Inspiring account of IWU, edited by Evelyn Conlon and Rebecca Pelan, has left this reviewer turbocharged for further change
Ireland, I have often thought smugly since my return from California, wouldn’t tolerate such pretentious, self-destructive nonsense as a ban on clothes lines. Enter the row over EV charging arms
Climate scientists say ‘extremely warm’ weather is becoming more normal, with the balance is being tipped from ‘unusual’ towards ‘way too hot’
Ian Drennan facing criticism from Denis O’Brien and Leslie Buckley over investigation
Agent for Limerick auctioneers said they had ‘helped purchasers’ before using splits
Venmo founder Bryan Johnson and other tech billionaires have set their sights on immortality. Is this as risible as it seems?
Broadcaster on his famous friends, future of media, ‘pathetic’ Kneecap and why his Offaly roots don’t make him a Biffo
Michael Flatley toots a flute for Irish-US relations; Micheál Martin gets plonked in front of a harp in Japan
Ireland’s longest-serving prisoner, who confessed to kidnapping and killing a 23-year-old Dublin woman in 1976, was never convicted of her murder
‘I hope she has one of her good days – because there’ll be some crowd at her living funeral’
Cork have to be favourites against unexpected Dublin challenge but it may be a year too soon for Tipp
Students’ annual holiday pilgrimage is in full swing and some parents are even jetting out to stay nearby just in case
Kenny Jacobs told minister he had ‘no conflict of interest’ when joining board of State airport company
‘We were chancing our arm,’ Garry Hynes says of the company that brought superlative, expansive, intimate, skilled theatre to Galway and then the world stage
Fra Fee and Ryan Dylan, who star in the Dublin venue’s summer production, on cancel culture and comedy
Galway International Arts Festival 2025: Interface’s This Too Will Pass, at the Carrolls salmon hatchery, and Funeral for Ashes, by Conor Maloney and John Conneely
Paul Rainey’s follow-up to Why Don’t You Love Me?, 1653 book The Compleat Angler revisited, queer love, teen angst and more
Rebecca S Miller’s account of the Irish showband era is fluent, authoritative and free of either nostalgia or embarrassment
A story of separation is followed by a rekindling of first love
Sarah Moss, Joseph O’Connor, Wendy Erskine, John Banville, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne and other authors and reviewers choose their top reads for the holidays
The scenes are graphic and highly disturbing
Tests aimed at assessing skills suited to medicine were introduced in 2009. Now, medical schools want to downgrade their importance amid equity and integrity concerns
With large Jewish, Israeli and Palestinian communities, debate about the war is messy, conflicted and shifting. For the country’s Irish population, navigating it is complex
How to teach your children about finances without stress or meltdowns
Kilkenny slipping under the radar; Ireland in a land of opportunity; home hopefuls make slow start at Irish Open
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