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Readers describe their experiences of disrupted timetables, cancelled trains, packed carriages and poor communication on Ireland’s rail lines

Transport network’s own punctuality figures show a dramatic decline over the last six months. The problems go back to a lack of investment in rail infrastructure over the last few decades

Four readers seek advice on life problems including comparisons with others, having a closeted partner and revisiting an old relationship

Seán Moncrieff: Despite her earnest promises to be careful, it of course got into every nook and corner

In Haliey Welch’s rise to fame, there was an Instagram account, then a podcast and, inevitably, a cryptocurrency

The till receipts at Brown Thomas, the glittering, almost-nationwide monument to unfettered capitalism, is a decent bellwether for how the haviest-haves in society are doing

The Assad regime’s collapse has left Syrians in Ireland facing the ‘confusing’ option of returning to their country of origin, something they believed to be impossible before now

Almost 600 sole trader butchers have closed in the past 20 years, with about 550 remaining, as the trade loses out to the rise of convenience stores and changing consumer habits

People aged from their 20s to their 90s share life lessons for their younger selves

People suffering from chronic fatigue-type illnesses could potentially benefit enormously from reading this book, but are likely to be frustrated by its long-windedness

Garth Greenwell’s third novel looks at how slow recovery can become a rehabilitation to life and literature

If 14 years’ tribunal work by a High Court judge can be so readily air-brushed by successive governments, what’s the point of bothering?

Miniature things deliver such a shot of dopamine into our brains. I know you’ve giggled at those tiny Nutellas

No products have justified their cost per use quite like these, some of which are Irish

All is not lost, here’s our guide to grabbing that last-minute booking

Generational health: Support services ‘are well hidden and the services are already under pressure’

Research Lives: Aideen McCabe, PhD student, University College Cork

Government must take crucial step to ‘phase out harmful fossil fuels as early as 2039′

People ‘distraught’ on missing out after all 3,000 parcels are distributed by shortly after 9.30am

Tell Me About It: ‘Smoking dope gave me some peace, and I suppose I withdrew from life in general’