The Booker Prize-winning novelist Kiran Desai on emigration, her new novel and disappearing into her fiction

Kneecap, Liam Ó Maonlaí, Kathy Scott and Seán Ronayne among the artists, musicians, writers and film-makers paying tribute to the late journalist, author and TV presenter

The baker and entrepreneur talks about past trauma, opening her new business in Mullingar and caring for her mother

The Derry Girls star on life after the Channel 4 hit; her marriage to Hector Barbour, aka DJ Denis Sulta; and how dyslexia has shaped her

It was festival’s biggest year so far, with 80,000 people in Stradbally for the weekend. Here’s what we loved and hated

Fans sing so hard that at times it’s hard to hear the main man over extremely questionable yodelling

‘Nothing is going to top this,’ says a fan wearing an Irish flag as a dress. She’s right

If you’re having a forgettable experience at the Stradbally festival, then you just aren’t doing it properly

Writer-director Dave Tynan on failure, film and his new work We Used to Dance Here

The author of Empire of AI: Inside the Reckless Race for Total Domination discusses the cost of Big Tech’s huge investment in technologies that may do more harm than good

For a teenager in rural Ireland, the things the brothers sang about felt superficial after Kurt Cobain’s anguish. But Oasis, who are about to play at Croke Park, were part of the wave that swept grunge away

Actor and presenter of RTÉ’s Arena programme died on Wednesday after a brief illness

With The Weir, the star returns to the stage after a 10-year absence. It’s a play he loves for its portrayal of the Irish as a people

It’s not easy to live in the modern world without a smartphone or social media, but a growing number of young people are actively choosing to reduce the time they spend on them

The comedian on warped beauty standards, shedding toxic diet-culture messaging of the 1990s, and the benefits of exposure therapy