The trans artist Pea Dinneen’s Dublin Fringe Festival debut, an autobiographical show about gender, is also a reclamation of cultural space
At Uillinn, in west Co Cork, the artist collective Salt & Pepper and the curator Michael Waldron team up to foreground queer identity and romance
British authorities have put up obstacles to both men as they have fought for decades to discover the truth
Why he was deselected is still a murky matter
Arrival of Gareth Sheridan and the withdrawal of Mairead McGuinness bookended the first week of real interest in the race for the Áras
Overheard: Tourism bosses see upside of Norman invasion and Michael Flatley lets flute do the talking amid Áras speculation
It is impossible to predict whether this is short-term misdirection or the first intimation of a hitherto unimaginable authoritarian police era
I looked for a charging point at every garage we passed. It was striking how few there were
Reaction to James Lawless’s third-level fees cut suggestion has already offered a taste of public anger
Frank McNally on an ancient Connemara pilgrimage, once suppressed by the church but now happily revived
The same online forces that nudged Gen Z into a pit of loneliness using algorithms are selling AI companionship to them
Ask Roe: I spend my time feeling like a judgmental prude or feeling rejected by people I’ve never met
Scotland’s former first minister is scathing about Alex Salmond, and praises Michael D Higgins and Martin McGuinness
YA author on her new thriller, which is part of a trilogy set in the gamer world
The tennis star’s complaints to the umpire about this disruptive audience highlight an age-old problem
The subversive voice of the poet, one of the foremost chroniclers of the Troubles, still echoes
Liam and Noel Gallagher lead a joyous, rousing evening of anthems and belters on the first of two nights in Dublin
Evidence that, with a little support, even the most radicalised can turn towards peace
Book has been completed and brought to publication by collaborators, all of whom knew the murdered journalist to some degree
Novel explores male relationships and questions how much we inherit from our parents
Zbig: The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America’s Cold War Prophet by Edward Luce; and The Irish Annals: Their genesis, evolution and history by DP McCarthy; Ireland in Iceland, Gaelic Remnants in a Nordic Land by Manchán Magan
John Deane-O’Keeffe has a lesson for every week of the year, written with warmth, humour and love
For anyone interested in building a fairer, freer future, Pelle Dragsted’s proposals are essential reading
For one of the first times since he took office, Trump, looked worn to the point of exhaustion
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