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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

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’

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

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

As war spreads across the Middle East there are multiple possibilities for how it will continue or end

The Ocean Within is a photographic project exploring fish as living archives of the sea

Leaked University of Galway report said there was a ‘sustained decline’ in undergraduate enrolment for degree but what is the value of one?

We are fixated on tech and AI, but forget how the economy is mostly still heavy, dirty and smelly

Eye on nature: Eanna Ní Lamhna on red frogs, a white-tailed eagle, curious fungus and a carnivorous invertebrate with 77 pairs of legs

The broadcaster says he thought ‘the sky would fall in’ if he left RTÉ, but his departure has been an ‘enforced liberation’

Clúid Housing is helping residents to save money by offering a free lending service for infrequently used items

The pleasure of thinking about prehistoric people was never that of laying claim to land or heritage but of familiarity and strangeness

In the week he brought Foo Fighters to Kerry, the man behind Other Voices says the Irish State cannot just pay lip service to the arts’ centrality

Ireland is dangerously overdependent on a small number of companies for far too much revenue

Amateur dramatic groups have had a strong presence in Irish life for decades

Technology is revolutionising how we gather and assess data on nature, presenting huge benefits and no little irony

Atlantic Philanthropies made 1,616 grants to the island of Ireland totalling $1.93 billion. Its departure left a void that has been hard to fill

Group was joined at Wicklow site by An Taisce CEO Gary Freemantle for symbolic planting of 8,000th tree

Kara Owen: The British ambassador to Ireland on her strongest childhood memory, her favourite Irish restaurant, and the actor she would like to play her in a biopic of her life

US250: the country is in the grip of a long winter and an extended moment of uncertainty

Eye on Nature: Eanna Ní Lamhna on a quick-growing fungus, an eagle sighting and a sea mouse

Siblings behind food blog Hot Dinners and Murphia List discuss rise of Irish talent in London hospitality scene

The man at the centre of the Bafta racial slur controversy said he was ‘deeply mortified’ if anyone considered his tics intentional

John Deane-O’Keefe: Forensic criminologist and author on his middle name and his Basil Fawlty-like anger issues

As Irish households get used to retaining empty receptacles, smaller producers raise concerns about the workload

The word ‘reason’, like ‘natural’ and ‘common sense’, often alerts us to a hidden agenda

How much time we spend talking about climate change measures may be key to better understanding

Prior to streaming, the trailer for Amazon Prime’s adaptation of Ryan Howard’s novel 56 Days had more than 78m views. It’s a ‘fever dream’ for her

The estate, which runs alongside the Border in Co Monaghan, has borne the Leslie name for 400 years and is ‘part and parcel of the community’

As people feel the need to pay social media tribute when a celebrity dies it’s impossible not to feel that the idea of sombre remembrance has been corrupted

Legal Irish-born immigrants still live with an underlying sense of fear as Ice increases the scope of its raids

Donna Hughes Brown was detained by Ice officials at Chicago airport when returning home from Ireland last July. Now she has a list of people she is fighting for

Éanna Ní Lamhna replies to readers’ questions and observations

As Clare and Tipperary people know, Ireland has become a country of sprawl, of suburbs creeping into countryside and towns and villages choked with traffic

With this native tree threatened by overgrazing, experts have set up a clone bank in Co Wexford

Government has already announced trial of ‘digital wallet’ age verification mechanism for accessing platforms

In most situations, data promotes safety only when someone knows what to do about it

With food prices escalating as they are, freezing eggs for a year could even be an act of financial hedging

In a culture that treats bodies as projects to be improved, the idea of simply caring for them feels almost radical

The Irish singer on her happiest times, being haunted by memories of working on the bog, and how the death of her father changed her