A selection of Irish Times visual journalist Dara Mac Dónaill's photographs throughout the year and the story behind one of them

Planet Business: The year in numbers, from Boris Johnson’s book advance to fines for dirty toilets at Dublin Airport

A selection of Irish Times visual journalist Nick Bradshaw’s photographs throughout the year and his story behind one of them

The Dublin riots changed politics, but not in the way anyone expected

A year of change heralds a future of more of the same

A selection of Irish Times visual journalist Alan Betson's photographs throughout the year and his story behind one of them

From Lynda Barry’s moving and frequently hilarious workbook for making and thinking to Seán Hogan’s ripping yarn set in a Tipperary town

It was a challenging year for some listed companies and a record year for CEO departures

In a year of closures and comebacks, Michael O’Leary had a ‘pain in the backside’, while Gail Slater was urged to ‘Make America Competitive Again’

Far-right-inspired violence and continued sluggish efforts to grow the Garda force dominated Harris’s final full year in charge

Budget 2025, public sector pay rises, credit card bills being wiped and a car for a dog all grabbed your attention

Joyful Irish traditional music and politically charged folk feature in our LP picks of the year

Our pick of the year’s roots albums take in Malin Head, Missouri and points between

I fear our property problem will be solved in a brutal way, with a recession so severe, hundreds of thousands will emigrate again

The 10 highest-grossing titles were all sequels – but none is in our 50-best list in a year audiences turned out in numbers for ‘cultural cinema’

‘Thank God I’m alive,’ Mary Coughlan sings on her album Repeat, Rewind. Hear, hear

The US president is a once-in-a-lifetime master manipulator of the unseen energies that sway the electorate

Ukraine is still standing after more than 1,000 days of full-scale fighting with Russia, in the biggest war in Europe since 1945

Winds of change howled across Britain in a year when a Labour election victory ended 14 years of Tory rule

The family and care referendums were soundly rejected, Leo Varadkar most unexpectedly stepped down, and there was a decided turnaround in parties’ fortunes