Books
Billy O’Callaghan: ‘Hemingway gave me such a sense of what a story could be, how meaning can be found in all that gets left unsaid’
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Jo Spain’s Don’t Look Back is a razor-sharp thriller set between the Caribbean, London and Ireland
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The Mess We’re In review: Annie Macmanus on making love and music in London town
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Laureate na nÓg Patricia Forde: ‘Children need to make the time to be away with the fairies’
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Elie Wiesel forced the world to confront the brutality and evil of the holocaust
This Could Be Us by Claire McGowan: What happens when the past catches up with a runaway mother
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray: A dive into the hive mind in sweeping, ambitious family saga
The Russo-ÂUkrainian War by Serhii Plokhy: Why Putin’s war is fuelling Russia’s decline
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Red Books, the little bookshop that could —‘There’s a real family atmosphere and you meet all sorts of people. It’s the place to be’
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Lucid look at the light and shade of Martin Luther King’s brief life
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Retirement village ordered to refund €1,056 to resident following invalid rent increases
Mystery over father’s 50-year disappearance solved after news article
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John Daly: The message of ‘Saoirse?’ showed the futility of war
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Fine Gael lead popularity contest on social media, with Leo Varadkar the most-followed cabinet TD
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AstraZeneca lung cancer drug halves death risk from disease, landmark study finds
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Staffing ‘nightmare’ is biggest threat to the tourism industry as foreign visitors return
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‘People say they won’t work for the weekend. They’ll wait until the weather changes’ – restaurateurs tell of staff shortage crisis
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It could be ‘curtains for fraudsters’ under new personal injury rules
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‘We have reserved the first free pint for Taylor Swift’ – Iconic ‘Banshees of Inisherin’ pub restored to former glory in Co Galway
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New courses provide pathway to a university degree for students who fell short in CAO race
Falling Animals by Sheila Armstrong: Heartbreaking, salt-drenched story of the chances we miss
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Writer Louise Kennedy: ‘When I was young, I was obsessed with death. Now I live with cancer and rarely think about dying’
Remembrance Day by Darragh McKeon: Enniskillen and how nobody can outrun the wheels of history
Gill Perdue: ‘Just like ballet, writing comes from a place of wanting to entertain people’
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Boris Johnson’s self-serving leadership given a sobering assessment by Seldon and Newell
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Darragh McKeon examines two lives shattered by the Troubles in Remembrance Sunday
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Poet Andrew Motion: ‘Very occasionally, and with a reasonably clear conscience, I give up on novels’
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Conor Dodd’s Casualties of Conflict is a poignant commemoration of the souls resting in Glasnevin Cemetery
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Naoise Dolan’s The Happy Couple captures the zeitgeist with pin-sharp observations on modern love
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Claire Kilroy’s Soldier Sailor is a visceral, beautifully written lament on the realities of motherhood
The Murderer and the Taoiseach by Harry McGee: Why the Malcolm Macarthur case remains as grotesque and bizarre as ever