Watch to the end! Discover the favourite foods of Conor Pope, Patrick Freyne and other Irish Times writers www.irishtimes.com/food/2025/11...

Agree with @jenhoganjourno.bsky.social here on snus – amazing how it has just crept in under the radar and managed to stay there, despite being everywhere. www.irishtimes.com/health/your-...

Luna the cat and I loved this book. Such gently gorgeous writing, and the restrained pace works so well with the plot. Recommended!

This email was so realistic. If I hadn’t just renewed my tv licence, I would almost certainly have clicked.

Cut out and keep (in a virtual sense): 100 great restaurants, cafes and places to eat around Ireland for winter 2025 www.irishtimes.com/food/2025/11...

Full Moon Insomnia is my life.

Chicken fillet rolls, fried breakfast and potatoes: What foreign diplomats really think of Irish food www.irishtimes.com/food/2025/11...

www.nytimes.com/video/world/... www.nytimes.com/video/world/...

Awful, awful. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

“I would be happy to take the Locust concept entirely to Ireland,” he says. “Or a smaller thing, a little concept, out in Howth ... or Kinsale,” he adds dreamily. www.irishtimes.com/food/restaur...

The people who ask all the questions on Vinted are never the people who buy your stuff on Vinted.

Delighted to find this fab Belfast fudge in Aldi.

‘Those living in the North’s six counties are silenced in the [presidential] election. Their continuing exclusion reduces them to nominal citizens.’ www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Gaeltacht bookings, aka fastest finger first events, during the working day – not fun.

How Irish restaurants are changing to stay afloat: ‘Less people are going out. Thursday is the new Friday’ www.irishtimes.com/food/2025/09...

🤯 Netanyahu’s ‘super-Sparta’ vision met with anger in Israel www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...

This aspect is just so tragically poignant: ‘His disappearance was not noticed until last month, when officials from the Department of Social Protection made checks on a social welfare payment related to him and were unable to determine his location.’ www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...

That ad where the mum is expected to remember everything and to smile her way through it … they didn’t film it in my house.

Miriam Margolyes: ‘What do these Israelis think that their actions are doing? They’re making the hatred last forever and ever.’ www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

One of us is all sorted for our autumn/winter 25 colour palette.

We’re at the “this matter has been well aired” stage of the presidential election – always a risky spot.

The wealth-work paradox: why having more leads to working more www.irishtimes.com/business/wor...

Just looking at another shelf of sleep items that don’t work for me.

Good times.

Is the UK absurd enough to arrest Sally Rooney at Heathrow? www.irishtimes.com/culture/2025...

The bit at the end here about legal advice is very interesting (to those of us in the zone). www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

Entrenched views remain barrier to a proper discussion about Irish unity www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Is it possible to sweep a patio while staring at your phone? Theory currently being tested here.

The author on Brendan O’Connor talking about interacting with dementia patients is saying such useful things. Would recommend listening back if you’re in that often very difficult world.

Grotesque. www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...

Still not over my childhood affair with French school stationery.

‘But Ireland loves us,’ the children said. They were not the only ones confused www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Mary Robinson: Gaza situation is ‘unconscionable’ and ceasefire is ‘an utter urgency’ www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

‘We rattled it out in 20 minutes’: how Kingfishr made a hurling team song into an Irish folk smash hit www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

I found where all your Vinted stuff goes in France.

Malachy Clerkin: Forget burning tricolours and immigrant effigies, Croke Park is where our culture is this weekend www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic...

Small thread

Currently feeling the ‘feir’ about Albufeira myself. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

Wee cat umbrella.

Learn about all the things you’re doing wrong when you make pasta – Pasta the Italian nonna way: ‘Spaghetti alla bolognese does not exist’ www.irishtimes.com/food/2025/07...

Hoping this is their peak. www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic...

There was a small and very sweet Donegal toddler behind me at Croke Park yesterday who kept putting her wee, pudgy arms around my neck. Almost as good as Tyrone beating Dublin.

❤️⚪️ ‘It’s been a privilege’ - Dessie Farrell steps down after Dublin fail to step up against Tyrone www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic...

First of the Gaeltacht loads of laundry due back tomorrow.

Leo Varadkar says politicians should not censor artists following Keir Starmer Kneecap remark www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

Live story for today’s football matches – great if you don’t have GAA+, or like the latest updates from @malachyclerkin.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic...

Four out of four football quarter-final prelims on GAA+ this weekend. Surely one or two could have made live TV?