Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: Writer Xnthony’s new musical was transformed by the illness and death of his best friend

The actor on The Lost Children of Tuam, his film about Catherine Corless’s uncovering of hundreds of deaths at the town’s Bon Secours mother and baby home

The historian on her difficult upbringing, how it feels for your life to be adapted for the screen, and why Trump’s visit to Ireland made her angry

Missionaries occupied a unique place in Ireland’s national imagination. For young Irish women, religious life offered something rare: independence, education and travel

Rite & Reason: The Irish do funerals well. It’s a cultural phenomenon, writes journalist Molly O’Reilly

The decline in numbers joining the priesthood means the prospect of there not being enough priests for funerals and other religious services is very real

Dermot Farrell says ‘young people have all but given up the hope of having a home of their own’

Rite and Reason: Toll extends beyond the courts, intruding on family life and the space survivors need for therapy and healing

Cork man Jimmy Linehan (90) wants the Catholic Church to remove the censures imposed on Irish people ‘since 1169’

Political will is needed to adequately invest in publicly funded services

Bishop Denis Nulty says crash ‘a sharp reminder that all of us share an enormous responsibility when we sit behind a wheel’

Iona Institute says falling birth rates account for about 60 per cent of decline, with secularisation accounting for the remainder

Irish Times analysis shows counties with the lowest demand for change are Monaghan and Longford

Rite & Reason: I think of what it must be like for the small number of men who are still in the Order now to have all this ignominy poured on them

Dancer and choreographer Edwina Guckian on The Devil’s in the Dancehall, how angry her research into the show made her, and the liberation of dance

Chapters in Gary Wade’s book study clusters of collections by Heaney, with Station Island the pivot around which the whole turns

Move to ‘preserve one of Dublin’s most important church buildings’ comes less than a year after its elevation

For philosopher William Desmond, being Irish is bound up with a ‘sense of doubleness’

But then, assertions of moral purity have always been selective and hypocritical

Congregation adopted controversial legal strategy in response to man’s allegation he was sexually abused by former member