Slowly, an account of Matthew Perry’s fragmenting last days has been pieced together. It’s a desperate tale irishtimes.com/world/us/2024/…

My photo of a native oyster bed featured in last Friday's The Irish Times piece by Freya McClements on the very exciting Belfast Lough Ulster Wildlife project. Hopefully illustrates what I mean when I say oysters are more than just food. #restorenature #biodiversity irishtimes.com/environment/cl…

Doug Beattie’s personal failings would have mattered less if he had delivered votes, writes ⁦Alex.Kane⁩ irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/0…

Nell McCafferty: journalist and feminist campaigner dies aged 80 irishtimes.com/ireland/2024/0…

Nell McCafferty obituary: Fierce and fearless journalist and campaigner with ‘lovely sense of divilment’ irishtimes.com/obituaries/202…

Holy Cross school crisis has left a long shadow over Northern Ireland, writes ⁦Mark Hennessy⁩ irishtimes.com/politics/2024/…

South Armagh farmers dominated compensation list over animals allegedly harmed by British soldiers’ actions irishtimes.com/politics/2024/…

Irish Border could not be sealed, Stormont ministers told during 2001 foot-and-mouth crisis irishtimes.com/politics/2024/…

Nell McCafferty ‘changed Ireland for the better’, mourners at her funeral in Derry told irishtimes.com/ireland/2024/0…

Thirty years after the ceasefire, former IRA members believe the battle of history is being won irishtimes.com/history/2024/0…

irishtimes.com/history/2024/0… Freya McClements Seanín Graham Mark Hennessy

Search for remains of undercover British soldier Robert Nairac to begin in Co Louth irishtimes.com/ireland/2024/0…

Oasis reunion highlights the total collapse of the full-time music press irishtimes.com/media/2024/08/…

Mike Nesbitt likely to succeed Doug Beattie as Ulster Unionist Party leader irishtimes.com/politics/2024/…

Derry mayor speaks on ‘unprecedented … level of hate’ she has received since taking on post irishtimes.com/politics/2024/…

'Caravaggio in Belfast' ends this Sunday 1st September! This is your last chance to see the two Italian masterpieces, 'The Supper at Emmaus' (1601) and 'The Taking of Christ' (1602), side by side in the Ulster Museum. → bit.ly/3QqzEaA National Gallery National Gallery of Ireland

“I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.” ― Seamus Heaney who died August 30, 2013

The voices of the dead speak again, while the living listen back to the words of their younger selves. Freya McClements writing on the #impossiblepeace project. Design CFHurson52 Photography Marie Therese Hurson John Oh Yeah The OU in Northern Ireland Irish Secretariat Belfast HTRinfo irishtimes.com/culture/books/…

“I love this island of Ireland but unfortunately it’s not going well" Immigrant business owner Muhammed Idris is thinking of quitting Belfast after racist riots One family left last week after their daughter got a text saying, "I will kill you all" irishtimes.com/ireland/2024/0…

A photo essay to mark the paperback edition of Dirty Linen with images of Banbridge and Tullylish parish, where the Linen Triangle and the Murder Triangle overlapped. Derelict mills and killing fields. Images by my colleague Bryan O’Brien, and my words. irishtimes.com/culture/books/…