltz off into the promised land...or so they think. The promised land, it turns out, is always one more twenty-hour workday ... <i>Monkey Business</i> is the hilarious confession of two young investment bankers.</dd>
<dt><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0123745039/bizjobs/" target="_blank">An Introduction to Investment Banks, Hedge Funds, and Private Equity: The New Paradigm</a>.</dt>
<dd>By David Stowell.</dd><dd>Provides a very good introduction to the role of investment banks and how they interact with hedge funds and private equity firms. This book provides a very readable introduction to how the financial system is working now and is a great backgrounder for anything contemplating banking as a career.</dd>
<dt><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0670021253/bizjobs/" target="_blank">Too Big to Fail</a>.</dt>
<dd>By Andrew Ross Sorkin.</dd><dd>One of the best books ever written about the investment banking industry. Tells the story of the rescue of the banks in the depths of the financial crisis.</dd>
<dt><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1463555946/bizjobs/" target="_blank">Investment Banking Interview Study Guide</a>.</dt>
<dd>By Sean Miller.</dd><dd>This is a timeless guide to help you in prepping for finance interviews, particularly for Investment Banks and Private Equity funds.</dd>
<dt><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1614640033/bizjobs/" target="_blank">The Best Book on Getting An IBanking Internship: Written By A Former Banking Intern At UBS, JPMorgan, and FT Partners</a>.</dt>
<dd>By Erin Parker.</dd><dd>Internship expert, Erin, has fought for her spot at top bulge bracket banks and boutique firms. She knows how stressful it can be to face case study questions at interviews, and she wants to help you stand out from the thousands of other applicants to earn your position at JP Morgan. Erin guides you step-by-step from interview preparation to conquering the 90-hour work week. Erin's tips will give you an unfair advantage over your toughest competitors as you network at info sessions, nail your interview questions, and rise to the top of your internship class.</dd></dl>
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<li><a href="http://www.bankonbanking.com/" target="_blank">Bank on Banking</a></li>
<li><a href="http://dealbook.nytimes.com/category/main-topics/investment-banking/" target="_blank">Dealbook Investment Banking Stories</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2008/11/the-lost-age-of-bankers" target="_blank">Vanity Fair's: The Lost Age of Bankers</a></li>
<li><a href="http://econompicdata.blogspot.com/2008/11/end-of-wall-street.html" target="_blank">Wall Street Bonus Matrix</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005MHOC/bizjobs" target="_blank">Barbarians at the Gate</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000JCF4BE/bizjobs" target="_blank">Charlie Rose with Felix Rohatyn</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000C3L2IO/bizjobs" target="_blank">Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0041KKYBA/bizjobs" target="_blank">Inside Job</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B001OTZORK/bizjobs" target="_blank">Introduction to Financial Markets</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000BF0CR0/bizjobs" target="_blank">JP Morgan Biography</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000VD9MK0/bizjobs" target="_blank">Learn Finance</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B005FITIGO/bizjobs" target="_blank">Margin Call</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00002RAPA/bizjobs" target="_blank">Rogue Trader</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B001GAOY9Q/bizjobs" target="_blank">The Bailout</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000N6U0DS/bizjobs" target="_blank">The Pursuit of Happyness</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B004A2AN2O/bizjobs" target="_blank">Wall Street - Two Pack</a></li>
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