Weekend

As people in Ireland settle down later than ever, more people in their 40s and 50s are turning to apps to find love online

More than 70 languages are spoken in Ireland and the Mother Tongues festival is helping pass them on to the next generation

Four-hundred photographs from veteran photojournalist Declan Doherty are on exhibition in Donegal

Eye on Nature: Éanna Ní Lamhna on a migrant insect, a native dipper, and a toothy-looking animal horn

Lichens can survive nearly everything - even long periods in outer space - but pollution will kill them

An artist’s alliance says changes to the pilot scheme are causing ‘enormous distress’ among current recipients

Economies grow when banks lend money, but ours have become glorified safe deposit boxes

Choosing from a menu of deficits for your hair, skin and body is not freedom

The #2MinuteBeachClean is a simple idea – take just two minutes to pick up litter when at the beach

For Fianna Fáil senator Teresa Costello, early diagnosis of her breast cancer may have been ‘the difference between life and death’

Paul Cullen: I have always known I was adopted, but my early years – unrecorded, unremembered – were one big void

Award-winning Irish soprano on her two middle names, her happiest times and her biggest career regret

At a ring fort, St Brigid crosses sway in an ancient tree and guides share stories of Imbolc, healing and renewal

The message is clear: climate change should be prioritised as a security crisis, not just an environmental one

Third hearing of Burke’s appeal over dismissal now seems likely

Michael Denninger used money from his confirmation to travel from Coburg to Clare in 1980

Michael Hopkins was let down by the Irish system as a child and the British system as an elderly bachelor. Then he met a photographer at a bus stop

Eye on Nature: Éanna Ní Lamhna on kelp, Bootlace Fungus and Pelican’s Foot Shells

Bitcoin promoters sometimes portray price spikes as evidence it is money - in fact the opposite is true

The housing crisis, underreporting of numbers and confusion over local authority housing rules mean those fleeing violence risk homelessness

Driving everywhere is doing us no good

The adults in my life had cause to doubt my word, because I did a lot of imagining and I wasn’t always sure what I’d made up

While researching my new novel, I became fascinated with the people who chose to join a group whose belief system and way of life were at odds with so much of Irish society’s standards

Nearly a decade after a European monitoring body found the human rights of local authority tenants in the State were being violated by inadequate, unsafe housing, little has changed

The comedian on being too agreeable, moving from London to rural Sligo as a child, and why Sydney Sweeney would play her in a biopic

The proposed Wicklow to Greystones Greenway route runs right along the edge of the ecologically sensitive coastal area known as the Murrough Wetlands

Readers’ notes and queries for Éanna Ní Lamhna

Irish Times photographer Dara Mac Dónaill meets Toffee the foal, Talk of Freedom and Phoenix of Spain at the stud’s reopening

Basic skills such as playing, pretending and conversing have been affected by tech use and pandemic isolation

Rental market reforms in Ireland will come into force from March

Concentration of global risk in one country – the US – is a source of enormous jeopardy

The Newstalk presenter on old wounds, new plans and stepping down from The Communications Clinic

‘Little prince’ Marius Borg Høiby faces up to 10 years in jail on 38 charges including rape and violence

You’ll see very few helmets on cyclists in the Netherlands, Denmark and Belgium, certainly no laws mandating their use

Batteries are considered hazardous and require special handling. The good news is they can be recycled for free

The international human rights barrister wants to establish a centre of excellence in Ireland for the many ‘talented, very brilliant’ young lawyers here

Nasa’s avoidable tragedy exemplified 1980s overconfidence and haunted a generation, but the allure of space exploration endured

The multi-award-winning podcast commissioner with the BBC on never dwelling in anger, the death of his father in 2006, and his ‘condensed’ Covid wedding

Donald Trump may have made a U-turn on Greenland, but the rupture between Europe and the US is permanent

Despite Taipei’s bustling bars and a buoyant economy, thoughts of invasion are never far due to relentless Chinese military pressure and ‘cognitive warfare’