MusicNick Cave: ‘Acceptance is tricky. Trying to get back to what you used to be, I consider a waste of time. You are fundamentally changed’By Éamon Sweeney
USChicago Letter: The city is a reminder that for many black Americans, old problems stay newBy Keith Duggan
Fine Art & AntiquesMix and match brown furniture with modern pieces for a timeless lookBy Sylvia Thompson
BooksThe New India. The Unmaking of the World’s Largest Democracy: a country with a very dark side By Mihir Bose
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CultureThe Guide: Coldplay, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy and other events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they endBy Tony Clayton-Lea
BooksWho Killed Una Lynskey? by Mick Clifford – Garda heavy gang under the spotlight in the investigations of two disturbing 1970s murdersBy Ray Burke
CultureWhich politicians have done most for Irish culture? As the general election approaches, it’s a question worth asking By Hugh Linehan
Life & StyleArtificial intimacy: ‘Is it bad to fall in love with an AI? Is there something wrong with me?’By Roe McDermott
StageLuail director Liz Roche: ‘A regular income and stability are important. We have to work towards that for all dancers’By Michael Seaver
BooksDavid Peace: ‘The Munich air crash was a national tragedy. But it’s also a positive story of how people overcame that tragedy’By John Self
FilmLife in Hollywood: Golden-age photographs of Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Grace Kelly and moreBy Donald Clarke
FilmColman Domingo: ‘I was noted as one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people, and I thought, what?’By Donald Clarke
OpinionJD Vance surfaces the strange, sometimes openly hateful language of the fringe rightBy Jack Sheehan
EnvironmentInside an Englishwoman’s campaign to bring back Ireland’s missing ‘big old trees’By Ella McSweeney
WorkGovernment departments criticised over failure to engage with Labour Court in WRC staff pay rowBy Emmet Malone
Common GroundOpens in new windowThirty years after the ceasefire, former IRA members believe the battle of history is being wonBy Mark Hennessy and Gerry Moriarty
Gaelic GamesStrength in science: how Lukasz Kirszenstein helped Clare reach the promised landBy Denis Walsh
Housing & PlanningGaeltacht housing crisis: ‘We have nowhere else to go. What are we supposed to do? We’re too old to get a mortgage’By Éanna Ó Caollaí
EuropeAfD appeal grows in some German cities as Björn Höcke calls for ‘180-degree shift’ in view of Nazi pastBy Derek Scally
USNancy Pelosi: the ‘Mother of Dragons’ whose glacial grip on the Democratic Party never meltsBy Keith Duggan
PeopleOlivia O’Leary: It could be terrifying to be with Nell McCafferty. You never knew what she was going to do or sayBy Olivia O'Leary
PeopleFrom modest Irish roots to vast wealth: the extraordinary life and death of Mike LynchBy Arthur Beesley
OpinionDavid McWilliams: Leave things as they are, and Ireland’s economy will stumble and fall in the years aheadBy David McWilliams
IrelandMore than 23,000 asylum applications now pending in International Protection OfficeBy Jennifer Bray
PoliticsSimon Harris: ‘I can’t give the whole manifesto away, but should early childhood be part of the education system in a more formal way?’By Pat Leahy
Your MoneyYour retirement savings are increasingly tied to the fortunes of big techBy Proinsias O'Mahony
OpinionI’m back at work months and my baby still doesn’t have a full-time childcare placeBy Clare Moriarty
OpinionIsrael’s sham investigations cannot whitewash horrific abuse of Palestinian prisonersBy Hagai El Ad
MediaWhat I Read This Week: Background hum of an approaching election grows ever louder By Hugh Linehan
OpinionInheritance tax is not ‘punitive’ or ‘grave robbery’. There’s no good argument for cutting itBy Cliff Taylor
IrelandGarda pensions: Why is the force finding it hard to hire a deputy chief - and how the tax issue worksBy Emmet Malone
Tennis‘I haven’t done anything wrong’: Jannik Sinner hits back in anti-doping caseBy Tumaini Carayol in New York
RugbyWomen’s Interprovincials: Munster and Leinster prepare for final meeting with victoriesBy Daire Walsh
SportIreland’s Paul O’Donovan completes golden summer with World Championship win in Canada By Emmet Riordan
OpinionI never wanted to be seen as martyr or victim but I can’t stay silent on my suspension as a Catholic priestBy Fr Tony Flannery
BooksDarren’s abuse by the priest ended when he was 11. His story remains one of the worst I’ve heard By Patsy McGarry
