Weekend

Ireland remains highly dependent on fossil fuels despite experiencing previous oil crises

Before I began driving less, I had long had a melancholic sense that the city lifestyle I lived was cut off from the seasons and nature

Eye on Nature: Your notes and queries for Eanna Ní Lamhna

Talamh brings together works by eight Irish artists who are part of the Island Photographers group

US firms employ more than 245,000 people here but working for one entails straddling time zones and negotiating different attitudes to work-life balance

It’s not a bad lesson at any age, to know how to take our pleasures at a lower altitude

A new scheme from Fingal County Council aims to ensure children can continue cycling despite the losses of their bikes, bringing many benefits to them and us

Mike Quill’s friend Dr Martin Luther King said he fought for Irish independence, labour organisation and racial equality

James Nesbitt, the actor, a patron of Northern Ireland’s largest cross-community victims and survivors group, has an appeal for people who may be able to help: ‘look into your conscience’

The Cork poet Theo Dorgan on his favourite place in Ireland, what makes him angry, and why the idea of ‘consciousness continuing’ appeals to him

Rory Carroll on his quest to chronicle a largely hidden aspect of the 1916 Rising: the two-year tracking and pursuit of Roger Casement by Britain’s security services

Participants turn their hands to hospitality, tourism and horticulture across the farm and cafe

Two men who were close as revolutionaries were forever torn apart by the split over the Anglo-Irish Treaty

The people we call entrepreneurs are the ones who make the economy dance. Without them, there’s no products, sales or demand for workers

To 30-somethings hoping to start a family, the connection between the lack of available homes and the State’s falling fertility rate is obvious

Our burial grounds could be repositories of life; exquisite, nature-filled spaces in the middle of our cities and towns

Your notes and queries for Éanna Ní Lamhna

Louis Theroux’s new documentary explores the world of male influencers who target confused young boys

In classrooms, lecture halls and on TikTok feeds, the picture is starting to shift as young Irish women narrate the vocation in real time

From Brooklyn classrooms to library meet‑ups, there’s a growing Gaeltacht community in the Big Apple

The Irish arrangement affirms bonds through generosity and obligation

Giving plant-based dishes more attractive names on restaurant menus can increase their appeal, research finds

Ella McSweeney: A recent verdict showed climate law can’t fix what politics won’t

There’s no such thing as a bestest-ever mother, there is no maternal majesty; most of us do our best most of the time

Jordan, who started out as a writer, has rarely gone longer than three years without releasing a film

The outbreak of war half a world away saw a catch of crab returned to Killybegs due to a cancelled flight

Businesswoman speaks affectionately about her mother’s legacy and announces foundation’s €7m donation to Trinity College

Your notes and queries for Eanna Ní Lamhna

If the Chinese juggernaut continues to make things better than Europeans, what is there for Europe to make?

Dublin’s ring-road motorway is ‘at capacity’ but commuters and hauliers have little option but to keep getting stuck in M50 traffic. What is the plan?

Irish identity really means something, so it rightly demands proof of real commitment

Traffic reporter and independent producer Hugh Hick on his agreeability, what he expects to happen when he dies, and his hyper-fixation

The well-known Copenhagen restaurant was about to embark on a four-month pop-up in LA when allegations emerged about its head chef

Even the most grown-up of us are but children at bedtime, clamouring to be told a tale

I rarely carry water and my bodily systems seem to run just fine

Oxfam’s Postback scheme allows unwanted stuff to be taken to a charity shop straight from your door

Beef prices are high and there are too many wild deer in Ireland – greater consumption of venison could be about to make a lot of sense

Chess prodigy Trisha Kanyamarala put aside everything else, including Irish dancing, to focus on the game

The London-based artist-designer on his two middle names, his strongest childhood memory, and why his ‘parents are still very much alive in my head’

Losing routine contact with the living world results in less concern, less protection and less access. The antidote is evidence that conservation works