Hugh Lane’s contribution to cultural history is the focus of Thaddeus O’Sullivan’s new film

Despite a dispute with Netflix and films not being ready in time, the competition is one of the funkiest, least creaky in years

Tahilla has welcomed many politicians over the years, including Jack Lynch, Erskine Childers and Liam Cosgrave

Donald Clarke: You’d think there’d be a British St Patrick’s Day, with Union Jack beer

Affairs with Russian diplomat and British MP caused cold-war political scandal

Afghanistan

UK Politics: The fainter our memory of trauma, the greater our appetite for risk

Martin Wolf: Theresa May promised strength and stability – she has delivered the opposite

Fine Gael leadership situation could affect timing of proposed stock-market flotation

UK politics: painful national projects require leaders to demonstrate some class

Anglo-Irish relationship faces raft of challenges and State to lose key ally in Brussels

But reneging on pre-election commitments about coalition partners is a betrayal

‘Peter Mandelson would never have let that happen’

Author of Presbyterian Notes for ‘The Irish Times’ since 1960 finishes writing career

Fancy living like a duke or duchess? As an earl or countess? A lord or lady? You can savour aristocratic life in this Irish castle

Scandal threatened to bring down Harold MacMillan’s government in the 1960s

Obituary: Death of British politician whose career ended in scandal

Coalition parties want to set questions rather than scramble for answers after recent crises

Opinion: The political challenge for the Government will be to see that the slight increase in optimism is widely shared