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Weekend
Stories that appear in the Weekend section of The Irish Times print edition
Many workers suggest employers should not expect them to go ‘above and beyond’ as a matter of routine
Catriona Stack, principal environmental health officer with the HSE, figures out why rats come into homes - and tries to ensure they don’t come back
A new initiative aims to preserve and promote the Travelling community’s heritage
We join a group of international travel journalists and find the Ireland they are shown is a John Hinde postcard come alive
The author and her daughter Lily Kingsolver have written an illustrated children’s book together
This week’s clearance on Dublin’s Grand Canal was evidence of a more co-ordinated approach by authorities but there is still little sign of a longer-term accommodation solution
During the dramatic two-week Ulster Workers’ Council strike in 1974, there was a sense of societal collapse
The economics of opioids is fairly straightforward and if they flood into Ireland in the same volumes as seen in North America, God help us
Eye on Nature: Éanna Ní Lamhna on the comma butterfly, the eggs of a flightless moth, and an ivy recorded in Offaly for the first time
Ella McSweeney: Since they’re pretty adept at hiding away in prickly places – think mounds of nettles, brambles or hawthorn – I’m hopeful elusive hedgehogs are still around.
Everything you need to know about this year’s Eurovision Song Contest final, which sees Ireland compete for the first time since 2018
Everything you need to know about this year’s Eurovision Song Contest which sees Ireland attempt to qualify for Saturday’s final for the first time since 2018
On a visit to Dublin, the award-winning author Tanja Maljartschuk talks about the effect of Ukraine not gaining statehood after the first World War, ‘irrational Russian imperial trauma’, and why non-Ukrainians need to think about where they see their future
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