Weekend

If you’re willing to play a game of chicken with your eggs, you’ll get a good deal on Easter Sunday. Maybe …

Studies show that birds, bats and insects are among animals in the natural world affected by light pollution

I’m okay on not much sleep but I was tired. I drove with the windows open and taught my classes standing up

The writing of Eoin McNamee’s new book The Bureau started when he came across a letter a criminal wrote to his father from Cork prison

Journalist and presenter of RTÉ‘s Six One News on passing up an exciting career opportunity

The Cork author on living with autism and the release of her new book, a collection of personal essays written by autistic Irish adults

We need to get out of our own way, stop being afraid of technological advances and embrace them

The family circus is marking 25 years on the road, having begun with a credit union loan

Young people are familiar with social media terms and concepts mentioned in the Netflix drama, and know misogyny is rife online. Their parents? Not so much

Donald Trump and his closest advisers have taken steps to circumvent the constraints upon the executive authority of president in pursuit of vaguely defined goals. Can they be stopped?

Garda cold case investigation into disappearance of American student is uncovering litany of errors in original investigation

Éanna Ní Lamhna on rats’ incisors, the house martins and a suspicious sparrowhawk

Sci-fi author Douglas Adams didn’t live long enough to see the technological future he foretold become reality, or how his vision influenced his most famous fan

A new study finds that people watching nature videos reported electric shocks as less intense, a pattern also observed in their brain scans

Knitting and sewing are rarely done for profit, but that doesn’t make these arts and crafts trivial

Mending is better than spending, and online directory RepairMyStuff.ie is a one-stop-shop that makes it easy to find local repair businesses

The Irish identity of people born in Britain, where six million have at least one Irish grandparent, can be complex and personal...

Dr Leor Zmigrod has found differences in the brain structures and functions of people with different ideologies. Could this science be used by malicious agents?

Kerryman Michael ‘Butty’ Sugrue was known as ‘the splendid spoofer’, so few believed he’d convince the most famous athlete in the world to fight in Croke Park

A journey in the wheel tracks of Irishman William Bulfin, who chronicled his bicycle tours of the country at the start of the 20th century

In Ireland, masculinity is at a crossroads. We are in the process of rejecting the harmful ideas of the past but are feeling our way slowly and uncertainly forward

A new primary level syllabus – the biggest shake-up in two decades – is being finalised against a backdrop of polarised online debate and claims of misinformation

The incoherence of Trump economics is making already indebted consumers and businesses even more anxious. Punters across all income brackets are panicking and consumer confidence is collapsing

Ella McSweeney on a thoughtful man who lived a determined and visionary life as a conservationist and educator

Éanna Ní Lamhna on the smallest bird in Ireland, an invasive moth, and the fluted bird’s nest fungus

JFK files: Papers cover not just JFK’s assassination but also the 1968 killings of his brother Robert F Kennedy and Dr Martin Luther King jnr

The broadcaster and co-host of the How to Gael podcast appears in the Irish language dating series Grá ar an Trá (Virgin Media One, Monday)

Now I can think about everything I enjoy about Dublin, almost all the way home, instead of worrying about getting home alive

As the world gets worse around us, and authoritarians seek cover for their activities, the art of the future will happen on your phone

Fear was widespread when an international protection centre opened here in 2022; now tensions seems lower and ties are growing between residents of the centre and the wider community

Autism prevalence rates in schoolchildren are rising. Most experts believe this is down to increased awareness, better diagnosis and a broadening of assessment boundaries

Delving into her family history led author Ali Watkins to explore one of the least known and most effective gunrunning operations in contemporary American history, and the ways the Irish diaspora view Ireland

Wild species face an overwhelming threat from this virus and need as much help as we can offer them to help them

Presenter of the Tonight Show on Virgin Media and Hard Shoulder on Newstalk on Denis O’Brien, work-life balance and embarrassing career low-lights

Éanna Ní Lamhna identifies and explains readers’ other unusual nature findings

The older people looked serious and earnest, or maybe they were sad

Having come under extreme pressure on the front line of the recent war between Israel and Hizbullah, Irish Unifil soldiers far from home are getting on with the job of peacekeeping

Consumerism has taken hold and celebrations for our national day can generate a lot of waste

We know it’s a fantasy but let’s take it and move on, because the battles ahead will change our world in ways we have not yet contemplated

A northern aesthetic feels like truth in a way that no more conventional paradise ever could, a fact encapsulated in pebbles