Weekend

Eye on Nature: Éanna Ní Lamhna answers your queries on lizards, caterpillars, little egrets and more

The US multimedia artist, poet and novelist who is married to Salman Rushdie on her ‘kaleidoscope of quirks’

Storytelling and cooking require similar panache ...

Ella McSweeney: In Ireland, we have about 150 species of mayflies

The BBC broadcaster on how Brexit sent her searching for her Irish roots, reporting the Troubles in Belfast, and the ‘joy and privilege’ of hosting Round Britain Quiz

Renaming common female hormonal disorder should lead to earlier diagnosis and better management of the condition

Few cities bear the influence of one architect as brazenly as Barcelona, where Gaudí’s stylistic fingerprints are rarely out of sight

Four young adults who have spent time in Ireland’s care system tell Patrick Freyne about their lives

In the middle of an acute housing crisis, is it clever to have most housing stock set aside for Airbnbs and short-term rentals?  

Musical theatre and EastEnders actor Anna-Jane Casey prepares for her role as Judy Garland in the upcoming stage production Judy – End of the Rainbow

Our native common bluebell is facing competition from its invading Spanish cousin

It’s not clear to me on what moral basis I would refuse publication in Putin’s Russia while signing gratefully for Trump’s America

Decades after her death, she continues to attract speculation and fantasy, but her performances are neglected

Snapchat remains a firm favourite among Irish youngsters but has been the subject of numerous controversies, mostly linked to user privacy, child safety and moderation

The cause is rooted in the Thucydides Trap – referred to this week by Xi Jinping – the simple but dangerous arithmetic of a rising power and an anxious incumbent

Patrick Reilly, deputy head of mission at the British embassy in Ireland, on growing up in an Irish household in Manchester, trying to get into the Hacienda and more

Dublin drinking hotspot has been the subject of a polarising debate about the purpose of the street

Money laundering has surged in the Republic with a diverse, and growing, army of people across society involved

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

A century on from the birth of public-service media, even the Continent’s heavyweight outlets resemble endangered species

The two piers in south Dublin are among of the largest protected structures in the Ireland

Ella McSweeney: Educational technology is now marketed aggressively to schools, which are treating individual laptops as an unquestioned educational good

Am I supposed to take comfort or pleasure in the greater hardship of others? Or is it that there’s a suffering competition?

All of the playwright’s work is grounded in public life - mainly dramatisations of political events featuring real-life characters

At Newgrange, on the winter solstice, we knew the light would be faintly visible underground, and we cheered with triumph, defiance, abandon

Eye on Nature: Éanna Ní Lamhna answers your queries on bewildered bees, wasp imposters, freaky-looking fungi and avian visitors

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

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

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

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

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

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