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Michael Viney: Three of his best columns from a 60-year career

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Michael Viney: 20 of his finest drawings and paintings from a 60-year career

Michael Viney was an Englishman who opened up Ireland for Irish people, writes Fintan O’Toole

Irish Times writer Michael Viney dies aged 90

The truly wealthy don’t wear coats, and other style lessons we learned from Succession

‘You’re welcomed with open arms everywhere. That’s what I like about Irish people’

Seán Moncrieff: I wish I was a carpenter or plumber. I’d be coining it now

Children are seeing things no one should see on smartphones. What can be done about it?

Caitríona Perry: ‘We’re leaving the country on a one-way ticket... but we will be back’

How Ireland became ‘kind of a small motherland’ for Ukrainian children

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘What does Patrick Kielty have that I don’t?’ asks the old dear

Facing eviction from Tathony House: ‘Not-very-militant people have been forced to do militant things’

Why are there different versions of Irish place names on some Dublin street signs?

Brianna Parkins: Nothing beats an Irish wedding – just watch out for the sucky-in knickers, child waiters and the cleavage police

‘You have to be mad to be a conductor ... We’re a weird breed’

Ouch! Why am I the main attraction at the mosquito buffet?

Michael Harding: I had a dream about the Prince of Wales...he drew me into his bed chamber

Brianna Parkins: TV presenter pairings are so false

‘Irish English is very different. I learn a phrase and build it into my sentences – Ah sure look or The craic was mighty’

Seán Moncrieff: I want an ice cream van at my funeral and a headstone with this one baffling word

Brianna Parkins: Looking for a new therapist is like a very expensive form of speed-dating

Inside the many working-class, northside Dublin families whose lives were destroyed by the Stardust

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: The old man is a focking embarrassment at rugby matches

Why is a stretch of road linking Dublin to Donegal the ‘most dangerous imaginable’?

Buying a home? Here are the questions agents wish you would ask

I kidnapped a priest, now I make currachs with other ex-convicts

I’m having genuine brain melt about where the last 20 years have gone

I glanced again at the old man on the balcony; but he had disappeared. It felt like he had vanished

Selling the Park Hotel Kenmare: ‘It was always for sale, if somebody wrote a cheque’

Róisín Ingle: To get things done - like smart ticketing - we need to find the smartest people in the room

Brianna Parkins: Life would be better if we pretended the internet shut down at night

‘Life in Ireland is much easier and nicer. In Chile it’s all just work and paying bills’

‘I still feel terrified swimming into the unknown’: Underwater cameraman Ken O’Sullivan on diving into the deep

Seán Moncrieff: In the modern workplace, how do you know if your boss is mad with you?

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: The two of them are staring at me like this is the worst thing I’ve ever done. It’s not even in the top 10

Brianna Parkins: You can always spot Irish men on a sun holiday

Conor Pope: Where will the cost-of-living crisis end?

What I do - Sandra King spinning yarn in east Clare

‘I started off with three sheep, bought a spinning wheel and taught myself how to spin’

The Irish mammy is many things, but she’s not a racist stereotype

In the charity shop, I feared that the word ‘dicky-bow’ might be offensive

The walls of the local pub have eyes and also the Bainisteoir’s phone number

Róisín Ingle: Modern Dublin smells mostly of marijuana, not manure

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‘Moving to Ireland from the US is like moving to Canada: nobody’s getting shot at schools and they speak English’

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