Kate O’Connell TD, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, Amazon Web Service Ireland country manager Mike Beary and Martin Shanahan at the opening of the AWS new office in Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill It’s an Amazon jobs bonanza now but the past was a jungle

Caveat: We shouldn’t forget painful memories of dark times when there were no jobs

Ireland have made five changes to their team to face Australia. Photograph: Getty Images Ireland name team; Sport is broadening our horizons
Joe Mulholland said it was hard to find women with “the right aptitude” to take part in the MacGill Summer School. File photograph: Eric Luke/The Irish Times MacGill Summer School ridiculously out of tune with the times
Paschal Donohoe: Risks political damage if he abandons his cautious mantra. Photograph: Tom Honan/The Irish Times Donohoe preaches financial prudence
Fans celebrate Russia’s 2018 World Cup win over Egypt. Photo: Oleg Nikishin/Getty Images Nizhny Novgorod’s pubs are a far cry from Irish counterparts
Kerry will bring a big crowd, if only to see the new Páirc Uí Chaoimh for the first time. Photo: James Crombie/Inpho Darragh Ó Sé: Cork will beat Kerry sometime – not this time
People shout slogans against corruption during a protest outside Madrid in 2014. Photograph: Sergio Perez/Reuters Has political graft become more common or is it simply easier to expose?
Leo Varadkar: More borrowing means a bigger deficit, and higher debt does not make sense. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill / The Irish Times Budget 2018: Varadkar prescribes tight fiscal regime
Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding may still have a future with Ireland according to IRFU performance director David Nucifora. Photo: Inpho Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding may play for Ireland in the future
Anglo Irish Bank: in 2007 David Drumm (left, with chairman Seán Fitzpatrick) was paid €3.3 million, €2 million of it as a bonus for his magnificent stewardship. Photograph: Alan Betson Fintan O’Toole: Banks are public institutions masquerading as private businesses
Border crossers are delivered ‘into a child’s nightmare and a parent’s hell’. Photograph: Lynsey Addario/New York Times Donald Trump and the baby snatchers
Alcohol sales in glass bottles are banned as English fans descend on the city of Volgograd ahead of their 2018 World Cup Group G clash with Tunisia. Photo: Mark Rolston/Getty Images Ken Early on England; Ireland on brink of greatest season
Ireland’s Rob Herring, Jordi Murphy and Rob Kearney celebrate as referee Paul Williams signals a knock on against Australia during the second Test at the AAMI Park in Melbourne. Phogograph: Dan Sheridan/Inpho Gordon D'Arcy: Ireland on brink of greatest season in our history
Other than the economy can we really claim that Enda Kenny left health, housing, faith in the Garda, water services and politics in better nick? Oliver Callan: Looking back on Kenny’s ‘economic miracle’
An activist of Reporters without Borders wears a mask depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin during a protest in front of the Russian embassy to Germany in Berlin, ahead of the start of the 2018 Football World Cup. Photograph: Tobias Schwarz/AFP/Getty David McWilliams: Putin is no angel but he brought stability to Russia
Tax haven: Yanis Varoufakis says Ireland is a freerider piggybacking on the rest of the world. Photograph: Matteo Bazzi/AFP/Getty Fintan O’Toole: Ireland is becoming the tax haven of choice for profit-shifting multinationals
Jennifer Aniston and Steve Zahn in Management: “Boy Wants Girl, Girl Doesn’t Want Boy, Boy Harasses Girl, Boy Gets Girl” Jennifer O'Connell: Creepy, Actually: Romcoms mistake harassment for romance
Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg: engaging in a tactic to try to blame somebody else for the consequences of Brexit. Photograph: PA Cliff Taylor: Calling Jacob Rees-Mogg’s double-bluff on Border
Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo celebrates scoring his third goal in the World Cup Group B clash with Spain at the Fisht Stadium in Sochi. Photograph: Hannah McKay/Reuters Ken Early: Ronaldo proves the sorcerer of Sochi on magical night
Over the years people like Walt Whitman, Martin Luther King (above) , William James, Peter Maurin and Wojtyla (who went on to become Pope John Paul II) have called themselves personalists, but the movement is still something of a philosophic nub. It’s not exactly famous. Why ‘personalism’ should be the philosopy for our age
Russia enjoyed its dream start to the World Cup on Thursday. Photograph: PA Five-star Russian opener; Shane Lowry among US Open strugglers
Cian Healy during training at Royal Pines Resort, Gold Coast, Queensland. Photograph: Dan Sheridan/Inpho Cian Healy looking forward to another shot at Australia
The German flag flies in front of the Bundesbank HQ in Frankfurt. The pressing issue for Ireland in Germany is credibility. Photograph: Ralph Orlowski/Bloomberg Finding that valuable time to re-engage with Germany
Clint Eastwood in ‘The Outlaw Josey Wales’. Ireland still struggles with its financial “Wild West” tag. Photo by Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images To ditch Ireland’s Wild West tag we must stop acting like cowboys
Donald Trump’s retreat is the greatest threat to global security
An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar at the launch of Feile An Phobail at St Mary’s University College, Belfast, Friday June 8th, 2018. Photograph: Laura Hutton/PA Wire Happy anniversary Mr Taoiseach
A general view of St Petersburg is seen ahead of the 2018 Fifa World Cup. Photo: Alex Livesey/Getty Images World Cup fever is here; Ireland make eight changes for Australia Test
Britain’s prime minister Theresa May: The crucial thing about her agreement with Tory moderates this week is that a hard Brexit no longer appears to be a live option. Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images Chaos in Westminster sees prospect of hard Brexit recede
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar was unclear as to whether legislation to implement the decision of the people can even be introduced in the Dáil while the courts consider the applications. Photograph: Dáil/PA Wire Court actions on abortion referendum may spell difficulty for Government
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar (L) and former taoiseach Enda Kenny during the European of the Year award ceremony in recognition of Kenny’s contribution to Irish-EU relations in the Shelbourne Hotel, Dublin. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/ Collins Enda Kenny underlines his Brexit legacy
Dublin bus plan could be transformative but will it happen?
Foreign secretary Boris Johnson: “We’re allowing the whole of our agenda to be dictated by this folly.” Photograph: Getty Images Fintan O'Toole: Brexiteers cannot allow the English bulldog to be wagged by an Irish tail
Notes and memories of Anthony Bourdain at the closed location of Brasserie Les Halles in New York. Photograph: Drew Angerer/Getty Images In a brand-conscious world Anthony Bourdain remains a BS-free revolutionary
Unshamed Magdalenes: among the women who met President Michael D Higgins this week were Rita Lawlor, from Raheny in Dublin, Sally Donohoe, from Ballymun in Dublin, and Catherine Mary O’Connor, from Julianstown, in Co Meath. Portraits by Cyril Byrne Fintan O’Toole: How to honour our unshamed Magdalenes
Rental squeeze: Dublin’s property market is profoundly different from 10 or 15 years ago. Funds are buying up large developments, leading to the professionalisation of landlordism. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien David McWilliams: This time the overheating is different
Bray Boxing Club murder: gardaí at Pete Taylor’s sports club, where Bobby Messett was shot. Photograph: Colin Keegan/Collins Bray Boxing Club murder: When ‘the wrong person’ is shot
Mary Lou Mc Donald voting at St Joseph’s, Navan Road: her intentions are clear – a coalition with Fine Gael or Fianna Fáil. Photograph: Cyril Byrne Pat Leahy: Sinn Féin will eventually make it into government
The Ireland Rugby Captain’s Run at Suncorp Stadium on Friday. Photograph: Dan Sheridan/Inpho Gerry Thornley: Irish welcome in Australian rugby union heartland
Britain’s Brexit minister David Davis, who threatened to resign this week. Photograph: Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images Britain’s Remainers are facing a golden opportunity
An FBI raid on offices in the US. In April Leo Varadkar promised that the Government would “beef up the role of the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement” to make it a “a sort of Irish FBI, if one likes, when it comes to white-collar crime”. Photograph: Getty Images Caveat: Varadkar’s ‘FBI for white-collar crime’ is all talk unless it has money
Pro-choice supporters wear robes inspired by The Handmaid’s Tale in Derry. Photograph: Charles McQuillan/Getty Images Newton Emerson: Abortion referendum puts DUP conservatism in the spotlight
Agnieszka Tyghe and her husband, Dane. Photograph: Patrick Browne ‘The sparks flew. He became more than a driving instructor’
Married couples with one earner can earn up to €43,550 before moving into the higher tax bracket. Unmarried couple? You could lose 70% of your pension
This movement created an energy that has changed people. Canvassers made new connections, exchanged ideas, got to know people in their communities, learned about grassroots activism, organising and fundraising. Photograph: Getty Images Una Mullally: If you think the movement is going away you have not been listening
Members of the old IRA fire volleys at the funeral, in September 1938, of Edward Keegan, an Irish Volunteer who was dismissed from the advertising department of ‘The Irish Times’ for going to fight in the Easter Rising. The paper has bought his 1916 medal to put on permanent display in the foyer. Photograph courtesy of his granddaughter Joan Pinhorn Seán Lemass: IRA was infiltrated by British secret service
Joe Schmidt: ‘We want to make sure this tour is another building block for what comes in the future.’ Photograph: Billy Stickland/Inpho Ireland are on the cusp of an epic run as they head Down Under
Undated photograph of Éamon de Valera (right) meeting Winston Churchill. Photograph: Royal Irish Academy/PA Wire Decision to return Treaty ports to Free State in 1938 proved ‘completely wrong’
From left, Jack Lynch, minister for industry and commerce, Terence O’Neill, prime minister of Northern Ireland, Frank Aiken, minister for external affairs, and taoiseach Seán Lemass at Iveagh House, Dublin, in February 1965. Photograph: Joe Clarke Meeting with North’s prime minister in 1965 opposed by ‘Paisley element’
The vigil for Cameron Reilly at St Brigid’s church, Dunleer, Co Louth. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw Fintan O’Toole: Catholic Ireland is now a religious rust belt of half-empty churches
Leo Varadkar, Catherine Noone and Simon Harris after the abortion referendum. Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty How Simon Harris became the ‘Yes Minister’
Gregory Peck as attorney Atticus Finch, who says: ‘Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.’ Image: AP Photo Breda O’Brien: Referendum result does not override conscience
A cartoon about Irish neutrality, published in the ‘Evening Standard’ in November 1940. Illustration: David Low Seán Lemass on rationing: Britain ‘double-crossed us completely’ on tea rations
John F Kennedy in the Dáil during his visit to Ireland 1963: a joke he made fell flat with president Éamon De Valera. Lemass Tapes: JFK’s joke to the Dáil was erased from the record