Abroad
‘I was a lone traveller, with a one-way ticket, going to a foreign place where I knew no one’
By Shane Breen
‘The work ethic here is unbelievable’: Meet the Dublin fashion designer who has created the Irish Olympic team’s costumes
By Frank Dillon
As I sat on the bus to Shannon Airport, a family passed and I smiled at the glory of their red hair
By Maura Murray
An Irishwoman in New York: I’m flattered, but why do Americans love the Irish so much?
By Sarah Moran
Irish woman in Paris: When we bought our home, little did we know Olympians would be running past our window
By Patricia Killeen
‘Philadelphia has always played second fiddle to New York and we kind of like it that way’
By Frank Dillon
Saying goodbye to your kids is hard when they live on the other side of the world
By Catherine Moonan
An Irishwoman in Denmark: ‘Life here is good, safe. But a bit boring if I am honest’
By Laoise Murray
From Donegal to Texas: ‘I felt part of an Irish community for the first time in years’
By Éamon Ó Caoineachán
A student’s experience of renting outside Ireland: My landlord in the Netherlands said ‘I could stay forever’
By Emma Nic Shuibhne
Selling Ireland to the Spanish: ‘The majority prefer to stay at home, so you need to offer a strong proposition’
By Olive Keogh
An Irishwoman sailing around the world: ‘Only when I’m back in Dublin I notice how I’ve changed’
By Kate Ashe-Leonard
I’ve been stopped entering a pub and told ‘we don’t rent to Poles’. But Ireland is my home now
By Teresa Buczkowska
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