Charlie Rankin’s long narrow vintage shop glitters and sparkles everywhere you look. “Vintage dresses are not going to look like any dresses that you would see in your high street shop. – NB3-4 Fownes Street Upper, Temple Bar, Dublin 2. The Temple Bar shop stocks handpicked vintage at affordable prices, mostly from the 1990s and 2000s. – NBNine Crows, 22 Temple Lane, Dublin 2, shopninecrows.com and Loot, 23 Drury Street, Dublin 2 lootdublin.comAdditional reporting by Deirdre McQuillan

Paul Moore is a tillage farmer in east Cork who remembers, in 1980, skylarks singing on his land. These days, if you visit his part of Cork and ask for skylarks, the answer is simple: they are all but gone. [ Rathlin Island sees feral ferrets eradicated for the first timeOpens in new window ]A year later, in 2023, Moore heard skylarks singing in cereal fields at Oakpark in Carlow. Moore put the word out, and soon farmers from Dublin, Louth, Offaly and Carlow had confirmed that skylarks were breeding in cereal fields, some for many years. Perhaps skylarks in Ireland had adapted to cereal fields – places which aren’t ideal, but offer something modern grassland no longer could: time.

Sometimes when I’m forced to stand there, and especially if there’s one of those huge, militaristically branded cars, I glance at the driver’s face. And then, if I’m honest, my consideration begins to evaporate, and I slip back into seeing the world through a driver’s eyes again. But the greater the intervals between driving, the more strongly I feel I don’t want to see the world through driver’s eyes any more. Buildings, gardens, trees, flowers, people’s faces – the enormous ecology of city life is there to be studied up close as I move slowly through it. In this way, cars divide us from the environment, whether or not we are in them.

The Lowry Independents are exhausted from trying to extract tasty local concessions from the Government they pledged to support. So, as is customary when the Dáil breaks after its first sitting of the year, a few end-of-term Easter awards seem in order. Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Tánaiste Simon Harris both admitted measures to divert valued SNAs to posts where they were most needed had been poorly communicated. Taoiseach Micheál Martin reminded the Dáil of his role in introducing special needs assistants. There is no Easter Bunny gong for Donald Trump, but he’s the runaway winner of our Mad as a March Hare award.

What motivates him above all else is regaining his place in the All Blacks team and being part of one that, next year, ends a 12-year wait for another World Cup. Rieko Ioane meets Luke Northmore and Cadan Murley during Leinster's Champions Cup clash with Harlequins in December. Ioane played in the second leg of a triple header that famous day in Chicago, as part of a Maori All Blacks team that beat the USA. “World rugby at the minute is so competitive and on any given day, any team can beat anyone. The box that needs ticking the most is next year’s World Cup, after playing just twice at the 2019 tournament and being a losing finalist in 2023.

Diageo is set to gain about $1bn from the sale of the IPL franchise. India’s United Spirits bought the franchise for $111 million in 2008. Diageo then built up ownership of United, and has had a controlling stake in it since 2020. The company, wisely it turns out, decided to hold on to RCB given the explosive growth in team valuations. Not bad for a bet on a sport that Diageo made by happenstance and which it almost certainly would not have done by itself.

Minutes before Donald Trump signalled a pause on strikes against Iranian power plants, Wall Street had already moved ahead of him. Photograph: Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty ImagesMinutes before Donald Trump signalled a pause last Monday on strikes against Iranian power plants, Wall Street had already moved ahead of him, by more than half a billion dollars. That remains to be seen, but the episode is not an isolated one. First, insider policy information has probably always seeped into market prices on occasion, something observed not just today but across past US administrations. Second, the issue is not confined to politics or markets: bets on everything from Google’s search rankings to Taylor Swift announcements indicate that well-timed wagering is a modern, widespread challenge.

A Cork betting tipster has been told it is a “bad idea” to keep posting about a rival tipster – who claims to be the “most-followed racing pundit in the world” – while subject of a High Court injunction. Rob Heneghan, a 27-year-old who runs the gambling tips business Pro Sports Advice Ltd, is suing Cork tipster Gearóid Norris for defamation. Judge Brian Cregan warned Norris that it could be a “very serious matter” if he reposted allegations about Heneghan making a death threat online. Norris said he would take down all other articles referring to Heneghan but days later wrote online that he was republishing his Heneghan articles. In court, solicitor Ivan Williams, who represented Norris, said Norris had not breached any court orders.

‘Don’t try to chase the shadows.’It is a lovely way of stressing the future is more important than the past. ‘The Mo movie is a beautiful movie; to make it interesting you have to have a few edges in. It can be said quite categorically that signing Brandt ahead of Salah would have seen Klopp and company follow a completely different road. ‘We both know that we had these arguments, not big, big arguments. **** off!’ But it’s the biggest problem in that moment for me and I cannot stop thinking about it.

Home economics: ‘If one of the two tenants renting my house since before March 1 leaves and is replaced by another, is the new tenant treated under the new or old rental rules?’

How working from home could take the steam out of the energy crisisWith almost one million people in Ireland already remote working at least some of the time, could this measure ease cost pressures and reduce demand for fuel? Here, experts and commuters share their viewsInterior Designer Lana Dullaghan tells how the fuel crisis is affecting her businessKim Bielenberg and Arlene Harris Today at 06:30With the war in the Middle East still causing instability and spiralling fuel prices across the world, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has recommended working from home as one of the immediate remedies during the crisis.

Hundreds more children treated in the North Kerry Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (Camhs) could receive a HSE apology, a solicitor working with affected families has said. A further review of cases was announced on Thursday, looking back to children seen since 2014 by North Kerry Camhs. It is understood the review involves the cases of around 1,500 children, with a priority to review the cases of kids on multiple medications. Read More North Kerry CAMHS review to be expandedA serious incident team will start work on 310 priority files on Monday, according to minister of state for mental health Mary Butler. The Halpin review found children under the Camhs intellectual disability team “had no access to non-medical intervention”.

More than 100 human rights, sports and scientific groups, including the UN, have criticised the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) new gender eligibility guidelines as “a blunt and discriminatory response that is not supported by science and violates international human rights law”. Athletes in these categories have been allowed to compete in Olympic events since the IOC scrapped mandatory sex testing in 1999, which was deemed arbitrary, inaccurate, expensive, and discriminatory. “As several UN independent experts have noted, binary definitions of sex reinforce harmful stereotypes and erode progress toward substantive gender equality. Ms Coventry claimed all women athletes will be tested for the SRY gene, which multiple medical experts have stated is unreliable and reductive. Of the tens of thousands of athletes who have participated in Olympic events since 1999, just one has identified as a transgender woman – Laurel Hubbard of New Zealand.

Gardaí have launched an investigation after the body of a man was found in Cookstown, Dublin 24, on Friday. The man’s body was found at a home in Cookstown after gardaí received reports of an unresponsive male at a residence around 1pm. “An Garda Síochána are investigating all of the circumstances around the discovery of the body of a man in Cookstown, Dublin 24, today, Friday 27th March 2026,” a spokesperson said. “Shortly after 1.10pm, Gardaí and emergency services responded to reports of a man found unresponsive at a residence in Cookstown, Dublin 24. His body has been removed to Dublin City Mortuary, Whitehall,” Gardaí said.

Cork city councillors will be asked to green light a new bus drop-off space at Pairc Uí Chaoimh, despite the area being designated as a “public open space”. It said the plans would be of benefit not only to the GAA but an "important asset" to Cork City as a whole, while also contributing positively to the Cork docklands. Read More Páirc Uí Chaoimh seeks planning for upgraded vehicle facilities“Potential impacts upon the road network are considered to be negligible. A spokesperson for the council said: “It would not be appropriate for Cork City Council to comment on what is an ongoing planning process. “The publication of the public notice invites submissions or observations from the public in relation to this application, which will be considered in due course.”