Conspiracy theory

It’s farewell to one and two cent coins as the Central Bank prepares to send the expensive discs to the ha’penny place

Twenty years after ‘Notes from a Small Island’ an older Bryson potters round a much-changed Britain

Ards Forest Park, Sheephaven Bay, Co Donegal

So what happens when Bryson's work gets the Hollywood treatment? Whatever the outcome, it’s got nothing to do with him, he says – you can blame Robert Redford

ATMs that only dispense €50 notes, bars that don’t do cash-back and taxi drivers who don’t realise it’s their job to have change: how you make our blood boil

‘Irish Times’ restaurant critic Catherine Cleary picks her top spots for summer food – and we want to hear about your favourites too

In an on-air battle of the belly laughs, the Newstalk presenter’s loud, from-the-hip patter was the clear winner