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• Irish Times (Dublin, Ireland)
• Irish Times: Web Edition Articles (Dublin, Ireland)

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• Met Éireann forecasts more sun than rain with 20 degrees in areas later in the week

  It will be an assorted mix of more sun than rain this coming week in Ireland with temperatures of up to 20 degrees possible in some areas on Friday, Met Éireann said.

• The Irish Times view on ghost creches: monuments to failure

  Ghost creches are a visible indictment of the Government's chronic failure to get to grips with the shortage of childcare places. Built by developers to fulfil a condition of their planning permission for large residential developments, many of them now stand idle, the Oireachtas Committee for Children was reminded this week by bodies representing the childcare sector.

• Iran 'rejects' second round of talks after Trump says US negotiators heading to Pakistan

  Iran has reportedly rejected participation in a second round of peace talks in Pakistan with the US, hours after Donald Trump said US officials would travel to the country to negotiate with Iran on Monday.

• Home Economics by Caitríona Lally made me reconsider my views on cleaning, work and what we value

  Home Economics by Caitríona Lally has been pitched as a memoir about her time working in the housekeeping department at Trinity College Dublin while she waits for the publication of her first two novels in 2015 and 2021. But, for me, this book goes far beyond memoir. It is social commentary. It is a reflection on womanhood, work, and motherhood, all wrapped up in a beautifully written, self-deprecating account of Lally's life as a cleaner in Trinity.

• Woman who alleged ex threatened her life in row over money for baby gets protection order

  A woman who alleged her ex-partner put on gloves before producing a knife and "threatening my life" during a row over money for their baby has secured a protection order against him.

• Four new films to see this week: Lee Cronin's The Mummy, Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Wizard of the Kremlin, The Blue Trail

  Lee Cronin's The Mummy ★★★★☆

• TV guide: the best new shows to watch, starting tonight

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• 'Your husband is having an affair with my wife': how the perfect life of an heiress exploded

  It is March 2020. The bacterial net of Covid has just made its sinister descent upon the world, and you and your husband have packed up your children (and their cellos) and fled from Tribeca, in New York City, to your multimillion-dollar summer home on the island enclave of Martha's Vineyard, in Massachusetts.

• 'I have four children and feel overwhelmed all the time'

  Dear Roe,

• Does Co Monaghan need an airport? Locals unwilling to give plans a soft landing spot

  Does Co Monaghan need a private airport? Businessman John Lennon hopes so and applied last month for retention permission for a 600m "grass runway", a 250m "taxi/stopway" and for the provision of a 280sq m "hanger building" at Kednagullion near Castleblayney.