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Poem of the Week: Gó gan Ghá/Unnecessary Lie
A new work by Aifric Mac Aodha, translated by David Wheatley
Everything Falls review: Family care presented as a wearying, compassionate dance
Theatre: Shaun Dunne and Brokentalkers’ collaboration portrays the challenges of looking after a partner with a long-term illness
Charli XCX announces two gigs in Ireland for 2025
Get ready for Brat summer 2.0 as the English pop sensation is set to play two outdoor concerts
Liam Payne: One Direction stars Harry Styles and Niall Horan join mourners at singer’s funeral
Former One Direction band members, friends and family remember singer who died in a hotel fall in Buenos Aires
Sugar review: Amiable amble through a factory worker’s life could do with more theatrical spice
Michael Patric’s play misses the opportunity to pull the drama of the end of Ireland’s sugar industry into the story of its craic-loving factory worker
The Abbey has fun with Jane Austen’s Emma: ‘Our production is curious about her libido’
Kate Hamill’s adaptation, starring Toni O’Rourke, explores the psychology of what drives the much-loved protagonist, says director Claire O’Reilly
The Music Quiz: Charli XCX has sampled a song by which blues great?
Plus: What is the name of the upcoming Bruce Springsteen biopic starring Jeremy Allen White?
The Scribes of March: in praise of writers’ groups
Mary Hosty introduces DLR Lexicon writers’ group’s first anthology and her own short story
Witches: A pioneering investigation of post-partum psychosis
Elizabeth Sankey looks to cinematic tropes of occult-adjacent women in her fascinating documentary about mental health and motherhood
A Benedict Kiely Reader: Drink to the Bird and Selected Essays review - Words on the importance of place
Wisdom and deftness were tools of writer whose subjects ranged from the lyrical to the sectarian
Cambridge Dictionary’s word of the year: Celebrity ‘manifesting’ influences 2024 choice
Dua Lipa and Simone Biles among celebrities known to imagine success in belief they will achieve it
The Listeners review: Creepy and absorbing thriller is a showcase for Irish actor Ollie West
Television review: West plays a school student struggling with a sound only he and teacher Rebecca Hall can hear
Wicked review: Yes, it’s a nightmare in digital wax, but you’ll leave the cinema in buoyant mood
Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande are well paired. It’s easy to shake off the outside world and soar along beside them
U2: How to Re-Assemble an Atomic Bomb track by track review – Hold on to your mirror shades for classic moments and wigged-out curios
Inevitably for an out-take album, it’s a bit glued together and rough at the edges, but even U2 agnostics will like a lot of the tracks
I’m a Celebrity: Barry McGuigan emotionally recollects death of daughter Nika
Jungle campmates rally around former boxer as he opens up about Nika McGuigan’s death in 2019
