BooksReviews in brief: Cold War Football, The Albany Trilogy and Five Noir Novels of the 1950s & 60sBy NJMcGarrigle
BooksThe Poems of Sylvia Plath review: Leaping virtuoso from the page, clear as a bellBy Martina Evans
BooksProust by Samuel Beckett: A fascinating glimpse of a Nobel laureate ‘in the making’By Tom Lordan
BooksA Chorus of Ears by Denise Riley: Enjoy the company of an egregiously intelligent companionBy Mícheál McCann
Books‘Build up an extreme well of confidence’: Daniel Kraus on getting in the writing zoneBy Martin Doyle
BooksJan Morris – A Life by Sara Wheeler: Biography races through writer’s contradictory 94 yearsBy Paul Clements
RecipesBank holiday barbecue: Mark Moriarty’s recipe for roast half chicken with barbecue chimichurriBy Mark Moriarty
RecipesBank holiday barbecue: Mark Moriarty’s recipe for striploin of beef with tacos and salsa rojaBy Mark Moriarty
FoodMark Moriarty’s bank holiday barbecue: two of the simplest, tastiest recipes you can make outsideBy Mark Moriarty
IrelandMet Éireann says Ireland to see high temperatures this bank holiday weekend - but rain is on the wayBy Conor Pope
Fine Art & AntiquesThis extraordinary sale will undoubtedly be the most talked-about auction of 2026By Sylvia Thompson
BooksYour husband is in an office wearing clean clothes and you are on a bus to Donegal wearing a nappyBy Alice Ryan
TV & RadioNetflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV: 10 of the best new shows to watch in AugustBy Kevin Courtney
Stage‘We had to bring a live rooster to the healer. She used its blood to make a poultice’By Michael Dervan
StageComedian Alan Davies: ‘I talk about what my father did, and how I had him arrested’By Laura Slattery
Life & StyleThese crows may not survive because of how they look. Nature is red in tooth and clawBy Éanna Ní Lamhna
Consumer TechSamsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 review: Is this the foldable phone you have been waiting for?By Ciara O'Brien
OpinionAI will bring bankruptcies, bank failures and chaos in international financial sectorBy David McWilliams
Life & StyleThe walled town of Wexford: ‘Some people said to us that it must be like living in a prison’By Rosita Boland
PeopleMeet the people behind an Irish summer: ‘We start around 10.30 in the morning and finish at 2am’By Rosanna Cooney
Gaelic Games‘My legs started shaking, I couldn’t control myself’: John Maughan on watching Mayo close in on SamBy Gordon Manning
Gaelic GamesMayo’s win was one of the most joyful national episodes since Republic’s foundationBy Keith Duggan
Gaelic GamesLadies football reaping the rewards of following men’s lead on new rulesBy Muireann Duffy
MarketsICG chief prepares to cast off on Bluefin deal in €1.21bn bid to take over ferry operatorBy Joe Brennan
Climate Crisis‘What was a beautiful habitat now is black soot’: Ireland’s wildfires devastate wildlifeBy Paul Colgan
Gaelic GamesConor McManus: Joy for Mayo tempered by heartbreaking farewell to my friend Stephen GolloglyBy Conor McManus
ObituariesPat Donlon obituary: First woman director of a national institution, librarian and academic
EnvironmentExtremely high levels of arsenic and aluminium found in Aughinish groundwaterBy Conor Gallagher
Environment‘A ticking environmental time bomb’: What lies beneath Aughinish Alumina in Co LimerickBy Conor Gallagher
IrelandGardaí trying to piece together Glen Hansard’s last movements after leaving west Dublin pubBy Hugh Dooley and Conor Gallagher
PoliticsMinister Noel Grealish attended ‘anti-woke’ conference addressed by Nigel FarageBy Jack Horgan-Jones
IrelandIrish-American businessman behind online Irish language bookseller leaves €14m estateBy Tim O'Brien
Ross O'Carroll-Kelly‘My son has opened a museum celebrating criminality. I wish people would stop asking if I’m proud’By Ross O'Carroll-KellyListen to ‘My son has opened a museum celebrating criminality. I wish people would stop asking if I’m proud’Listen | 06:35
EuropeIrish ‘wine geese’ vineyards in Bordeaux under threat amid impact of wildfires and droughtBy Naomi O’Leary
SoccerGianni Infantino’s proposal to sell off chunks of World Cup sensationally collapsesBy Nick Ames
CourtsIrish High Court refuses to surrender Limerick man facing human trafficking charges to GreeceBy Stephen Bourke
CourtsWoman with locked-in syndrome settles action against HSE and Beaumont Hospital with €3.7m interim payout
CourtsGalway ‘spiritual healer’ receives suspended prison term for sexually assaulting teenager on flightBy Gordon Deegan
Crime & LawMotorist caught driving at 172km/h as gardaí detect almost 1,600 speeding offencesBy Olivia Kelleher
MusicPulp at All Together Now 2026: Common People remains the ultimate takedown of nepo babiesBy Ed Power
IrelandMan and woman seriously injured after Co Laois crash as other driver leaves sceneBy Katie Mellett
EuropeSpanish PM calls for urgent EU meeting after ‘selfish’ responses to Ceuta crisisBy Sam Jones in Madrid and Lisa O’Carroll in London
IrelandGirl (10) who died in car crash gave ‘gift of life’ to four children through organ donationBy Olivia Kelleher
Asia-PacificTop mountaineer Nirmal Purja among 11 confirmed dead after avalanche in Pakistan By Geneva Abdul
SportGianni Infantino ‘has lost Uefa’s confidence’ after Fifa chief scraps World Cup sell-off planBy Matt Hughes and Nick Ames
MusicChristy Moore at All Together Now: A rousing Auld Triangle is dedicated to the late Glen HansardBy Ed Power
IrelandBessborough researcher urges purchase of site and inquest into deaths of women and babiesBy Barry Roche
