There was lots of comedy and a little Celtic misery at the famously bibulous festival

A rat in TDs’ midst; Shane Ross’s birthday; Dr Reilly’s tie; hands, knees and boomps-a-daisy

Singer’s eight-bed Georgian mansion on 27 acres is among priciest sales of recent years

Students Amy Worrall and Fátimah Alaya are about to head off on an adventure

Epworth on Rockfort Avenue offers five bedrooms and 300sq m of space

Other countries throw stars and hit songwriters at the contest. Is there any path back to glory?

Almost 3,000 people on Twitter returned a clear winner from a four-strong shortist

‘For the believers among us, it is a good time to pray’

Phil Collins, who plays Dublin on Sunday, is hip again – but for Patrick Freyne he always was

The singer’s finest songs demolish the caricature that he’s just a Daniel O’Donnell for Dart users. Indeed, if ever an artist was ripe for rehabilitation it is de Burgh

Substantial properties in heart of Dublin 4 offer scope for apartments or boutique hotel

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Republican mulling a mix of insiders and outsiders for top administration positions

Composing the Island festival is huge, but it neglects women and living composers under 30

It's all the fault of gluten, says former Miss World Rosanna Davison, as she sets out to put our diets to right

Ireland went to Italia ’90, Nelson Mandela was released, the Berlin Wall was demolished – and the Féile festival changed Irish music forever

Young Fathers put in a shout for best set of the festival so far, while Hozier gets the live firepower he needs. Plus, highlights for day two

Main stage shifts to west, making arena feel bigger and letting crowd soak up setting sun

Humanist ceremony held in crowded Examination Hall at Trinity College Dublin

Fight Like Apes co-founders Jamie Fox and MayKay Geraghty tell Tony Clayton-Lea about the five years from their second to their third and what happened in between

‘Ireland and Me’: Niamh Guiney, Frankfurt, Germany

Dominick Chilcott says remembrance should be true to the vision of poet Tom Kettle

With transaction levels improving, it was the former Celtic Tiger trophy homes, including those in the embassy belt and south Dublin suburbs, that finally found their real market value this year as the residential property price register shed a light on quieter deals

The national broadcaster seems to have studied the Cowen reshuffle of 2011 – but at least Cowen was quick