All-Ireland senior handball champion bids to end Brady’s remarkable reign

If Irish crime fiction has a signal crime it is corruption – public and private, spiritual and secular

Among the nominees are Ryan Tubridy, Cecelia Ahern, John Banville, Molly McCloskey, Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen

Hustle of hurling hid the former Galway hurler from the solitariness of the priesthood

Judge did not accept James Jordan version of events in relation to October 2014 accident

Three-bedroom home with coastal views – and potential for wide glazed extension

Six professional coffee lovers reveal how they prepare their own coffee at home

John Connolly, Tony Doran, Dermot Earley and John O’Keeffe bring group up to 42

Painstaking husbandry ensures the small county remain at football’s top table

Harry Hill likes mother’s funny novel on unfunny subject of cancer which features him

From chance encounters in speedos and chats about Stillorgan bowling to playing support to the E Street Band, some of the Boss’s biggest fans (and a few non-believers) tell us their stories

Former senator Nioclás Ó Conchúbhair predicts FF and FG will not let process drag on

Independent one of two women elected beside Éamon Ó Cuív, Seán Kyne and Noel Grealish

Mars Bar bribe swings St Patrick’s Boys’ National School vote leaving Ó Cuiv in cold

TG4 survey: FF TD Éamon Ó Cuív to be elected first despite support shy of calculations

Ahead of this year’s Dublin Book Festival, we ask some of the participating authors to tell us the stories behind the books in their personal collections

Hiring of top lawyer indicator of the bigger fight by ex-Anglo chief

Review: ‘Today With Sean O’Rourke’, ‘The Documentary Hour: The Sandhogs’, ‘The Ray D’Arcy Show’

Twenty seven years on from the county’s last All-Ireland triumph, there is belief that another is close

Review: New fiction by John Connolly, Ferdinand von Schirach, Alex Barclay, William Giraldi and Belinda Bauer

‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ makes top 100 for first time, but ‘Wimpy Kid’ dominates charts

Oil terminal worker Brian McGee charts his long journey through shadow of trauma

A round-up of the latest thrillers from Michael Connelly, Ruth Downie, Andrew Martin, Bob Van Laerhoven and Val McDermid

An Irish debut author explains why she is happy to reap a digital dividend

Outhalf has point to prove after losing place in Joe Schmidt’s Ireland squad

The crime writer has turned away from Northern Ireland for his new novel, about a murder in a German nudist religious cult in the South Pacific a century ago

It’s hard to beat the pleasure of settling down on a sun lounger or sofa with a good book. Here are 25 of the season’s best to choose from

Tightly wound or free-flowing? Well charted or twists and turns? Jojo Moyes, Sam Lipsyte, John Connolly, Lia Mills and Tana French on plotting your book

I didn’t set out to write a book in a particular genre but there are a lot of ‘domestic noir’ books being written at the moment, psychological thrillers aimed primarily at women, and my book falls into that category

Area linked to surrender of leaders of 1916 Rising

The Castlebar newspaper will continue to be published under licence by Celtic Media

Ireland was the last country in Europe to decriminalise suicide

Ian Rankin’s ‘Saints of the Shadow Bible’ and Lee Child’s ‘Never Go Back’ are two of this month’s new thrillers

Irish crime writing is booming. Ahead of a weekend festival, some of the writers who have their fingerprints all over this crime wave discuss the reasons behind it

A hoodlum left with his notoriety and nothing else

Gripping trial of larger-than-life criminal and informer at an end

Lawyers face immense task following seven weeks of devastating testimony

Whitey Bulger and his one-time gang partner faced each other across a Boston courtroom

John Martorano implicates former friend Bulger in 11 of 19 murders