‘It’s a deep, soulful, beautiful thing’: readers’ friendship stories
We asked for your friendship stories. Here is the winner and five more of the best. The winner and a friend get a two-night break at the Meyrick Hotel, Galway
We asked for your friendship stories. Here is the winner and five more of the best. The winner and a friend get a two-night break at the Meyrick Hotel, Galway
FRIENDSHP WEEK: Koftas are a sociable food, perfect for casual gatherings with friends
The friendship of the four of them, their gang, their cabal, spanned the decades
FRIENDSHIP WEEK: Generation Emigration readers on leaving lifelong friends behind, and creating new social circles from scratch abroad
The most lasting friendships are based on shared interests and values and humour, not the possession of similarly shaped genitals
FRIENDSHIP WEEK: Twain was hugely interested in technology and struck up a friendship with the scientist
FRIENDSHIP WEEK: As my husband and I sign contracts for our new house abroad, our friends are signing contracts for new jobs at home
Butch and Sundance, Spock and Kirk, Woodward and Bernstein . . . Movie bromance has been around for a lot longer than the word that has come to describe the genre
Nigerian woman Zeenie Summers writes about making friends in a new home for The Women’s Podcast
FRIENDSHIP WEEK: I don’t mind seeing the children sometimes, but not all of the time
FRIENDSHIP WEEK: Such bonds are essential to human happiness – but it’s important to know when to walk away
FRIENDSHIP WEEK: For three Ethiopian men doing development studies in Dublin, their friendship acts as a buffer against culture shock
FRIENDSHIP WEEK: I am what my friends have made of me and I exist only in relation to them
This entry to the Friendship Week reader competition is the story of a friend in need
This week on the podcast we want to know what you’ll be asking politicians when arrive on your doorstep
FRIENDSHIP WEEK: Sometimes I wonder if my friends only love me for my moisturiser
Friendship Week: Turning up in the same outfit as your friend is no longer necessarily a social faux pas – it is often deliberate
FRIENDSHIP WEEK: The production of natural cosmetics in Ireland brings people together
A buddy keeps you motivated and as miles fly by, worries, hopes and dreams are shared
The first of the entries to our Friendship Week competition is a watery tale of endurance
Messages ping in at all times of the day and night from Ireland, London, Hong Kong, Sydney and New York
In this introduction to friendship week, Laura Kennedy looks at how friendships often take a back seat to romantic or family relationships despite studies that show they are essential to health and happiness
To coincide with Friendship Week, the Women’s Podcast explores the joys and challenges of these important platonic bonds
FRIENDSHIP WEEK: Shakespeare wrote ‘neither a borrower nor a lender be’, but was he being a bit dogmatic?
Broadside: My husband’s motor neuron disease has made me wildly inappropriate; I have no social filter
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Full general election coverage including analysis and results for all 43 constituencies
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices