LettersLetters to the Editor, June 14th: On young people in nursing homes, attacks on Iran and Greta Thunberg
StageThe Cave review: Tommy Tiernan is perfectly cast as a downtrodden barroom philosopher in Kevin Barry’s bleakly funny playBy Donald Clarke
BooksHeading to the Fleadh: Festival, cultural revival and Irish traditional music, 1951-1969 – Professing the power of ‘festival time’ By Siobhán Long
BooksDaughters of the Bamboo Grove by Barbara Demick: Chilling insight into the birth of modern ChinaBy Jessica Traynor
BooksAlbion by Anna Hope: Shades of Brideshead in this fine novel about inherited wealth and difficult family dynamicsBy John Boyne
Books‘I wanted to do something radical’: Wendy Erskine on her debut novel, which deals with class, rape and parentingBy Martin Doyle
BooksParadise House by Paul Perry: A fascinating, original and well-executed speculative fiction about James JoyceBy Pat Carty
BooksMoral Ambition by Rutger Bregman: An engaging attempt to get us to change the worldBy NJ McGarrigle
BooksA Quiet Evening: The Travels of Norman Lewis – Five decades as wandering witness to the worldBy Paul Clements
EnvironmentEye on Nature: ‘An alderfly is usually found resting in large numbers on waterside vegetation’ By Éanna Ní Lamhna
CultureThe Guide: Zach Bryan, Charli XCX, Rosie O’Donnell and other events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they endBy Tony Clayton-Lea
ResidentialIn pictures: Substantial home with views of Carlingford Lough and indoor pool for €2.97mBy Elizabeth Birdthistle
FoodSummer strawberries: Two desserts that celebrate the defining fruit of the seasonBy Mark Moriarty
Stage‘The Tudor von Trapps, the Royalling Stones’: How Six, the smash hit musical about Henry VIII’s wives, was born By Sara Keating
ArtBetrayed with a kiss: How Caravaggio’s The Taking of Christ made its way to IrelandBy Lara Marlowe
ArtSeamus Murphy took his camera from the Rust Belt to Russia. What he saw took him abackBy Philip Watson
MusicFontaines DC’s Grian Chatten: ‘Romance took a lot out of us. It was like a bomb went off, and then that silence’By Lauren Murphy
PeopleWhen I was told ‘Your dad’s had an accident’ it didn’t occur to me it might mean he was deadBy Anthea Rowan
EnvironmentIreland’s threatened corncrakes desperately need open, diverse and life-filled fields By Ella McSweeney
PoliticsA mystery VIP Leinster House guest revealed and a visit from Charles and CamillaBy Miriam Lord
SoccerKevin Kilbane: Weak in midfield and toothless up front, Ireland now left clinging to blind hopeBy Kevin Kilbane
PeopleA 9-5 work schedule operates on the assumption someone else is looking after your house and kids all dayBy Muireann Lynch
Crime & LawAmerican man questioned in Michael Gaine murder inquiry addresses his Garda complaintBy Barry Roche
Gaelic GamesNicky English: The rules that hurling could, and should, steal from football immediatelyBy Nicky English
IrelandA Gaeltacht tragedy: ‘I never would have sent her if I thought anything was wrong’By Ellen Coyne
GardeningA magical Burren garden that is at one with the wider, wilder world around itBy Fionnuala Fallon
Health‘When I’m singing, I don’t think about my grief’: Choir of patients enriching their lives through musicBy Sylvia Thompson
Gaelic GamesCan Galway squeeze more from Shane Walsh and Damien Comer? Now is the time to find outBy Denis Walsh
OpinionIreland will have to commit substantial funds to arms procurement whether it approves or notBy Patrick Smyth
Housing & Planning‘Purposefully complicated’: What young tenants think of new rental rulesBy Ella Sloane, Cian O'Connell, Stephen Conneely and Kate Byrne
CultureBloomsday was a sporadic, boozy and ill-mannered affair before becoming an annual event in 1994 By Martin Doyle
ObituariesCarmencita Hederman: Former Dublin lord mayor who restored pride in the city during its millennium year
PeopleProf Ian Robertson: ‘My father was more like a brother, and my brother was more like a father’By Tony Clayton-Lea
People‘It horrifies me, but I had actually developed a corporate strut’: Fintan Drury on Anglo, Paddy Power and Gaza By Laura Slattery
Middle EastChildren play among bones as Syria faces ‘enormous challenge’ of what to do about mass gravesBy Sally Hayden
PoliticsPolitical nerves jangle over rent reforms: ‘We’re out defending something without any real evidence it’s going to make a difference’By Jack Horgan-Jones and Pat Leahy
Crime & LawSearch for remains of Annie McCarrick set to continue after main suspect released without chargeBy Conor Lally
PeopleA day in the Bere Island school where teachers commute by ferry and classes take place on the beachBy Rosita Boland
EnvironmentIreland’s Greenest Places: From Dún Laoghaire’s active travel to Kiltimagh’s biodiversity park - some of the entries so farBy Kevin O'Sullivan
Crime & Law‘We were full of hope’: Aunt of Annie McCarrick says family disappointed after murder suspect releasedBy Áine Ryan
MusicCharli XCX at Dublin’s Malahide Castle: Stage times, set list, ticket information, how to get there and moreBy Cian O'Connell
Gaelic GamesAll-Ireland SFC previews: Moving weekend sees big beasts in danger of extinction By Seán Moran
PoliticsMore smaller apartments and studios could be built under proposed new rulesBy Pat Leahy and Jack Horgan-Jones
AthleticsRhasidat Adeleke yet to hit her stride in 2025, but that might be exactly how she’s planned itBy Ian O'Riordan
RacingColin Keane has first classic ride in new role aboard André Fabre runner in French Oaks By Brian O'Connor
RugbyEveryone hates us, we don’t care: Is Leinster’s mantra losing its power to motivate?By Gerry Thornley
Education‘This isn’t just about a visa. It’s about lost futures’: Job offers for Iranian scientists in Ireland hit roadblockBy Kitty Holland
OpinionLos Angeles is only the beginning: Trump is normalising military enforcement of law and orderBy Daniel Geary
Ross O'Carroll-Kelly‘I haven’t really been living before now,’ Brett tells his wife. ‘Ross has slept with more than 800 women’ By Ross O'Carroll-KellyListen | 50:23
SoccerShamrock Rovers versus Shelbourne transpires to be something more – what we learned from Friday’s League of Ireland fixturesBy Cian O'Connell
Asia-PacificEveryone’s friend: How Mongolia stays on good terms with Russia, China and western powersBy Denis Staunton
StageEscaped Alone review: Four women, catastrophe and the comforts of ordinary chatterBy Ruby Eastwood
PeopleDavid Beckham and Gary Oldman receive British knighthoods in king’s birthday honoursBy Caroline Davies
PoliticsIrish citizens including Paul Murphy TD freed by Egyptian authorities after detention over Gaza marchBy Sarah Slater and Barry Roche
Asia-PacificAir India plane crash: India’s aviation regulator orders inspection of all Boeing 787sBy Sumit Khanna and Sudipto Ganguly
Gaelic GamesWomen’s All-Ireland SFC: Meath, Kerry and Galway book their places in All-Ireland quarter-finals
IrelandTaoiseach says UN being ‘eroded’, calls for world powers to de-escalate Iran-Israel conflictBy Barry Roche
Gaelic GamesJason Forde hits 2-5 as Tipperary ease past Laois and set up quarter-final against GalwayBy Stephen Barry at O'Moore Park
Gaelic GamesFRC propose adjustment to 50m penalty for foul on player catching kick-out markBy Gordon Manning
IrelandIrish neutrality protest: Hundreds march through Dublin city demanding triple-lock safeguard By Jack White
Crime & LawMore than 60 officers injured after five nights of disorder in Northern Ireland, says PSNI By Sarah Slater and Barry Roche
CourtsMan (60) ‘savagely’ beaten in front of family after assailants break into house armed with machine gunBy Tom Tuite
RugbyURC Grand Final: Five things we learned as Leinster end trophy drought after four yearsBy John O'Sullivan
GolfUS Open: Rory McIlroy tries to put a smile on another chastening day at OakmontBy Philip Reid at Oakmont Country Club
Gaelic GamesDublin and Galway survive Group of Death, Derry and Roscommon bow out – As it happenedBy Muireann Duffy
RugbyLeinster’s Jack Conan relishes ‘incredibly special’ moments at Croke Park following URC winBy Gerry Thornley
Gaelic GamesGalway deliver second-half stormer to pull their season back from the brink against ArmaghBy Ian O'Riordan
RugbyLeinster give Bulls a taste of their own medicine to end four-year wait for trophy By Gerry Thornley