Message from the Editor: Presidential vaudeville shouldn’t obscure two important points
The Irish presidency is a difficult role to fill - as we’re now seeing
‘My friend’s affair with a married man is destroying our friendship’
Ask Roe: ‘I miss our friendship but I’m also struggling with my own values’
We need to face up to the fact that not all middle-earners are squeezed
Here’s what to look out for next week as the Government signals its big budget moves
By Cliff Taylor
As abortions triple, when will we admit that reluctant repealers were profoundly wrong?
We collect statistics on where abortions happen in Ireland and under what part of the legislation, and little else. We have zero interest in knowing why women have them
Imagine lying on your death bed and thinking - I’ve had a good run. I went to a lot of meetings
Most meetings are, at best, a waste of the working day, and at worst, an egregious, soul-sucking waste of life itself
US right-wingers fear Superman’s woke ideology. Trust me, guys, you’ll be grand
Former Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway has decried the new movie and even an ex-Superman has implied the man of steel could go broke by going woke
Dublin’s new tallest building: This tower of darkness should never have been allowed
College Square was redesigned to give its residential block more impact. Why did An Bord Pleanála make such a misguided decision?
Big Band Evolution pianist Cormac McCarthy: ‘I’m still not able to understand how I played. It was painful to hit the keys’
The musician hit an unexpected barrier when tendonitis almost stopped him performing. But it also led to his noted career as a composer and arranger
Location, location, location: How to make up to €1,500 a day letting your home for TV and film shoots
Movies, TV series and ads regularly look for domestic locations when shooting. Could your home make the cut?
A good spread of food memoirs: from the sanitised to the ‘slutty’
Books by Jimi Famuerewa, Shahnaz Ahsan, Chris Newens, Slutty Cheff, and Laurie Woolever
By Mei Chin
The Crying of the Wind: Ireland by Ithell Colquhoun – An exquisitely strange British-Celtic artist’s travels in Ireland
The still-existing pagan spirituality of Ireland seen through the eyes of a genius mystic polymath more than 70 years ago makes for an enchanting read
By Adrienne Murphy
Notes to John by Joan Didion: The posthumous publication of the writer’s psychiatry sessions feels exploitative
If the great essayist had wanted this published she probably would have done it herself
By Maija Makela
Lions player ratings: Jamison Gibson-Park and Tadhg Beirne impress in first Test win over Wallabies
Andy Farrell’s side show their strength despite concerning final quarter
The Dandy: A People’s History of Sartorial Splendour by Peter K Andersson
Dandyish culture stemmed from Britain, with the writer proposing Beau Brummell as the first modern dandy
By John Walshe
A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine - a lucid, at times hectoring, short read
Ex-NYT correspondent argues passionately for the Palestinian cause and excoriates US authorities over blind support for Israel
By Oliver Farry
Books in brief: Eat The Ones You Love, The Book of Records, and Peatlands: A Journey Between Land and Water
Books by Sarah Maria Griffin, Madeleine Thein, and Alys Fowler
It’s a relief to know young CMAT was taking notes, saving up her rage at Bertie
Construction workers who ‘vanished’ from the sector after the Celtic Tiger were humans whose way of life was obliterated
DJ Carey belongs to a strange and depressing category
To be from Kilkenny was to be proud – automatically, almost congenitally proud – of its supremacy in the sport of hurling. And at the very centre of that was DJ
When I was ambassador, Trump’s advisers still had sway. Now the EU has to be ready to hit back hard
The EU is reluctantly ready to face up to the consequences of its €70 billion tariff package
By Daniel Mulhall
Flutter deal with Native Americans in California may get Murdoch off reservation
Rupert Murdoch’s Fox has an option to buy about 19% of FanDuel
By Joe Brennan
Irish presidency poll reveals just how tuned out of the process people are
18% of respondents indicated none of the candidates appeal to them, with 20% unsure who to vote for
By Pat Leahy
Mairead McGuinness leads the field in a list of potential presidential election candidates, poll shows
Catherine Connolly next most popular in Irish Times/Ipsos B&A poll, but many voters not engaged in Áras race
This is what we need to do in Ireland if we want stable, affordable house prices
An honest discussion on population, underpinned by data, not emotion, is the only sensible way forward
‘I thought bowling was part of religion’ – spreading the gospel of road bowling
The traditional Irish sport goes back 300 years but now has devotees from as far away as New York and West Virginia
By Barry Roche
‘We’re now in the golden years of Portrush’: Why golf’s Open has the town smiling all over again
The world’s oldest golfing tournament is bringing a feel-good factor as well as 270,000 spectators from across the globe
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