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Who are the Burke children trying to impress? Could it be their mother?

By Rev John Deane-O’Keeffe

I love Vinted. I just wish it loved me back when I was scammed

By Rachel O'Dwyer

France may calm violence in the short term but it is a country infused with dread

By Lara Marlowe

What is the reason for the enduring public fascination with Elizabeth Holmes?

By Liz Carolan

Australia welcomed tens of thousands of young Irish in recent years. That’s about to change

By Billy Cantwell

Germany offers a stark vision of Ireland’s possible future

By Eoin Drea

The Annals of Inisfallen are part of Irish history. They don’t belong in a British library

By Chris Doyle

Quiet scaling back of BusConnects is a travesty

By Eamon Ryan

Leo Varadkar thinks we should apologise to northern nationalists for partition. Why?

By Ronan McGreevy

Did the internet really get less toxic after Russian data centres went down?

By Sinéad O'Sullivan

A food delivery site that promises to deliver no food? At first, I didn’t see the appeal

By Rachel O'Dwyer

There has been a frightening shift in the way drug gangs intimidate their victims

By Trina O'Connor

The ‘Irish pope’ who was equally disliked by Irish patriots, Protestants and Britain

By Colin Barr

I was abused by swim coach Derry O’Rourke. The George Gibney case raises similar questions

By Karen Leach

€43bn should have been enough to build 110,000 homes. Only 27,000 were built

By Lorcan Sirr

For Houthis, war in Gaza is a chance to strengthen role in Iran’s ‘axis of resistance’

By Vincent Durac

The ‘Liveline effect’ will be crucial to resolving the public sector strikes

By Alan Eustace

When did children stop playing outside?

By Sadhbh O'Neill

Are Simon Harris and gen Z about to turn Ireland into a nation of investors?

By Rachel O'Dwyer

Role of women, married priests and sexuality featured early in the synodal pathway

By Julieann Moran

Siobhán Fenton: Sinn Féin might have an ulterior motive for its actions at Drumcree

By Siobhán Fenton

October 7th was a piercing, shrieking alarm call for all Jews

By Ed Abrahamson

AI music has become ‘the Ozempic of the industry’. Everyone is on it

By Jennifer Walshe

Europe is changing, but Ireland has yet to notice

By Sinéad O'Sullivan

Should every motorway have an HGV lane? Ideas to tackle fuel crisis

By Eamon Ryan

The one thing Israel hasn’t managed to take from us in three years is hope

By Mohammed Salha

Tuesday’s budget may be the worst since Charles Haughey’s wild spending

By Gerard Howlin

This year won’t see the end of Trumpism. But it might see the beginning of the end

By Daniel Geary

As a religious teen, I was against abortion. But even I could see the flaws in the logic

By Clare Moriarty

Today’s Bible accurately represents what was originally written, despite differences in style

By Canon Ian Ellis

Chief Rabbi: All the good that might have come from Ireland v Israel has been lost

By Yoni Wieder

Fake listings, phantom bookings and unhelpful bots: Booking.com’s credibility problem

By Conor Pope

Marina Hyde’s last Guardian column: ‘You have exactly 24 hours to complain before my inbox self-destructs’

By Marina Hyde

Should we pause data centre development? Lynn Boylan debates Malcolm Byrne

By Lynn Boylan and Malcolm Byrne

What one Kerry road tells us about speed limits and road safety

By Sinéad O'Sullivan

Benefits of Ireland’s solar boom should not go only to the big energy firms

By Sadhbh O'Neill

Northern Ireland is staring into the abyss. The peace process is at its weakest since 1998

By Alex Kane

Here’s how to do hot school meals right

By Gerry Godley

Anna Daly: I had a miscarriage. I had one week to grieve

By Anna Daly

My son has missed a lot of school. Like many parents, I’m not too worried

By Rachel O'Dwyer

Is Ireland still a place ‘open to everything except for God’?

By Hugh Linehan

U2 are sometimes dismissed as do-gooders, but the last 50 years have proven it is no act

By Dermot Hodson

Trump media boycott is not the biggest threat to press freedom

By Jack Sheehan

Ireland’s whack-a-mole approach to defence is profoundly concerning

By Sinéad O'Sullivan

Irish people don’t want to live in ‘mostly awful’ apartments. Here are five ways to fix them

By Lorcan Sirr

What if Lucy Letby never killed a baby? What if no crime was committed?

By Chris Fitzpatrick

What links Ireland to Tuvalu, a tiny coral island on the other side of the world?

By Eamon Ryan

It is not the will of God that apartments be built on what may be babies’ unmarked graves

By Caelainn Hogan

When two in five Irish people would ‘let it burn’, we’ve got a problem

By Keire Murphy

Meet the Irish-American TV star bishop who is about to be beatified

By Dr Matthew O'Brien