1+ hour, 35+ min ago   (738+ words) True to form, even on a weekend when his golf course was hosting a record-breaking native winner, Donald Trump still managed to dominate the headlines. His unerring instinct for self-promotion survived even the fraught moment when he had to present…...

4+ hour, 7+ min ago   (537+ words) George Bernard Shaw is said to have remarked after spending time at the enormous castle built by the American newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst in California, that it was what God would have built if God had had the money....

17+ hour, 10+ min ago   (784+ words) The Covid-19 lockdown provided the nudge Edel Duffy needed to launch her online business, Her Place Cosmetics. The Galway native and marketing graduate had moved to Australia in 2010, settling in Sydney, having first lived in Perth, but she missed her…...

18+ hour, 40+ min ago   (535+ words) “You aren’t given power. You take it.” The Red Book of Farewells (Penguin International Writers, £14.99), in a sparkling translation by Mia Spangenburg, is the final volume in Pirkko Saisio’s hugely acclaimed Helsinki trilogy. It continues, as with previous works Lowest…...

17+ hour, 52+ min ago   (489+ words) Is the torture over? Maybe not. I still have the door open to the back garden. The shaky sense of climactically induced unease is still beating about my fragile psyche. By far the least significant downside to climate change is…...

17+ hour, 8+ min ago   (486+ words) John Wilson hops on the hyper-decanting wine trend – does it work? The Irish Times John Wilson hops on the hyper-decanting wine trend – does it work? How to Drink Better: The answer depends on what you are hoping to achieve…...

16+ hour, 9+ min ago   (703+ words) The Irish Times A realistic emergency preparedness booklet would say ‘prepare for a slow decline’ Climate change for most of us will be a slow, banal deterioration in our quality of life – and we’re the lucky ones…...

22+ hour, 40+ min ago   (388+ words) I heard some terrific news the other day: “The happiest men over 40 are 25lbs overweight.” So said Prof Arthur Brooks of the John F Kennedy school of government at Harvard University in the United States, more commonly known as the Harvard…...

17+ hour, 9+ min ago   (781+ words) How do you create a luxurious contemporary family home that blends in with the wild and windswept nature of Achill Island? It’s a challenge that interior architect Susan McGowan of Ashen & Cloud embraced when she worked with Karan and Paul…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (651+ words) Irish Continental Group (ICG) chief executive Eamonn Rothwell’s €1.2 billion management buyout bid for the ferry operator was approved narrowly at a shareholder meeting on Thursday, despite objections from a number of big investors to the deal. The resolution to sell…...