Event guide: Borris House Festival of Writing & Ideas, Forbidden Fruit and the other best things to see in Ireland in the week ahead
May 30th-June 5th, 2026: The best music, theatre, art and more coming your way this week
The Music Quiz: Dua Lipa’s new live album and concert film was recorded in which city?
Plus: Which music artist is the latest to appear on the front of the Barcelona FC jersey?
‘I’ve lost money many times. If you’re building businesses, it comes with the territory’
Me & My Money: James Lenehan, WinWin founder and chief executive
Rachel Eliza Griffiths: ‘One of the gifts my mother gave me is I’m now not afraid to die’
The US multimedia artist, poet and novelist who is married to Salman Rushdie on her ‘kaleidoscope of quirks’
Event guide: Florence Road, Luke Kelly Festival and the other best things to see in Ireland in the week ahead
May 23rd-30th, 2026: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
The Music Quiz: Kingfishr’s song Killeagh is named after a village in which county?
Plus: In Doja Cat’s 2025 song Aaahh Men!, which English actor does she namecheck?
‘I’m a massive fan of Female Invest, which is such a great platform to learn how to invest’
Me & My Money: Majken Bech-Bailey, sommelier
‘I can’t live in Dublin. Unless you have a gig that pays a lot of money, or four jobs, you can’t’
Songwriter Mark Geary on his debut Irish gig and the country’s increasing level of ‘cruelty and grift’
A diplomatic perspective: ‘Over the last year, I’ve moved house, job, and country’
Patrick Reilly, deputy head of mission at the British embassy in Ireland, on growing up in an Irish household in Manchester, trying to get into the Hacienda and more
Event guide: Paul Simon, Kraftwerk and other best things to see in Ireland over the next week
May 16th-22nd, 2026: The best music, art and more coming your way over the next week
The Music Quiz: A singer from which Irish band is co-lead in the Irish production of Oklahoma!
Plus: According to Rolling Stone, which guitarist is the King of the Licks?
New Irish albums reviewed and rated: Goodtime John, Molly O’Mahony, Mick Flannery, Tony St Ledger, Mac Giolla Ghunna
May 2026 releases include Good as Gold, Waiting on the World, The House Must Win and Man on a Bridge
‘It is a strange thing to never see your own money, apart from on the screen of a phone’
Me & My Money: Fiona Breheny, children’s book author and illustrator
Parents who want Irish-language education for their children ‘are being failed by State’
Alan Esslemont, the author and former TG4 ard-stiúrthóir (director general), on agreeability, childhood memory and death being ‘an awfully big adventure’
Event guide: International Literature Festival Dublin, Tame Impala and more in Ireland this week
May 9th-15th, 2026: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week