Highlights

‘She will be the talk of Paris when she gets back’: Coco steals show at Stoneybatter festival

Metallica’s Kirk Hammett in Dublin: ‘Right now, songwriting and pop music is crap’

Irish people are flocking back to the cinema. What’s going on?

‘My sister was, like, you don’t have to fit in – you’re weird, and it’s okay that you’re weird’

Is it better to buy an expensive Cava or Crémant than to snag a cheap Champagne?

‘The absolute splendour of it all’: Hundreds mark summer solstice at Hill of Tara

Confused by the new format for the All-Ireland football championship? Here’s how it works

The ‘40 before 40’ challenge: can doing new things help me see my life in Dublin in a new light?

A day in the life of a GAA intercounty ref: ‘€6.80. That’s what I got for the day’

Metallica at the Aviva review: no encore, no One, no Enter Sandman. Not tonight

The Irish herbalists finding new purpose in ancient remedies

Séamas O’Reilly: An insane sequence of events led to me to quit the office job I hated

I was surprised to see this visitor on my evening river walk

‘Of course I’m bloody anxious, having grown up in a place that told me I wasn’t good enough’

Writer Victoria Kennefick: ‘Women’s anger is very underexplored and misunderstood’

Journalist John Ware on the Troubles: ‘The conflict is still being slugged out’

The 196th RHA Annual Exhibition is full of escapism. Where’s the rage?

‘You’re almost an afterthought’: Five men on how fatherhood has transformed their lives

How to find a good summer rosé from outside Provence

The selfie problem: Europe’s museums grapple with problem crowds