A series in which we return to the scene of John Hinde postcards: Red Island was a holiday camp in Skerries that operated for three decades. Thin Lizzy and Horslips played the ballroom. As for the food situation, ‘it was a bit like the army’

Michael Coleman puts on an almost perfect show; a piece of Birmingham moves to Temple Bar; and Amelia Stein goes close to the edge

A series in which we return to the scene of John Hinde postcards. Part 2/4: much is unchanged in this Co Clare holiday resort, but a ‘small private hotel for a Christian endeavour movement’ closed in 2004

A vast collection of vintage Irish postcards – to be auctioned next month – paints a picture of a long-forgotten Ireland

New Republic-only station seems attached to hokey Oirish travelogues as well as John Hinde advertising break and station ident imagery

The artist’s latest projects centre on what he calls ‘folk fictions’

Two young chefs are paying respect to great ingredients in a handsome reinvention of an old Dublin favourite

Constituents and politicians pay their respects to the former deputy

Visual-art reviews: Photographs from a US-based Irish doctor are transforming Imma’s collection

Journalist, author and Ross O’Carroll Kelly creator Paul Howard talks about his new book, his columns and his sense of humour

To many he was an admirable Irish-language pioneer. But Domhnall Ó Lubhlaí spent decades secretly abusing teenage boys. Why was he never brought to justice?

Paddy Lydon, who never left home but whose image went global, has died aged 65