Peaky Blinders final episode: Just when Cillian Murphy seemed free of this absurd show...
Contains spoilers: The soggy farewell season has unspooled like a series of baroque pop videos
Peaky Blinders, never a great drama, returns without the electrifying Helen McCrory
TV review: The BBC show is still a triumph of style over plot but it hasn’t lost its swagger
O’Hare restoration – Frank McNally on the complicated backstory of an American war hero
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Lee Elder’s rise from teenage hustler to US Masters trailblazer
First black golfer to play at Augusta began as a hustling partner to Titanic Thompson
High style and low morals: The links between fashion and crime
The world of fashion has some long-standing links with the criminal underworld
Deirdre Bair, Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir biographer, dies at 84
Writer scored coup by persuading the reclusive Irish writer to let her chronicle his life
Post-impeachment Trump appears to be more emboldened
America Letter: No sign of caution as president seeks retribution and legal intervention
Anne Enright: ‘As a writer, your problems are your solutions’
Her new work, Actress, is about a mother-daughter relationship in bohemian Dublin
On the centenary of Prohibition, is creative intoxication still a thing?
Writers have often used drink or drugs to ‘see beyond’ reality. Or was it all an illusion?
Archaeologists find tunnels under former Alcatraz prison
Find confirms suspicion the prison was built over a civil war-era military fortification
Are ‘digital gangsters’ damaging Ireland Inc’s reputation?
Caveat: Facebook and law, Eir’s enraged customers, and no smiley face from Fatah
El Chapo’s trial to hear epic tale of notorious drug lord
Trial which begins in New York on Tuesday will be watershed moment in US drugs war
The creeping menace of Americanised Halloween is frightening
Donald Clarke: We began dressing up as monsters. Now it’s a Vegas Elvis or saucy flight attendant
Manafort’s ex-business partner tells court of mutual ‘crimes’
Rick Gates says he concealed millions of dollars in foreign accounts for former Trump campaign chairman
Manafort’s bookkeeper ‘was unaware’ of foreign accounts
Former Trump campaign chairman on trial in US on tax and bank fraud charges
Trump urges US attorney general to halt Mueller investigation
Representatives of US president say he was offering opinion not order in tweet
Miami spice: glitz and glamour in south Florida’s melting pot
Whether walking around the art deco districts, taking a graffiti bike tour, or just people-watching in South Beach, you’ll feel like you’re in a Will Smith song
Disgraced former bank boss banned from City over sex and drugs shenanigans
‘Crystal Methodist’ called sex chatlines in breach of bank’s expenses policy
Miles to go: Topaz chief Anderton pumped up to go full Circle
After a change in ownership, Niall Anderton is overseeing fuel group’s rebrand to Circle K
Watchdog must enforce laws on organised crime of price-fixing
Competition-law offences are economic crimes carried out at the public’s expense
Take Al Capone approach to ticket touts - Michael Healy-Rae
TDs question cost of tickets for U2 and Coldplay concerts in Dublin later this year
Music heaven in megapolis on shores of Lake Michigan
From jazz to electric blues to house and indy rock, Windy City is a real capital of sounds
Panama Papers: Customers include suspected financiers of terrorism and gunrunners
Firm has worked with at least 33 individuals or companies on US blacklist
Special Criminal Court is necessary in flawed justice system
The ordinary jury courts are simply not adequate for dealing with all cases
Criticism of lack of jury in Slab Murphy trial ‘sheer madness’
‘Nobody is above the law and everyone is answerable to the courts’ - Peter Robinson
Irish trio at US Amateur avoid real damage in first round
Paul Dunne, Gary Hurley and Cormac Sharvin finish inside the top 64 who will qualify for matchplay stage
The Gigli Concert: ‘What’s an Englishman doing directing a revered Irish classic?
Tom Murphy’s great play, currently at the Gate, subverts Irish and English stereotypes. How did director David Grindley rise to the challenge?
The Tower of Silence in every bustling city
Nicolas Fève’s new book of photographs is a response to Tim Robinson’s work on Connemara. This is one of several new essays the writer has contributed to it
Dermot Rooney left prison . . . days later he was dead
The Irish Prison Service says it is moving towards the “structured” release of vulnerable prisoners
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