Some of Ireland’s most successful family-run companies share the secrets of their success

The man born Paul Crossan has gone from pop jock to credible host of RTÉ's Book Show

Letter urges Government to ‘save’ 15 Usher’s Island after plans lodged to turn Dublin house into 56-bed hostel

This year’s conference aimed to reconnect health professionals with their humanity

This trip was to show my daughter her Irish family, and the land that shaped me

The Fatima Mansions and Microdisney singer on Gerhard Richter’s paintings, the cinematic works of Rainer Fassbinder, and Aidan Gillen’s ‘brooding menace’

Book review: EM Reapy, from Mayo, has a lot to live up to after her award-winning debut

Whether from Sally Rooney or Edna O’Brien, experimentalism has never frightened Irish readers

The author Colm Tóibín discusses female Irish novelists, families, and when he wishes he had a TV

For a Clontarf woman with a chronic illness joining the working world is filled with setbacks

Author and journalist on growing up in Northern Ireland, and learning from her 'failures'

The Booker winner on Constellations, her fellow writer’s powerful, painful new book

Viv Albertine, Nick Harper, Bastille, Kelsey Lu and a 90s nu-metal/pop-punk double bill

Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival includes Alexandra McGuinness thriller

For serious writers, invention in reportage remains taboo

Irish writers have poured scorn on a Guardian listing of books that define Ireland

What’s the one thing every Irish person should do before they die?

The Scottish novelist on being a thorn in the literary establishment’s side

Gleeson reminds book lovers what they’ll be missing when she departs the airwaves

It is fifty shades darker as submissive sex and rubber-clad gimps vie for attention

One of the best things doctors could do for patients is to listen to them

Mike McCormack’s Solar Bones is novel of the year. Winners include Marian Keyes, Graham Norton, Paul Howard, Paul O’Connell and Tana French

The 10th annual Dublin Book Festival takes place this weekend, hosting workshops, walks, talks and readings by some of Ireland’s prominent writers. Here are some of the must-sees

Rosemary Jenkinson discusses The Glass Shore and her new collection Aphrodite’s Kiss and Further Stories with academic Dawn Miranda Sherratt-Bado

Nature-based interventions for mental health involve gardens, animal therapy and more

In 1922, when she was five, unfriendly men with revolvers raided the Brennan family home in Ranelagh, Dublin, in search of Maeve’s father, who was on the run

Taking a dip in favour of sea swimming, but bags of herbs are less of a winner

Girl Band, Villagers and Róisín Murphy among the shortlist for the Irish album of the year prize

With his elite CV, the UN envoy is an unlikely but vocal champion of refugees, while Brian Eno goes high and low in a compelling talk

Joe Duffy, Sara Baume, Jim McGuinness, Louise O’Neill, Donal Ryan, Sinéad Gleeson and Niall Breslin among winners at Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards 2015

The Women’s Podcast: Margaret Atwood, body image and Jagged Little Pill

Writer created male alter ego to find an agent, talks about what happened next

Fighting Words seeks volunteers, Nuala Ní Chonchúir and Paula McGrath launch new novels, and celebrities and authors read at Dubray Books

Who is David Gilmour’s favourite lyricist? Why are film adaptations inferior to the books? Can poetry replace liturgy? All these questions and more were answered in Co Carlow

Review: Newstalk’s Breakfast presenter mixes wit and insight to win listeners, but even he cannot lift the lethargy as a guest on the RTÉ Radio 1 show

Comment: Garda statements tend to be victim-centric rather than focusing on attackers

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Eimear McBride, Mike McCormack and Alan McMonagle will take part in our writing Q&A

Sean O’Rourke still has a newsreadery tendency on his RTÉ show – but his colleague John Murray made a poignantly light return to the airwaves this week

RTÉ is “cognisant” of online listenership, but makes programmes for FM audience