Article Index

Browser review: Wendell Berry’s collection of evocative stories

Gardening

Eat better fruit without it costing the earth

By Fionnuala Fallon

Something to satisfy all tastes on a foodie trip to Kilkenny

By Anna Kenny

Fine Art & Antiques

Get into the vinyl groove at Adam’s Mid-Century Modern sale

By Elizabeth Birdthistle

Culture

In a Word . . .

By Patsy McGarry

Social Affairs

Thinking Anew – The richness of human diversity

By Gordon Linney

Sending money home

Fine Gael and Maria Bailey

Time for a review

Derrybrien wind-farm penalty

Boris Johnson’s walkabout video

Two-tier healthcare system

President Higgins and the role of the state

Clifford-Lee’s apology

Trade unions – a crisis of relevance

KBC and the ‘guys’ at the Central Bank

Marcelle Ninio obituary: spy for Israel who took part in planting bombs in Egypt

This week’s flooding has shown Johnson is vulnerable to ambush by events

By Denis Staunton

New generation of protesters links Slovakia with 1989 spirit

By Daniel McLaughlin

James McClean: ‘As long as the manager picks me that’s all that matters’

By Emmet Malone

Best relieved he doesn’t have to face Ireland’s World Cup postmortem

By Barry Glendenning

FA make supportive contact with James McClean over his poppy stand

By Emmet Malone

Hobnobs for bigwig: A judge’s strict dietary demands

By Jack Horgan-Jones and Conor Gallagher

Robert Norris obituary: Marlboro Man who ‘reassured’ cold war US

Raymond Poulidor obituary: The much-loved nearly man of French cycling

Brian Mawhinney obituary: Ulsterman served in British cabinet and chaired football league

Sinn Féin grassroots left in dark on deputy leadership challenge

By Gerry Moriarty and Freya McClements

Rights body should be able to police ‘hate speech’ ahead of elections

By Simon Carswell and Colm Keena

Rumours swirl in Fine Gael of legal challenge from Maria Bailey

By Pat Leahy and Marie O'Halloran

‘Gets moneyyy!’ TDs grumble as sports grant news leaked to chosen few

By Miriam Lord

Environment

Life after peat: Men of the bog – and proud of it

By Jennifer O'Connell

Economy

Not fair: Dublin workers paid only 15% more than rest of country

Commercial Property

Kennedy Wilson seeks planning for major Dublin docklands campus

By Ronald Quinlan

Datalex enters mediation with Lufthansa on pulled deal

By Joe Brennan

Corbyn’s gambit: Hands up who wants free broadband?

Fine Art & Antiques

Testing times for Irish art in London as RTÉ auctions le Brocquys

By Elizabeth Birdthistle

Traditional highlights: Mary McNamara in Clare, Ye Vagabonds in Cork

By Siobhán Long

The perfect office worker’s capacity for evil

By Hugh Linehan

Travel

‘I would tell the younger me: Enjoy your sister, she isn’t going to live past 32’

By Siobhan Healy

Adam Cohen: ‘Dad, I know you’re not happy with this . . .’

By Peter Murphy

History

House of The Dead: What to do with Joyce’s literary landmark?

By Hugh Linehan

Bigmouth strikes back: Liam Gallagher leads this week’s rock & pop highlights

By Tony Clayton-Lea and Louise Bruton

Gig of the week: Unfiltered everyman Lewis Capaldi plays Dublin

By Tony Clayton-Lea

Art

Art in Focus: Angela Gilmour – Dansoy

By Aidan Dunne

The eight best jazz gigs to go to around Ireland this week

By Cormac Larkin

‘I thought the end of the music industry would be amazing’

By Patrick Freyne

An Irish Diary

Church services

Culture

Cooking food from video games offers escapist fantasy

By Gemma Tipton

The best classical concerts and opera of the week

By Michael Dervan

Culture

‘Auk’ or ‘Orc’: Some people just don’t know their R’s from their elbows

By Donald Clarke

Martyn Turner

Film

Mia Wasikowska: I got in trouble for an Irish accent before

By Donald Clarke

Art

Men in black in a metaphysical mystery: this week’s visual arts highlights

By Aidan Dunne

Crime & Law

Supreme Court judge’s ‘very specific’ dietary choices outlined for legal staff

By Jack Horgan-Jones and Conor Gallagher

Privacy uproar shows Google cloud business has a trust problem

By Richard Waters

Books podcast: our reviewers discuss the best crime fiction of 2019

Apple’s long reach reshapes medical research

By Natasha SInger

Business

No home run yet for Amarin’s heart drug Vascepa

Motors

How to ensure a rogue taxi driver doesn’t rip you off

By Conor Pope

Beck: ‘U2 had the best audiences of anyone I’ve opened for’

By Lauren Murphy

TV & Radio

Miriam O’Callaghan is rendered powerless by Danny Healy-Rae

By Mick Heaney

Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Jung (1961)

By Rob Doyle

Interiors

Who needs lots of kitchen gadgets? Not these serious cooks

By Catherine Cleary

David McWilliams: Ireland’s Monopoly money rents are no game

By David McWilliams

Ireland’s do or die games: The nights we did - and the nights we died

By Malachy Clerkin

Pinot Noir: A flexible friend

By John Wilson

September 1, 1939: A biography of a poem – Entertaining insight into Auden

By John McAuliffe

Interiors

May the force be with your casserole

By Alanna Gallagher and Orna Mulcahy

Fintan O’Toole: How Donald Trump will survive impeachment

By Fintan O'Toole

Fintan O’Toole on Brexit satire: It would be funny if it wasn’t so serious

By Fintan O'Toole

People

Jennifer O'Connell: We’re living in a golden age of TV. Try telling that to RTÉ

By Jennifer O'Connell

Poem of the week: The Boat Builder

By Rebecca O’Connor

People

‘Oh my God,’ Honor goes, ‘there’s a focking horse in the gorden!’

By Ross O'Carroll-Kelly

A mouth-watering butterbean mash with succulent steaks

By Lilly Higgins

Inspirational words from Seán O’Brien help Leinster get in the Euro zone

By Gavin Cummiskey

Saffron chickpeas with sultanas and orange

By Paul Flynn

Fashion

Fionnula Flanagan, Camille O’Sullivan and Kate Gilmore play Dickens’s ghosts at the Gate

By Deirdre McQuillan

Poetry round-up: Balancing life and death on a knife edge

By Martina Evans

Staying local: The new wave of chefs cooking only what grows around them

By Ali Dunworth

Steak with rosemary butterbean mash

By Lilly Higgins

Ministers reluctantly realise they will have to help RTÉ

By Pat Leahy

Cliff Taylor: President Higgins is at least asking the right questions

By Cliff Taylor

Andy Friend: 'We know if we run straight into them we will probably lose that battle’

By Keith Duggan

Art

The women designers who changed the world

By Bernice Harrison

Property

Make a move to Finglas: An ‘absolute gem of a neighbourhood’

By Tanya Sweeney

Breda O'Brien: A simple, dignified apology from McAleese would suffice

By Breda O'Brien

Paul Merton: Boris Johnson stopped being funny when he became prime minister

By Patrick Freyne

Social Affairs

Direct provision: The controversial system turns 20

By Sorcha Pollak and Mark Hilliard

Restaurants

Review: Dinner in a museum has never felt as much of a treat

By Catherine Cleary

TV & Radio

50 hidden gems Netflix probably won’t recommend for you

By Darragh Geraghty

Abroad

São Paulo’s gringo hero: Michael D to honour Dublin priest

By Tom Hennigan

The Tenth Muse review: A brilliantly balanced equation

By Sarah Gilmartin

Fine Art & Antiques

Magic carpet result in London, Cartier gems in Clontarf

By Elizabeth Birdthistle

Beautiful blooms in surprising places around Ireland

By Deirdre McQuillan

Environment

I found these growing at the base of my Japanese maple tree? Readers’ nature queries

By Ethna Viney

Chocolate mocha squares

By Vanessa Greenwood

Diarmaid Ferriter: Irish have no right to politicise remittances

By Diarmaid Ferriter

Turnip tortilla

By Paul Flynn

Gaelic Games

Weekend Gaelic Games previews

By Seán Moran

Global remittances are the oil that keep globalisation going

By Ruadhán Mac Cormaic

Environment

Distinctive history of nature literature compiled in insightful anthology

By Michael Viney

Catalan chicken and butterbean bake

By Paul Flynn

Property

‘People think living in two countries is more expensive’ ... Not necessarily

By Tanya Sweeney

Formidable Munster to prolong the agony for struggling Ospreys

By Johnny Watterson

Ulster travel to Bath buoyed by Henderson’s return to starting team

By Michael Sadlier

Depleted Connacht facing massive Montpellier test

By Linley MacKenzie

John Ryan keeping it real as he focuses on life’s daily battles

By Johnny Watterson

People

Seán Moncrieff: The planet is cooking for all of us, no matter our politics

By Seán Moncrieff

Party like it’s 1959: Cooking like Great-Granny used to

By Jennifer O'Connell

Russia and China, controversial friends of the Czech president

By Daniel McLaughlin

Sideline Cut: Ireland and Denmark have had enough of each other

By Keith Duggan

Business

Banker strikes bum note as regulator warns of return to bad days

By Colin Gleeson

Trump releases rough transcript of call with Ukranian president elect

Crime & Law

Three questioned by Garda over Lunney abduction released

By Conor Lally

Asia-Pacific

Muslim bus convoy attacked as Sri Lanka goes to polls

Teenager who killed two in California shooting dies in hospital

Northern Ireland’s loss is Stoke’s gain as O’Neill plans long goodbye

By Michael Walker

Asia-Pacific

Bushfires burn across Australia with hotter weather expected

Gaelic Games

Unfinished business beckons for Clontibret as they bid to reach Ulster final

By Malachy Clerkin

With a tweet, Trump blows up Republican strategy for ex-ambassador

By Michael D. Shear

Texas prisoner has execution suspended by appeals court

Middle East

One killed in Iran protests over fuel price hike

Golf

Graeme McDowell trails Danny Lee by four in Mexico

Paul Flynn: three great Spanish dishes to cook at home

By Paul Flynn

Three former alter boys claim they were abused in Vatican

Racing

Faugheen the machine wins on chasing bow at Punchestown

Scaling back of air ambulance will not put lives at risk, Minister says

By Conor Lally

Ballinamore protest stood down with immediate effect

By Colm Keena

Restoration of North’s Assembly still possible, SF ardfheis hears

By Freya McClements

Pro-independence protesters take to Barcelona's main train station

Sport

Champions Cup: Ospreys v Munster

University of Limerick staff set to be balloted over industrial action

By Conor Pope

Teacher sacked after sex with boys (17) he met on app, gets €800k

Golf

Lombard’s lead cut to one in Sun City as Oosthuizen and Detry make ground

Racing

Saldier stuns stablemate Klassical Dream to take Morgiana Hurdle

Ulster squeeze out brilliant win away to Bath in European opener

Africa

At least 15 civilians killed by suspected Islamist militants in Congo

Ardfheis leaves door open for Sinn Féin to enter coalition government

By Gerry Moriarty

Courts

Ex-priest appears in court charged with possessing child pornography

By Tom Tuite

Taoiseach plays down concerns over meeting to deselect Maria Bailey

By Barry Roche

No World Cup ring-rust as Ringrose hat-trick sets Leinster rolling

By Gavin Cummiskey

Steve Clarke will take the win as Scotland scrape past Cyprus

McFarland knows Clermont will punish Ulster if they cough up possession

Michelle O’Neill re-elected as deputy leader of Sinn Féin

By Gerry Moriarty

Golf

Moynihan best placed of the Irish at European Tour Final Qualifying School

By Philip Reid

Two arrested, loaded gun seized in raid linked to Kinahan-Hutch feud

By Conor Pope and Conor Lally

Munster claim classic European bonus-point win after the clock turns red

By John O'Sullivan

Mary Lou McDonald calls for ‘new deal’ to plan for Irish unity

By Gerry Moriarty

Lives not at risk by scaling back of air ambulance service – Varadkar

By Barry Roche

Leo Cullen happy as season starts all over again with bonus-point win

Sport

Max Verstappen claims second pole of his career for Brazilian Grand Prix

Sinn Féin Northern command in good shape despite southern setbacks

By Gerry Moriarty

Affordable access to housing ‘vital’, Martin tells young FF supporters

By Conor Pope

McDonald facing electoral tests that will shape her leadership

By Pat Leahy

‘Our democratic day out’: Sinn Féin ardfheis sees plenty of smiles on display

By Freya McClements

Thirteen proves the lucky number as Ireland under-19s hammer Gibraltar

World

Eight dead in Bolivia after skirmishes between authorities and farmers

Crosaire Blog

Crosaire No 17112 by Crossheir – Saturday, November 16th, 2019

By Lorna Kernan

Paris police fire tear gas at yellow vest anniversary protesters

O’Mahony and Van Graan know Munster’s discipline needs to improve

By John O'Sullivan

Asia-Pacific

Hong Kong police launch tear gas as protestors fire arrows

Northern Ireland head down the playoff route as Dutch qualify for Euro 2020