The 10th annual Dublin Book Festival takes place this weekend, hosting workshops, walks, talks and readings by some of Ireland’s prominent writers. Here are some of the must-sees

Unpopular presidential candidates make fight for Congress highly competitive

Longstanding Trump patterns have gone into hyperdrive and his mental stability is the dominating subject of conversation

Lenny Abrahamson’s Room and John Crowley’s Brooklyn vie for the best picture Oscar this weekend. They are part of a grand tradition

Review: Ryan Tubridy is the closest thing Irish radio has to the much missed Terry Wogan

Veteran broadcaster tells podcast he wishes RTÉ ‘was more committed to the arts’

Films such as ‘Gravity’, ‘Lincoln’ and ‘Captain Phillips’ to be screened over holiday period

The pugnacious candidate has scrambled up the US presidential campaign

When model Nicole Trunfino breastfed her son during a break in an Elle magazine photoshoot, the pairing was so good that it made the cover

Review: Anton Savage, on Today FM, and Rick O’Shea, on RTÉ 2FM, get off to slow, uncertain starts in their new slots

Riverdance founders hope to also bring Heartbeat of Home around the world

Memorial service part of annual arts festival

Funeral Mass for poet to be held in Donnybrook before burial in his native Co Derry

Rereading interviews he gave in the past, the broadcaster reflects on his family, his career and his criticism of RTÉ’s ‘elitist’ coverage of the arts

Ireland is made up of many faiths, of ever-fluctuating numbers. We meet some people who have recently switched religious allegience