LettersLetters to the Editor, December 13th: On confusing defence and neutrality, surging electricity costs and pet peeves
BooksConverts by Melanie McDonagh: Entertaining exploration of those who turned to RomeBy John Banville
BooksThe Eleventh Hour by Salman Rushdie: A new collection rich with pathos and reflectionBy Kieran Connell
BooksHow Canada coped with an influx of destitute and diseased Irish people during the Famine By Breandán Mac Suibhne
RecipesMark Moriarty’s Christmas recipe for honey-glazed loin of bacon with parsley and caper sauceBy Mark Moriarty
RecipesMark Moriarty’s Christmas recipe for charred côte de boeuf with home-made peppercorn and brandy sauceBy Mark Moriarty
Fine Art & AntiquesFrom Kashmir sapphires to Achill art: Auctioneers’ favourite items from 2025By Sylvia Thompson
FoodMark Moriarty’s turkey-free Christmas dinner: Special beef and bacon dishes to serve on the big dayBy Mark Moriarty
FilmKnives Out director Rian Johnson: ‘Daniel Craig never requires encouragement to go big’By Donald Clarke
MusicLily Aron of Florence Road: ‘Olivia Rodrigo was such a big gig. It was the first time I didn’t have impostor syndrome’By Nadine O’Regan
HealthLow sex drive, brain fog, exhaustion: Is testosterone the quick fix for women in midlife?By Roe McDermott
BusinessSanta arriving by helicopter and suites for €19,000: Christmas in Ireland’s five-star hotelsBy Hugh Dooley
EnvironmentIf you drink reindeer urine after they have eaten these red mushrooms, you’ll get high apparentlyBy Éanna Ní Lamhna
BusinessWhy won’t Waterford council name US investor buying €2.3m of public land for just €50,000?By Cantillon
GardeningBring your garden indoors: Christmas garlands and centrepieces with wow factorBy Fionnuala Fallon
PeopleJustin McCarthy: ‘There is a can’t-do attitude to the big problems we have in this country’By Tony Clayton-Lea
IrelandStay-at-home young people are angry over housing but at least they’re happier than ItaliansBy Karl McDonald
Dublin‘Sometimes people feel Dublin Bus is letting them down, but they don’t realise the real reason’By Jack White
HealthFormer Children’s Health Ireland chief takes up new HSE regional job on same salary of €184,000By Shauna Bowers
PoliticsMove to avail of €100m EU loan for defence spending was blocked by Department of FinanceBy Martin Wall
SportBeyond Skorts: How Ireland’s sportswomen kept clearing impossibly high bars in 2025By Malachy Clerkin
PeopleLocal news in crisis: ‘We spend all of our money all of the time so we’re always short and scrambling’By Emmet Malone
EnvironmentThis ‘Irish Whale’ has been spotted off Donegal and the coast of North AmericaBy Ella McSweeney
FilmÉanna Hardwicke: ‘I don’t feel any kind of security. I enjoy the feeling of each job being the one and only’By Donald Clarke
RugbyAIL preview: Unbeaten Clontarf look to add their name to Bateman Cup in final against Ballynahinch By Gerry Thornley
SportThe Northern Standard recorded the childhood sporting careers of me and many others. Its closure is a sad dayBy Malachy Clerkin
PoliticsDefence Forces has no rules of engagement for dealing with drones despite rising threatBy Conor Lally and Martin Wall
Crime & LawGardaí identify suspected prime mover in death of toddler found buried near Donabate, Co DublinBy Conor Lally
OpinionToo rich for social housing, too poor to rent or buy. Who will help Ireland’s squeezed middle?By Cliff Taylor
BooksThe Northern Bank Job by Glenn Patterson: a startling tale of audacious criminalityBy NJ McGarrigle
EuropeEU freezes €210bn of Russian assets ahead of pivotal Ukraine peace talksBy Ben Hall in London, Paola Tamma in Brussels and Christopher Miller in Kyiv
IrelandIrish fishing industry warns of thousands of job losses after quotas slashed in EU dealBy Olivia Kelleher
IrelandTourists providing five years of social media before entering US is ‘unworkable’, says Taoiseach By Olivia Kelleher
PeopleLost Christmas: From TV guides to sending cards, some traditions fade while others endureBy Laura Slattery
RugbyLeo Cullen admits Leinster ‘not where we want to be’ after grinding out Leicester winBy Nathan Johns
Gaelic GamesCavan’s Knockbride secure historic win in convincing fashion at Croke ParkBy Daire Walsh at Croke Park
CourtsMan accused of arson attack on Dublin cars with no apparent motive appears in court By Tom Tuite
BusinessRyanair chief Michael O’Leary plans to hand over to ‘nicer’ successor by 2035By Peter Campbell
Gaelic GamesKilkerrin-Clonberne make it five-in-a-row thanks to third-quarter scoring blitzBy Daire Walsh
AthleticsBrian Fay had fallen into the mire of ‘mediocre runner’ and had to drag himself outBy Ian O'Riordan
RugbyBen O’Connor impresses on familiar turf but Munster mistakes frustrate an eager Páirc Uí Chaoimh crowdBy Denis Walsh
RugbyClayton McMillan says Munster guilty of trying to force things against GloucesterBy Gerry Thornley
Film‘Incredibly inspiring’: Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley at Irish premiere of HamnetBy Laoise Murray
SoccerMohamed Salah returns and sets up Hugo Ekitiké to help Liverpool beat Brighton By Andy Hunter at Anfield
Gaelic GamesScotstown finally win their Ulster title on the back of a phenomenal Rory Beggan display By Malachy Clerkin
RugbyStuart Lancaster strikes confident note as Connacht look to grow squad depthBy John Fallon at Dexcom Stadium