Highlights

Studio Ulster: ‘We can create environments that are impossible to find anywhere else’

TV guide: the best new shows to watch, starting tonight

Message from the Editor: We’ve hit a milestone – our journalism is fully funded by subscribers

What’s the best meal Keith Duggan can get for €120 in Washington?

Twenty years ago, The Irish Times tried to predict 2025. It got quite a few things right

Scrabble is not just about being the best speller or knowing long words

Who’s to blame for the end of cinema? It’s not who you think

Brigitte Bardot: The reluctant cinema icon who embodied France’s sexual revolution

2025 in TV: Rogue brogues, the drunken Irish and a prestige streamer’s hidden jewels

Mark O’Connell: You don’t think Jesus could return as AI? Talk to Joe Rogan

The year in theatre: At last, Ireland has lost its fear of new writing for the stage

CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan: ‘It’s an absolute dream to travel in the US’

Safeguarding a 700-year-old manuscript for future generations

Patrick Freyne: From the removal of joy to global destruction, 16 reasons I hate AI

Warning: These 2025 TV shows and films contain scenes of a workplace nature

Notable deaths in 2025, from David Lynch to David Hanly

Best music in 2025: Irish Times critics choose the albums and acts of the year

The photographs of 2025 – and the stories behind them

Man left €25,000 in his will to nurse who cared for him in Dublin hospital

New year’s resolutions: optimism bias can perpetuate irrational behaviours