Things that were big in my childhood but mean nothing to my children

Mary Minihan: So many things that dominated my childhood are meaningless to them

Over €360,000 of library fines issued across Dublin for 2017

Most popular books borrowed include ‘Echoland’ by Joe Joyce and Roald Dahl classic ‘The BFG’

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‘The Simpsons’ criticised for ‘toothless’ response to Apu row

‘Don’t have a cow’: Cartoon addresses allegations of harmful racial stereotyping

Meet Princess Nokia: tomboy, misfit, feminist, anti-conformist, ‘bruja’

Our new Very Best Friend: The Afro-Puerto Rican New Yorker is making waves in the world of alt-pop and hip-hop with her riot grrrl outlook and punk-rock sensibility

Get a load of Blarney: Cork village branches out from stone-kissing

Attempt to broaden Blarney’s appeal sees launch of heritage trail and map

David O’Reilly: This Irish game-maker’s theory about ‘Everything’

The Irish animator’s new video game is a mind-blowing journey into philosophy where you can be almost anything

In a Word . . . Homoeopathy

The stakes have risen since Murdoch’s last battle for Sky

21st Century Fox’s bid for pay-TV company is response to an even bigger rival takeover

Rosmuc residents accuse Údarás na Gaeltachta of trying to ‘airbrush’ Pádraig Pearse

Criticism for proposed name of new centre close to Pearse’s Connemara cottage

Kerry cheesed off at Dunnes Stores over trademark row

Kerry Group taking aim at Dunnes in a trademark row over Cheestrings brand

Government’s ‘windy rhetoric fools nobody’ - McDonald

Sinn Féin ardfheis told Fine Gael and Labour no better than Fianna Fáil for putting ‘friends first’

Voice of Simpsons’ Edna Krabappel dies

Krabappel was known for the catchphrase: ‘Do what I mean, not what I say’