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Weekend
Stories that appear in the Weekend section of The Irish Times print edition
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A best-man bond broken by Civil War: Kevin O’Higgins and the order for Rory O’Connor’s execution
Two men who were close as revolutionaries were forever torn apart by the split over the Anglo-Irish Treaty
Entrepreneurial, local Irish business is the real employment miracle in Ireland
The people we call entrepreneurs are the ones who make the economy dance. Without them, there’s no products, sales or demand for workers
Postponing parenthood: How Ireland’s housing crisis is forcing people to delay having children
To 30-somethings hoping to start a family, the connection between the lack of available homes and the State’s falling fertility rate is obvious
Photo story: Airfield Estate’s ‘life-changing’ course where people can grow
Participants turn their hands to hospitality, tourism and horticulture across the farm and cafe
What is the manosphere and why is everyone talking about it?
Louis Theroux’s new documentary explores the world of male influencers who target confused young boys
‘It’s not just a male industry’: The young women changing farming stereotypes
In classrooms, lecture halls and on TikTok feeds, the picture is starting to shift as young Irish women narrate the vocation in real time
‘My weird Frankenstein Irish’: The rise of Gaeilge in New York
From Brooklyn classrooms to library meet‑ups, there’s a growing Gaeltacht community in the Big Apple
How we name plant-based dishes can increase how often they are chosen
Giving plant-based dishes more attractive names on restaurant menus can increase their appeal, research finds
Fighting over the bill in Ireland: I’ve seen people elbowing friends and throwing cash
The Irish arrangement affirms bonds through generosity and obligation
Ireland doesn’t have time for wind farm battles
Ella McSweeney: A recent verdict showed climate law can’t fix what politics won’t
Mother’s Day can be difficult and messy territory
There’s no such thing as a bestest-ever mother, there is no maternal majesty; most of us do our best most of the time
Film-maker Neil Jordan: ‘I go to my local cinema ... normally sitting in a totally empty hall’
Jordan, who started out as a writer, has rarely gone longer than three years without releasing a film
In pictures: Aboard the Donegal fishing boat rocked by global events
The outbreak of war half a world away saw a catch of crab returned to Killybegs due to a cancelled flight
Alannah Weston, retail dynasty heiress: ‘Ireland is where it all started for my family. This is like coming home’
Businesswoman speaks affectionately about her mother’s legacy and announces foundation’s €7m donation to Trinity College
Two Chinese companies, Shein and Temu, are undercutting retailers in every country
If the Chinese juggernaut continues to make things better than Europeans, what is there for Europe to make?
Ireland’s busiest road: ‘The M50 is getting worse. I don’t think it is able to take any more’
Dublin’s ring-road motorway is ‘at capacity’ but commuters and hauliers have little option but to keep getting stuck in M50 traffic. What is the plan?
Why a popular British historian decided to write a short history of Ireland
Irish identity really means something, so it rightly demands proof of real commitment
I’m adopted. My brother is someone I’ve greatly looked up to and admired
Traffic reporter and independent producer Hugh Hick on his agreeability, what he expects to happen when he dies, and his hyper-fixation
What is all the controversy with Noma and why did head chef René Redzepi resign?
The well-known Copenhagen restaurant was about to embark on a four-month pop-up in LA when allegations emerged about its head chef
John Banville: I decided to invent a pseudonym for myself. So Benjamin Black I became
Even the most grown-up of us are but children at bedtime, clamouring to be told a tale
Were many people always thirsty in the millenniums before water bottles?
I rarely carry water and my bodily systems seem to run just fine
We are consuming our way into a climate crisis, and parcel delivery has speeded up the pace
Oxfam’s Postback scheme allows unwanted stuff to be taken to a charity shop straight from your door
Time to ‘take the snobbery out of venison’ and embrace it as a cheaper beef alternative?
Beef prices are high and there are too many wild deer in Ireland – greater consumption of venison could be about to make a lot of sense
Niall Sweeney: I cry easily. I will cry at cartoons. I’m easily set off
The London-based artist-designer on his two middle names, his strongest childhood memory, and why his ‘parents are still very much alive in my head’
Meet Ireland’s first woman grandmaster: ‘Initially, chess didn’t fascinate me. I grew to love it’
Chess prodigy Trisha Kanyamarala put aside everything else, including Irish dancing, to focus on the game
Being in nature can be deeply restorative – something we all too easily forget
Losing routine contact with the living world results in less concern, less protection and less access. The antidote is evidence that conservation works
‘The wonder never left me’: Photos tell stories of the ocean in an era of warming seas
The Ocean Within is a photographic project exploring fish as living archives of the sea
Nobody knows when the Iran war will end because nobody, including Trump, can say why it started
As war spreads across the Middle East there are multiple possibilities for how it will continue or end
Is a general arts degree still fit for purpose?
Leaked University of Galway report said there was a ‘sustained decline’ in undergraduate enrolment for degree but what is the value of one?
Strawberry trees forever: Fruits take a year to ripen so are always on the crann caithne
Eye on nature: Eanna Ní Lamhna on red frogs, a white-tailed eagle, curious fungus and a carnivorous invertebrate with 77 pairs of legs
Disruption to gas rather than oil might hit Ireland most dramatically
We are fixated on tech and AI, but forget how the economy is mostly still heavy, dirty and smelly
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