Ian O’Riordan: Running is the music and everything else is noise
I discovered an irresistible urge to get back to the Aran Islands and retrace my old footsteps along An Trá Mór
Brigid O’Dea: ‘I keep laughing, but then the printer jams’
Often it’s not the big things that upset us but the small one like Bukowski’s shoelace
Mind over madness: How running became the people’s game
Benefits to mental health every bit as important as the physical ones when going running
The Johnny Depp you once loved wasn’t the real Johnny Depp
Discrediting of movie stars we admire can be hard to process. But we never really knew them
‘We don’t know how to handle it until after someone kills themselves’
Comedian Marise Gaughan on why she is trying to find the funny side of suicide in her stand-up
Lean on Pete: Horse and boy film is an emotional knockout
Review: Charlie Plummer shows himself to be the best young actor of his generation
The man trying to reinvent the future of food with Soylent
Meal substitute entrepreneur Rob Rhinehart lives in a shipping container with no water
Visual art: A Kilkenny collective that recognises no rules
A strong show by the KCat collective is refreshingly free of irony and knowingness
Trapped in the tight, murky orbit of Ballinasloe
Visual Art: Ciarán Óg Arnold’s photographic book shows us a world of drinking, messing and masculine swagger
The man in the long black coat: Bob Dylan on Leeson Street
I’ve seen Bob Dylan play live about 30 times across the world but nothing beats that first encounter. And when I bumped into him on the street, it was anything but an accident
Brought to Book: Brian Conaghan on Yossarian, The Fault in our Stars and Catcher in the Rye
‘As long as people have eyes there will always be a publishing industry. Don’t believe all the scaremongering that modern technology is taking over’
Being Behan: death by celebrity and alcohol
Adrian Dunbar, who takes the lead role in a play about the twilight of Brendan Behan’s life, thinks the time is right to resuscitate his legacy
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