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Ryanair: ‘We don’t have time to waste with stupid follow-up questions from your readers’
The airline says under-16s now need to be accompanied by an adult when flying. Readers say it’s not that simple
By Conor Pope
I Am Not an Alcoholic: ‘In this beautiful weather what harm could a chilled glass of wine do?
Part 26: While maintaining my sobriety may not be a certainty, I can be certain that nothing or no one will ever make me act uncontrollably again
By Anonymous
Dodgy boxes are everywhere and that’s bad news for football as it heads for saturation point
Wealth of options at piracy subscribers’ fingertips means big sporting events are losing their value
By Denis Walsh
New season, same glaring weakness: how have Man United allowed this issue to persist?
After almost half a billion spent over three transfer windows, Casemiro remains at the heart of midfield
By Ken Early
Beware of the AI therapist. It tells us what we want to hear
Are you being flattered into fragility by your AI app?
Mankeeping: why it’s bad for women and men
As women increasingly refuse to do the emotional and social labour to the men in their lives, it’s time for men to be responsible for making new friendships
By Margaret E Ward
What happens to trousers put in a Dublin clothes bank? One pair was tracked to Libya
Charity calls for stricter regulation of second-hand clothing after it followed items
The race between commuters and tourists in London is unwinnable
‘Dawdling, walking three-abreast, or doing anything else to block a footpath is ill-advised on busy streets ... people walk faster than they do in less populated spots’
By Pilita Clark
Pea Dinneen: ‘Raising Her Voice was born out of frustration at seeing myself reflected nowhere in the Irish theatrical canon’
The trans artist Pea Dinneen’s Dublin Fringe Festival debut, an autobiographical show about gender, is also a reclamation of cultural space
Grá review: Art drawn from the Crawford collection celebrates love in all its forms
At Uillinn, in west Co Cork, the artist collective Salt & Pepper and the curator Michael Waldron team up to foreground queer identity and romance
By Tom Lordan
My Saxophone Saved My Life by Des Lee and The Killing of the Reavey Brothers by Eugene Reavey: Angry accounts of atrocities and the continuing search for answers
British authorities have put up obstacles to both men as they have fought for decades to discover the truth
Letters to the Editor, August 18th: On the presidency, Trump and Putin in Alaska, and being caught short at The Weir
Why he was deselected is still a murky matter
Presidential campaign kicks into life
Arrival of Gareth Sheridan and the withdrawal of Mairead McGuinness bookended the first week of real interest in the race for the Áras
Pope Leo’s first 100 days: ‘He is returning to what was normality before’
Cautious communications and sparse use of English have helped the first US pope to keep a low profile while returning to the more formal Vatican structure of the past
Dáil clerk job up for grabs with a salary of just under €250,000
Overheard: Tourism bosses see upside of Norman invasion and Michael Flatley lets flute do the talking amid Áras speculation
Genteel streets of Washington’s Georgetown meet National Guard in Trump’s crime crackdown
It is impossible to predict whether this is short-term misdirection or the first intimation of a hitherto unimaginable authoritarian police era
By Keith Duggan
We decided to drive the new EV across the country. It wasn’t long before things became tense
I looked for a charging point at every garage we passed. It was striking how few there were
Dropping cost-of-living measures is key pre-budget minefield for Government to navigate
Reaction to James Lawless’s third-level fees cut suggestion has already offered a taste of public anger
The Irish caminos: Climbing the ‘passage of the birds’ - a Connemara rival to Croagh Patrick
Frank McNally on an ancient Connemara pilgrimage, once suppressed by the church but now happily revived
The lure of AI companionship poses a real danger to vulnerable people
The same online forces that nudged Gen Z into a pit of loneliness using algorithms are selling AI companionship to them
‘I’m in my 40s and dating after my husband died – but I find the apps genuinely creepy’
Ask Roe: I spend my time feeling like a judgmental prude or feeling rejected by people I’ve never met
Frankly by Nicola Sturgeon: A candid, engaging memoir, although I’m not sure about her take on Irish reunification
Scotland’s former first minister is scathing about Alex Salmond, and praises Michael D Higgins and Martin McGuinness
By Daniel Mulhall
Triona Campbell: ‘Expect betrayals, a heavy body count, twists, heartbreak and romance’
YA author on her new thriller, which is part of a trilogy set in the gamer world
By Martin Doyle
In the case of Emma Raducanu and the crying child, it’s clear who’s to blame
The tennis star’s complaints to the umpire about this disruptive audience highlight an age-old problem
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