In pictures: A tour of the Tate Kenmare, better known as the Park Hotel
The five-star Kerry hotel is transformed by the owners’ extensive collection of Irish and international art
Weekend
Stories that appear in the Weekend section of The Irish Times print edition
Leaving Gaza for Ireland: My soul is there. My memories are there. My cat is there
Dr Mohammed Abu Mughessib, who has lived in Gaza for 25 years, has been accepted for an MSF advisory job based in Ireland
Two dragonflies tied up in afternoon delight in Cork
Éanna Ní Lamhna on Grey Dagger moth, Puffball mushrooms and Redshanks
Meet the Americans moving to Ireland for a better life
There has been a 96% rise in the number of people moving from the US to the State. Here’s why some of them made the leap
Should every midlife woman be on HRT – even with no menopause symptoms?
Positivity abounds around hormone replacement therapy, but is it a panacea for all ageing women?
Terry Prone: ‘Charlie Haughey grasped me by the knee and told me I was a rude b**ch’
Terry Prone writes about giving media training to Charles Haughey when he was leader of Fianna Fáil
It’s proving to be a bumper autumn for nuts. But why?
The process by which trees co-ordinate their efforts across hundreds of miles on what are known as ‘mast years’ is quite an enigma
As Ireland has become richer, more Irish people are heading to Australia
There’s barely an Irish family that doesn’t have a cousin, sibling or friend who has headed Down Under in recent years
What is K-pop and why is it everywhere?
The huge success of the Netflix film K-Pop Demon Hunters has brought the Korean pop genre to the West, with near-sell-out Dublin and Cork shows on the way
Jung Chang: ‘People risk their lives to come to the West. Nobody tries to go to China’
The Chinese-born author on why she can not return to her native country under Xi Jinping, how her view of Mao changed, and why she does not see the Communist Party as a monolith
Sometimes convenience works against imagination – in the kitchen and elsewhere
There is a fruitful ground between scarcity and excess, in which intelligence and creativity make rich use of limited resources
We are throwing away about a month’s worth of grocery shopping every year
A small amount of care could help you to significantly reduce bills linked to food waste, and the environmental impact of that waste
Photo essay: Shackleton museum in Athy reopens with some striking additions
The crew did not succeed in quest to cross Antarctica but they achieved something more inspiring
Separated couples who can’t afford to live apart: ‘It is hugely difficult and horrible’
The housing and rent crisis adds another challenge to those in the middle of a relationship breakdown
‘They’re like a hug in a book’: Why cosy crime is on the rise
Faced with a turbulent news cycle, readers and authors are turning back to quainter pleasures in fiction
Quiet desperation: Why no one speaks up about racism in Ireland
I came to Ireland seeking tolerance. Racism is a fact of life for many but it is not being addressed
A gym near Bethlehem offers a ‘bridge between Ireland and Palestine’
Aida refugee camp has close links with Ireland thanks to ACLAÍ Palestine gym founder Ainle Ó Cairealláin
Money dysmorphia: keeping up with the Joneses when the Joneses are keeping up with you
How we perceive our financial status relative to our friends and neighbours can cause us to spend and perceive losses in deeply irrational ways
Ireland needs BOFFFFs (big old fat fecund female fish)
The fishing industry is killing these big ladies before they’re able to do the thing they do best: endlessly reproduce
You can’t choose the times you live in. And sadly we live in an age of extinction
I wonder who the last person in Ireland was to hear a wolf howl. Did they realise the magnitude of what they were hearing?
Phallus impudicus: the Latin name of the Stinkhorn fungus tells it like it is
Éanna Ní Lamhna on the harvestman, nest-box etiquette, and the flower crab spider
Presidential debacle: Is this the beginning of the end for Micheál Martin?
Micheál Martin has been in politics for longer than his deputy leader is alive - and it’s clear he has no plan to step back
Do you take photos of your cat or dog everyday? There is a cost
Green internet use can help tackle the problem of ‘dark data’
Living with cancer in Ireland: ‘We’ve moved from a one-size-fits-all treatment’
More than 220,000 people in Ireland are living with or after cancer, a 50 per cent increase from a decade ago
Beyond Charlie Kirk: The political US influencers you may not have heard of
We live in siloed information ecosystems where an ideological figure who has the ear of the US president can be unknown to huge chunks of the population
‘Years could pass and I’ll still be living in this house like I’m only passing through’
Renting: I don’t know how long I can stay here, it isn’t really mine. Emotionally, maybe, but not legally
‘My middle name is Brigid and I hated it when I was growing up’
Friends of the Earth’s new CEO Deirdre Duffy on her middle name, All-Ireland heartbreak and the joy of pens
A gap has emerged between the Irish establishment and the Irish street
This sort of gap is being filled by populists across the Continent
In pictures: A unique view of the world from Achill Island
Husband and wife Francis Van Maele and Hyemee Kim founded Red Fox Press on Achill Island in 2000
Seamus Heaney’s Ribbons: A beautiful poem about his sisters, published for the first time
The reader is transported by Heaney’s illuminating memory: we’re in a school, a photographer is visiting and the girls are having their picture taken
‘Tony O’Reilly should have been president of Ireland’: Jeffrey Archer on life, books and his God-given gift
Former Tory politician on his new novel End Game and - to the chagrin of his publisher - his secret final novel out next year
A reader’s most excellent photograph of the noble false widow spider
Éanna Ní Lamhna on the white saddle fungus, the curlew sandpiper influx and the rose chafer
There’s nothing inevitable about extinction. It’s possible to reverse our way out
Success stories including the leaf-toed gecko in the Galápagos, the wood white butterfuly in Wales and the corncrake in Ireland give hope
Lea Ypi on Albania’s archives: ‘You might find something horrible on a person you’re extremely attached to’
Compelled to tell her grandmother’s true story, the academic realised she’d have to confront the records of the old state security and secret police force
Dublin and Berlin find themselves at opposite ends of the political spectrum
It’s striking how many friends in Ireland say privately what they don’t dare say in public, on everything from Kneecap to Michael D Higgins to Hamas
Why have Boyzone decided to re-form – and why now?
The 1990s boy band are performing a farewell concert in London in June 2026
We can help speed up road safety reforms by slowing down
Reducing your speed when you drive through a town, village or housing estate is also better for the environment
Hair is the only part of the body we can easily and endlessly revise - it grows back
Rare though it is, when we actually achieve it, it makes all the fussing feel worth it
Katherine Zappone: ‘I didn’t really realise how crazy you can become with grief’
The former government minister’s memoir covers the pain of losing her wife and the joy of a new relationship, as well as various career controversies
Annie Fletcher: ‘Once you’ve breached my anger, it takes a lot to get the trust back’
The Imma director and lay canon at Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, on Dutch directness, the ‘Annie dance’ and Leonardo da Vinci influencing her career choice
Guinness heir: ‘The nostalgic smell hits me as I walk around The Liberties today, and I always know then I am home’
Ned Guinness shares his childhood memories of life in Farmleigh House, former home of the Guinness family
Curlew in flight: Draining and cutting of bogs has destroyed their breeding habitat
Your notes and queries for Éanna Ní Lamhna
Frank McNally: My life as a civil servant in 1980s Dublin
Frank McNally on the Department of Social Welfare in Not Making Hay – The Life and Deadlines of a ‘Diary’ Farmer
In pictures: A stonemasonry apprentice day at Kells Round Tower
No power tools allowed during restoration work on the tower: ‘Everything is tapped out by hand and then it’s all mixed and put back in by hand’
Where does the political aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s killing leave Maga and US liberals?
Walking along Fifth Avenue: the UN really messes with moody New Yorkers’ already volatile heads
Seals share our fondness for Atlantic salmon, bringing them into conflict with fishermen
Ella McSweeney: Grey seals will try to drive away other species that share their liking for fish
Ruff justice: is Shakespeare being cancelled?
Not exactly, although not everyone believes his work should retain compulsory status in higher-level English for the Leaving Cert
New arrivals to Ireland learning Irish: ‘I’m praying to St Patrick because he somehow learned this language’
Growing numbers of adults who have moved to Ireland from overseas are choosing to learn Irish
My week in Afghanistan: A little girl tells me she wants to be a dentist. But she won’t be going to school next year
Rosita Boland travelled in Afghanistan under the Taliban with Unicef, visiting schools and reception centres
Horse trainer Henry de Bromhead: ‘We miss Jack, but we know he’s always with us’
Father is proud a new equine centre in honour of his late teenage son will help children with disabilities
To quit smoking you have to sincerely want to, and I’m not sure I do
I had my first cigarette at 15, for the same reason as most people: because you weren’t supposed to
Don’t rely on price to indicate how hard wearing a T-shirt is
Textiles have the fourth highest impact on climate change
I could hardly breathe when I heard ‘Mum’s gone missing’, but then I knew what had happened
At first my mother’s death by suicide shocked me, but I came to accept it, partly thanks to a ritual I created
Churchill’s enforcer in Ireland - Who was Hugh Tudor?
For four years he fought German soldiers on the Western Front, but in two years fighting Irish rebels, his heroism soured to notoriety
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Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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