Motifs in Lily King’s fiction include infidelity, divorces, drunk or absentee parents, and the resilience of those who survive the turmoil Five Tuesdays in Winter by Lily King: A rich and involving collection

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ESB’s power plant in Aghada, Co Cork was one of its three plants that earned profits of €2.3 million on July 15th and €4 million on September 9th. Photograph: David Creedon/Anzenberger ESB under investigation over electricity prices following complaints from rivals
Newstalk Breakfast presenters Ciara Kelly and Shane Coleman regularly bicker over the sujet du jour Restriction friction in danger of causing bad blood on Newstalk
Vladimir Putin retains a remarkable 63 per cent approval rate in Russia because of his success as a national psychologist. Photograph: Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP What makes the mind of Vladimir Putin tick?
Osgur Breatnach: was wrongly convicted of the Sallins mail train robbery. He is still waiting for an apology for what he suffered because of what he termed in 2018 “a very strong culture in there . . . one of Blue Omerta”. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill Diarmaid Ferriter: An Garda Síochána needs to confront difficult aspects of its history
Boris Johnson’s departure would be a red letter day in recent British history because it would mark the end of the revolutionary phase of Brexit. Photograph: Jessica Taylor/AFP via Getty Images MPs already turning their thoughts to life after Boris Johnson
Oxfam Ireland has estimated that a 1.5 per cent wealth tax on Irish billionaires could raise more than €700 million in revenue and a tax on Irish millionaires owning more than €4 million could raise €4 billion. Photograph: PM Images/Iconica/Getty Taxing our 17 billionaires will not fix inequality
Ibec estimates that 60,000 additional employees could be needed across the economy each year to 2025, which gives employees significant power in the jobs market. Photograph: iStock How much will your wage package increase this year?
Only four new faces come into Andy Farrell’s squad following a successful Autumn campaign. Photograph: Bryan Keane/Inpho Limited changes expected to Six Nations XV; Absurd double-jobbing in the GAA
For the island of Tanna Prince Philip’s divinity brings international recognition, visitors and film crews, and interest in the kastom way of life. Photograph: Torsten Blackwood/AFP via Getty Accidental Gods: On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine
Kerry manager Jack O’Connor speaks to his team after the McGrath Cup match against Tipperary at Moyne-Templetuohy GAA Club in Tipperary. Photograph: James Crombie/Inpho 4:52 Ciarán Murphy: Players may want to play games but not two in one day
Strictly speaking you don’t need a hub, but they can help make your smart home life simpler. Photograph: iStock Interested in a smart home? Here’s a guide through the maze of options
The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer ‘believes pessimism to be true. When he cites the tragic poets, it is because he believes they were right in describing a world of suffering.’ Photograph: Getty images I think ‘hopeful pessimists’ have better lives than optimists – but I’m not positive
Johnson’s loose sexual morality, naked ambition, belief in the power of satire, and his populist tendencies would see him blend seamlessly into the Roman Forum. Photograph: Getty Images Finn McRedmond: Boris Johnson should pay more heed to the classics
Michel Wieviorka, a prominent leftist sociologist, has been labelled an islamo-gauchiste by his anti-woke colleagues. Photograph: Ludovic Marin/AFP/ Getty Images French intellectuals engage in a new culture war over wokeism
Belfast port. goods entering Northern Ireland from Britain rose by a fifth last year, according to the CSO. Photograph: Port of Belfast/PA Wire 5:24 Newton Emerson: Welcome to the North – the gateway to Ireland
Jack Carty has seen the most game time out of Ireland’s outhalf options. Photograph: Billy Stickland/Inpho Farrell to make minimal changes to Six Nations squad; FBD Semple joins corporate club
Jack Crowley celebrates Munster’s win over Castres: the way in which Crowley plays the game very much fits the attacking shape that Farrell and backs’ coach Mike Catt are honing with Ireland. Photograph: Ryan Byrne/Inpho Gordon D’Arcy: Crowley making strides to move up the pecking order
Goldie restaurant in Cork city. Photograph: Clare Keogh A very of-the-moment restaurant: casual vibe, pleasant service – and very tasty fish
Hanya Yanagihara: Her new novel imagines an alternate America across three eras, at the ends of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. Photograph: David Levenson/Getty To Paradise: Saga of alternative America fails to transcend its ideas
Germany’s new coalition has vowed to reform planning law to cut the six years on average it takes to plan and build a new wind energy park. Photograph: Andreas Rentz/Getty Images Time for Germany to 'acclimatise' to ending fossil fuels – or take a ruinous road to nowhere
The Omicron variant has turned out to be milder than previous variants, and its high transmissibility means millions of infected people are boosting their immunity at little cost to their long-term health. Photograph: Getty ImagesPhotograph; Getty Images As Covid risk recedes, we will need to unwind built-up fear
Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin, Fine Gael leader (and then-taoiseach) Leo Varadkar and Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald at the Prime Time leaders’ debate ahead of the 2020 general election. “If there were to be a coalition involving Sinn Féin, their ministers or candidate for taoiseach would not be chosen by their elected members of the Dáil.” Photograph: Tom Honan Michael McDowell: Does it matter how Sinn Féin organises itself?
Trad musician friends of Ashling Murphy console each other at her funeral. Photograph: Colin Keegan/Collins Kathy Sheridan: Misogyny is the soup in which boys are raised
Floral tributes and candles are left after a vigil outside the London Irish Centre in Camden in memory of Ashling Murphy: There were no vigils in New York, London and Edinburgh for Jastine Valdez. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/ PA Wire Ashling Murphy killing: Worst outcome of this sad time would be to make men the bad guys
Andy Murray went to a fifth set against Georgia’s Nikoloz Basilashvili in his Australian Open first round match. Photograph: William West/Getty/AFP Gerry Thornley says open the turnstiles; Champions Cup needs another revamp
Attendance was restricted to 6,000 for Ireland’s Test against the USA at Aviva Stadium last summer. Photograph: Tommy Dickson/Inpho Gerry Thornley: Ireland need to get in line and open turnstiles for Six Nations
‘I am at a loss at what to do and at the same time anxious for the future as I would love to have my own family.’ Photograph: iStock ‘I’m struggling to connect with someone else after my girlfriend left me’
Trump supporters who broke into the Capitol building last January: Barbara F Walter contends that civil wars are most likely to occur in countries in a 'middle ground' between democracy and autocracy known as 'anocracy'. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP How Civil Wars Start: Flawed democracy and its threat to US
Neil Gibson, chief economist with EY Ireland, warns some people won’t be able to keep up with price rises in food, fuel and housing. Photograph: iStock Alcohol, energy and everyday living: how rising prices are hitting Irish consumers
Women live with a baseline level of threat, just below the surface of consciousness. Photograph: iStock Fintan O’Toole: Every woman walks around with a mental Geiger counter; no man does
Flowers and messages outside Leinster House in Dublin in memory of Ashling Murphy. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins It is ‘all men’ who must now step up and speak out
Bob Olinger impressed again at Punchestown under Rachael Blackmore. Photograph: Lorraine O’Sullivan/Inpho Leinster rout sorry Montpellier; Ken Early on soulless Man City success
A healthy weight, diet, not smoking and weight-bearing exercise are all part of maintaining healthy bones in your 40s. Photograph: iStock How to eat in your 40s: what you need to know about nutrition and health
Sam Bennett celebrates winning the green jersey at the 2020 Tour de France finale in Paris. Photograph: Faugere Franck/Inpho ‘I dont know life without cycling’ – Sam Bennett back and rarin’ to go again
Argentinian writer Pola Oloixarac’s third novel, Mona, feels like a mix of Rachel Kusk’s Kudos and William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. Works in translation: A round-up of the best in fiction and non-fiction
Jane Byrne of Studio Dancewear in Carlow, fits her daughter, Áine, for pointe shoes. Photograph: Laura Hutton Irish traders on a year of Brexit: ‘It is a pain in the backside’
The Garda does not have a full and honest picture of violence against women in the home because it is ignoring and closing off cases by the thousand. Photograph: Getty Images Una Mullally: We either want to use every tool we have to address violence against women or we don’t
Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald and former leader of the party Gerry Adams at Leinster House. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins No room for complacency over Sinn Féin in government
The property in question requires extensive renovations as it has been unoccupied for 10 years. Helping my son and his wife renovate their home?
‘This isn’t your fault, it’s just something to be mindful of when you open a conversation with your wife, which you absolutely should do.’ File photograph: Getty I keep making my wife cry and I don’t know why, or how to help
Edel Coffey’s Breaking Point is written in an economical, stripped-back style and it has the pace, setting and glamour of a Hollywood thriller Breaking Point by Edel Coffey: A future bestseller that conveys grief beautifully
Lego is an example of how capital in Denmark, unlike in the Republic, is rooted in locality, family and society. Photograph: iStock 6:31 Fintan O’Toole: Ireland would not be viable without 10 big US corporations
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Recent polling data shows that 33 per cent of Fine Gael voters are business owners, but the party with the next highest proportion of business owners is Sinn Féin. Photograph: Julien Behal/PA Wire 6:29 David McWilliams: Irish people are both capitalists and workers at the same time
Ciara Mageean: ‘I love being from the North! I think we are a great bunch of people. I always think the friendliest people you can meet are in Belfast.’ Photograph: Maja Hitij/Getty Images Mageean still bubbling with enthusiasm as she looks forward to a big year
Fr Edward Daly runs down the street with an injured man on Bloody Sunday, January 30th, 1972. On Bloody Sunday by Julieann Campbell: A powerful and important history animated by love
‘Everything in the frame is going to appear in your photograph, so be aware of the background.’ Photograph: iStock How to take a better photo with a phone. First, clean your lens
The importance of putting in place a formal, state-sponsored programme to use early-days sports to promote respect and equality between young boys and girls is obvious. Photograph: Getty Images 5:03 How sport can place girls and boys on the most literal level playing field
Reopening economies have pushed up energy prices, where supply problems – notably in the gas market – have also been a big facto Photograph: iStock Inflation is back with a bang but how long will it stick around?
We’ve laid the flowers, lit the candles and asked the questions to which there are no answers. 6:21 Here’s what women don’t want to happen after the murder of Ashling Murphy
‘The whole issue is an embarrassment for the White House’. Photograph: EPA/Shawn Thew 4:21 Biden under pressure as Covid test supplies dry up
A sign placed among the flowers and candles during a vigil at Leinster House, Dublin, for Ashling Murphy. Photograph: Brian Lawless/ PA Wire Miriam Lord: Between the headline atrocities men seem to quickly forget all that women said