EnvironmentPond party: just fill a hole with water and watch as an astonishing array of life emergesBy Ella McSweeney
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BooksStuart Neville: ‘Barely more than a generation beyond the Belfast Agreement, the Troubles are being sterilised’By Martin Doyle
CultureThe Guide: Another Love Story, AC/DC and other events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they endBy Tony Clayton-Lea
CultureMary Robinson: ‘The Princess Latifa episode wasn’t my finest moment, to say the least ... it was a big mistake’By Deirdre Falvey
USSlowly, an account of Matthew Perry’s fragmenting last days has been pieced together. It’s a desperate tale By Keith Duggan
BooksThe Last Disco: Stardust story puts families and survivors centre stage, validating their truth with empathy and humanityBy Adrienne Murphy
MusicSampa the Great: ‘For the first time, we’re not asked to add more English. I can just sing in my language’By Kate Demolder
FilmMika Gustafson: ‘I’m a huge fan of actors. When something comes alive it is almost like magic’By Donald Clarke
Paris 2024Opens in new windowKellie Harrington named Sportswoman of the Month for JulyBy Mary Hannigan
Social AffairsChildcare: ‘I never knew how tough it was to be a working mother in this country’By Emmet Malone
Crime & LawSecurity at Government Buildings still ‘a bit of a joke’ 14 years after protesters stormed complexBy Conor Gallagher
ObituariesSusan Wojcicki obituary: chief executive of YouTube as it was reshaping entertainment and politics
OpinionMark O’Connell: Boeing’s description of the weapons it sells makes for an object lesson in cognitive dissonanceBy Mark O'Connell
Life & StyleMenopause and HRT: ‘I never had a hot flush. I was just losing myself. By 47 or 48 the weight had really come on’By Jen Hogan
Paris 2024Opens in new windowIan O’Riordan: Athletics deserves a bigger share of the sport funding pieBy Ian O'Riordan
Life & StyleHRT and younger women: ‘It’s really essential for their long-term health. If cost is a barrier that can have consequences’By Shauna Bowers
Travel‘I thought Belfast looked very like rougher areas in the south of LA’: How international tourists see Ireland By Rosita Boland
IrelandApparent lone-wolf terror-related attack at Galway barracks underlines Garda’s worst fearsBy Conor Lally
OpinionJack Horgan-Jones: A battered and bruised electorate has lost faith in politicians to solve the housing problemBy Jack Horgan-Jones
EuropeWhat’s going on with Ukraine’s incursion into Russia?By Peter Beaumont, Elena Morresi and Paul Scruton
OpinionDavid McWilliams: We get electronics and cars from China, so why not let them build our trainlines?By David McWilliams
Housing & PlanningDonegal homeowners moving into mobile homes as Government defective bricks scheme kicks inBy Colm Keena
USDemocrats return to Chicago as Kamala Harris looks to lay the ghosts of 1968 to restBy Keith Duggan
PoliticsGeneral election candidate selections off to a slow start but deadlines set for September By Sarah Burns
Middle EastPalestinian children on existence in Jenin refugee camp: ‘I want to fight and if I die I will go to heaven’By Sally Hayden
OpinionLaura Slattery: ‘Tampon Tim’ nickname for Walz is not just Republicans being weird againBy Laura Slattery
SoccerIrish in the Premier League: Midfielders hard to come by as many players fight for starting placesBy Mary Hannigan
Social AffairsState failing more children and families falling into homelessness, says ombudsmanBy Cian O'Connell
IrelandTrump’s Doonbeg resort raking in the revenue, according to US election filingBy Arthur Beesley
IrelandTeenager who stabbed Army chaplain had been ‘radicalised’ online, gardaí believeBy Conor Gallagher and Conor Lally
TransportExtension of MetroLink to Donabate may be looked at in future transport review, says NTABy Martin Wall
OpinionThree years ago Afghanistan fell to the Taliban and we had to flee the country we lovedBy Saeedullah Safi
MusicBeth Ditto: ‘The NME cover with the naked shoot, I was only 25. I look at my niece who’s 25 and I’m, like, wow’By Ed Power
OpinionUkraine incursion into Russia could make it easier to talk about peace negotiationsBy Paul Gillespie
CourtsGardaí recover €500,000 worth of drugs in two separate raids in Cork city and countyBy Barry Roche
HealthElectric Picnic: ‘High-strength’ MDMA pills causing medical emergencies, warns HSEBy Olivia Kelleher
MusicNoah Kahan at Electric Picnic 2024: ‘I got all my tricks from Irish singer-songwriters. You guys are sad as f**k’By Ed Power
Soccer‘We have to kill in the box’: Erik ten Hag looks for Manchester United to improve finishingBy Will Unwin at Old Trafford
IrelandBoundless enthusiasm of entrepreneur Paul McGlade remembered at his funeral MassBy Olivia Kelleher
Asia-PacificIndian hospitals hit as doctors strike to protest rape, murder of colleagueBy Subrata Nag Choudhary and Jatindra Dash
Crime & LawMan (30s) dies following collision between car and truck on N7 in Co DublinBy Olivia Kelleher
IrelandRags to riches: Girl (16) transformed neglected rescue pony into Dublin Horse Show qualifierBy Ellen O'Riordan
Crime & LawTeenager remanded in detention with consent to bail over sexual assault on woman walking in Cork woodsBy Barry Roche
CourtsTeenage boy remanded in custody in connection with stabbing of priest at Army barracksBy John Fallon in Galway
AmericasNancy Pelosi says Trump similar to Mussolini or Hitler in his attacks on pressBy Olivia Kelleher
GolfSéamus Power gives himself fighting chance of FedEx Cup progression with round of 66By David Gorman
IrelandAsylum seeker tents remain pitched in makeshift camp along Grand Canal in Dublin By Sorcha Pollak and Tim O'Brien