I’m not in favour of state surveillance, but more cameras on our roads would save lives

The Irish actor on the upcoming TV series Blade Runner 2099, working on an adaptation of Marian Keyes’s Grown Ups, and staying grounded

‘It’s great to get away from your mobile phone,’ says one pilgrim of this place of penance since the fifth century

Growing up in Waterford, I naively believed Ireland might sidestep the entrenched divisions of its near neighbours

Lore suggests Athenry’s North Gate will collapse when the most handsome man in Ireland walks under it, so steer clear Michael Fassbender, Paul Mescal and Colin Farrell

French economist is co-director of World Inequality Lab, which is proposing an average monthly income of €5,000 per person by 2100

The Irish banking system is not functioning because there is not enough lending

Extradited Dubliner’s case will be heard in a three-judge court created to hear charges related to terrorism and organised crime

Views could be best in the southwest– but proper eye protection is essential

I am not advocating giving up as a general principle, in relation to books or anything else

Ictu general secretary Owen Reidy on his long trade union family pedigree, the time his family fell victim to an IRA bank raid and the problems organised labour faces in Ireland

There is a visceral sense of betrayal when it becomes clear we are being convinced to accept slop and be okay with it

Agriculture takes up 74 per cent of the country’s land

Low-budget, highly ambitious project to restore populations of critical insects fast became a top nature-positive initiative

RTÉ Concert Orchestra general manager Alex Walden on connecting with an audience, receiving his first guitar and living on in your descendants

Your wildlife notes and queries for Éanna Ní Lamhna

In the second of a four-part series on Ireland’s walled towns, we visit Derry which boasts the only complete set of walls remaining on the island

In the biggest housing crisis in peacetime Europe, residents are intent on obstructing a solution to the housing shortage

Fingal’s biodiversity officer says planting blackberry brambles starts a chain reaction that benefits wildlife and the entire community

Belfast is hosting Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann – and it’s playing a blinder