My son is moving abroad and wanted me to share my recipes. I couldn’t oblige
He asked me to write recipes for some of the food I’ve made all his life. I couldn’t do it
Weekend
Stories that appear in the Weekend section of The Irish Times print edition
‘Youghal has an amazing creative community with musicians and artists. It’s a hidden gem’
Actor Liz FitzGibbon: ‘Being the youngest probably helps the wild child in me’
This picture proves at least one successful breeding event is happening in 2026
Your notes and queries for Éanna Ní Lamhna
Roberto Saviano on the Kinahans, living under threat from the Mafia and similarities between Ireland and Italy
Discovery of alliance between Naples Camorra and Kinahan cartel ‘one of the most significant chapters in recent global drug trafficking’
Carlow Garden Festival: What is the single best thing you can do for a garden of any size?
Carlow Garden Festival is pulling out all the stops to attract a more diverse crowd
Cover bands: The serious business of pretending to be someone else
Musicians who imitate famous performers are particularly busy during the summer festival season
Seals poked their heads out of the water to stare at me with wariness and curiosity
A trip to Corca Dhuibhne peninsula gave me a new appreciation for the character of our landscape
Teenage boys in Ireland: ‘Now that everyone has a phone, the bullying never stops’
Four Irish teenagers talk about navigating friendships and social hierarchies in the era of social media and the manosphere
Eamon Ryan on why you should enter Ireland’s Greenest Places
Ireland’s Greenest Places: Despite backlash in some political circles against the green agenda, action on the ground tells a different story
There’s a reason the State gets away with wasting so much of our money
The power of data is transparency. It is the power of the future
One of the last of its kind in Ireland: The Leinster Model Flying Club in pictures
‘It’s gone from rubber bands and tissue to high-tech computerised stuff,’ says a founding member of one of Ireland’s few remaining model aircraft clubs
How common are quadruplets and why are multiple pregnancies higher risk?
The maternal foetal medicine specialist who oversaw the births says it might be the first such case in Australia
Fr Mike Schmitz show in Dublin: ‘It’s like going to see a celebrity and the celebrity we’re talking about is God’
Fr Schmitz, the social media star, digital evangelist and Catholic chaplain, attracts youth groups, culture warriors and apolitical people seeking some form of healing at the National Stadium
Top US investor on how Irish savers can get ready for new Government scheme
David Gardner has repeatedly helped US investors beat the market through his Motley Fool platform. Now he’s coming to Dublin
Sarah Moss on audiobooks: I’m happy for readers and listeners to meet my writing in whatever form suits
Some writers are wary of translations and adaptations - I’m just curious
I brought my three boys from England to Sligo to replicate my childhood summer holidays
They loved it: the turf sheds, the Tayto, adults pressing five and 10-euro notes into their hands and the dozens of cousins
What’s the scéal with Gaelmaxxing?
A guide gearr to the Irish language and cultural trend: what it is and how to do it (to the maxx, ar ndóigh)
Leafing through a discovered magazine from 1966 a glaring absence struck me
A perusal of The Irish Times Annual Review of 1966 leaves me slack-jawed over an era where the patriarchy truly ruled Ireland
This very large fly has been hanging around my garden. Does it bite humans?
Éanna Ní Lamhna answers your queries on horseflies, thunderworms and busy bees
We need creative help to understand and reverse human-induced climate change
Artists can be shape-shifters of cultural norms, as they are not afraid to push against the status quo and stimulate behaviour change
Dance World Cup finals in Dublin: ‘This is the best of all of the dancers around the world’
Dancers as young as four years old perform to a full house in the discipline’s most elite competition
Bill Kenneally victim: ‘He said if I told anyone, he had the pictures to show I enjoyed it’
A chance discovery that his childhood abuser still had access to boys led Jason Clancy to make a decision that would lead to justice but also a personally difficult journey
Scramblers scourge: ‘People are dying because of it’
Using scramblers in public places has been illegal since April. The Garda Commissioner supports an outright ban on e-scooters
I still describe my day to my husband John Montague 10 years after his death
The poet continued to write ardent lyrics full of love for me, his daughters, nature and for our troubled world
Is the US AI bonanza a fundamentally secure investment or an old-fashioned bubble?
Could China – as it has done with cars, drones and phones – simply undercut the Americans, providing better AI models more cheaply to the world?
GAA World Games come to Waterford: ‘Is that the mad game?’
Of the more than 2,000 Gaelic football, hurling and camogie players in 113 teams from all over the world taking part, most are not Irish
What ospreys ask of us is simple: clean, fish-rich waters
Imposing bird of prey can make Ireland home if plankton thrive
Little House on the Prairie makes for uneasy reading as an adult
These books are politically wrong, but they’re also well written
This snail is not a lad, or indeed a lassie. Garden snails are all hermaphrodite
Your notes and queries for Éanna Ní Lamhna
It’s hard to make new friends as you age - Gordon Snell showed me why it’s worth trying
On television, friendship is treated as the preserve of the young, something people sooner or later leave behind in favour of romantic relationships, writes Henrietta McKervey.
Norway the clear economic winners after England’s own goal with North Sea oil
Scandinavian nation’s mature political system in stark contrast to greed, cronyism and economic mismanagement
The Norwegian football miracle: How did it happen?
Collective effort and individual flair make Norway a wonderful team to watch, and increasingly hard to beat
Jim Boyce: ‘I’ve known Infantino for years. He should have told Trump to keep out of football’
The Belfast-based former Fifa vice-president on the red-card review controversy, 57 years of marriage and being caught up in a bombing
Photo essay: what people carried as they fled Israeli attacks on Lebanon
Baby bottle, parents’ medicine and dog food among items brought with those fleeing war
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