'You never forget you are under water': An inside look at commercial diving
Commercial diver David McGloin: 'You can get a call out to do anything, that’s what I like about it.'
‘A big whale came in when I was diving. The surface crew panicked because it went over the top of me’
What I Do: David McGloin is a commercial diver based in Donegal
Meet the lamplighters of Phoenix Park
Five generations of Flanagans have been responsible for maintaining the 224 gas lamps of Phoenix Park, including brothers Frank and James.
Phoenix Park lamplighters keep flame alight for dying tradition
Jim and Frank Flanagan tend to the 224 gas lamps that light the way for evening walkers in the urban park
What I Do: The Enniscrone seaweed harvester
Cain Kilcullen is a seaweed harvester in Enniscrone, where his family have run a seaweed bath house for four generations
What I Do: I’m the fourth generation to harvest seaweed for our family’s baths in Sligo
Cain Kilcullen is a seaweed harvester in Enniscrone, where his family have run a seaweed bath house for four generations
What I Do: ‘When I saw the job for a goat herder in Howth, I couldn’t make sense of it’
What I Do: Melissa Jeuken is a goat herder with the Old Irish Goat Society, which provides a grazing service to prevent wildfires on Howth Head
Meet the goat herder of Howth Head
Melissa Jeuken's herd of old Irish goats have been deployed on Howth Head in Dublin to eat vegetation that fuels wildfires.
‘He’s just a saint’: Founder of Capuchin Day Centre retires
Br Kevin Crowley says he will retire to Cork this month after more than half a century heading up the Capuchin Day Centre, a homeless service in Dublin.
Dundrum village apartment plan: ‘Plonking 16 storeys in front of people’s houses is ridiculous’
Locals agree site of 1970s shopping centre needs a revival but feel Hammerson’s proposal will not benefit area
‘Why do we have to bury children as young as 11?’ — Travellers protest over mental health funding
Travellers are not treated like second-class citizens but ‘rubbish’, demonstration outside Dáil told
‘My mission is to record all of the bird species in Ireland’
Seán Ronayne, ornithologist and creator of Irish Wildlife Sounds
‘My mission is to record all of the bird species in Ireland’
Ornithologist and creator of Irish Wildlife Sounds Seán Ronayne is on a mission to record the song of every regularly occurring bird species in Ireland.
Fighting the climate crisis with trees: Meet some of Ireland's 'rewilders'
Rewilding, or the full restoration of natural ecosystems, can be one of the most effective and cheapest ways to combat the climate and biodiversity crises.
Extinction Rebellion: Inside the Irish branch of the movement
The climate action group staged a typically eye-catching protest at the Dáil last week