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: For three Ethiopian men doing development studies in Dublin, their friendship acts as a buffer against culture shock
FRIENDSHIP WEEK: Such bonds are essential to human happiness – but it’s important to know when to walk away
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
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