Carton House’s Adam Nevin reflects on working his way up through the restaurant business, the cycling accident that nearly derailed his progress, and wanting to serve dinner to Roy Keane

A colleague presented me with a tastefully arranged bouquet of compliments

Paul Muldoon and Kamala Sankaram’s new opera Custom of the Coast gives voice to Halappanavar and Bonny in powerful narratives that run alongside each other, until they collide unexpected ways

The spirit of 88 lives on, the Hothouse Flowers blaring from a phone and a streaming platform my 17-year-old busking self would think was some kind of voodoo magic

When she says even with the roaring she stills wants to spend the day with me, I’m moved almost to tears and we hit the greenway

Fanning talks about being on air seven days a week, his movie-a-night habit, Ryan Tubridy and Yoko Ono

The comedian and actor on her move to Dublin to escape Trump’s US, how she struggled to accept the death of her mother, and her surprise that Sandymount is considered posh

This letter seemed like a sign that things were back to normal and the statute of limitations on all that cancer sympathy had expired

Ireland’s leading woman golfer on her favourite meal, rivalry with her twin and how she spends her money

This will be our 25th summer together. None of us know how many more summers we have left

Kevin Barry’s The Cave is the best play I’ve seen on an Irish stage in a very long time, and the c-word is used quite a lot

Ian Leslie, author of John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs, on the partnership at the heart of The Beatles

I rang my friend Paul Howard, a huge Beatles fan, to tell him all about it

They’re self-motivated, I think you’d call it. All I know is that I can take no credit for their industry

A man introduced himself to me as Nick Hornby but I’ve interviewed Nick Hornby before and it wasn’t the same man