1+ hour, 4+ min ago   (202+ words) The Irish Times Dolly Parton: The Queen of Country’s life in pictures Dolly Parton, one of the greatest singer-songwriters in country music, has died aged 80 Dolly Parton, the “Queen of Country” who emerged from extreme poverty in rural…...

5+ hour, 14+ min ago   (1285+ words) Wake up, world. Ridley Scott is on another press tour. Over the past few decades the indomitable British director, now an implausible 88, has established a reputation for saying whatever the heck he likes in the most colourful manner imaginable. Elordi,…...

9+ hour, 40+ min ago   (407+ words) You wouldn’t necessarily identify Ridley Scott as the sort of fellow to deliver an agreeable apocalypse. But for large parts of The Dog Stars that is what we get. Oh, sure, Josh Brolin and Jacob Elordi blow the heads off…...

12+ hour, 54+ min ago   (424+ words) Dolly Parton was a true great of country music, a woman who conquered a hard-bitten male-dominated industry and a working-class heroine who never forget her roots. But above all, the singer, who has died aged 80, was a figure of huge…...

15+ hour, 27+ min ago   (535+ words) Dolly Parton, one of the greatest singer-songwriters in country music who was also much cherished for her philanthropy, has died aged 80. Her death was announced by nephew Brian Seaver on Instagram. “I have imagined the heaviness of this moment but…...

21+ hour, 16+ min ago   (349+ words) The story of how a syndicate of amateur mathematicians and professional gamblers set out to outfox the National Lottery in 1992 is jackpot documentary material, and director Ross Whitaker does the tale justice with the charming Beat the Lotto (RTÉ One,…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (756+ words) “I call it a book about appearances – that’s the common thread between all of the themes,” says Kiberd, a 37-year-old Dublin-born journalist and writer who bears a vigorous intellectual energy matched by an earnest self-awareness. “It began as a book more…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (814+ words) At that time, the literary life of New York was rocking to the voices of the emergent beat poets, whose rejection of conventional social thinking and poetic language was much to Kavanagh’s liking. The admiration proved mutual. Indeed, there is…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (564+ words) Lord of the Dance star Micheal Flatley flew into Sligo on Monday to play the flute at the former summer home of Lord Louis Mountbatten at Mullaghmore. The musical tribute marked the 47th anniversary of his assassination by the IRA. Flatley…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (240+ words) The Irish Times Electric Picnic 2026 stage times for all the main areas Heading to Stradbally this weekend? Whether you want to see Fontaines DC, CMAT or Geese, here’s when and where they’re playing Electric Picnic is at Stradbally…...