Viking Ocean Cruise’s trip from Norway to Iceland, via the Faroe Islands, makes for a marvellously mythic experience

The Royal Hibernian Academy’s latest show gets under the skin of consumer culture. But is it funny?

We’ve got boots on the ground on four Irish culinary destinations recommended by you – Abbeyleix, Kinsale, Carrick-on-Shannon and Belfast

Businesswoman speaks affectionately about her mother’s legacy and announces foundation’s €7m donation to Trinity College

His work has been seen by millions, but the artist, who has a new show at Dublin’s Green on Red gallery, remains deliberately low key

Is it time for Benidorm to get a critical re-evaluation?

Architects Scott Tallon Walker have delivered subtle curves and a muted palette at the tech giant’s Hollyhill Five facility

The artist’s Encyclopedia of Invisibility restores the histories of thousands of people. Now his sculptures are bringing some of those stories to Dublin

Exiled from Haifa months later, Maroun Tomb lost all but the names of oil paintings featured in his 1947 hometown exhibition

There’s plenty to spice up a city break across Europe in the first six months of the year

Mick O’Kelly’s powerful stained-glass art gives a view into the minds of people with cognitive impairment

At Mac’s Warehouse, Dublin’s oldest family-run salvage yard, nothing goes to waste

On Rapa Iti, in French Polynesia, visitors are rare, land is collectively owned, the fishing catch is shared, and bread is cooked in communal ovens. It’s an unforgettable experience

Echoes of the past haunt the year ahead. Are there lessons to be learned?

The artists, entrepreneurs, activists and musicians set to shake things up in the new year