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What did James Joyce have to say about the Irish beef industry?

Dive into Ulysses and you'll find much about cattle - and the economic relationship between Ireland and Britain

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar outside Leinster House: "interviewees across these reports regardless of income and occupation have expressed no desire for more cash, but rather better public services and the security they represent"

The urgent issues beyond Brexit, Boris and the backstop

"Parental imprisonment affects an estimated 6,000 children in Ireland at any one time"

How would you cope as a child with a parent in prison?

"When studying the chaotic systems we find in nature there is nothing random about chaos"

Why is it so difficult to make a long-term weather forecast?

The only up is up: Ryanair's Michael O'Leary assesses the form

The ups and downs of superstar CEOs

"How we move, what we look at, who we talk to, what we feel as we move: these are central components of our experiences" Photo: Getty Images

Why walking is good for you

The Manaro Voui volcano on Vanuatu's Ambae island in 2017. Photo: Dan McGarry/Vanuatu Daily Post/AFP/Getty Images

Here's how climate change is damaging one small Pacific island

"Even 6-year-olds would understand the meaning of sharing a secret"

How do we choose our friends?

"40% of young Irish women aged 18 to 25 are dissatisfied with their bodies"

Why body-positive role models like Lizzo matter

Body Positivity

A cyclist in Oslo, a city slowly but surely reducing the number of cars in its city centre. Photo: Fredrik Varfjell/AFP/Getty Images

Reclaiming the streets from the car

Is this the real Roy Orbison or a hologram? "Perhaps the most haunting aspect is the possibility of bringing artists back for an on-stage life after death experience"

Why do we keep resurrecting the dead in popular culture?

More Brainstorm

Podcasts.

"Kids don't necessarily need the latest Buzz Lightyear or Woody or Paw Patrol to play"

Why risky play is good for kids

"We sleep for 27 years of our life so sleep is pretty important"

The A to Zzz of sleep

Reclaiming the streets from the car

Bugging out about bees, spiders and more

Meet the farmers of tomorrow

Ideas.

"Derry Girls can be characterised less as quality TV and more as good television"

Derry Girls and the value of good television

While Game of Thrones is economically valuable to Northern Ireland, programmes such as Derry Girls offer more social value to audiences

"The McAleese Committee archive contains all State records concerning the Magdalene Laundries and likely contains some information relating to the as-yet unidentified burial sites of many women who died while incarcerated" Photo credit: IFI

10 ways institutional abuse details are still being kept secret

Edna O'Brien and Louise O'Neill

Country Girls: the ties that link Edna O'Brien and Louise O'Neill

Jessie J: suffered a stroke at 18

Can you be too young to have a stroke?

Sport.

"There is growing evidence that young players and athletes thrive on a mixture of challenge and support"

Why do so many young sports stars fail to become Superchamps?

All-Ireland hurling final managers Liam Sheedy and Brian Cody when they last met in 2010. Photo: Cathal Noonan/INPHO

The science of winning an All-Ireland final 100 years ago

From ankle to tackle, the A to Z of injuries in amateur rugby

What's the ideal body composition for a successful GAA player?

Is the dreaded ACL injury on the rise in the GAA?

Climate change.

"Giving someone the information and telling them what to do won't necessarily result in behaviour change"

Why do we find it so hard to stop using plastic bottles?

A cyclist in Oslo, a city slowly but surely reducing the number of cars in its city centre. Photo: Fredrik Varfjell/AFP/Getty Images

Reclaiming the streets from the car

"The message to this generation's Leaving Cert students: if you want to change the world, study plants"

Why plants are central to saving the planet

"This second coming of the electric car will be evolutionary and not revolutionary"

The second coming of the electric car

"We need to imagine a time in the future when cows can text you to tell it's time for milking"

Meet the farmers of tomorrow

RTÉ's bee-friendly zone. Photo: Ciaran O'Byrne

Bugging out about bees, spiders and more

Branching out: will climate change mean the end of the line for the Blue Tit?

Is climate change making our birds extinct?

More Climate change

Ireland.

Aisling authors and creators Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen

How a woman called Aisling puts modern Ireland on the page

"Plays written by Frank McGuinness, Aidan Mathews and Tom Murphy demonstrate real concern over such erosion of civil rights and the potential for abuse of these laws by the gardaí"

I fought the law: how 1980s' Irish theatre took on the gardai

How Northern Ireland's doctors and nurses coped with the Troubles

'A new conversation about united Ireland could be a win for all'

The many commemorative rituals of Glasnevin Cemetery

Glasnevin Cemetery

Editor's Choice.

"Students in fee-paying secondary schools consistently perform well in terms of Leaving Certificate results and progression to third level education"

Who attends fee-paying secondary schools?

"The more complex "Roach Motel" model makes it effortless for a user to sign up for a subscription, but the details on cancelling and unsubscribing are hidden"

How dark patterns influence how you behave online

Serena Williams: "extremely intimidating"

Why do some men think they could win a point off Serena Williams?