Will Covid-19 finally finish off the small rural Irish pub?Covid -19 has had a devastating impact on the rural pub. In March 2021 we visited 4 family owned bars around Boyle, Co Roscommon that are struggling to survive.Sun Jun 12 2022 - 14:04
The artist in Mullingar who lives in the present as if it is the pastDavid McDermott is an artist whose life and work revolve around the past and this is evident from the contents of his home in Mullingar, Bellmount House.Sun Jun 12 2022 - 11:36
Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh makes the perfect ham sandwichGAA commentator Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh has eaten many sandwiches in his lifetime. In 2015 he demonstrated how to make the perfect ham sandwich.Sun Jun 12 2022 - 10:08
Environmental campaigners protest outside Biodiversity Conference in DublinIrish Wildlife Trust and Extinction Rebellion Ireland have protested at the National Biodiversity Conference 2022 in Dublin Castle.Wed Jun 08 2022 - 13:51
Climate change among issues addressed by NCAD graduatesThree artists graduating with MFAs from NCAD discuss their art as the college unveils a week-long showcase of the work of 2022 graduates.Wed Jun 08 2022 - 07:12
CCTV now a significant deterrent against theft in IrelandAlan Campbell of Audio Visual Security Ltd on the decrease in cost and an increase in quality of CCTV systems for domestic use.Sun Jun 05 2022 - 11:48
Bloom, Ireland’s largest gardening festival is back after two-year breakThe Bloom festival is in its 16th year and has kicked off at the Phoenix Park, celebrating the best of Irish horticulture, food and drink.Thu Jun 02 2022 - 14:57
‘Stumbling stones’ unveiled in Dublin to remember Irish Holocaust victimsPoignant ceremony remembers six Irish people murdered by the Nazis in Auschwitz and LithuaniaWed Jun 01 2022 - 20:57
Bloom boom: Festival set for record attendances following Covid-19 pandemic First festival since the end of restrictions attracting ‘huge interest’ claim Bloom organisersWed Jun 01 2022 - 17:24
Six Irish Jews murdered in the Holocaust are honoured in DublinSix Irish victims of the Holocaust have been honoured in Dublin with brass plaques as part of the Stolpersteine Project.Wed Jun 01 2022 - 16:37
New traditional music Fleadh will take place in DublinDublin City Council have launched ‘Smithfield Fleadh’ a new, folk and traditional music event in Smithfield on the 18th and 19th June.Tue May 31 2022 - 15:38
Newbridge exhibition celebrates 1922 through art and historyAn art exhibition by the ‘SULT’ collective in Newbridge commemorates political and social change in Kildare in 1922 and after.Fri May 27 2022 - 08:41
Victims and survivors of 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings honouredA commemorative event has taken place on Talbot Street, Dublin to mark the 48th Anniversary of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings which were carried out by the UVF on 17th May 1974, causing the death of 33 people and injuring 300.Tue May 17 2022 - 15:19
TCD celebrates new Scholars in-person for first time in three yearsFor the first time in three years TCD has held its annual Trinity Monday Scholars and Fellows ceremony, in-person. In total, 51 new Scholars, 31 new Fellows, five new Professorial Fellows and two Honorary Fellows were announced.Mon Apr 25 2022 - 14:34
Leading Irish architects present their vision for Galway in the futureThe 'Irish Cities 2070' group of leading architects say their vision for the development of Galway city over the next 50 years can be a guide for how all of Ireland's cities grow in the coming decades. Video: Bryan O'BrienThu Apr 07 2022 - 16:06
Innovating science and compassionate care: treating cancer at St James's HospitalClose to 5,000 new patient cancer diagnoses are seen annually in St James's Hospital, Dublin, where innovative, new targeted treatments are giving more patients a better quality of life, for longer. Interviews: Jennifer O'Connell Video: Bryan O'BrienThu Mar 31 2022 - 12:25
Support for and opposition to new Dursey Island Cable car development in west CorkAs environmental group FIE seeks to quash planning permission granted for the development of a new interpretative centre and cable car system for Dursey Island many local people say that the area badly needs the development.Fri Mar 11 2022 - 12:34
Tradfest kicks off with Rocky Road To Dublin performanceTradfest, Ireland's largest Trad and Folk music festival starts off this week. Actor, singer and musician Phelim Drew kicked off the festival with an impromptu, early morning performance high above the river LiffeyMon Jan 24 2022 - 13:57
Love letter, escape plan and postcard from prison among items in NLI projectA love letter to the widow of an RIC constable from Austin Stack and a drawing by Michael Collins for an escape route out of Strangeways prison are among the items featuring in the National Library project 'Towards a Republic'.Thu Jan 13 2022 - 16:00
Powerful exhibition tells story of Jewish family before, during and after WWII'The Objects of Love' exhibition, Dublin Castle organised by Holocaust Awareness Ireland with the OPW uses family photos, objects and documents to tell the story of one Jewish family before, during and after the Second World War.Wed Jan 12 2022 - 11:20
Plans afoot to digitise historic Land Commission recordsThe Department of Agriculture plans to digitise 200 "search aids" for eight to 12 million Land Commission records, which detail the distribution of rural land ownership in Ireland.Sat Dec 18 2021 - 13:01
Phoenix Park's Magazine Fort to be restored and opened to publicThe historic Magazine Fort complex in the Phoenix Park is to be restored and upgraded by the Office of Public Works as a heritage site and interactive visitor amenity. Video: Bryan O'Brien / John CassidyMon Dec 13 2021 - 18:07
Campaigners say Cobblestone Pub will be ‘swallowed up’ by hotel developmentOne of the country’s most famous traditional music pubs The Cobblestone in Dublin is to be incorporated into the proposed development of a hotel. In the plans it will lose much of the space that hosts musical events and classes. Video: Bryan O'BrienSat Oct 23 2021 - 07:28
Irish troops prepare for deployment to LebanonThe 119th Infantry Battalion have been preparing for deployment to South Lebanon with UNIFIL. The group of 352 will feature 109 personnel travelling overseas in an operational capacity with the Defence Forces for the first time.Wed Oct 06 2021 - 17:04
New play tells story of secret IRA cell in Dublin PortThe Book Of Names, a new play directed and written by Louise Lowe, produced by ANU and Landmark for Dublin Theatre Festival tells the story of a secret IRA cell in Dublin Port that smuggled in weapons for the War Of Independence.Mon Oct 04 2021 - 16:13
Bells ring out in celebration as Dublin church re-opens for servicesBell ringers at Christ Church Taney in Dundrum, Dublin have returned to bell ringing duties to celebrate the reopening of church services to the public there after a long break, due to Covid- 19. Video: Bryan O’BrienThu May 13 2021 - 19:42
Why are there so few public toilets in Dublin?Up to the 1970s there were sixty staffed public toilets in Dublin. Today there are less than a handful public conveniences. Irish Times Dublin Editor Olivia Kelly reports.Thu Mar 25 2021 - 16:44
‘We all need a lift’ - Dublin homes bring joy with lights and decorationsHomeowners have made a special effort to light up and decorate their homes for Christmas this year. We visited a number of them in Dublin. Video: Bryan O’BrienFri Dec 18 2020 - 14:43
Skerries men take to the sea in a currach they built themselvesA group of men have come together in the North County Dublin village of Skerries and built their own rowing boat. Their vessel 'Currach Na Sceirí' was inspired by the traditional currach from the West of Ireland.Sat Oct 03 2020 - 13:52
Dublin artist posts photos of herself in homemade tableausArtist Ciara Harrison works daily on a project dressing up thematically and posing with humour to reflect aspects of her home and life during coronavirus restrictions and then posts the photos on instagram, @ciaraharrison_maker.Tue Apr 21 2020 - 17:36
Dublin deserted: Coronavirus turns city into ghost townCity normally teeming with people on Friday night - but not now, and who knows when againSat Apr 04 2020 - 13:27
Mary Lou: ‘Ideally we want a government with no Fine Gael or Fianna Fáil in it’Mary Lou McDonald had said that Sinn Féin are in talks with other parties of the left with a view to forming a government.Sun Feb 09 2020 - 16:07
Dublin studio is handcrafting jeans the way they used to be madeLocated in Dublin city-centre, Native Denim is Ireland's first studio making high quality hand-crafted jeans using the best raw material from around the world.Thu Feb 06 2020 - 16:39
Happy birthday Adamstown - Ireland's newest town turns fifteenFifteen years after the first sod was turned, Ireland's newest town Adamstown is still very much a work-in-progress.Wed Jan 29 2020 - 19:07
Meet the Corkman for all seasons who presents a daily weather reportEddie English runs SailCork, a sailing and powerboat training school in Cobh. The Corkman takes time out every day to present a weather bulletin he posts on Facebook for his followers from all over the world.Thu Dec 05 2019 - 17:34
Simon Baker, the Irishman who is training Gaza’s amputee footballersSimon Baker from Adare Co. Limerick who lost a leg on a building site accident in 2004 has been to Gaza twice this year with the ICRC, training their amputee footballers. Video: Bryan O’BrienThu Dec 05 2019 - 14:41
'There's no room for self-pity', Michael O'Regan on his experience of cancerIrish Times journalist and parlimentary correspondent Michael O'Regan speaks about his experience of cancer and the treatment of his illness over a twelve month period. Video: Bryan O'BrienTue Sept 17 2019 - 16:51
Lifelong Dubs fan Tony 'Molly Malone' Broughan has died89 year old Tony Broughan from Cabra has died. One of the best known fans of Dublin football, he attended Dublin games dressed as Molly Malone from 1975. We interviewed the father-of-eight before the All Ireland final in 2019.Thu Aug 29 2019 - 15:11
US WW2 fighter plane excavated in CastleblayneyThe first-ever licensed excavation of a WW2 US fighter plane in Ireland has taken place in Monaghan . The P 38 Lightning crashed into a Castleblayney field after pilot Second Lt. Milo E Rundall bailed out in December 1942. Video: Bryan O'BrienMon Jul 29 2019 - 12:50
Kate Bush lookalikes perform 'Wuthering Heights' dance routine in DublinOver 200 Kate Bush fans gathered in Fairview, Dublin for a performance of the 'Wuthering Heights' dance routine. The song was a no.1 hit in 1978. Other 'Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever' events have taken place around the world. Video: Bryan O'BrienSat Jul 13 2019 - 16:47
Marching in Donegal: ‘We can be Irish and we can be Orange’The annual 12th July parade has taken place in Rossnowlagh, Co.Donegal where Orangemen from lodges in the Republic were joined by visiting members of Northern Ireland lodges. Video: Bryan O’BrienSat Jul 06 2019 - 17:41
Identical twins look back on 'wonderful' childhood in a Kilkenny castleThe Blunden sisters Jane and Caroline are currently tidying out the former family home Castle Blunden in Co Kilkenny, with some of the contents being auctioned by Sheppards Auction House on June 25th. Video: Bryan O'BrienWed Jun 05 2019 - 15:23
Frank Tate, the Dublin luthier making guitars and other instrumentsFrank Tate is a luthier, making guitars and other musical instruments in his Dublin city centre workshop. Video: Bryan O'BrienWed Mar 20 2019 - 15:27
Hugs and tears at Dublin Airport as families part after Christmas‘It’s sad to say goodbye, but we have our lives over there now’Thu Jan 03 2019 - 13:55
Joint Venture: the story of the faulty metal-on-metal hipThe DePuy ASR hip launched in 2004, was promoted as a game changer in orthopaedics, with 3,300 patients receiving the hip in Ireland. Problems were discovered, resulting in its recall in Ireland in 2010. Video: Bryan O’Brien Report: Colm KeenaFri Nov 23 2018 - 13:42
Snails - 'they were sharing a bedroom with us'Eva Milka and Eoin Jenkinson run Gaelic Escargot, a snail farm in Co. Carlow. Eva claims that the snails have aphrodisiac properties. Video: <a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/profile/bryan-o-brien-7.4535611">Bryan O'Brien</a>Fri Aug 31 2018 - 10:07
Meet Paul Murphy, the man whose life was changed by a phone boxDublin man Paul Murphy who works in antique restoration credits the finding and subsequent restoration of an old phone box with, "totally changing his life."Tue Jun 05 2018 - 19:33
Rain or shine, what brings regular swimmers to Dublin's Seapoint?Reenagh Harford is among a group of regular swimmers at Seapoint Bathing area in Blackrock, Co. Dublin, which has been particularly busy over the last few days because of the good weather. Video: Bryan O'BrienTue May 29 2018 - 13:11
130 year-old social club closes in Dún LaoghaireOne of Ireland’s oldest social clubs, the Dún Laoghaire Christian Institute is closing after 130 years in business. The club was originally set up in 1888 to provide social activities for young protestant men from rural Ireland. Video: Bryan O'BrienThu May 17 2018 - 09:45
Behind the scenes at the selection of the RHA ExhibitionBehind the scenes during the selection from open submissions of art, sculpture, prints, architectural drawings and photography for the 188th annual RHA Exhibition in Dublin.Wed Apr 11 2018 - 16:41
