Weekend

Some writers are wary of translations and adaptations - I’m just curious

They loved it: the turf sheds, the Tayto, adults pressing five and 10-euro notes into their hands and the dozens of cousins

A guide gearr to the Irish language and cultural trend: what it is and how to do it (to the maxx, ar ndóigh)

A perusal of The Irish Times Annual Review of 1966 leaves me slack-jawed over an era where the patriarchy truly ruled Ireland

Éanna Ní Lamhna answers your queries on horseflies, thunderworms and busy bees

Artists can be shape-shifters of cultural norms, as they are not afraid to push against the status quo and stimulate behaviour change

Dancers as young as four years old perform to a full house in the discipline’s most elite competition

A chance discovery that his childhood abuser still had access to boys led Jason Clancy to make a decision that would lead to justice but also a personally difficult journey

Using scramblers in public places has been illegal since April. The Garda Commissioner supports an outright ban on e-scooters

The poet continued to write ardent lyrics full of love for me, his daughters, nature and for our troubled world

Could China – as it has done with cars, drones and phones – simply undercut the Americans, providing better AI models more cheaply to the world?

Of the more than 2,000 Gaelic football, hurling and camogie players in 113 teams from all over the world taking part, most are not Irish

Imposing bird of prey can make Ireland home if plankton thrive

These books are politically wrong, but they’re also well written

Your notes and queries for Éanna Ní Lamhna

On television, friendship is treated as the preserve of the young, something people sooner or later leave behind in favour of romantic relationships, writes Henrietta McKervey.

Scandinavian nation’s mature political system in stark contrast to greed, cronyism and economic mismanagement

Collective effort and individual flair make Norway a wonderful team to watch, and increasingly hard to beat

The Belfast-based former Fifa vice-president on the red-card review controversy, 57 years of marriage and being caught up in a bombing

Baby bottle, parents’ medicine and dog food among items brought with those fleeing war

As the deadline to nominate people and places in the second Ireland’s Greenest Places competition approaches, we take a look at some of those already in the running

From a lack of cool spaces to the push for more energy efficient homes, Ireland has no clear plan to cope with a warming world

Two Irish Protestants have started a new podcast on life in contemporary Ireland

Everyone knows the story of the Trojan horse. Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey follows what happens after

There is nothing more I can do to ‘be seen’, and nothing I can do about drivers who don’t look

This is a story about how two people living in Dublin made a small wood and a garden on the north coast of Sligo

Balfe was the first face in colour from RTÉ TV studios, and in his day, his voice was as familiar as that of Gay Byrne to Irish audiences

Nature absorbs the impact of polluters because the political will isn’t there to make the consequences serious enough to stop them

Eye on Nature: Eanna Ní Lamhna answers your queries on woodwasps, butterworts and more

The story of the American Revolution was mostly written by White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, who downplayed the role of Scots-Irish and Irish

While the constitution may have been the creed, money was America’s sacrament

‘It’s not like a typical festival’: Florence + the Machine in Rathfarnham was one of the big concerts of the summer

Former schoolmates let off some steam in Albufeira’s lively pub and club scene

Higher temperatures on the way but we might not exceed the mid-20s and there should be less humidity

From July 1st, an order of three items from outside the EU will become at least €9 more expensive

Everything from cancer to hobbies is now described as ‘your journey’, but I prefer words that don’t make false promises

Your notes and queries for Eanna Ní Lamhna

The Dublin writer on what she has lost and would like back, childhood memories, and what she wished she started doing years ago

The Star City and Black Dove actor recalls being brought to productions of Séan O’Casey’s plays as child

A decline in the number of boy choristers at St Patrick’s Cathedral Choir School in Dublin has led to a recruitment drive