This will be my sixth year trick-or-treating. Here’s what I’ve discovered
Halloween offers up a portal for neighbours to connect – even if it is only once a year
Irish in LA: ‘Irish people are really good at calling out bull in US corporate life, there’s a ton of it’
Micheal Sheehy says ‘Irish people are really good at calling out bulls**t and in American corporate life there is a ton of it’
Dubliner in New York: ‘You have to be on your A-game all the time’
Cinematographer Daniel Byrne: ‘Being Irish abroad, I feel like I know how to draw strength from being who I am’
Ireland vs Europe apartment living: ‘When family come over... this is not what they envisioned’
Irish people happily living in apartments on the Continent highlight a chasm in building standards, attitudes to communal living and sense of stability
The Irish experience of making England home
Mammy’s House is a play that tells the untold story of Irish in London during the 1980s Aids crisis
Swiss salt mine makes a spectacular underground cinema for an Irish film
The Sea Inside Us will be shown underground in Basel and Bex, with Irish musicians there to play the score
‘I arrived in Arizona to 48-degree heat; being Irish, I decided to go for a cycle’
Kildare journalist Aoife Kane: ‘We were kind of pinching ourselves at the US supreme court thinking, how did we get here?’
Meet Ireland’s newest citizens: ‘We have kind of escaped the dumpster fire’
Of the 5,600 people who became naturalised Irish citizens last week, the biggest cohort were Indians, although at least one couple ‘escaped’ from the US
Do you live in an apartment in continental Europe? Share your experience
Are apartments abroad simply more spacious and better for everyday family life? Or is there something in the Irish psyche?
Irish in Hong Kong: ‘I don’t feel at home anywhere: that idea is becoming less important’
Emergency shelter design: ‘We have a housing crisis, but we also have a lot of vacant office space’
Irishman in Lapland: ‘I bought a house for €32,000. It’s a magic place to live’
‘In Finland, saunas are the great leveller. In Ireland they’re for people with a few bob’
Irish people who live where we holiday abroad: ‘My only regret, I didn’t move sooner’
Five Irish people on that niggling holiday question: What would it be it like to live here?
New Irish mother in the US: ‘After six weeks I couldn’t imagine going back to work’
Having a baby abroad: ‘Once my Mum arrived I knew I could fall apart’
‘There is a big difference between just living in Sydney and building a life here’
‘Many of the cliches about Sydney are accurate. But there is a big difference between just living here and building a life here’
Mayo people abroad: ‘I told English friends it’s like winning the World Cup, but bigger’
Irish in Australia: ‘At 1am we woke up our two young children to watch the rest of the game’












