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Why Donald Trump is stupid to accept Qatar’s gift of a luxury jetUnthinkable: Socrates said immorality is the result of ignorance - Trump is proof of that By Joe Humphreys
Israelis hail Eurovision second-place performance through prism of Gaza warSinger Yuval Raphael survived the Hamas attack on a music festival, and song lyrics carried clear reference to October 7th, 2023By Mark Weiss
Austria wins Eurovision Song Contest with Israel second Ireland’s ‘douze points’ go to winner JJ as Israel receives huge viewer voteBy Órla Ryan
New Irish albums reviewed and rated: The Would-Be’s, Varo, Curtisy and Pete HolidaiMay 2025 releases include HindZeitgeist, The World That I Knew, Beauty in the Beast and Electric Jukebox Volume OneBy Tony Clayton-Lea
Tate McRae at 3Arena review: An impressive, polished performanceThe Canadian singer-songwriter’s Miss Possessive show delivers a sexy, fun and powerful vibeBy Rebecca Daly
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Domhnall Gleeson on nepo babies: ‘I’ve been so lucky. It’s important you can acknowledge it. Otherwise you’re lying to yourself’The actor on ‘the Harry Potter thing’, his role in Guy Ritchie’s Fountain of Youth, and the gift that Tom Cruise keeps sending himBy Róisín Ingle
The Phoenician Scheme review: Beautiful to look at, but like a museum vase – pretty, pristine and hollow By Tara Brady
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Inside judging one of the big literary prizes: searching for sinister outside forces, table banging and some gems of books Writers love to complain that literary awards committees are black boxes of partisan conspiracy. I am, in a way, sorry to disappointBy Kevin Power
TV guide: the best new shows to watch, starting tonight May 18th-23rd: including The Bombing of Pan AM 103, Code of Silence, and an instalment of Uncharted with Ray Goggins featuring KneecapBy Kevin Courtney
Actor Emily Taaffe: ‘There’s an opening-up about the challenges women face when they become mothers’The Irish actor’s upcoming TV series, Little Disasters, delves into dark and underexplored issues that can accompany motherhoodBy Niamh Donnelly
Even Claire Byrne is alarmed by what she hears about life for Irish teenagersRadio: ‘This was a tsunami coming our way,’ Dr Harry Barry tells the RTÉ Radio 1 presenterBy Mick Heaney
RTÉ’s Oliver Callan enjoys biggest gain in radio listenership, according to JNLR’s latest surveyThe survey shows 3.83 million people listened to the radio every week in the past yearBy Ella Sloane
Dublin Dance Festival 2025: In Somnole, Boris Charmatz drifts like the mind before sleep. The result is compulsively unpredictableThe choreographer wanted to physicalise the workings of the mind. What has emerged is a rattle-bag of ideas full of whimsy and humourBy Michael Seaver
Dublin Dance Festival 2025: In Oona Doherty’s Specky Clark, the body never liesThe choreographer’s fantastical take on the life of her great-great-grandfather will be woven into her family’s already rich oral historyBy Michael Seaver
Cabinet of curiosities: Kunstkammer, at Lismore Castle Arts, explores worlds within worldsCurator Robert O’Byrne brings us on a wild ride through a constellation of bizarre objects and artworksBy Gemma Tipton
Labour of Love at the Glucksman review: A funny, inventive, irrepressible exhibition about the meaning of careA dozen artists contribute to a philosophically minded elaboration of the significance of care in contemporary artBy Tom Lordan
