The Dublin hairstylist to A-listers: ‘It’s nearly easier to work with celebrities’
Dubliner Marc Ballance has styled Bad Bunny and Nick Jonas: ‘It’s nearly easier to work with celebrities than normal clients’
Irish abroad
A hurling club in Buenos Aires will not help answer the question of why Irish people leave
Latest ‘diaspora strategy’ sidesteps reality of emigration and how difficult it is to come home
New Irish emigrants ‘can become isolated quite quickly’, Minister says
Diaspora plan pledges support for those moving abroad before and after leaving Ireland
Why summer before sixth year matters for students considering UK university
Applications for UK universities take longer and involve more planning compared to CAO’s
Moving to French-speaking Montreal brought me back to the Irish language
I no longer experience the shame of not being able to back up my claim to Irishness with a cúpla focal
I am back in London after three years. It’s difficult to explain why
My Australian life made me less courageous and more inclined to stay where I was comfortable
‘It’s going nowhere’: Irish abroad complain of long waits for passports after UK rule change
Since February, all Irish or UK citizens must have a valid UK or Irish passport when travelling to the UK, regardless of dual citizenship
Irish sisters in Miami: Weight-loss drugs have changed our plastic surgery business
Louth woman Sidhbh Gallagher disagrees with the stereotype that plastic surgery is ‘for deeply miserable people’
The Tipperary man plotting equine bloodlines of the future at Coolmore’s US operation
Wild Geese: Adrian Mansergh-Wallace works for Coolmore’s operation based in Kentucky
The ‘Irish emigrant’ is no longer a simple concept. Meet the new diaspora
With Ireland’s links to the US weakening, for now at least, the importance of other bonds is emerging
An Irish woman’s life in the town Disney built: ‘It’s like The Truman Show’
An Irish woman in Florida: ‘Friends at home know the real you. In America you can’t just turn up at their door’
Walking through Coogee makes me all the more grateful for what Ireland’s coastlines are not
Coogee makes me grateful for our untouched coastlines, without a McDonald’s on the promenade
Irish flag ‘hijacked’ in world with ‘very toxic form of nationalism’, says former WHO executive
Mike Ryan, President Catherine Connolly and outgoing Glamour Magazine editor Samantha Barry among those in attendance at Global Irish Civic Forum
Pregnant and in a panic I bought, not shoes, but an apartment abroad
On Spain’s windy edge, life became richer in what matters – good food, friendship and 11am coffees
‘Is a year studying abroad of sufficient value to justify the cost?’
If taking an undergraduate business degree in Ireland, your daughter will be in a highly internationalised setting. But there’s no substitute for studying abroad
‘Leaving Ireland is a rupture. Life splits into the before and the after’
Irishman in Tasmania: ‘I don’t want to fly back seeking something that no longer exists’
From Navan to Valencia: ‘They refer to the Irish here as the Latins of the north’
Wild Geese: Martin Hayes is a lawyer in the Spanish city
I never thought I wanted to live in Australia and now I’m struggling to leave
Many Irish people idolise Australian life - it represents escape into another version of yourself
Here in Mexico there is a brilliant, if bemusing, grá for all things Irish
The bemusing grá for Ireland has made me romanticise home and balance on the tightrope of remote patriotism
A Dubliner in South Africa: ‘I often leave the keys in the car. I couldn’t do that in Dublin’
Wild Geese: Annie Williams runs Kingfisher Creek Safari Lodge in Hoedspruit, South Africa
A Kerryman in California: My first boss told me ‘nothing changes here’ – turns out he was right
Like Tony Soprano, America believes it is the good guy. Yet it spends billions policing its own citizens, where deaths on its streets remain routine
‘My husband would have been in ICU two days earlier if we had enough petrol’: Irish woman on Sri Lanka fuel crisis
Petrol shortages: ‘I told them I was in early labour and asked would they give me extra. They did’
‘When people think of Spain, they think of the costas, but it’s another world here’
Expats stick to an Irish schedule: My kids go to bed at eight, their peers at 10 or 11
‘As an Irish person speaking Norwegian, you can sound like a very sick dog’
Wild Geese: Dublin-born accountant David Norton lives in Larvik, Norway
I live in the ‘most boring’ part of Australia. But a recent violent incident got me thinking
As an outsider I have the freedom to care about a place without belonging
‘I think I’ll go’: She left for a ‘jaunt’ to Australia and didn’t return for 40 years
‘I’d go to Darwin for lunch and Singapore for dinner’: Cliodhna Rae on a career golden age of air travel, and an ‘accidental’ business
When my first child was born the distance from Ireland became a physical ache
When in your 20s, you don’t think about the repercussions of building a life 17,000 km from home
After 35 years in Boston, has my Irishness been flattened out?
After a week in Ireland I return to Boston wondering, have I lost my verbal dexterity?
Grieving abroad: ‘Every Irish emigrant expects and dreads the phone call they know will come’
For emigrants the death of a loved one in Ireland is compounded. Three Irish abroad tell their stories
I tell my eyes not to search out daffodils, but the Irish seasons still live inside me
‘Was that an earthquake?’ In Ireland, buildings have the decency to stay put
‘We can’t all live on a small island’: How Ireland pushed my generation to emigrate
I left in 1983 on a little trip to New Jersy. Forty-two years later and I’m still here
Going to Prague? Avoid taxis, try the Vietnamese food and other tips from an Irish local
As Republic of Ireland football fans travel for the play-off What are the pubs to drink in and places to see according to a Limerick native
Turning plastic waste into design furniture in the heart of Africa
Wild Geese: Evanna Lyons, Tanzania
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