Article Index

EU and UK remain deadlocked on Irish Border plans

By Patrick Smyth and Pat Leahy

Social Affairs

Sheriff Street gets luxury student complex, but no extra houses

By Kitty Holland

Lindsay Kemp obituary: Mime, choreographer, mentor to David Bowie

Donegal-born poet who wrote for both adults and children

Macron’s optimism flags as opponents chip away at EU vision

By Lara Marlowe

Transport

ICG expected to weather choppy waters despite sinking profits

Eithne Conway-McGee obituary: Doctor who cared for Galway’s most marginal people

INM ‘will not be distracted’ as State watchdog circles

By Joe Brennan

Bain Capital launches 170 homes at Rathfarnham site

By Barry O'Halloran

Susan McKeown in Dún Laoghaire: this week’s trad highlights

By Siobhán Long

Transport

Kerry airport boosts profits aided by State grant gains

By Peter Hamilton

Transport

Time for Kerry Airport to learn to fly alone?

Ireland

Scarecrows and painted lawns: creative Dubs seek four in a row

By Colin Gleeson

An Irish Diary

Church services

Pat Leahy: A month is a long time to be away from politics

By Pat Leahy

Ireland

Inside the extraordinary meeting between Pope Francis and abuse survivors

By Ronan McGreevy

Classical gig of the week: Westport Festival of Chamber Music

By Michael Dervan

Kelly is making noise but there is no immediate threat to Howlin

By Harry McGee

Recipes

Challah Mummy’s pesto sunflower Challah

By Allegra Benitah

Bet-on-lotto websites and bookmakers: what’s the difference?

Art

Fantastic beasts and where he found them: Frans Post in Brazil

By Aidan Dunne

Stage

John Connors: ‘Acting ... killed my depression on the spot’

By Patrick Freyne

Land-swap fears unite many of Kosovo’s Serbs and Albanians

By Daniel McLaughlin

History

The Times We Lived In: Scrubbed up on Synge Street

By Arminta Wallace

New artist of the week: boygenius

By Niall Byrne

KSI and Logan Paul boxing fight left a sour taste

By Seamas O'Reilly

Art

Concrete and steel: This week’s visual arts highlights

By Aidan Dunne

Diarmaid Ferriter: What ever happened to free education in Ireland?

By Diarmaid Ferriter

Who needs Jordan Peterson when we have Loose Women?

By Jennifer Gannon

Miriam O’Callaghan’s unrelenting grilling of ‘posh’ Eoghan Murphy

By Mick Heaney

Film

Barry Keoghan: ‘My mother would be pretty proud. And surprised’

By Donald Clarke

Art

Art in Focus: ‘Don’t Be Afraid’ by Ann Quinn

By Aidan Dunne

The Saturday poem: Recipe for an Alp

By Sarah Byrne

Jessie Ware: Our New VBF

By Louise Bruton

This Album Changed My Life: Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge Over Troubled Water (1970)

By Niall Byrne

Breda O’Brien: Francis needs to answer the questions and fire bishops who cover up abuse

By Breda O'Brien

Patrick McCabe: On My Culture Radar

By Shilpa Ganatra

‘No, I don’t want to do Electric Picnic. I’m middle aged’

By Patrick Freyne

Stage

To see or not to see: ‘Hamnet’ is this week’s must-see theatre highlight

By Peter Crawley

Take us back to church: Hozier and St Vincent make it a divine rock week

By Tony Clayton-Lea and Louise Bruton

John McManus: Has Ireland developed shitlife syndrome?

By John McManus

Fine Art & Antiques

Gilty pleasures: gilded mirrors and mini marvels at Adam’s sale

By Arminta Wallace

Wild Atlantic airs in Westport: This week’s classical highlights

By Michael Dervan

Podcast review: Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

By Sarah Griffin

Chemnitz riots reveal new German migration fault line

By Derek Scally

Sweeter by the dozen: 12 Points heads up this week’s jazz highlights

By Cormac Larkin

Tomatoes make the world go round

By Paul Gillespie

Playwright and screenwriter best-known for ‘The Odd Couple’

Breaking bread with Vanessa Feltz’s family in Cork

By Marie Claire Digby

A Festschrift for Anthony Coughlan review: book fails to focus on its subject

By Eoin O Broin

Who’s Who When Everyone is Someone Else review

By Andrew Gallix

City fathers on enduring, evolving legacy of Dublin football

By Seán Moran

Sean Moncrieff: Angry Ireland sees compassion as an unaffordable indulgence

By Seán Moncrieff

The life of an Irish wildlife ranger

By Sylvia Thompson

Astroturf by Matthew Sperling: A brawn cocktail that nails the zeitgeist

By Sarah Gilmartin

Decline of post office network inevitable in a changing world

By Martina Evans

Two blow-ins in Ballinasloe and the creation of ‘Becoming Belle’

By Nuala O’Connor

The Valley of the Squinting Windows: a century without pity

By Eamon Maher

Health

‘For years after I stopped drinking, people still saw me as an alcoholic’

By Sylvia Thompson

Back to school means getting the kids into the kitchen

By Carmel Somers

Unicorns are the new princesses, but where’s the new pink?

By Jennifer O'Connell

‘If I want to change something, I have to change it in myself’

By Una Mullally

Jim Gavin and Dublin have destiny in their reach

By Seán Moran

Paddy Box delivering a taste of home to Irish people around the world

By Marie Claire Digby

Fashion

‘A face cream like Greek yoghurt gave me bright, bouncy skin’

By Marian Keyes

Your Family

Ireland’s €1,379-a-year ‘free education’ system

By Conor Pope

Sweet, sad and complex stories of home

By Wendy Erskine

‘I suddenly feel like Robin Williams in Dead Poets Society’

By Ross O'Carroll-Kelly

Environment

Dandelions a marvel of exquisite engineering

By Michael Viney

Environment

Eye on Nature: Your notes and queries for Ethna Viney

By Ethna Viney

The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: Timely jolt to a deluded ‘Bullshit Britain’

By Christopher Kissane

It is time for a sharp inhale, people. Sally Rooney’s Normal People is superb

By Anne Enright

Exploring the Border: A frontier marked by myriad crossings

By Frank McNally

Everyone loves to hate Tyrone, but they don’t care

By Keith Duggan

History

Erwin Schrödinger in Dublin: Physicist, womaniser, fugitive

By Kevin O'Sullivan

New YA for the new school year: first loves and first murders

By Claire Hennessy

Electric Picnic: 10 things to do at the festival on Saturday

Abroad

Emigration in reverse: ‘Now the brains are coming back’

By Ciara Kenny

Fine Art & Antiques

Horse-drawn fire engine anyone? Wheels and deals in a Tipperary sale

By Arminta Wallace

The End by Karl Ove Knausgaard: hypnotic tedium and flashes of insight

By Seán Hewitt

In praise of older books: The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch

By Julie Parsons

History

Schrödinger’s chat: a meeting of minds in the great physicist’s name

By Kevin O'Sullivan

What’s hot this week: Electric Picnic, Sally Rooney and ‘Crazy Rich Asians’

By Una Mullally

The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker: a stunning new novel

By Anna Carey

Not at Electric Picnic? You missed Kendrick Lamar’s incredible gig

By Ed Power and Tony Clayton-Lea

The Hurlers by Paul Rouse: how a letter to The Irish Times inspired the hurling revival

By John Allen

David McWilliams: Dublin’s housing market not yet ripe for a crash

By David McWilliams

Rise review: Not nearly as remarkable a book as it should be

By Caroline O'Donoghue

La Gomera: The beating heart of the Canary Islands

By Conor Power

Crime & Law

Drew Harris: Garda take an outside chance on new commissioner

By Conor Lally

Eco-tourism, traditional farming life and the greening of red Cuba

By Manchán Magan

Your Fitness

Why I Love. . . Xtend Barre

By Jo Linehan

Me and my dog: ‘You be you and I’ll be your fool’

By Paul Howard

Goodbye to Dublin: ‘I had preconceptions about people in the west before I moved here’

By Patrick Kelleher

Drink

Sandcastles and craft beer in a child-friendly brewpub

By Sorcha Hamilton

Make the most of your hand-picked blackberries

By Vanessa Greenwood

Electric Picnic: Three acts to see on Saturday

How can you sneak seaweed into food – and why should you bother?

By Aoife McElwain

Drink

The best wines to drink with fish and seafood

By John Wilson

Restaurants

Eastern Seaboard: A Drogheda restaurant so good even Dundalk people like it

By Catherine Cleary

A special thermal spa retreat in Antrim and a fine feast in Cork

By Jo Linehan

Irish Crime Fiction by Brian Cliff: exploring the genre

By Liam McIlvanney

‘Closest I’ve come to death? Kicking an alligator’

Your Money

Pricewatch: Irish retailer refusing to refund postage fee for returned item

By Conor Pope

What I learned about taking my kids on holiday

By Gerry McBride

Property

The rising stars of Irish architecture

By David Capener

Kevin McStay: Dublin to win but it will be closer than you think

By Kevin McStay

Andy Friend philosophy can unlock Connacht's potential

By Gerry Thornley

Beaches of the World: A 30-year Balkan border row

By Daniel McLaughlin

Could video games have been a factor in Florida shooting?

By Deirdre Falvey

Varadkar followers pour scorn on his ‘right track’ tweet

By Colin Gleeson

In amateur sport no one is unbeatable, not even the great Dublin

By Keith Duggan

20 moments that lit up 2018 All-Ireland football championship

By Malachy Clerkin

Steven Gerrard wasting no time making his mark at Rangers

By Michael Walker

World

Brazil bars former president Lula from running in election

Ireland

Man (60s) dies after being hit by van in Co Cavan

Former ER actor Vanessa Marquez shot and killed by police

FBI arrests New Mexico compound residents on conspiracy charges

Rafael Nadal scraps his way to victory over Karen Khachanov

By Kevin Mitchell

Serena roars past Venus to emphasise US Open credentials

By Bryan Armen Graham

Equestrian: Shane Sweetnam wins New York qualifier

By Margie McLoone

Calls for protests and cancellation of Donald Trump’s Irish visit

By Irish Times Reporters

Bishop apologises for way he touched Ariana Grande at Aretha Franklin’s funeral

Liverpool maintain perfect start despite Alisson howler

World

Eighteen hurt as passenger jet comes off runway in Russia

Palestinian refugees dismayed over US funding cut to UN agency

No military service for Son as South Korea win Asian Games gold

Kimi Raikkonen records fastest ever Formula One lap to secure Monza pole

Electric Picnic: Thanks for the sweet nothings, Daddy G

By Ed Power

Golf

Westwood laughs off talk of Ryder Cup wild card

Alisson not getting a free pass after blunder

Micheál Martin claims Sinn Féin TDs face ‘centralised control’

By Barry Roche

Adama Traore strikes at the death to leave West Ham pointless

Electric Picnic: The Irish hip-hop group your parents have never heard of

By Tony Clayton-Lea

Pedro ends Bournemouth resistance as Chelsea win again

Connacht denied as last gasp penalty hits post

By Linley Mackenzie

Championship wrap: Gayle force wins for West Brom against Stoke

Golf

American idols storm to victory at Carton House

By Johnny Watterson

Electric Picnic review: Sigrid – All music, no ego

By Tony Clayton-Lea

Electric Picnic review: Mavis Staples – We’re watching music royalty

By Gemma Tipton

Butler delivers as balance tips in England’s favour

Cooney gets Ulster off to the perfect start

By Michael Sadlier

Walker’s bolt from the blue secures points for Man City

McCain called on us to be 'bigger than politics of fear,' Obama says

By Suzanne Lynch

Munster hit the ground running against Cheetahs

Electric Picnic review: Wolf Alice – An imperious, gutsy performance

By Tony Clayton-Lea

Electric Picnic review: Whenyoung – A great pedigree, ripe to make their own

By Gemma Tipton

Electric Picnic: The art that makes the festival magical

By Gemma Tipton

Crosaire Blog

Crosaire No 16737 by Crossheir – Saturday, September 1st, 2018

By Lorna Kernan