Poet Grace Wilentz: ‘Ireland has been very generous to me. There’s an abundance of fresh air and bookstores and intellectual stimulation’
The New York-born poet on having resilience foisted upon her as a teenager when both of her parents died
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Samantha Barry: ‘There’s not a moment where I’m not representing Glamour. I don’t get to switch it off’
As global executive editor of Glamour, the Cork woman is one of the best known media people in the United States
Suspect in UnitedHealth boss shooting faces hearing for extradition to New York on murder charge
Luigi Mangione was arrested in a Pennsylvania fast-food restaurant five days after Brian Thompson was killed in Manhattan
Family of suspect in health chief’s killing reported him missing after back surgery
As US detectives began to piece together the suspect’s history, one line of inquiry was the chronic back problems he appears to have suffered since childhood
Luigi Mangione: Manhattan murder manhunt ends in everyday American fashion at McDonald’s
Ivy League graduate (26) is arrested in the Pennsylvania railroad town of Altoona over the shooting of United Healthcare chief executive Brian Thompson
UnitedHealth chief executive shooting suspect arrested, New York officials say
Luigi Mangione found with firearm and silencer consistent with weapon used to kill Brian Thompson in Manhattan last week
Police release new image of suspect in New York shooting of Brian Thompson as manhunt continues
Chief executive of UnitedHealthcare was killed in front of a Manhattan hotel in ‘pre-planned, targeted attack’
Manhunt under way after UnitedHealth chief executive shot dead in ‘brazen’ New York attack
A man wearing a mask approached Brian Thompson outside a Manhattan hotel and fired at him repeatedly, police say
‘Splitting the G’ - why everybody in the US is drinking Guinness
Now the fastest-growing imported beer in terms of sales, the pint of plain has been making up for lost ground since the pandemic
Designer Helen James: I was teased at school about being English, a Protestant. There was always something of the ‘other’ about me
Designer Helen James on returning to Dublin from New York, the ‘gentler, lovelier pace’ here, and the traditions of Christmas
Sinn Féin’s US political arm raises €366,000 in latest fundraising drive
Major building companies and subcontractors in New York and New Jersey among biggest donors to Friends of Sinn Féin
Sinn Féin’s US arm corrects filing to say it received free New York office from building magnate
US-based attorney said it came to his attention after filing report that he had answered the question incorrectly
Paul Mescal rides A Streetcar Named Desire to New York stage
Gladiator II actor reprises role of Stanley Kowalski, following in footsteps of Marlon Brando
Arizona attorney general says she won’t drop Trump fake electors case
In New York, state court judge preparing to rule on whether Trump’s hush-money conviction should be thrown out
‘The US has become really divisive. I definitely prefer the quality of life here. I like the people and the possibilities’
A month-long trip to France led to romance and a new life in rural Co Cork for New Yorker Jessica Bonenfant
Book reviews: Placeholders; The Long Look Back; Leaning on Gates
New fiction and memoir by James Roseman, Tom MacDonagh and Seamus O’Rourke includes a book that deserves a place among the classics
Democrats make final campaign push amid fallout from Puerto Rico ‘joke’ at Trump rally
US election: Barack Obama says Trump event in Madison Square Garden featured ‘the most racist, sexist, bigoted stereotypes’
Declan Ganley tells New York court he is making ‘good faith efforts’ to sell Irish properties to pay $20m debt
Threat of incarceration ‘not justified under law’, Ganley tells court in latest episode in ongoing dispute between businessman and and a shareholder in Rivada Networks
The many faces of Hugh Grant: From droll to dark to ‘Mr Stuttery Blinky’
The English actor is now 64 and in what he calls his ‘freak-show era’, where he plays a variety of suave miscreants
‘The script is Sinéad O’Connor – it’s the music’: Christeene on The Lion the Witch and The Cobra
The performance artist, musician and drag experimentalist is bringing her reimagining of the late Irish singer’s first album to Dublin
Heart of Philip Glass: A musical through line from Blondie and Talking Heads to maverick minimalism
Michael Riesman, music director of the Philip Glass Ensemble, on the works by the composer that they’re bringing to Ireland
Eric Adams, the swaggering, ‘weird’ mayor of New York, is the first to face indictment in the office’s 360-year history
The man who managed to flip a life of juvenile delinquency into a 20-year career with the NYPD and then a remarkably successful political charge, faces charges of historic fraud and corruption
The Week That Was at the UN General Assembly: Jennifer Bray’s New York diary
Micheal D Higgins, Simon Harris and Micheál Martin make headlines with comments on homelessness and immigration, Israel and Iran, a trip to Washington and time spent with Meryl Streep
New York mayor Eric Adams accused of taking bribes and gifts from Turkish sources
Mayor says he does not plan to resign from his position
Tánaiste says Irish troops in Lebanon are ‘safe’ in what is ‘a very difficult environment to operate within’
United Nations secretary-general António Guterres says the world is edging towards ‘a powder keg that risks engulfing the world’
A Belfast film-maker in Hollywood: ‘I felt Irish American warmth in New York but nothing prepared me for LA’
When film director Maeve Murphy went to Hollywood - finally - she found a deep Irish connection and inspiration from US independent cinema
Trump bares his teeth in Long Island as he promises to win back New York
New York’s most controversial son returns to form after Sunday’s threat on his life
Baked rosetta pasta with beef short rib, Parmesan and root vegetables
New York-style cuisine at its finest
How to Be a Citizen by Cindy L Skach: Has too much law withered democracy?
The central, compelling argument is that public space is a vital but sorely neglected component of a functioning democracy
New York firefighters cycle from Dublin to Cork to raise funds for charity
Members of Friends of Firefighters of New York group continue to lose colleagues to ‘9/11 cancer’, says founder
Michel Guérard obituary: Pioneer of ‘slimming cuisine’
Celebrated French chef believed that you could lose weight and still eat well, and Michelin agreed
Hysterical review: What made more than a dozen teenage girls come down with the same strange illness?
Podcast review: So many conversion disorders together? That’s mass psychogenic illness – aka mass hysteria
We are gradually becoming inured to technological messes
The National Cyber Security Centre warns of a ‘far greater’ cyberattack risk over the next two years
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