Deborah Levy: ‘Not only does nothing escape her gaze, but there is no hierarchy.’ Photograph: Jane Thorburn Real Estate: Deborah Levy’s home truths, a triumph of simplicity

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Try scheduling time for intimacy – cuddling or talking in bed, having a date night at home, or having a good old-fashioned kissing session on the couch, with no expectations. Photograph: Getty 'We're married with a toddler and Covid has destroyed our sex life'
Conor McGregor arrives for the 2020 Grammy Awards in LA. The former plumber from Crumlin was the sporting world’s highest-paid athlete in 2020, according to Forbes. Photograph: Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images Now that Conor McGregor is in Gatsby’s mansion, what will his legacy be?
The living city is not about equality. It is in fact about the opposite. It is about diversity, disparity and messiness, the elixir of human life. Photograph: iStock David McWilliams: A city must not be just an amusement park for the well-off
Photograph: Getty Images Eight clever ways to transform your garden this summer
Illustration: Alan Clarke Ross O'Carroll-Kelly: ‘Rugby is not pass the porcel, Morcus’
Townshend brings a weight of experience to the task of dissecting the origins and impact of the division of Ireland a century ago. Photograph: Getty Images The Partition: Ireland Divided, 1885-1925 – Timely history of our island
A family member of Joan Connolly holds a photograph of Joan after the findings of the Ballymurphy inquest were revealed at the Waterfront Hall in Belfast on Tuesday. Photograph: Charles McQuillan/Getty Fintan O’Toole: Justice is not available for victims of the Troubles
File photograph: iStock Jennifer O’Connell: Why don’t we want to talk about menopause?
Queen Elizabeth at the Garden of Remembrance on May 17th, 2011: Complacency set in after her visit as David Cameron’s government took a “semi-detached” attitude to Northern Ireland. Photograph: Arthur Edwards A decade after queen’s visit, where are Anglo-Irish relations heading?
Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah scores their fourth goal of the game during the Premier League win over Manchester United at Old Trafford. Photo: Peter Powell/PA Wire Liverpool blast past Man United; golf happy to remain quiet on Saudi breakaway
Kjersti A Skomsvold writes with empathetic clarity on the sensibility of the artist The Child: A great book inspired by the pram in the hall
By making Britishness more assertively unitary – in fact more nationalist – Johnson’s Brexiteers undermine the union. Image: Getty State and Nation in the United Kingdom: The Fractured Union – Losing control
The Garden Room at Suesey Street in Dublin 2 is booked up for prime time weekend reservations until July 24th. Booking a restaurant table for June? You might have left it too late
George’s Dock in Dublin, the proposed site for a whitewater rafting facility. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill Dublin whitewater rafting plan a scapegoat for all the State's ills
Leo Varadkar: failure to win the Dublin Bay South byelection could have serious implications for his leadership of Fine Gael. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins Varadkar’s days could be numbered if Fine Gael cannot hold onto Dublin Bay South seat
Less well-off people have struggled to get into the market for years – and typically are renters – while the wealthiest , also owning houses, usually have other assets. The other side of the housing crisis: rising wealth for many
Ulster’s Ethan McIlroy has been one of the younger players to grasp his opportunity this season. Photograph: Ryan Byrne/Inpho 5:24 John O'Sullivan: Ireland’s young stars being starved of priceless minutes
Manchester United’s re-fixed Premier League clash with reigning champions Liverpool kicks off at 8.15pm tonight. File photograph: Alex Livesey/Getty Images Arsenal win throws top four race wide open; Rock apologises for Dublin training breach
Jhumpa Lahiri. Photograph: Venturelli/WireImage Whereabouts: Intelligent, elegant and destined to become book of the year
Madness aim to usher in a return to the good times with their new show Paul Weller and a Madness spectacular: This week’s unmissable online events
high angle view asian chinese woman’s hand on mobile app covid 19 mobile app tracker on latest update and check in status during breakfast time Covid tracker apps show technology is not always the answer
Actor and composer Lin-Manuel Miranda in Hamilton – a musical celebration of modern restlessness. Photograph: Theo Wargo/Wireimage The secret of career happiness? Stop being ‘pointlessly busy’
Events in Scotland show that a result as close as 50 per cent plus one does not necessarily meet the test of making a nationalist win likely. Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA Wire 5:38 Newton Emerson: Scottish election result not good news for Irish nationalists
James Ryan in action against Saracens: Ryan and Ringrose struggled to find their notes as the curtain was coming down. The physical aspects of the La Rochelle game seemed just out of reach, both of them missing and soaking tackles that we just don’t associate with them. Photograph: Billy Stickland/Inpho Gordon D'Arcy: James Ryan is not getting the best out of his skillset
Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer after his team’s 2-1 defeat at Old Trafford. Photograph: PA City are champions after Old Trafford defeat; Still no confirmation on Rainbow Cup final
Carson McCullers: Jenn Shapland’s book on the author is a highly personalised treatise on identifying and explicitly naming lesbian culture. Photograph: Leonard Mccombe/Time Life Pictures/Getty My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A highly complex woman pared down
I’ve watched the video of long-haired teenage girls running along the platform a hundred times or so now. I’ve watched it on a loop to see how long it will take to be desensitised to it. 6:04 Róisín Ingle: I watch as teenage boys hunt teenage girls at Howth Junction
Eoghan Harris’s complaint of being deprived of platforms was predictable and nonsensically incongruous. File photograph: Bryan O’Brien 5:42 Kathy Sheridan: Eoghan Harris’s defence doesn’t stack up
This last year has left all our worlds turned upside down. However, for many millennials, this is the second time in short succession that their attempts to begin working life have been interrupted. Action needed after pandemic double-blow to young adults
Fulham manager Scott Parker leaves the pitch after his side’s 2-0 defeat to Burnley. Photo: Catherine Ivill/Getty Images Hotchpotch Rainbow Cup needs clarity; Burnley relegate Fulham
Vicki McGrath at Harry’s Hole, Marble Hill, Co Donegal. 32 great outdoor swimming spots around Ireland – one in every county
President Michael D Higgins at the Council of Europe, Strasbourg. Photograph: Chris Bellew Reclaiming the European Street: Collection of President Higgins’s speeches on Europe
The average tax wedge faced by a single worker (32.3 per cent) is more than twice that faced by a one-income married couple with two children (16.1 per cent). Photograph: iStock Single? You’re bearing the brunt under Ireland’s tax system
Penneys as non-essential retail opens for click-and-collect and appointment-only shopping: A significant proportion of our population, one in five respondents, are non-committal or at best lukewarm about their plan to take the vaccine. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill Vaccine hesitancy brewing up to be big problem
In an interview on RTÉ radio, columnist Eoghan Harris referred back to the 18th century to give his operation of the Barbara J Pym Twitter account a heroic prehistory. File photograph: Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images 5:23 Fintan O'Toole: For newspaper columnists, anonymity is a betrayal
Rory McIlroy celebrates his Wells Fargo victory with wife Erica and daughter Poppy. Photograph: Maddie Meyer/Getty Antrim hurlers sink Clare; Rory McIlroy finds a timely return to form
Computer-generated view of Arkle, a premium development of four detached homes off Avondale Road in Killiney, Co Dublin, coming to the market this year Property viewings are back. Here’s what it means for buyers and sellers
Kayo Chingonyi’s A Blood Condition follows his Dylan Thomas Prize winning 2017 debut Kumukanda. Poetry round-up: Shetland landscapes to river gods
New homes at Mullen Park, Maynooth, Co Kildare. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill 4:57 Una Mullally: Why did it take a Kildare housing estate to wake up Government?
‘Coronavirus feels never-ending.’ ‘I had a break-up during the pandemic and don’t know how to process it’
Jon McGregor: has a reputation for being a writer’s writer, and frequently stuns with how eloquent he can make ineloquence. Photograph: Roberto Ricciuti/Getty Lean Fall Stand: Eloquent mapping of geographer’s disorientation
Thomas Byrne said ‘if Robin Swann feels the need to introduce restrictions on the North that’s a matter for them’. File photograph: Charles McQuillan/Getty Images) 7:39 What the Belfast Agreement says about a Border poll
A converted stone barn which sleeps six people at Grove House, Toe Head near Castletownshend, is among the properties maintained by Beacon Properties.. Photograph: Anne Minihane What state are Ireland’s 62,000 holiday homes in post-lockdown?
‘The bond market can fix the housing problem’ David McWilliams: We are at the end of a slow-moving housing Ponzi scheme
The Catholic Church has just published Flourish, a new programme for relationships and sexuality education (RSE) in primary schools Fintan O’Toole: We cannot have proper sex education while Catholic Church controls schools
Covid-19 and its human, psychological, social and economic impacts are wholly manmade. Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Reading Covid-19 round-up: Focusing on the failures of science and government
‘Maybe your kids are rubbish at rugby.’ Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: Then she says it – the words all south Dublin parents dread
The rigid factory-floor model of office life has been around since the industrial revolution. But Covid has demanded questions about what an office is really for if you don’t actually have to go there for work Jennifer O'Connell: ‘Back to normal by August’? No thanks
According to research from NUI Galway released earlier this week, 31 per cent of women under 30 say they will not take the vaccine or are not sure. Photograph: iStock 12:16 Why are women more hesitant to get the Covid-19 vaccine?
Mullen Park in Maynooth, Co Kildare, where Round Hill Capital has purchased 135 houses to place on the rental market. Photograph: Colin Keegan/Collins 5:17 Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have shaken up a sorry cocktail when it comes to housing
Edinson Cavani scored a brace as Manchester United secured safe passage into the Europa League final. Photograph: Filippo Monteforte/Getty/AFP Man United to meet Villarreal in Europa final; Johnny Sexton left out of Lions squad
Leinster’s Johnny Sexton and Garry Ringrose in action in the Heineken Champions Cup semi-final against Toulouse at the Aviva Stadium on April 21st, 2019. Photograph: James Crombie/Inpho 5:18 Gerry Thornley: Sexton is still a better Test outhalf than Farrell, Russell or Biggar