BooksThe Help author Kathryn Stockett on being fired by her publisher and feeling like a failure By Róisín Ingle
Books30 years since Nuala O’Faolain’s Are You Somebody? ‘Vibrating with hurt. It leaves a mark’By Emilie Pine, Doreen Finn, Dermot Bolger, Patrick Freyne and Rosita Boland
FilmFour new films to see this week: The Mandalorian and Grogu, Finding Emily, Hen and Tom & Jerry: Forbidden CompassBy Donald Clarke and Tara Brady
BooksNo ‘Tolkien’s Epic Pooh’: Top books list is rage bait but it’s of the highest qualityBy Donald Clarke
PeopleRachel Eliza Griffiths: ‘One of the gifts my mother gave me is I’m now not afraid to die’By Tony Clayton-Lea
Health‘You can’t force people to stay’: How to stop the exodus of Irish medical graduates?By Shauna Bowers
PeopleBehind the scenes at one of Ireland’s oldest jewellery stores Weir & Sons: workshops and rare jewelsBy Rosita Boland
Social AffairsMining entrepreneur and academic Richard Conroy leaves estate valued at almost €5mBy Tim O'Brien
ArtThe Art Riddler, Dublin’s anonymous art patron: ‘People must think I’m a millionaire, but I’m not’By Mimi Murray
People‘The only surprise is that you’re still cooking it’: There are reasons I stick to cooking just one dishBy Quentin Fottrell
OpinionTech workers are so well paid, many don’t bother to join a union. That’s going to changeBy Una Mullally
OpinionIreland’s politics of strategic ambiguity served us well – until it didn’tBy Sineád O'Sullivan
CourtsBench warrant still ‘live’ for nurse accused of exposing himself to female colleague, hearing toldBy Stephen Farrell
Asia-PacificPakistan: More than a dozen killed in suicide blast targeting trainBy Abdul Sattar and Munir Ahmed, Associated Press
Ireland‘This could only happen in Ireland’: How a son’s death in New York has led to almost 2,500 grieving families being helpedBy Seanín Graham
RugbyJoey Carbery set for Leinster return, Ulster had eyes on the wrong prize: What we learned from the European finalsBy Nathan Johns
OpinionByelections showed increasingly fractured politics with dangerous consensus on one issueBy Gerard Howlin
Housing & PlanningPlanning rules for one-off housing to be eased under new proposalsBy Cormac McQuinn
Gaelic GamesPotential ban for Donegal’s Jim McGuinness likely to depend on referee’s reportBy Gordon Manning
SportThree sporting events to watch this week: Your handy guide to sport on televisionBy Damian Cullen
Middle EastUS and Iran close in on deal to wind down war and reopen Strait of HormuzBy Farnaz Fassihi and Julian E. Barnes
RugbyGerry Thornley: Leinster beaten decisively by Bordeaux on bruising weekend for Irish rugbyBy Gerry Thornley
Gaelic GamesTailteann Cup: Offaly book place in quarter-finals after surprise defeat of DownBy Gareth Cauldwell
Gaelic GamesDublin withstand the heavy hand of history to dump Kilkenny out of the championshipBy Seán Moran
RacingWayne Lordan makes most of another ‘spare’ to land first Irish classic victory on PreciseBy Brian O'Connor
PoliticsMary Lou McDonald says she is under ‘no pressure whatsoever’ after Sinn Féin defeatsBy Cormac McQuinn and Jack Horgan-Jones
Gaelic Games‘Tyrone are mourning a legend’: Malachy O’Rourke pays tribute to Frank McGuigan after win over RoscommonBy Gordon Manning
Crime & LawProper inquiry could have stopped ex-garda Paul Moody’s abuse, head of Fiosrú saysBy Conor Lally
Gaelic GamesCork and Limerick into Munster final; Kilkenny knocked out in Leinster – as it happenedBy Ciarán Kirk
Crime & LawThirty-four men deported to Poland and Lithuania from Ireland on grounds of criminalityBy Shauna Bowers
SoccerIrish player tracker: John Egan returns to the Premier League with Hull, Liam Scales bags more silverware at CelticBy Conor McEvoy
PoliticsWho is Seán Kyne? Fine Gael politician returns to the Dáil after Galway West byelection winBy Cormac McQuinn
Byelections 2026Byelections: FG’s Seán Kyne elected in Galway West, defeating Noel Thomas in nailbiting finish - as it happenedBy Sarah Burns and Jack White
PoliticsFine Gael and Social Democrats land morale-boosting byelection winsBy Pat Leahy, Harry McGee and Cormac McQuinn
Gaelic GamesNicky English: First day of real hurling summer sees Dublin bring curtain down on KilkennyBy Nicky English
TV & RadioDear England review: Hugely watchable account of one man’s effort to reverse World Cup woesBy Ed Power