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Dublin’s new tallest building: This tower of darkness should never have been allowed
College Square was redesigned to give its residential block more impact. Why did An Bord Pleanála make such a misguided ...
Big Band Evolution pianist Cormac McCarthy: ‘I’m still not able to understand how I played. It was painful to hit the keys’
The musician hit an unexpected barrier when tendonitis almost stopped him performing. But it also led to his noted career as ...
A good spread of food memoirs: from the sanitised to the ‘slutty’
Early on in Picky, his ode to growing up second-generation British Nigerian and 1990s junk food, restaurant critic Jimi ...
The Crying of the Wind: Ireland by Ithell Colquhoun – An exquisitely strange British-Celtic artist’s travels in Ireland
The still-existing pagan spirituality of Ireland seen through the eyes of a genius mystic polymath more than 70 years ago ...
Kerry’s secrets: I thought I knew everything the Kingdom had to offer. I was wrong
Cathedral Rocks is an awe-inducing feat of nature on Inishnabro, one of the Blasket islands, while Ballygarry Estate outside Tralee is the perfect base to explore from ...
TV guide: the best new shows to watch this week
There’s a bit of a backstory behind this Aussie TV drama, set in the shadow of the second World War and starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, originally aired in 2023. Eagle-eyed viewers may spot a ...