Article Index

Those of Us Who Must Die by Derek Molyneux and Darren Kelly review

By Frank MacGabhann

James Joyce's early work showed awareness of important Irish/Scottish connections

By Richard Barlow

Your Fitness

Why I love to . . . play golf

By Jo Linehan

Thinking Anew – The challenge of Lent

By Fergal Mac Eoinín

Objection

Sinn Féin chief McDonald defends ‘our day will come’ remark

By Aine McMahon

Editorials

Gate theatre: a case to answer

Shovels

Trees of knowledge

Keep on running

Longer trams

The quick brown fox

Climate Emergency Measures Bill

School enrolment restrictions

Consultants and badges

Dispersed rural housing

Editorials

National plan: where planning meets politics

Metro North – mind the gap

Language and politics in Northern Ireland

Davy Russell just three away from a century of winners this season

By Brian O'Connor

Boris Johnson fails to channel his inner Obama

By Colin Gleeson

NI threat to end co-operation on electricity market

By Elaine Edwards

Democratic gains put the spotlight on gerrymandering

By Suzanne Lynch

Roads big winner with €10.2bn earmarked as old plans dusted off

By Tim O'Brien

Belfast trial: ‘It’s daunting. It’s quite horrible and you get blamed’

By Susan McKay

Northern secretary acknowledges ‘difficult week’ but says deal still possible

By Amanda Ferguson and Rodney Edwards

The Secret Books by Marcel Theroux review: fiction at its best

By Claire Looby

Battle lines drawn over contentious capital plan

By Fiach Kelly

Metro from south Dublin to north county to be finished in 10 years

By Fiach Kelly

Brogan’s real value to Dublin will only be evident in his absence

By Keith Duggan

Labour shortages and inflation ‘threaten development plan’

By Jack Power

Corofin on course for a second All-Ireland final in four years

By Seán Moran

Warren Gatland profile: former Ireland and Lions coach revealed

By Gerry Thornley

Project Ireland 2040: Substantial . . . and full of waffle

By Pat Leahy

Our Duke and Coney Island put Gold Cup credentials on the line

By Brian O'Connor

Jordan Larmour the big draw as Leinster host Scarlets

By Gavin Cummiskey

Fintan O’Toole: Hope for woefully neglected cultural infrastructure

By Fintan O'Toole

Politics key to deciding who gets the top jobs at the ECB

By Joe Haslam

Morrissey, Wiley, Rex Orange County, Katie Laffan: the best rock and pop this week

By Tony Clayton-Lea and Louise Bruton

Martyn Turner

By Martyn Turner

Cliff Taylor: Investment plan removes option of tax cuts

By Cliff Taylor

Does RTÉ think it takes three women to do one man’s job?

By Mick Heaney

Abroad

I moved back to Ireland, but found no official ‘welcome home’

By Kevin Wall

Cory Wong, Ronan Guilfoyle, Izumi Kimura: the best jazz this week

By Cormac Larkin

Stage

We Don’t Know What’s Buried Here – The best theatre shows this week

By Peter Crawley

Diarmaid Ferriter: Irish banks have abused customers for centuries

By Diarmaid Ferriter

Dublin’s actions have inflamed North’s Irish-language crisis

By Pol O Muiri

Hotline to the intimate secrets of the world

By Sarah Griffin

Queer Eye: healing fragile masculinity one hug at a time

By Jennifer Gannon

This Album Changed My Life: Freestyle Fellowship – Innercity Griots (1993)

By Cadence Weapon

Culture

Noah Cyrus: Our New VBF

By Louise Bruton

History

Two little boys and too big toys

By Arminta Wallace

Spotify’s scary mind-reading ways to serve you music

By Seamus O'Reilly

Professor provides antidote to nihilism and identity politics

By Breda O'Brien

Vikings in photographs and Lucian Freud Freud in focus – the week’s best art exhibitions

By Aidan Dunne

An Irish Diary

Church services

Public debate on Europe has shifted

By Paul Gillespie

‘Is opera an Irish artform? Of course it is’

By Michael Dervan

Tim Edey, Laoise Kelly & Tiarnán Ó Duinnchinn: the week’s best traditional music

By Siobhán Long

Sex on the canvas: Picasso’s most erotic year laid bare

By Lara Marlowe

Art in Focus: Donald Teskey – Valley Walk II

By Aidan Dunne

Poem of the week: The Fire

By Knute Skinner

Culture

My culture highlights: Cartoon Saloon’s Nora Twomey

By Shilpa Ganatra

Kormac: ‘I like to take a big, ridiculous project on’

By Lauren Murphy

Latest breakdown in relations driven by political interests

By Pat Leahy

Saoirse Ronan: ‘I don’t know where I am from. I’m just Irish’

By Donald Clarke

Don’t Tell the Bride that he’d prefer a hoolie down the dump

By Patrick Freyne

New Artist of the Week: Half Waif

By Niall Byrne

Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Nathalie Stutzmann, Quentin Hindley: the best classical music this week

By Michael Dervan

Charismatic, courageous Zimbabwean political leader who challenged Mugabe

The man who found a Caravaggio in Dublin

Leinster’s Luke McGrath eyes return to Ireland squad

By Johnny Watterson

Munster to start Gerbrandt Grobler in Cardiff

By Gavin Cummiskey

Legal watchdog who became Pakistan’s social conscience

Macron seeks to found ‘progressive, reforming’ EU-wide party

By Lara Marlowe

Bitter-sweet 10th birthday for Kosovo as Serbian hostility lingers

By Daniel McLaughlin

Pioneering force for women in medicine

Silence Under a Stone review: Insipid storyline with a morose character

By Sarah Gilmartin

The family Whatsapp group – you can join, but never leave

By Jennifer O'Connell

Miriam Lord: It was like Pyongyang on the Garavogue

By Miriam Lord

Technology

Eir warned Naughten of ‘deep flaws’ before quitting broadband scheme

By Eoin Burke-Kennedy

Michael Walker: Paul Ferris’s book an intriguing story of love and hate

By Michael Walker

Transport

Shannon Group falls short of targets set five years ago

By Barry O'Halloran

Financial Services

FBD to underwrite car insurance offered through An Post unit

By Ciarán Hancock and Joe Brennan

Abroad

Irish aid workers on sex abuse: ‘Head office is a long way away’

By Sorcha Pollak

Felix Culpa by Jeremy Gavron review: A complex narrative but perseverance pays off

By Rabeea Saleem

YA fiction reviews: From a nuanced look at love to a powerful adoption story

By Claire Hennessy

Fear of migrants feeds growth of Italy’s far right

By Patrick Smyth

Fashion

Making heads turn: Clare milliner Margaret O’Connor

By Deirdre McQuillan

Interiors

Waste not: A-Z guide to cutting down on plastics in the home

By Lorna Siggins

A False Report review: a powerful story about a serial rapist that falls flat

By Rosita Boland

Returning to live in Howth meant I could not avoid the GAA

By Geraldine de Brit

Want to get close to nature? Draw it

By Sylvia Thompson

All paws on deck: The joy of pets at work

By Tanya Sweeney

Simple Swiss roll: A recipe for an old favourite

By Vanessa Greenwood

Priced out of Killester? Have a look at nearby Coolock

By Tadhg Peavoy

Travel

Fiesta season in medieval Spain

By Deirdre Davys

Drink

New London beers from under the bridge

By Sorcha Hamilton

Environment

What does this Icelandic bone come from? Readers’ nature queries

By Ethna Viney

Life after Grand Designs: ‘The house will never be finished’

By David Capener

Fine Art & Antiques

Auction Results – white marble dated 1868 fetches £477,000 at Sotheby’s

By Michael Parsons

The Theatre of Tom Murphy by Nicholas Grene review: An impressive overview

By Fintan O'Toole

Fashion

Josep Font and Delpozo: As seen on red carpets (and on Melania Trump)

By Deirdre McQuillan

Drink

Come together: the best co-op wines

By John Wilson

One Party Dominance: challenging simplistic ideas about Irish politics

By Micheál Martin

Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit lacks a critical eye but depicts a man ahead of his time

By Suzanne Lynch

Fine Art & Antiques

Catching a new generation of antiques’ shoppers – on Sundays

By Michael Parsons

East meets west for a very Cork feast

By Caitríona Mc Bride

Women of Belfast: ‘We get along. Why can’t the politicians?’

By Susan McKay

In praise of older books: And The Band Played On by Randy Shilts (1987)

By Julie Parsons

Life & Style

What’s hot and what’s not this week?

By Una Mullally

Fashion

Where do sunglasses and single socks go? When they're gone, they're gone

By Marian Keyes

Fitbit: The Marriage Interloper takes an early bath

By Elaine Feeney

Environment

How the west gave a poet his dream and identity

By Michael Viney

Derek Scally: Three billboards outside Merkel’s apartment

By Derek Scally

In cooking, three really is the magic number

By JP McMahon

Travel

Umbria: It’s Italy but not as you know it

By Laurence Mackin

Cow by Beat Sterchi: From the milking parlour to the slaughterhouse

By John Connell

In Shock: My Journey from Death: Written with a deeply vulnerable human voice

By Paul D’Alton

Grab It, Trouser It and Leg It: a proper name for an estate agent

By Ross O'Carroll-Kelly

Lost Connections review: Shedding the shame of depression

By Houman Barekat

Gardening

Secrets of growing from seed: 10 tips to get your garden going

By Fionnuala Fallon

Interiors

Nine ways to update your kitchen for spring

By Alanna Gallagher

Fintan O’Toole: No integration please, we’re Irish

By Fintan O'Toole

Give Me a Crash Course In . . . Property prices

By Conor Pope

Your Family

Miscarriages and IVF: chasing a rainbow baby (and when to stop)

By Isabel Hayes

Disturbing Words: a short story by Evelyn Conlon

By Evelyn Conlon

The Largesse of the Sea Maiden by Denis Johnson review: sublime last book

By Gavin Corbett

Restaurants

Breton brilliance: A touch of oh là là in a Dublin crêperie

By Catherine Cleary

Gabriel Byrne on Weinstein: ‘He was a violent bully. He had such power’

By Tanya Sweeney

Natasha Rocca Devine is a decor devotee and proud of it

Katie Honan and Sarah Morris: ‘I’d be a pretty good carpenter’

Welcome to Puertopia, a Caribbean crypto-paradise

By Nellie Bowles

Your daily bread: four kinds of bread from one simple dough

By Carmel Somers

‘There isn’t a single one of us who doesn’t have a nasty inner critic’

By Dominique McMullan

Farming & Food

Publicans raise a glass to economic recovery

Health

When is a consultant not a consultant? Quite often actually

By Martin Wall

David McWilliams: Blue-collar America has lost control

By David McWilliams

Life & Style

Nature Diary: Lichens

By Sylvia Thompson

Economy

U-turn on electric buses evidence of Government’s shifting stance

Sean Moncrieff: Does Ireland need a full-time weather service?

By Sean Moncrieff

Interiors

Design Moment: Molar Chair, 1969

By Bernice Harrison

Colm Cronin’s hop, skip and jump into the Irish record books

By Ian O'Riordan

Making a new home from an old factory by the sea in west Cork

By Mary Leland

John Meyler and Cork aiming to manage rising expectations

By Malachy Clerkin

Irish SPV of Russian oil giant unaffected by sanctions

By Joe Brennan

What America Firsters should learn from Boeing’s Bombardier fiasco

Transport

Motor dealer takeover subject of merger law breach inquiry

By Barry O'Halloran

Cabinet’s visit to Sligo only showed the foreign world they live in

By Keith Duggan

Abroad

Non-recognition of qualifications is a major barrier for returning emigrants

By Ciara Kenny

Mexico earthquake cuts power while two die in helicopter crash

Golf

Graeme McDowell leads at Riviera as Woods misses the cut

An Irish Diary

Isle be back – An Irishwoman’s Diary on Clare Island

By Áine Ryan

Czech snowboarder causes shock to win super-G on borrowed skis

By Bryan Armen Graham

Paul O’Donovan beats heavyweight Olympic champion to take bronze

By Liam Gorman

Paul Pogba out of Manchester United’s FA Cup tie with illness

Crime & Law

Belfast rape trial: Week three evidence focused on before and after

By Conor Gallagher

Asia-Pacific

Man who raped and murdered girl (7) in Pakistan sentenced to death

Golf

Tiger Woods gets sentimental at Riviera and vows to keep trying

By Mike Tierney

Sinn Féin insists direct rule ‘not on the table’ for North

By Colin Gleeson

Theresa May says EU should sign new security treaty with UK

Health

‘When should I ask a casual partner about his sexual health?’

By Roe McDermott

Sheffield Wednesday hold out for a replay against Swansea

Florida shooting victim had been due to visit grandparents in Ireland this summer

By Amanda Ferguson

Golf

Matthew Southgate leads in Oman as Darren Clarke struggles

Vatican signals Pope Paul VI to be made a saint

Harrington points Our Duke at Gold Cup after Red Mills win

Waiting Patiently gives Ruth Jefferson emotional Ascot Chase win

Africa

Three women suicide bombers kill at least 19 in Nigerian city

Ireland take second at first Nations Cup of the season

By Margie McLoone

Liam Silke’s late goal smooths Corofin’s passage to club decider

By John Fallon

Pardew stripped Evans of West Brom captaincy to make statement

Irish aid charities fired more than a dozen staff over sexual misconduct

By Jack Power

Barcelona ease past Eibar and set their sights on Stamford Bridge

GAA club which faced eviction from its only pitch expresses ‘huge relief’ as solution found

By Ronan McGreevy

Lowe puts on another show as Leinster step past Scarlets

By Gavin Cummiskey

Brighton see off Coventry to reach FA Cup quarter-finals

Championship round-up: Preston deny Wolves a chance to extend lead

Two Irish tickets scoop €500,000 apiece in EuroMillions

By Colin Gleeson

Ukip members vote to sack party leader

Conor McCarthy helps UCD secure Sigerson Cup title

By Cóilín Duffy

Pop-up cafe in Christ Church aims to spread message about direct provision

By Hajar Akl

Luke McGrath set to miss Ireland squad for Wales game

By Gavin Cummiskey

Environment

Quake tremors felt across parts of Wales and England

French acting heavyweight Isabelle Huppert backs #MeToo

Munster fail to recover from Cardiff’s three-try blitzkrieg

Donegal end Tyrone’s McKenna Cup dominance in thriller

Romelu Lukaku double books Manchester United a quarter-final slot

Tipperary find high-tempo groove to end Wexford’s run

By Ian O'Riordan

Ross King lords it over Antrim as Laois improve quarter-final hopes