23+ hour, 35+ min ago  (893+ words) Mark O'Connell: Sheer prevalence of AI prose is giving rise to a new and extreme kind of suspicion'The Irish Times Sheer prevalence of AI prose is giving rise to a new and extreme kind of suspicion We exist, increasingly, in…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (16+ words) Be more Ryan Gosling: Why AI and the media need us to be curious'The Irish Times...

23+ hour, 38+ min ago  (1870+ words) Garrett Fox remembers the Beast from the East storm in 2018 not so much for the Arctic conditions outdoors, but for the way his curtains froze indoors. "It was so cold, we went to the cinema to be somewhere warm," he…...

23+ hour, 39+ min ago  (876+ words) The further through the interior you drive, the more you understand that the seldom seen constituencies which make up the fabled "heartland" to which generations of American politicians plead fealty is a quiet place. "It's more of a national thing,…...

1+ day, 7+ min ago  (158+ words) Shaun Ryder: "Bez and I have had a sexless marriage for 32 years. I'm with him all the time'The Irish Times Shaun Ryder: "Bez and I have had a sexless marriage for 32 years. I'm with him all the time' The Happy…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (377+ words) War is something that we like to think affects other people in other places. That fiction is getting harder to maintain. What Ireland does not yet have is a strategy. A strategy would work on three timescales at once by…...

1+ day, 18+ min ago  (1113+ words) The Wrede family regularly visit Islay, the southernmost of Scotland's Inner Hebrides. During a stroll near Dunyvaig Castle last week, Emil (12) and Hannah (17) spotted something unusual in the mud along Lagavulin Bay. "You find strange things around the island, but…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago  (221+ words) The father of Aoife Johnston, a 16-year-old schoolgirl who died of meningitis in 2022 after being left without antibiotics for over 13 hours at University Hospital Limerick (UHL), has died. James Johnston was diagnosed with stage four kidney cancer in the summer…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago  (577+ words) A worst-case scenario involving attacks on subsea cables across a number of locations could result in "the entire island of Ireland disconnected from the global internet, the Department of Communications has warned the Government. Separately, State power company ESB said…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago  (377+ words) Three men and a woman have appeared in court in connection with the discovery of cannabis worth an estimated "7m in Co Kildare. Emre Ozdemier (29) of Burrin Street, Carlow; Alex Forsyth (33), Dunedin Terrace, Monkstown Farm, Dublin; John Weekes (38), Branswood, Athy, Co…...