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Posters of Patrick Dorismond, seen circa 2000. Dorismond was killed outside a bar in Manhattan. Photograph: Budd Williams/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images Fintan O’Toole: The violence of racism is deeply embedded in American society
In the 1980s Ireland was a backward country, economically and socially. Photograph: Getty Images David McWilliams: We won't have another 1980s-style recession
‘I have a definite way with the Lalor ladies.’ Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘We’re having a fancy dress porty. I’m going as the wife of a philanderer’
It is expected that GAA clubs will reopen later this month. Photograph: Inpho GAA to confirm accelerated return plan; Merseyside derby set for opening weekend
Andrzej Tichý: a clever writer Wretchedness: Exposing Sweden’s sad underbelly
Social Media Stephen Collins: FG and FF seem oblivious to the daily SF assault they suffer on social media
The European Commission has come up with a plan totalling €750 billion – how much of this will the Republic get? Photograph: iStock Inflated GDP data set to cost Ireland in share-out of EU recovery fund
Kellie Harrington spoke yesterday about resetting her goals after the postponement of the Olympics. Photo: Dan Sheridan/Inpho The East Belfast GAA club set up over breakfast; James and NFL players hit out at Brees comments
Laura Cumming: As an art critic, she can read an image persuasively, and this book works as a primer on how pictures and paintings inform our existence. On Chapel Sands: My Mother and Other Missing Persons
More stringent control of house viewings will cut down on tyre-kickers and nosey neighbours. Photograph: iStock Lifting the lockdown: A new way of buying and selling houses
In practice, almost every grocery item arriving into Northern Ireland from Britain is in the care of a handful of high-street names and is routed through one of just half a dozen warehouses. Newton Emerson: Brussels playing games with Irish sea border
Horses get a workout at Jessica Harrington’s yard ahead of the resumption of racing in Ireland next week. Photo: Morgan Treacy/Inpho Jacob Stockdale on dealing with online abuse; Seán Moran reminisces about what we’re missing
Who’s right? According to psychologist John Gottman, 69 per cent of all couple arguments are never resolved in the course of a couple’s lifetime. How do I convince my wife that I’d be a great stay-at-home dad?
Lily King: Writers & Lovers is her best book yet. Writers & Lovers: Tender story of love and loss
A protester in front of a formation of Detroit riot police in the wake of the killing of George Floyd by a white officer. Photograph: Seth Herald/AFP) Michael McDowell: Black Americans fear the future and so should we
Shaun McCarthy: “I was doing it because I honestly thought we had a chance of winning.” Photograph: Eric Luke The Impossible Dream: placing the Steorn story in the context of the Celtic Tiger
Almost 80,000 mortgage borrowers have availed of industry-wide Covid-19 payment breaks since they were first announced on March 18th. Photograph: iStock. Covid-19 mortgage breaks: What’s the catch?
Thousands throng Galway for the Macnas parade during the ever-popular annual arts festival in the city. But this year all festivals, big and small, have disappeared. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons Fintan O’Toole: Coronavirus is like the Taliban – it hates art
As the lockdown begins to ease, sit down with your son and plan some positive events that he can look forward to. How can I help my nine-year-old son who has become depressed during lockdown?
2014 brought a chilling demonstration of the gap in quality when Brazil lost 7-1 at home to Bayern Munich (aka Germany). Brazil’s Fernandinho reacts after a goal by Toni Kroos. Photograph: Roert Ghement/EPA Ken Early: Why international football is fading into obscurity
Hillary Rodham with Bill Clinton at Wellesley College in 1979. Photograph: Wellesley College/Sygma via Getty Rodham: What if Hillary hadn’t married Bill?
Four-year-old Cian Walshe plays in the sea off Portmarnock Beach, Dublin, on Friday. Liberated from work and the obligations of daily life, there is a sense of air and space. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA Wire Una Mullally: Let’s not rush to forget these lockdown days
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’s latest poetry collection is called The Mother House. Photograph: Brian Mcgovern Poetry round-up: A distinctive, uncanny door to history slides open
No matter what you decide to do about this man, commit to respecting your own boundaries, your own desires, your own feelings Is my on-again, off-again relationship worth the heartache?
Chief medical officer Dr Tony Holohan (right) and Prof Philip Nolan, chair of the NPHET Irish Epidemiological Modelling Advisory Group. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA Wire Making sense of conflicting data around Covid-19 deaths
The Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo. The central bank there keeps its discount window jammed open and accepts government debt as collateral at zero interest rates. Photograph: Behrouz Mehri/AFP via Getty Images David McWilliams: Ignore the austerity ‘jihadis’. Here’s an alternative economic strategy
Ilhan Omar is as much defined by her opposition to Donald Trump as by her own political beliefs and achievements. Photograph: Leigh Vogel/Getty Images This is What America Looks Like: Ilhan Omar, from refugee to Congress
Trollies with patients in the A&E Accident and Emergency Department of St. James’s Hospital, Dublin. File photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times. Fintan O’Toole: It is time for an Irish National Health Service
I’m like, ‘Jesus Christ, he’s taken it with him – to Killiney!’ ‘Adultery is like getting a dent in a new cor. Once you’ve done it the first time, it becomes easier’
Action from a Women’s AIL Division One game between Old Belvedere and Galwegians at Anglesea Road in Dublin. Photograph: Oisín Keniry/Inpho Gerry Thornley: Coronavirus crisis could be terminal for Ireland's rugby clubs
Sil Fox at Dublin District Court. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill Jennifer O'Connell: Sil Fox has a point about #MeToo and hashtag justice
The Premier League is set to restart on June 17th. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA Premier League to restart on June 17th, Andy Farrell on lifting the Monday blues
The Longest Strongest Thread by Inbal Leitner New children’s books: Pirates, robots and ‘the world’s most stupid detective’
Leo Varadkar: has made a number of comments indicating that he would like to speed up the current plan for a return to normality. Photograph: Photocall Ireland/PA Lockdown must be eased to stop Ireland returning to the 1980s
The non-food retail sector is among those is real trouble as a result of Covid. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill Four things that could help Ireland escape from the Covid-19 recession
Crusaders Richie Mo’unga catches the ball during a training session at Rugby Park in Christchurch. Photo: AP Photo/Mark Baker Learning from New Zealand’s return to sport; Trump gets back on the course
Lion Feuchtwanger in Los Angeles, 1958. Photograph: via Getty The Oppermanns: timely reissue of anti-fascist classic
US president Donald Trump plays golf at Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia last weekend. Photo: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA Dave Hannigan: Trump gets the clubs back out as death toll keeps rising
Whale of a time: Customers drink at the Somewhere bar in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, earlier this month, after the state’s supreme court struck down governor Tony Evers’s stay-at-home order. Photograph: Tannen Maury/EPA Beware of the rush to get back to normal business amid Covid-19
Bayern Munich’s Benjamin Pavard and Borussia Dortmund’s Thomas Delaney challenge for a header during the Bundesliga clash. Photo: Federico Gambarini/AFP via Getty Images Munster look to bear brunt of financial crisis; Bayern offer a slice of normality
English poet William Wordsworth, 1770-1850. Radical Wordsworth: Focusing on the ‘spots of time’ of poet’s greatest work
‘If my husband backs out of the deal of family, I don’t know if our marriage can last without the bigger family picture – at least for me.’ Photograph: iStock ‘My husband now says our life could be better without children’
Boris Johnson: a confrontation with your own mortality is life-changing. Photograph: Andrew Parsons/ AFP via Getty When did Johnson become so dependent on Cummings? Was he always this weak?
Members of the Dáil and judiciary completely have misinterpreted expert advice on management of the coronavirus crisis. File photograph: Getty Fintan O'Toole: Last week's hysteria shows politicians and judges need to get a grip
Hurricans train in New Zealand ahead of their return to action. Photo: Elias Rodriguez/Inpho Gerry Thornley on pitfalls of a home and away Six Nations; Premier League return edges closer
Tori Amos: devoted fans will relish the book’s release. Photograph: Scott Dudelson/Getty Resistance: Tori Amos memoir looks at politics, violence and lyrics
‘We have suddenly moved from the 19th-century model to a 21st-century one, and we are skipping a whole 100 years.’ Photograph: Getty Working from home: New costs, new stresses and little relief
Tiger Woods and Peyton Manning saw off Phil Mickelson and Tom Brady in Florida. Photograph: Mike Ehrmann/Getty Resisting the pull of The Field, Tiger Woods proves fitness in Covid-19 charity match
She talks a lot to us about her feelings and we listen and try comfort her, but we seem to go around in circles. Photograph: iStock My daughter is nearly 11 and is not coping well with the lockdown
Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard lifts the European Cup after Liverpool beat AC Milan to win the Champions League final on May 25, 2005 at the Ataturk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul, Turkey. Photograph: Getty Images Ken Early: Liverpool fans, Bamber Gascoigne and a close shave in Istanbul
The Jewish area of Warsaw In August 1938. Photograph: Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty The King of Warsaw: A cinematic and thoughtful thriller
Grand Canal Dock: Big Tech bosses have decided they don’t need offices. Many places where young people work – bars, restaurants, cafes, salons, clothing shops – will disappear completely.  Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill Una Mullally: Young people will rebuild Ireland from ashes