Weekend

Alan Esslemont, the author and former TG4 ard-stiúrthóir (director general), on agreeability, childhood memory and death being ‘an awfully big adventure’

Iran war now an international hostage situation where UAE is the hostage, Iran the hostage-taker, and US will have to pay the ransom

While the over-consumption of cheap, low quality clothing is concerning, a number of new initiatives offer some hope

‘We left London as a family of four. And we returned as a unit of two’

Nature restoration isn’t a luxury. It’s one of the highest-return investments available to the State

With Ireland’s links to the US weakening, for now at least, the importance of other bonds is emerging

The natural history presenter, who turns 100 today, has inspired Ireland’s wildlife community through the decades

Leaving Cert students in desperate need of diversion have embraced the viral game during their last few weeks of secondary school

Wanting to write without wanting to read is, at best, trying to skip the first stage of an artistic apprenticeship

Comedian and actor Killian Sundermann on the joy of a good comedy gig and his dislike of anonymous notes

Actor Kathy Kiera Clarke, best known as Derry Girls’ Aunt Sarah, on how the Troubles shaped her early life

In the 1980s about 500 Irish rivers were classed as the very best of the best but, today, there are about 20

The simplest way of reading US president Donald Trump’s contradictory tirades is as the exploitation of magic techniques. His statements are a perfect example of misdirection

Kathleen MacMahon: Of all the difficulties I’ve experienced in writing fiction, this has been the most unsettling

If young people cannot secure jobs commensurate with their level of education, their ambitions will be dashed, creating resentment

Eye on Nature: Eanna Ní Lamhna responds to readers’ queries and observations on the natural world

Fifty years after the worst of the killing, investigators work to find the remaining mass graves from a conflict that tore the small island apart

GLP-1 drugs are reshaping the lives of many, but such treatments can come with a side order of stigma, even shame

With opportunities to buy former small-town cinemas cropping up around the country – would you follow in Oscar-winner’s footsteps?

After poor weather prevented previous attempts to conduct a competition, the lands of James O’Driscoll in Ballinascarthy hosted the Cork West county final

The common viral illness causes a painful rash, but there are very effective treatments

When you take to the streets in protest, you do so in a position of radical vulnerability. Think of the lone figure before the tanks in Tiananmen Square

Former Ireland, Munster and Lions captain Paul O’Connell talks to Róisín Ingle about how his life still revolves around rugby 10 years after retirement, his love of golf and the difficulties with Munster

The actor on her ‘ferocious’ independence, her psychological quirk, and what she has lost and would like back

Bees might conjure flying through the air and feeding on flowers, but most wild bees spend part of their lives in the soil

Though nothing compared with Ukraine’s suffering, in Russia the invasion has detonated a quieter, more insidious kind of destruction

JD Vance’s recent comments reflect a growing movement of conservative believers promoting a more traditionalist, ethnocentric path

The Suez crisis was the end of the road for Britain as a global rule-maker. The US is setting itself up for a repeat

Eye on Nature: Eanna Ní Lamhna responds to readers’ queries and observations on the natural world

We cannot increase the amount of oil and gas available, but we can decide how to fairly distribute the supply

Confessions on a Dance Floor: Part II, is the sequel to her hit 2005 album, and the veteran is proving to be as wily as ever

The closure of silver-plated cutlery production will not impact the wider Newbridge Silverware jewellery brand

Poet Sinéad Morrissey’s elegiac memoir describes growing up in Troubles-era Belfast with communist parents

None of my own small changes is going to save the planet, but everyday choices and habits of individuals do matter

Anne Enright died by suicide at the age of 16 in 2024 five days after coming off a six-month course of the acne treatment

The Irish person who garnered perhaps the most international attention 100 years ago does not appear in the independent Irish State’s first census at all

Alice Doyle on sibling responsibility, happiness in her life, and being described as ‘brutally honest’

For that flare of yellow to appear, the plant must spread its seeds, and it is that seed head which is a design marvel

By capitulating and throwing money at the problem, the Government has set itself up for a repeat performance, as Ireland’s EU presidency looms

Eye on nature: Eanna Ní Lamhna responds to readers’ queries and observations on the natural world