Common GroundOpens in new windowFinding Margaret: Andrew Pierce’s search for his Irish motherBy Mark Hennessy
EnvironmentThe Dodder could become one of the finest city rivers in Europe, showing what’s possible when we clean up our actBy Ella McSweeney
Your WellnessBad therapy: ‘After some of our sessions I couldn’t go into work the next day’By Roe McDermott
GardeningThis is the otherworldly flower that got me hooked on gardening. But here’s the reality of growing themBy Fionnuala Fallon
Ross O'Carroll-Kelly‘Ross, it’s not just a case of filling out a form and – hey, presto – you’re a Protestant’By Ross O'Carroll-KellyListen | 06:33
USThe Fourth of July is a temporary suspension of normality for the US. Nobody mentions Trump or BidenBy Keith Duggan
BooksPaschal Donohoe on The Road to Freedom by Joseph Stiglitz and The Invisible Doctrine by George Monbiot and Peter HutchisonBy Paschal Donohoe
CultureThe Guide: the Kneecap film, Nicki Minaj and other events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they endBy Tony Clayton-Lea
CultureThe Abbey Theatre is vacating the stage during peak season for reasons unknown. What is going on?By Hugh Linehan
GardeningOur friend has warned us against planting a hawthorn boundary hedge. What can we use instead?By Fionnuala Fallon
OpinionHistory suggests democracy will not be saved by further disconnection of economy from societyBy Paul Gillespie
PhotographyMy 42-year career as a newspaper photographer: Highs, lows and my favourite picturesBy Brenda Fitzsimons
OpinionMany ‘real jobs’ of the past are extinct, replaced with roles nobody could have imaginedBy David McWilliams
Crime & LawAfter 100 years, the Defence Forces will finally be allowed manage its own affairsBy Conor Gallagher
RugbyJaco Peyper explains new TMO protocol to be trialled for first time in Pretoria By John O'Sullivan
PoliticsMiriam Lord’s Week: Chambers puts his foot in it, while the Lord of the Dance makes Leinster House cameoBy Miriam Lord
SoccerKen Early: England braced for finely-tuned Swiss machine unbeaten since Yakin-Xhaka peace deal By Ken Early
RacingDeauville could be the perfect Group One setting for Willie McCreery’s VespertilioBy Brian O'Connor
Social AffairsRickets, anaemia, scabies: homeless children in Ireland suffering malnutrition effects associated with poorer countriesBy Kitty Holland
Life & StyleMicroplastics are in the heart, lungs, penis, breast milk. Can we keep them out of our bodies?By Shauna Bowers
Gaelic GamesDean Rock: Amid possible retirements and squad departures, Dublin will need to find strength and depth againBy Dean Rock
BusinessHumphreys will not name date for pensions auto-enrolment launch - because she cannot By Joe Brennan
RugbyIt’ll take an extraordinary performance for Ireland to win South Africa. Anything less won’t sufficeBy John O'Sullivan
Gaelic GamesShane O’Donnell: ‘The stone wall I ran into when trying to interact with the GAA about my concussion was extremely frustrating’By Malachy Clerkin
Life & StyleWill Revolut revolutionise the Irish mortgage market? Experts have their sayBy Conor Pope
AthleticsAn Olympian, a revolutionary and a Christy Moore song: Bob Hilliard was the boxing Irish clergyman who fought against FrancoBy Mary Hannigan
PeopleJoe Mulholland: ‘We had some amazing days, and nights ... Politics was different then’ By Mark Hennessy
Gaelic GamesAll-Ireland hurling semi-final previews: Throw-in times, TV details and moreBy Seán Moran
Gaelic GamesMalachy Clerkin: Clare have to be ready for the Kilkennyness that’s coming their way By Malachy Clerkin
RacingCity Of Troy set to start at cramped odds for what shapes as straightforward Eclipse taskBy Brian O'Connor
Gaelic GamesAll-Ireland MFC final: Derry face off against familiar rivals Armagh as they look to defend titleBy Steven Doherty
OpinionTrickle of Fine Gael departures risks turning into a flood as election moves closerBy Pat Leahy
Crime & LawThe changing Irish drugs trade: rocketing cocaine prices, gangs growing closer and Irish middlemen in ColombiaBy Conor Lally
EnvironmentCork’s orange water: ‘We are at our wits’ end with it. It is an urgent health risk’By Olivia Kelleher
Rugby‘The hotel staff started speaking Afrikaans’ - Josh van der Flier shrugs off local confusion as Ireland eye up SpringboksBy John O'Sullivan
OpinionDo you pay your kids’ pocket money through a financial app? You’re giving away the most intimate of dataBy Rachel O’Dwyer
Crime & LawBláthnaid Raleigh ‘disappointed’ with response of Mullingar club after conviction of one of its players for rapeBy Colm Keena
OpinionWe are up to our bleary eyes in advice. Surely no generation in history has been so relentlessly counselledBy Mark O'Connell
USJoe Biden’s choice: Court cataclysmic defeat for Democrats or step aside and exit triumphantlyBy Keith Duggan
MusicHozier in Marlay Park review: Mild-mannered musician transforms into rock starBy Tony Clayton-Lea
Middle EastIran election: Reformist Masoud Pezeshkian beats hardliner Saeed Jalili in presidential raceBy Jon Gambrell
Gaelic GamesCork see off Munster rivals Waterford to book All-Ireland semi-final slotBy Ger McCarthy at Páirc Uí Chaoimh
CourtsMan with no history of violence strangled fiancee to death in psychotic episode, Central Criminal Court hearsBy Eoin Reynolds
Gaelic GamesAisling Maher inspires Dublin to victory over Kilkenny and spot in semi-finalsBy Daragh Ó Conchúir at Croke Park
IrelandMother and daughter killed in Mayo road crash ‘meant everything to each other,’ funerals toldBy Tom Shiel
HurlingClare 0-24 Kilkenny 2-16 (FT) - Banner book All-Ireland final spot after comeback win over CatsBy Gordon Manning
Social AffairsAnti-abortion rally in Dublin hears call for taskforce to address ‘soaring’ abortion numbersBy Colm Keena
Gaelic GamesNicky English: There was method behind the magic Cork conjured to beat LimerickBy Nicky English
SoccerKen Early: Nobody can explain how Southgate has again guided England to the last fourBy Ken Early
PoliticsNI Secretary Hilary Benn promises to form new relationship between UK government and Stormont
RugbyIreland count cost of defeat with Sheehan, Casey and Henshaw all doubts for second TestBy John O'Sullivan
OpinionRite and Reason: Sitting on the fence during conflict is a form of taking sidesBy Patricia Rainsford
DublinTwo men who died in Grand Canal in Dublin were known to homeless servicesBy Sarah Slater and Colm Keena
