Highlights

Ringo Starr on holidaying in Ireland: ‘We hopped over on a plane, rented a car and found a little guesthouse for two nights’

Maureen Dowd: At Jimmy Carter’s funeral, Donald Trump was narcissist non grata

Pat Leahy: Government is getting nervous about the contentious Occupied Territories Bill

The man gave every indication of being dead just seconds before he revived to defend himself

Adventuring through the rivers of Borneo and Flores Sea: Lush rainforests, volcanos and snorkelling with whale sharks

Donald Clarke: Megyn Kelly’s rant about Conclave being ‘most disgusting anti-Catholic film’ is big win for church

An unsettling conversation on the Dart leaves other passengers open-mouthed in amazement

‘The minute I sat down on the train, I knew I’d been scammed’: Are the Irish susceptible to con artists?

Jimmy Carter went to Mass in Waterford in 1995 - a sign of a deep faith that was often overlooked

If you find music on Spotify increasingly bland, it might be the ghosts

One of Stanley Kubrick’s greatest films was made free to watch on YouTube. It’s a sign of the trouble movie studios are in

The Sequoia, like Jimmy Carter, redolent of a very different era

David McWilliams: No single location captures global nature of Irish economy more than Dublin Airport

Cliff Taylor: Dundrum apartments decision a symptom of broken planning system

Trump’s second coming has echoes of a century ago and Yeats’s warning ‘the centre cannot hold’

From Billie Eilish to Electric Picnic: 85 big gigs to watch out for in 2025

15 brilliant short books to get you back in the habit of reading

Benched and approaching 30, can Grealish regain his ‘Treble Jack’ form Guardiola craves?