Pádraicín review: A sublime tour through Galway, where artists make reality big and messy
Galway International Arts Festival 2026: Brú Theatre’s promenade production sends Pádraic Ó Conaire’s characters scattering through the city
How big should your pension pot be?
‘The real question is whether someone knows what income they personally need in retirement, based on their lifestyle’
By Ian Curran
For Dolores review: Funny, bruising and brilliantly written and acted
Galway International Arts Festival 2026: Eva O’Connor’s play is an acerbic, emotionally astute portrait of female friendship in all its intensity
US-Iran military actions escalate, but a return to talks is likely
Neither Washington nor Tehran can achieve its maximalist aims through further military escalation
Scaling back remote working should be on the agenda as payback for public sector pay rises
Money, no matter how many billions are involved, is the least important part of what is really at stake in the pay talks
Nicky English: An underwhelming final but I’ve never seen a better team than Limerick
Galway ran out of ideas under the relentless barrage of physical power and phenomenal skill from Limerick
HSE drug delay a devastating blow to people with Friedreich’s ataxia
Skyclarys is approved in several European countries and has been shown to extend and enrich lives
Will the ‘Michael Lowry gambit’ work for Marine Le Pen and Nigel Farage?
Worldview: One thing all populists agree on is that an election can make awkward questions go away
‘Disgraceful’: Dublin 7 residents on removal of ‘Selections’ shop from derelict register
Phibsborough property removed from register after what locals argue were very ‘minor’ works
By Jack White
The gender gap among senior civil servants is closing, but not at secretary general level
Women in senior management roles have jumped 10% but there is some way to go to achieve gender balance at the top
Ireland could convene negotiations between the US and Iran
Without diplomatic assistance, this conflict could bubble along for years
Stories win elections. So why are some politicians so bad at telling them?
Overconfidence is our enemy. A lesson from ancient Greece can be repurposed today
‘They’re demolishing old pubs and building older ones’
Effort went into scuffing surfaces in the Paddy Whelan pub in Riga to give a lived-in effect
Civil Service needs more staff with deep expertise and specialist skills, not generalists
Time is ripe to follow UK lead and hire for roles that offer specialists a career pathway and professional development
By Frances Ruane
The People’s Emperor by Edward Shawcross: Entertaining and thoroughly researched biography
An attempt to redress the balance and rescue Louis-Napoléon, one of the most popular, if divisive, men in 19th-century France
By Oliver Farry
Spain the winners but football the loser in worst World Cup final of all time
Tournament finale proves spending the big bucks does not guarantee entertainment
By Ken Early
Garbage at Iveagh Gardens review: An exhilarating display of grunge pop – but is it their last gig?
Dublin concert is a celebration of band’s 30-year history of romping, stomping pop-rock
By Ed Power
Garden cabins, rural sprawl and tiny apartments: housing has become a numbers game
The push is for more supply, any supply - but at what cost?
By Orla Hegarty
The dismantling of Viktor Orban’s Hungary
Péter Magyar’s landslide victory has triggered a rapid dismantling of Orbán’s power structure, but the scale of change carries risks of its own
By Ben Hall and Marton Dunai in Budapest
Luke Combs at Slane review: Country star struggles to keep crowd onside for full 120-minute show
Garron Noone and Dermot Kennedy make cameos as North Carolina musician plays the first of two nights at Co Meath venue
By Aoibhínn Clancy
Will our daughter be stuck with a tax bill and no way to pay it under a right of residence?
Your daughter will inherit the family home but effectively cannot sell it as long as anyone with a right of residence continues to live there
Message from the Editor: When sportswriting rises to something approaching literature
Message from the Editor: Sports journalists work under extraordinary pressure, yet they are often the finest prose stylists a news publisher can offer its readers
Nothing in my adult life can match the visceral joy and ecstatic anxiety of sport
There is a pure escape, a total transportation, that no other field of human endeavour is quite so capable of providing
‘He does what his boss says’: Trump’s undiplomatic diplomat stirs it up for Maga in Ireland
Ambassador Ed Walsh is making a mark after one year in the role, and has Irish leaders wondering what he will say or do next
‘Screamers’ house, former home to controversial cult, for sale in Co Donegal
Plus: Raw milk’s granny-longevity powers, taking back Halloween, and a sort of homecoming for Pico Lopes
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