The Irish Mail on Sunday - 22 Jun 2025

Table of content - The Irish Mail on Sunday (22 Jun 2025)

EX-CIVIL SERVANTS GET SWEETHEART OPW ‘RENT DEAL’
They scattered Ian Bailey’s ashes in the wrong place
She said yes!
€100 OF VOUCHERS FOR FAMILY DAYS OUT
I was behind the Oasis reunion, says mum Peggy
150 attacks on trains in 2024 were reported to Irish Rail
Weather
Your TV guide to the best of Glastonbury
WIN TICKETS TO NIGHT AND DAY
Tracking down evil killer Graham Dwyer
Dad’s success gave me my competitive instincts...
‘I just told Liam and Noel to get on with it’
Liam on his mum Peggy, the ‘coolest woman on the planet’
A show of togetherness that’s totally fake? Some Might Say
‘I just told Liam and Noel to get on with it’
24-hour security for OPW lodges
OPW steps in to answer our questions for the residents
Cracking the (Eir)code
24-hour security for OPW lodges
Department employee paid weekly rent of €2
Compound interest is kept away
CHAMBERS’ SPENDING PURGE TO FUND INFRASTRUCTURE
€5 million
BILL TYSON
‘Poor b***er... he wasn’t even scattered where he wanted to be’
Sophie’s family decline to comment on ceremony
HSE wields ‘no control over how hospitals pay consultants from NTPF millions
Backlash at Chambers’s purge to fund fast-track infrastructure projects
Champagne was all I knew about F1
Crime teen’s boast: ‘You can’t keep me in custody because Oberstown is full’
Tributes paid after teen drowns in river
Payout for owners of home in Annie search
So, who ARE the rudest stars of all?
So, who ARE the rudest stars of all?
WIN WEEKEND TICKETS TO NIGHT AND DAY
The jeweller didn’t let the cat out of the bag – it was a friendly mix-up
Slain Garda’s family meets whistleblower
O’Callaghan should make full Dáil statement after confidence ‘flub’
Slain Garda’s family meets whistleblower
DO YOU HAVE CONFIDENCE IN THE GARDA COMMISSIONER?
Purchase of Citywest will not only save money but is also part of reforms to our migration system
Unlike the rest of us, civil servants in OPW houses are shielded from the harsh realities of a housing crisis
O’CALLAGHAN’S CHANGE OF TACK
It’s Donald Trump’s world... and we’re all just living in it
Liam Óg is taking on the Empire (and the Empire isn’t happy)
A SHOCKING
Who would risk the trauma of a run for the Presidency?
WIN €100 WITH IRISH MAIL ON SUNDAY
SMOKES & DAGGERS
QUOTES OF THE WEEK
LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION, No 1443:
Two-tier Child Benefit may create ‘us and them’ divide
Meghan loadsa money... for the next generation!
CHI scandals reveal secrecy and same old hierarchies
➤➤ AFTER a sellout
➤➤ ALTHOUGH Stephen Fry
Graffiti on the Taoiseach’s office wall might seem insignificant... but it is not
Do nothing? I like to get up and be busy The long and shorts of it – just don’t wear them
Sour grapes over canned wine trend
AI won’t be replacing me; not yet, anyway
Spook Blaise set for big screen biopic
We need public healthcare, not private profit
Harry’s olive branch as he invites his father to next Invictus Games But finale is set to clash with Camilla’s 80th
Many yappy returns, Wills!
Arts Council hires more spin doctors after paying €20k to external PR firms
Eight die but 13 survive as balloon bursts into flames
Timeline of the council’s spending on communications
Urdu curse words, geopolitical tension, and an assault at an Indian takeaway
Irishman held after €110m drug haul on yacht
‘Will America deliver the killer strike? It can only come from an American plane’
Harris to lobby for Unifil mandate renewal
Israel-Iran war must not def lect from the urgent need to end the Gaza genocide
‘Will America deliver the killer strike? It can only come from an American plane’
B-2 STEALTH bombers
State closes chicken VAT scam loophole
33 Epic Days Out Around Ireland For 2025
YOUR days out!
5 OUTDOOR ADVENTURES TO TRY IN IRELAND THIS SUMMER!
5 INDOOR RAINY-DAY ACTIVITIES
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CODE CRACKER NO 973
SUPER SUDOKU NO 973
QUICK SUDOKU
BARE BONES
PUB QUIZ
BRAIN TRAIN
DINGBATS
WORD BUILDER
KEIJO
SUMMIT UP
DITLOIDS
KILLER
KAKURO
BATTLESHIPS
TETROMINOES
CHESS
WORD SQUARE
MENTAL BLOCKS
BULL’S EYE
EVENS
LAST WEEK’S SOLUTIONS
CRYPTIC/QUICK CROSSWORD NO 973
NUMBERFIT
PATHFINDER
QUICK CLUES
15 EVENTS ON IN IRELAND THIS SUMMER | 2025
Her bones cried out for justice
AN INFERNO OF INCOMPETENCE
KIDNAPPED BY THE KING
HELP! My vagina fell out
I sold my house to live on a narrowboat
Zofia Nowak’s Book of Superior Detecting
Bring The House Down
The Benefactors
Island Calling
Want to save the planet? Go Nuclear It’s clean, saves energy and as for the radiation, you’re encountering it all the time – even in your banana
Twins wrenched apart by the Chinese government ...with one sold to America
Gifted trio Amble into sold-out fame
WHAT’S ON
Boyle’s bloody sequel is bonkers
Dive right in for the full Monte
GETTING THERE
100 countries and counting
Fissures in a Cave that’s comedic but lacks a great story
A very modern opera on Mars
Noel’s the greatest tragi-comic TV character we’ve ever seen
Raise your chances in the lottery (and life!)
WE CAN ALL INVEST LIKE MILLIONAIRES
A choice for cheaper airport parking
SIMON SAYS, WHERE IS THE VALUE?
An extra 100,000 passengers are SET TO FLY THROUGH SHANNON AFTER RYANAIR LAUNCHED THREE NEW ROUTES TO POPULAR HOLIDAY DESTINATIONS VIA THE AIRPORT.
Raise your chances in the lottery (and life!)
Be financially prepared – for today and also for the totally unexpected...
WHAT €12 A WEEK ADDS UP TO OVER 20 YEARS
PADDY POWER LOTTO ODDS
A choice for cheaper airport parking
Government sources have said ‘giveaway’ budgets are a thing of the past now.
At last! Rebel wins to end Appleby drought
Racing’s golden week spoiled only by American Prat
Diego’s ‘Mano de Dios’
The ugly side of the beautiful game on display right now
3 TO WATCH THIS WEEK
‘I was like a child on Christmas Day at the Open. If I was there again, I would do things differently’
Medvedev’s in his first final of year
5
The secrets of Liverpool’s mastermind
Chelsea warned over dangers of playing in ‘Heat Emergency’
TOUR DE FORCE
New Lions tour video up there with class of 1997
TOUR DE FORCE
Sexton feud: Andy put it to bed, says Finn
Death of ‘Mighty Mouse’
INTO THE WEST
Time to stop tinkering and let football thrive
Benefits of Lions tours are fringe at best
■ LIKE Cavan,
‘One of the great things about the system is it has given counties those big championship home days’
‘One of the great things about the system is it has given counties those big championship home days’
TALKING POINTS
SUNDAY BEST
SCREEN TIME
STAT OF THE DAY
Are Donegal too dependent on Michael Murphy?
Are Donegal too dependent on Michael Murphy?
McGuinness’ men will run from deep
Kildare into last eight as Armagh out
Knockouts are taking shape at the top and bottom
It’s no Con, no problem as Dublin edge thriller
Kingdom unconvincing as they see off Cavan
DUBS DEMOLISH LIMERICK
‘We’re proud of our character and hunger’
DUBS DEMOLISH LIMERICK
Tipperary put ragged Galway away in style
14
BLUE THUNDER
LIONS LICK THEIR WOUNDS
Secrets of Liverpool’s transfer mastermind
Liam Nolan’s dream came true at the Open
GLASTONBURY
ON THE TOWN
Try a little tenderness Lovely lamb dishes
The balmy June day in Connemara we finally learned to talk real bull
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Self tan with a touch of class: The return of Vita Liberata
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FINE ART OF FASHION
Give your home a sea change
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Give your home a sea change
Love me tender
GREEK SOUVLAKI KEBABS
SPANISH MILK-FED LAMB SHOULDER
BRAISED LAMB SHANKS WITH PARSLEY
Love me tender
ROSEMARY LAMB CHOPS
Have YOU had a mini stroke but don’t know it? The tell-tale signs nobody should ignore
IT’S A FACT
PROBLEM THAT HITS YOUNG WOMEN LIKE HAILEY BIEBER
I saw flashing lights ... six months on I was told I’d had a mini stroke
My bottom has been really itchy for months. What can I do about it?
DIAGNOSED WITH DYSLEXIA AS AN ADULT, LIKE JAMIE?
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It’s the END GAME
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DNA JOURNEY
AMOL RAJAN GOES TO THE GANGES
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LONG BRIGHT RIVER
DEATH VALLEY
SALTBURN
COWBOYS & ALIENS
THE GOLD
FATAL ATTRACTION
EMILY
NON-STOP
TV ON DEMAND BLUE BLOODS
SUSPICION
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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC’S SALLY
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Could it be curtains for kidnapped Robert?
Lust orders! Steve and Cassie kiss in the Rovers
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Paul’s moving performance...
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