Article Index

Omagh: ‘The smell of burning flesh, that’s something I have to live with’

By Freya McClements

America’s counterculture is alive and kicking – and dancing

By James Jeffrey

In a Word . . . marathon

By Patsy McGarry

Vatican wish for indemnity

Take care with that Sláinte

Lining up the meds for Brexit

Health secretary who became popular ambassador to Ireland

The new ‘Emergency’ facing Europe

A maritime moment

Marking decisive battle at Amiens

Zappone should publish Oberstown report

Catholic involvement in hospitals

An outstanding witness to the motto ‘God is our courage’

Family sleeping in Garda station

One of the more accomplished diplomats in recent history

Post-Brexit duty-free shopping surge may hit Irish tax take

By Fiach Kelly

Archaeologist who used beetles to unlock past

Your Money

Why airport car hire is ripe for change

By Merryn Somerset Webb

Festival fever: This week’s best traditional music gigs

By Siobhán Long

Shane Ross must accept he cannot be both insider and outsider

By Fiach Kelly

Film

Ewan McGregor: ‘I have been living a midlife crisis since my teens’

By Donald Clarke

Markets

Myth of Musk at odds with reality of taking Tesla private

By Vincent Boland

Ikea opens first Indian outlet and tailors products to local market

By PR Sanjai

Dublin’s housing crisis brings silver lining for the regions

By Cliff Taylor

Polkas for pink elephants: this week’s best classical concerts

By Michael Dervan

Gig of the Week: Seoda Summer Party

By Tony Clayton-Lea

This Album Changed My Life: Regina Spektor – Begin to Hope (2006)

By Niall Byrne

Patrick Freyne: My day with Steven Seagal, Putin’s new envoy

By Patrick Freyne

The whole of the tune: This week’s best rock and pop gigs

By Tony Clayton-Lea

United in hope and despair – José Mourinho’s sorry summer

By Mary Hannigan

Ruadhán Mac Cormaic: How we failed Sierra Leone in Ebola crisis

By Ruadhán Mac Cormaic

Infowars: America’s favourite online hatemonger gets jackbooted off YouTube

By Seamas O'Reilly

History

The Times We Lived In: The £700 ‘sleeper’ rug

By Arminta Wallace

Weather extremes and food shortages grip continental Europe

By Derek Scally

Crime & Law

A Ballaghaderreen solicitor’s spectacular fall from grace

By Peter Murtagh

You Think It, I’ll Say It by Curtis Sittenfeld

New artists of the week: Paul Institute

By Niall Byrne

Abroad

The east’s awake: Japan’s bright young Irish trad musicians

By JJ O’Donoghue

Pop-up jazz supergroup in Kilkenny: this week’s best jazz gigs

By Cormac Larkin

Homage to my parents on their 50th wedding anniversary

By Dairmaid Ferriter

Martyn Turner

Archive 81 is a horror ensemble notable for lack of conformity

By Sarah Griffin

Another Love Story: Our New VBF

By Louise Bruton

Stand out in the racing crowd with these eye-catching headpieces

By Deirdre McQuillan

‘Keeping Up with the Kardashians’ is turning into ‘Hate Island’

By Jennifer Gannon

Stage

The League of Brexit Gentlemen: 'Edward looks like Michael Gove, it’s eerie'

By Shilpa Ganatra

Art

An Irish sculptor comes to Eileen Gray's classic modernist house

By Lara Marlowe

Lori Petty: On My Culture Radar

By Shilpa Ganatra

Why is Presbyterian Church in Ireland marching into the dark?

By Fionola Meredith

Film

A son explores the cinematic legacy of the father he never knew

By Tara Brady

Stage

Skull two pints in Connemara: this week’s theatre highlights

By Peter Crawley

The time of my life: ‘It felt like the city was being ran by 18-21 -year-olds’

By Shaun Dunne

Dublin eye up history as Galway try to forget the past

By Seán Moran

Breda O’Brien: Maybe Ireland is not secular enough yet

By Breda O'Brien

Crap, cackles and pop: Listening to Ireland’s breakfast radio

By Tanya Sweeney

Art

Japanese gardens and model villages: the week’s visual arts highlights

By Aidan Dunne

Art

Art in Focus: ‘Rail’ by Anni Albers

By Aidan Dunne

Transport

Aeroflot to launch daily Moscow-Dublin route in October

By Jason Corcoran

Out of the frying pan and into the fire for House of Fraser?

Sterling slump driving used car imports, but for how long?

Irish entrepreneur unexpectedly withdraws bid to buy US firm

By Charlie Taylor

The Cayman islands: A relaxing haven for you (not just your money)

By Emma Cullinan

The best new crime fiction: bloody messes everywhere

By Declan Burke

Marian Keyes: We need to talk about leopard print

By Marian Keyes

‘Change given’, a short story by Anne Griffin

By Anne Griffin

Sound-Off: ‘Take your olives and get stuffed’

By Esther O'Moore Donohoe

Drink

Offbeat Chilean wines that offer great value for money

By John Wilson

‘There’s a lot of Oh! My! God!s – even by normal South Dublin standards’

By Ross O'Carroll-Kelly

Can you be racist against white people?

By Brian Boyd

The joy of the ‘no cook’ meal: Stock up your fridge and take a bit of time off

By Carmel Somers

Children and the Great Hunger: old and new perspectives on the Famine

By Christopher Cusack

Juggling With Turnips review: funny and perfectly constructed stories

By Frank McNally

Fine Art & Antiques

Cut to the crystal in Waterford summer sale with 830 eclectic lots

By Arminta Wallace

Dromoland Castle €20m refurbishment completed

By Jo Linehan

Seven new ways to enjoy the Irish outdoors

By Heather Snelgar

‘Double kisser beats the single kisser, who in turn trounces the handshake’

By Jennifer O'Connell

Social Affairs

Dear Pope Francis: Write an open letter to the Pope

Nice’s new normal: Feeling its way back after 2016 attack

By Lara Marlowe

Sweet treat: A latticed plum tart from Tuscany

By Vanessa Greenwood

Earthquakes: Why some natural disasters are more deadly than others

By Lucy Jones

David McWilliams: The rise of the singleton has transformed Ireland

By David McWilliams

Abroad

Welcome to my place . . . Malta

By Conor Neeson

A whale of a time in Bergen

By Catherine Conroy

Environment

Eye on Nature: Your notes and queries for Ethna Viney

By Ethna Viney

Grace’s Day by William Wall: a novel that wallows unhappily in itself

By Houman Barekat

Waiting for Grace’s Day to dawn

By William Wall

Environment

From pond whirligigs to tooth-nosed snout weevils – it’s a busy beetle hunt

By Michael Viney

Geoffrey Beattie on ‘Returning to Reims’ by Didier Eribon

By Geoffrey Beattie

When Fintan threatened to kill the children it changed everything

By Barry Roche

Fintan O’Toole: Ireland, land of a 32-county hockey team and a 26-county rail system

By Fintan O'Toole

Fine Art & Antiques

Ticking over: the right watch can be a sound investment

By Arminta Wallace

The Saturday poem: The New Information

By Oana Sanziana Mariana

First Look: The Grayson – Dublin’s newest dining venue

By Marie Claire Digby

JP McMahon: The role of spices in authentic Irish cooking

By JP McMahon

Dear Pope Francis: ‘A year after John Paul II came, I was raped by a priest’

Striking print shirts from This is Not Clothing

By Deirdre McQuillan

John Boyne’s A Ladder to the Sky gets lost in narrative acrobatics

By Seán Hewitt

A late change of plan may have saved our lives

By Paul Burgess

Does honey ever go off?

By Aoife McElwain

In praise of older books: Good Behaviour by Molly Keane (1991)

By Julie Parsons

Ongoingness by Sarah Manguso: life, work and family in splintered detail

By Sinéad Gleeson

Fine Art & Antiques

A letter from Napoleon, crystals from Afghanistan: what’s coming up in auctions

By Arminta Wallace

Your Fitness

Why I love . . . horse riding

By Frances Neeson

Little Fox in Ennistymon – a new restaurant with big ideas

By Marie Claire Digby

JP McMahon: Make the most of our traditional river fish

By JP McMahon

Maeve in America review: insightful, honest and very funny

By Kevin Gildea

‘Had a wonderful time in this I am ashamed to say’: Memories of a 20th-century style icon

By Deirdre McQuillan

Gardening

Prune, sow and eat tomatoes: 8 things to do in the August garden

By Fionnuala Fallon

Panti Bliss, a Mills & Boon author and a Viking: Me and my alter ego

By Aoife McElwain

Drink

For the table or the deckchair: two summery beers for the weekend

By Sorcha Hamilton

How Are You Going to Save Yourself by JM Holmes: sharp, vibrant tales

By Sarah Gilmartin

Kevin McStay: Galway will push Dublin but not quite far enough

By Kevin McStay

Restaurants

Inis Meáin Restaurant: Train, bus, boat and taxi – a place worth taking a trip for

By Catherine Cleary

Property

Summer in a mobile home park: ‘It’s what Irish villages were like 50 years ago’

By Tanya Sweeney

Social Affairs

The faith of Ireland’s Catholics continues, despite all

By Patsy McGarry

Your Family

Can you raise a gender-neutral child? Meet the parents who do

By Jennifer O'Connell

Brexit shaping up to be more Armageddon than Mad Max

By Colin Gleeson

Economy

Ireland in crosshairs in debate on tax and multinationals

Sean Moncrieff: Irish dinner party guide? Open the Buckfast then order a takeaway

By Sean Moncrieff

Sport

Ireland’s hockey odyssey: ‘This is an emergency. I’m playing in the World Cup final’

By Johnny Watterson

Inside Gerry Adams’s cookbook

No Irish solution to Irish problem

Social Affairs

How faith can help us face up to the terrible loss of a loved one

By Gordon Linney

Manchester City can reign again with even more Pep in their step

By Michael Walker

Asia-Pacific

Kolkata: a city on the brink of climate disaster

By Somini Sengupta

Dublin’s style has evolved to make their dominance last longer

By Malachy Clerkin

School groundsman who claimed weed killer gave him cancer awarded $289m

Airline employee steals plane and crashes it near Seattle island

Jacob Rees-Mogg slams Boris Johnson ‘show trial’ over burka comments

Crime & Law

Ten vintage Massey Fergusons stolen from premises in Co Down

John Boyne describes ‘one of those long dark nights of the soul’ after break-up

By Patrick Logue

Daryl Horgan completes move to Neil Lennon’s Hibernian

Jurgen Klopp expects Alisson to make instant impact

Nasa mission to the sun halted two minutes before blast off

Crime & Law

Three men stabbed in fight outside pub in Co Antrim

By Louise Roseingrave

Spurs inch their way to opening day win over Newcastle

Two appear in court over alleged ATM skimming

By Conor Pope

Ten footpath sandwich boards seized and 31 warning notices issued to Dublin businesses

By Dan Griffin

Hearts make a bad week worse for Celtic at Tynecastle

Golf

Shane Lowry storms into US PGA contention with stunning 64

By Philip Reid

An Irish Diary

Church services

The 14-year-old who was probably the youngest Irish serviceman to die in WW1

By Ronan McGreevy

Environment

Temperatures set to climb back to 25 degrees next week

US has ‘turned its back’ on Nato ally Turkey, says Erdogan

Politics

President Higgins meets Aga Khan Áras an Uachtaráin

By Louise Roseingrave

Republican parade sparks police show of force and counterprotest

By Amanda Ferguson

Sport

Big prizes evade Irish rowers at World Junior Championships

By Liam Gorman

French theme park calls in the crows to pick up cigarette butts

Fulham and Cardiff both lose on return to top flight

Maurizio Sarri off to perfect start as Chelsea ease past Huddersfield

Galway’s goal glut secures a spot in All-Ireland minor decider

By Paul Keane

World

Canadian police identify and charge suspect in multiple killing

Sport

Chris Woakes hits maiden Test century to put England in control

Dublin wait it out and watch Galway fade in front of their eyes

By Malachy Clerkin

FBI widens inquiry into suicidal airline worker

Dublin’s arsenal pounds Galway as four-in-a-row rises on horizon

By Gavin Cummiskey

Middle East

Mother and daughter held in Dubai over glass of wine released

Championship round-up: Roofe on fire as Leeds continue brilliant start

Richarlison doubles up before Jimenez rescues point for Wolves