Throwing light on difficult topics while fun is found everywhere in GalwayGalway International Arts Festival review: President’s address, and hit show ‘Flight’Mon Jul 23 2018 - 13:22
Dangerous driving in Donegal: ‘It is a long-standing culture’The county is experiencing an epidemic of road safety issues, with tragic resultsSat Jul 21 2018 - 06:00
Irish writer Chris Connolly wins Society of Authors’ Award for short storyBelfast poet Stephen Sexton takes award for poets under 30Thu Jul 19 2018 - 20:30
The Balearic blowout: What Leaving Cert students do in Magaluf and Santa PonsaWhat really goes on in the Majorcan resorts? Drinking, drinking and more drinkingSat Jun 30 2018 - 06:00
Incantata: Paul Muldoon wrestles with grief at loss of former partnerPaul Muldoon’s long poem in memory of his former partner is premiering as a theatre piece at the Galway Arts Festival with a performance by Stanley TownsendThu Jun 28 2018 - 06:00
‘Do not put more than one leg and wing in each envelope’The 19th-century ornithologist who hit upon a novel way of tracking bird migrationTue Jun 26 2018 - 06:00
It’s simple: At Garda, everything comes back to that lakeFood markets, petrol pumps of wine and coffee all part of the Italian experienceSat Jun 09 2018 - 06:00
Confusion, bitterness and money battles in Dublin’s ‘divorce court’Virtually everyone has been here several times, or will return. Clear-cut cases are rareSat May 26 2018 - 06:00
I was Ann Lovett’s boyfriendAnn Lovett died in 1984 after giving birth at a grotto in Granard, Co Longford – a tragedy that continues to resonate. Here, Ann’s former boyfriend Ricky McDonnell speaks publicly for the first timeSat May 05 2018 - 06:00
Four years in Crumlin hospital: ‘I just want a home life’Muriel Slevin has lived with her ill son in hospital since 2014. He is due out but they have nowhere to goSat Mar 31 2018 - 06:00
Culinary lessons in fine dining for just €10 a mealThe GMIT training restaurant gives culinary students a chance to perfect their skillsSat Mar 31 2018 - 06:00
Ann Lovett: Death of a ‘strong, kick-ass girl’The 15-year-old who died after giving birth at a grotto in Granard would have turned 50 in AprilSat Mar 24 2018 - 06:00
Aran jumper myths debunkedIt is said the stitches in Aran jumpers were like unique family crests. Could this be true?Sat Mar 17 2018 - 06:00
Dining 1990s-style: €1,000 wines, copious courses and butlers by the dozenA book published in 1996 gave insights as to how the great and good of Ireland entertainedSat Mar 10 2018 - 06:00
Why are there no women writers in the National Wax Museum?Nine dead male Irish writers and no women – but Marian Keyes and Maeve Binchy are on a shortlistThu Mar 08 2018 - 06:52
People with dementia take a tour of their own long-term memoriesA tour at the Chester Beatty uses artefacts as a visual springboard into past eventsTue Mar 06 2018 - 05:00
A False Report review: a powerful story about a serial rapist that falls flatThis true crime book about a serial rapist – to be made into a Netflix series – is an important piece of reporting but it fails to fully engageSat Feb 17 2018 - 06:00
After the bypass: evolution of a midlands town10 years after Moate was bypassed, finding parking is easy. Running a business is notSat Feb 10 2018 - 05:30
Irish life laid bare, one court case at a timeAssault, drink-driving, parents who do not talk ... It’s all in a day’s work for the District CourtSat Feb 03 2018 - 05:45
The Irish babies adopted to the US, now adults in a legal limboAt least 200 people adopted from Ireland to the US in the 1940s-1960s fear for their futureSat Jan 20 2018 - 06:00
The shop that could change Ireland: readers respondYou outline what a community bookshop could do for the rural towns you live inSat Jan 13 2018 - 06:00
When Peig came to Dublin, where everybody was ‘posh’The Blasket Island storyteller received visitors in a Dublin hospital 66 years ago todayTue Jan 09 2018 - 06:00
The shop that could change IrelandBooks@One, a community initiative, has the potential to reinvigorate Irish townsSat Dec 23 2017 - 06:00
‘We’ll never know what Milly had. She was never assessed’The parents of Milly Tuomey (11) want a suicide prevention body to be establishedSat Dec 23 2017 - 05:00
Milly Tuomey (11) spoke of ‘killing herself’ in HSE formResponse ‘would have warranted an immediate assessment, treatment and support’Sat Dec 23 2017 - 01:00
May we all be so lucky with the people who live next doorThe kindness of neighbours: Fuel for the fire and a hundred chats over the wallFri Dec 22 2017 - 06:00
Five years after the rape and murder of Jyoti Singh, nothing has changed in IndiaThe death of the New Delhi student sparked a wave of protest but her parents say the situation for women is now worseSat Dec 16 2017 - 10:00
Christmas market at Mendicity Institution will raise funds for homeless menUp to 50 homeless men from eastern Europe avail of Mendicity Institution’s servicesSat Dec 09 2017 - 01:00
Trevor Deely’s siblings describe ‘horrendous’ dig in Chapelizod‘You can’t tell us a story about Trevor that we haven’t heard,’ says his brother MarkSun Dec 03 2017 - 09:46
Spike Island: better than Machu Picchu?Next week, Spike Island in Co Cork could be named world’s best tourist attraction. Is it?Sat Dec 02 2017 - 06:00
The no women allowed, very secretive club in Trinity College DublinTheta Omnicron, a 100-strong fraternity, is unknown even to most current studentsSat Nov 25 2017 - 06:00
Fact, fiction and family tension behind the ‘Little House’ booksLaura Ingalls Wilder’s oeuvre of a pioneer family had a flexible relationship with truthSat Nov 25 2017 - 06:00
Mountmellick flooding: ‘I don’t know where we go from here’Householder asks: ‘If we fix it all up, what happens next week, next month or next year?’Thu Nov 23 2017 - 20:26
Home economics: No longer the ‘wife material’ course?Food month: Once aimed at home-makers, the subject now targets a wide range of students with focus on balanced diets and food labelling – and the pressing obesity issueMon Nov 20 2017 - 19:00
‘My attitude is, I have a kidney going spare, and Sue needs one’Being a living kidney donor to his wife `scares the bejaysus’ out of Mark GilnaghMon Nov 20 2017 - 07:01
'It’s very hard to say ‘I need food’'An ad-hoc food bank at the Boyle Family Resource centre has seen a surge in demand from local families and beyondSat Nov 11 2017 - 06:00
‘You’re thinking: I’m dead on the inside, but I’ll sing you Danny Boy’Part panto, part theatre, part medieval-themed cabaret, the banquet at Bunratty Castle has been serving visitors since 1963. So how does it score on the cheese-ometer?Sat Nov 04 2017 - 08:37
Olivia O’Leary: ‘As you get older, you become invisible’The broadcaster shares her thoughts on grief and regret, politics and poetry with Rosita BolandSat Oct 21 2017 - 06:00
‘It was jammers.’ When your home becomes an Open HouseHomeowners on opening their houses to the public for the architectural festivalSat Oct 07 2017 - 07:00
Trevor Deely: The search ends, and continuesAfter six hopeful weeks, investigation in Chapelizod fails to bring closure to 17-year campaignSat Sept 23 2017 - 05:00
How do you like them apples? Armagh festival celebrates its favourite fruitWith more than 40,000 acres of orchards, Armagh is well stocked for its annual food and cider festivalThu Sept 21 2017 - 06:00
‘Schizophrenia is really challenging, but I can live my life’Nicola Wall and Brian Scallan share their experiences of a widely misunderstood disorderSat Sept 16 2017 - 06:00
‘I was a woman in a man’s world. I got away with a lot’National Ploughing Association director Anna May McHugh looks back on her 66-year careerSat Sept 09 2017 - 06:00
Dublin retailer Heathers Shoes closes its doors after 150 years of tradingDavid and Denise Heather’s retirement marks the loss of another independent storeSat Sept 09 2017 - 01:20
The restaurant at the end of the universeIreland’s Islands: A restaurant and cookery school put Cork’s Hare Island on the mapSat Sept 02 2017 - 06:00
Dublin’s Liffey boardwalk: ‘It could explode in a second’As I sit, I see drug deals, fights, begging and urination into the Liffey. All in broad daylightSat Aug 19 2017 - 06:00
Saving lives at sea: a day with the Baltimore lifeboatThe RNLI’s volunteers are the essential ingredient in any rescue operationSat Aug 12 2017 - 06:00
Too many pancakes: David Sedaris’ diaries don’t do him any favoursThe first in the author’s volume reads like a stream-of-consciousness over 25 yearsSat Aug 12 2017 - 06:00
Leo’s backyard: unequal lives in Irish suburbiaThe Taoiseach’s West Dublin constituency is one of Ireland’s most socially divided areasSat Aug 05 2017 - 06:00
New director of Galway 2020 sets out a digital future‘I come with the experience of finding the stories that need to be told,’ says Chris BaldwinSat Aug 05 2017 - 05:00
