The show mustn’t go on for RTÉ underperformers, say RTÉ news staff
Plus: Fungus inspired by octopus; and what hens behind bars tell us about Mountjoy Prison
Dracula author’s Dublin birthplace available for €400 a night on Airbnb
Plus Catherine Connolly’s limo life, national anthem lessons and a recession-busting ruse in waiting
The Da Vinci dentist: west Cork man finds secret of 500-year-old drawing in the jaw
Plus: Papal knights, Conor McGregor’s involuntary retirement and a welcome to the golfing ambassador
Trinity College Dublin issues €1m pest control tender to help tackle rats, bed bugs - and ‘booklice’
Plus Rex Ryan, son of the late Gerry Ryan, plays the Monk, the new Beanie Babies and a grass-cutting row
Killiney WhatsApp chats ablaze again with a new debate about goats
Plus Joe Biden causes concern, who runs Ireland and did Leopold Bloom shoot JFK?
Zlatan wins the aerial battle but Michael D Higgins still comes home with another striking prize
Plus: Bloomsday hits Tehran (despite Ulysses ban); a great gig for tunnelling experts; and Norman naysayer Aengus Ó Snodaigh
Dragons denied: Niall O’Farrell becomes the latest TV entrepreneur to face money woes
Plus: former Mary Lavin home back on market; John Collison’s castle life; and Declan Ganley’s conservative Roman party
Painter Francis Bacon’s childhood home on the market in Dublin for €1.6m
Plus: Big moves for Irish abroad, and the shadowy boffins taking over League of Ireland fantasy football
State Papers: What we learned, from details of Boris Yeltsin’s Shannon no-show to Ireland’s lost moon rock
Dublin’s archive material is focused on 1994 - ‘a pivotal year for politicians, the Catholic Church and Anglo-Irish affairs’
Roddy Doyle to chair 2025 Booker Prize judging panel alongside Sarah Jessica Parker
Novelists Ayobami Adebayo and Kiley Reid join critic Chris Power to decide prestigious prizewinner
Edna O’Brien talked about a book-burning of The Country Girls in rural Clare. But did it actually happen?
Plus: Dave Grohl’s Kerry drive in 1994; rhododendron set for ban; and some interesting local government ethics declarations
Irish druid who once called Hitler a genius withdraws from Galway event
Plus: Kneecap film flummoxes and impresses US critics; the falling rate for Fair City photos; and Helen McEntee promises to drain the swamp
RTÉ controversy was good news for Oireachtas TV’s viewing figures
Overheard: 2FM seeks replacements for departed stars; O’Malley clan’s new pirate queen; cricket club on a sticky wicket; OPW advertises for art collectors
Bambie Thug impresses the scholars with Ogham messaging
Ireland’s Eurovision entrant gets top marks for using ancient alphabet correctly
Simon Harris finds channelling Seamus Heaney is not so simple
The presumptive taoiseach used a familiar quote when introducing himself as leader, but whose line was it anyway?