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Weekend
Stories that appear in the Weekend section of The Irish Times print edition
‘There’s nothing wrong with the bags’: inside Dublin’s latest waste war
Dublin City Council says it has received more than 400 submissions from Dublin 7 residents on removal of bags
‘It’s not scientific, just anecdotal’: When health supplements do more harm than good
Experts say there is a lot of noise and misinformation around much-advertised health supplements
It matters that Ireland is an island. That makes its past and present different from many other countries
Integrating island thinking into every area of public policy, from economy and security to education and the arts, is an exercise in connection not withdrawal
The last Irish nuns in Africa: ‘There was no question of going home’
Missionaries occupied a unique place in Ireland’s national imagination. For young Irish women, religious life offered something rare: independence, education and travel
The five-decade love story of a forgotten Irish literary power couple
Padraic Colum’s death made front-page news in the New York Times in 1972, while F Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway feared his wife Mary’s rapier wit
‘It was an absolute clanger’: Ex-Sinn Féin insider on Mary Lou, missteps and loss of momentum
Siobhán Fenton’s absorbing new memoir Ourselves Alone offers real insight into the workings of Ireland’s most secretive political party
Jolt from the blue: It’s a jellyfish − of course it stings
Your nature notes and queries for Eanna Ní Lamhna
Death of Ireland’s nightlife is yet another reason for young people to leave
Ireland is Europe’s most dynamic economy yet our young people are locked out of experiences and opportunities readily available elsewhere
What is the acceptable price, in people and in land, of producing food?
Kentucky farmer and author Wendell Berry spent six decades arguing that agriculture is an act of stewardship, community and care
Phil Coulter: ‘The song Congratulations has fed, clothed and educated my children’
Songwriter reflects on his incredible musical canon and why his most personal tunes have stood the test of time
Capturing the confusion of the aftermath of 9/11 on camera
Images by Larry Towell show us what he saw after the dust cloud settled and light returned
Sarah Moss’s last Irish Times column: ‘Being hated on the internet has begun to tint my life’
I glanced into a dark mirror world in which people (mostly men) wrote that I am vile and stupid and should kill myself
Cunnigar spit in Waterford looks a little forsaken. It needs care and protection
One councillor said earier this year that erosion is happening at an ‘alarming’ rate
Cunnigar spit in Waterford looks a little forsaken. It needs care and protection
One councillor said earier this year that erosion is happening at an ‘alarming’ rate
‘All I could think about was getting cocaine’: Mothers share their stories of addiction
A growing number of women are in treatment for drug or alcohol addiction, but many mothers delay seeking help because they fear their children will be taken into care
‘Babies in buggies are eating instant noodles. You never know what somebody is going through’
Research from last year found 9 per cent of the population were living in food poverty
Was this bird on our back porch one of the finch species?
Éanna Ní Lamhna answers readers’ queries about a bird, a moth and very small fly
Meet the Limerick woman who won Edinburgh comedy newcomer: ‘Irish people are the funniest people in the world’
The ‘chill’ Limerick comedian last got irked when a male MC labelled her adorable
Carlo Gébler on his mother Edna O’Brien: ‘She was very protean’
Author describes in almost forensic detail the last four years of O’Brien’s life
Why is this El Niño set to be so strong and what will its effects be in Ireland?
The World Meteorological Organisation has warned that the current El Niño looks to be intensifying into the strongest one ever recorded
25 years later: ‘A couple of days before every 9/11 you get that sick feeling in your stomach’
New York braces itself to again remember the diabolical awfulness of the attack on the World Trade Center in 2001
One in three can’t afford to benefit from Government’s regressive new investment scheme
Is now really the time to prioritise a scheme aimed at helping those with savings to further increase their value?
Ireland’s Greenest Places longlist: ‘Those with an acute sense of a warming world stand out’
The summer of 2026 has provided a timely reminder of the urgent need for climate action
Photo portrait of Katie Taylor aged 10: ‘You can see the steel in her eyes even then’
Photographer Marc O’Sullivan shares some of his shots and memories of the then future Olympic and world boxing champion
Did a rare pair of cranes visit a Co Waterford garden?
Éanna Ní Lamhna responds to your notes and queries on robins, spiders and rare moths
University is a chance to remake yourself. No one knows if you were shy at school
It can seem that everyone else is easily making friends and having fun in the early days. Some of them are pretending
Actor Olwen Fouéré: ‘I firmly believe we are in the last days of the Anthropocene’
The Galwegian says she is essentially a hermit and her most important relationship is with nature
Empire was central to how Ireland’s nonsectarian colleges justified themselves
Queen’s colleges were established in 1845 in Belfast, Cork, and Galway to serve growing middle-class that included the island’s Catholic majority
‘It’s very fraught. I was super fond of Graham Linehan’: Jon Ronson on his book about men spiralling
The Castle was inspired by Ronson’s son finding himself in the home of an heir ‘trying to be Hugh Hefner at the worst moment in human history to be Hugh Hefner’
‘It was day 13 or 14 when people started dying’: More than 200 set sail for Europe. Only 36 survived
A harrowing story of death and survival on the Atlantic migration route from west Africa, ‘the deadliest in the world’
The floods will overwhelm Irish land. We can’t just sit back
Water is arriving in ways our infrastructure and modified landscape can no longer cope with
What do Irish experts think about controversial ADHD claims?
Treatment of ADHD is associated with significant benefits in physical and mental health outcomes, says Marie Boilson of the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland
What is Ebola, and have there been any cases in Europe?
More than 2,700 people have died since May, making it the African nation’s biggest outbreak, with frontline conditions described as ‘brutal’
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