Bound for Glory – Frank McNally on the lost and re-found art of bookbinding

An Irishman’s Diary

Cop26: Are big business’s net-zero plans even credible?

Emission-cutting proposals do not force commerce to rectify actions imminently

Celebrity: Who had a good 2020 and who had a bad one?

2020 in Review: The year was good to some, and not so good to others

Australia’s first national poet – An Irishman’s Diary on Bernard O’Dowd

Irish country music legend Brian Coll dies at the age of 79

Singer could have been a huge star internationally, says friend Fr Brian Darcy

Death of ‘giant of the left’ Seán Garland marked in Glasnevin

Workers’ Party ‘revolutionary’ defined his politics ‘in the many jails he served time in’

Debenhams rushes out trading update after shares drop

Shares in UK retailer fall by as much as 19% to all-time low amid concerns it might seek financial restructuring

Euro stocks snap two-day run as FTSE gets budget boost

Housebuilding stocks lose ground, while Iseq index falls 42 points and Ryanair falls 2.1%

How the swastika became a Confederate flag

American racism played role in notorious Nuremberg Laws of 1935, which set Germany on the road to Holocaust

How Donald Trump is jolting Silicon Valley politics in unexpected ways

‘Trump effect’ is freezing the cheque-writing hands of conservative donors as they wait to see how the primary campaign drama plays out

The Clasp by Sloane Crosley: Latching on to love

A comedy of manners about modern America steeped in literature

Hewlett-Packard to cut up to 30,000 more jobs worldwide

Unclear what impact restructuring will have on Irish operations, which employ 4,000

Former executives from Microsoft and McDonald’s join board of Hewlett-Packard