Zuckerberg saying AI will cure loneliness is like big tobacco suggesting cigarettes can treat cancer
It’s a solution that can only lead to a deeper emptiness and to a lonelier, less human world
Irish-founded Tullow Oil faces $1.4bn refinancing headache amid falling crude prices
Shares in the exploration firm have slumped and are being sold off at rates not seen in five years
By Joe Brennan
Ministers receive pay increases in new Cabinet under public sector deal
Government says ministers will ‘gift back a portion of their salary’ to the State
By Pat Leahy
Leinster rugby needs to find a fresh approach to break its losing streak
Striking a balance between systems-oriented rugby and individual creativity might be the key to ending seven years of hurt
Ireland’s relay stars part of an ‘overnight’ success story stretching back to Ronnie Delany in the 1950s
Noel Carroll, Eamonn Coghlan and Sonia O’Sullivan have all passed the baton on at different stages
Reforming the planning laws: ‘It was never going to be a short-term solution to the housing problem’
Within weeks An Bord Pleánala will become An Coimisiún Pleanála - but what impact will it have and how is it changing?
By Niamh Towey
Never mind the new pope, who’s going to replace Liveline’s spiritual leader, Joe Duffy?
Michael McDowell coy at book launch, Bertie gives state-of-the-world address and Mark Daly feels the heat
By Miriam Lord
Africa mines the material, China makes the products, Ireland gets rich
Thirty years after the end of apartheid, the world is abandoning globalisation. How’s this going for Africa? Not great, to be honest
Northern thriller writer Brian McGilloway: ‘People are having to take sides again. And that’s never good here’
The author on why he no longer writes police procedurals, his distrust of the North’s hierarchy of victimhood, and his compulsion to write
‘Sometimes the reality is more Spinal Tap than Spinal Tap’: Philly Byrne of Gama Bomb on Irish thrash metal and the band’s new film
The lead singer riffs on friendship, Newry and guitar-shaped swimming pools
Paschal Donohoe on How Feminist Economics Can Change Our World; Making Sense of Chaos; and Why We’re Getting Poorer
These authors seek to understand the behaviour of economies and the influence they have on our societies
Alicia Witt: ‘It was a scene that got cut from the movie. I did kiss Madonna in rehearsals’
Ahead of a musical performance in Dublin, the actor and songwriter talks about grief, her formative friendship with David Lynch and her encounter with Harvey Weinstein
By Ed Power
Paradise Logic by Sophie Kemp: Building a novel around a protagonist with a ‘low quantitative IQ’
The 23-year-old heroine, Reality Kahn, sets out on a quest to become the ‘greatest girlfriend of all time’
By Huda Awan
Gunk by Saba Sams: An elusive, idiosyncratic book
The novel deals in relationships that literary conventions were not built to hold
By Naoise Dolan
The Folly of Realism: How the West Deceived Itself about Russia and Betrayed Ukraine by Alexander Vindman – An unsparing critique of US ‘crisis management’ policy
The writer’s theme is one of lost opportunities that could have prevented today’s war
By Conor O’Clery
The ‘gentrification’ of Dublin: ‘Young people are coming in, buying houses and gutting them’
With house prices continuing to rise, homebuyers are moving to traditionally more affordable neighbourhoods in Dublin to get on the property ladder
‘Alan Hawe was a wolf in sheep’s clothing who fooled us all’: Clodagh Hawe’s sister on her fight for the truth
In her memoir, Deadly Silence, Jacqueline Connolly traces the unimaginable tragedies in her life, the coercive control her sister suffered and her fight to make the murders of her loved ones count for something
Letters to the Editor, May 10th; on the new pope, Joe Duffy and VE day
“For some time now The Irish Times has given us a simple message: Ireland bad, Australia good”
Dazzling Darkness: The Lives and Afterlives of the Christian Mystics & The Magic Theatre by James Harpur
Author provides potted biographies of characters, describing something of the period of history they inhabited and spiritual disciplines they embodied
By Andrew Roycroft
The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon: Fictionalised murder mystery inspired by a towering real-life midwife
Martha Ballard’s impressive life and legacy in the 18th century are celebrated via fiction
Book reviews in brief: Moral Formations, A Fool’s Kabbalah, Motherland
Reviews of works by Daniel Ayiotis, Steve Stern and Luke Pepera
In a world dominated by loud, divisive politics, the cardinals found an antidote in Pope Leo XIV
In a world dominated by loud, divisive politics, the Cardinals found an antidote in Pope Leo XIV
By Bronagh Ann McShane
Own a car? Here’s how much it costs to keep it on the road
Buying a car can be a financial headache but, without careful planning, so too can the running costs
Ugly sense of entitlement has seeped into Irish rugby fan culture
Leinster’s Champions Cup exit has led to mob-like criticism of the team and their coach
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