What’s hot
Glovers Alley
Andy McFadden's homecoming has made St Stephen's Green exciting again
Beatyard
Dún Laoghaire's August bank holiday festival – featuring The Jacksons, Little Dragon and Kamasi Washington – is on sale now
Not a Funny Word
Do not miss Tara Flynn's brilliant, personal play, at the Complex in Dublin in March and the Everyman in Cork in April
Mario Kart the app
Mario Kart on your phone, coming sometime between now and March 2019
Educated
The memoir by Tara Westover that everyone is talking about
Cowboy boots
Back in the saddle
Dee Rees
Mudbound is amazing, and her next film is a biopic of Gloria Steinem
What’s not
Electric unicycles
The one-wheeled scooters giving us a fright on footpaths everywhere
iPhone X
Apple halves production of the phone due to lack of demand
South Dock Road, Dublin
One of the spots where cars are most frequently clamped in the capital
When cheap things turn luxury
Are we really supposed to be spending loads of money on tights and leggings?
Repeal-itis
The stress caused by polarised debates about the Eighth Amendment on TV and radio
H&M
Opening 390 new shops in 2018, but closing 170
The Dublin Bus "beep"
Could they not have come up with a friendlier sound for tagging Leap cards?
