Damien Owens: ‘People confuse seriousness with intelligence. Life is a comedy-drama’
The Monaghan-born writer on finding his voice and his fascination with other families
Patrick Freyne’s favourite art: Things that should be trash but are actually brilliant
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Monty Python collaborator Neil Innes dies aged 75
Comedian and musician also sang with Beatles parody band The Rutles
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Boris Johnson might have stumbled on to something by promising to blow the budget on spending rises rather than tax cuts
The beauty of a good bookshop – bookworms have their say
Rick O’Shea, Emer McLysaght and others on their favourite bookshops as children and adults
Computing’s great leap forward not matched by safeguards
Software errors can be perilous – as the airline and motor industries have discovered
Watch us lose the run of ourselves after beating All Blacks
Beating the All Blacks is a notions bonanza and thus laden with danger for Irish rugby
Conor Pope: 20 years of Google has turned us into lazy know-it-alls
Google, which turns 20 this week, has ruined medicine, map-making and pub quizzes
20 moments that lit up 2018 All-Ireland football championship
Football the poor relation at the end of summer where complaining is true national sport
‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’: 40 years on
Douglas Adams’s novel is still a hilarious map to life’s terrain
Brexit is like quantum mechanics, nobody understands it
Chris Johns: Maybe the Brexit equations could be solved with the addition of some dark matter?
Twenty-nine ways World Wide Web has changed our lives in 29 years
British computer scientist’s proposal led to transformation of services and data access
Elon Musk launches fastest Tesla ever from his Falcon Heavy rocket
Tesla Roadster fired towards Mars at 20,000km/h
Chris Horn: History of wearable devices links watch and Fitbit range
A challenge faced by firms offering wearable products is consumer boredom
Leaps in technology have not brought huge economic strides
A growing number of economists are wondering if the technological revolution has been greatly overhyped
Ebooks column: Digital readers have added new dimension to world of fiction
Stephen King was the first writer to embrace the medium
Derek Landy on living life without a boss
‘Make every chapter your absolute favourite . . . Then, when it’s done, make the NEXT chapter your absolute favourite’
Brought to Book: Sheila Agnew on Middlemarch’s wisdom and the title that brought her home
The rewards of being a writer outweigh the wages she earned as a Manhattan lawyer
Your favourite opening lines in literature
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Management consultants: they charge a lot but know a little
The new Governor of the Bank of England has called in the consultants. Will he get his money’s worth?
Scientist Brian Cox gives lecture at new UCD science centre
BBC presenter keeps audience on their toes with explanation of Higgs boson discovery
Does science really say everything that can be said about life?
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