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Wicklow couple with world’s only wild bee sanctuary: ‘They are in trouble’

Wicklow couple with world’s only wild bee sanctuary: ‘They are in trouble’

The sanctuary with 20 hectares of organically cultivated wild land that allows the endangered bees and other wildlife including barn owls, woodpackers and ducks to thrive

Mon Aug 07 2023 - 06:00
Dillon Quirke: The hurler’s sudden death, grieving family and lifesaving legacy

Dillon Quirke: The hurler’s sudden death, grieving family and lifesaving legacy

A year ago, the 24-year-old Tipperary hurler collapsed and died on the field at Semple Stadium

Sat Aug 05 2023 - 05:00
Time to plan for the Galway Arts Festival and the Galway Races, but where is the plan for the city’s clogged-up roads?

Time to plan for the Galway Arts Festival and the Galway Races, but where is the plan for the city’s clogged-up roads?

Traffic is a perennial issue in the City of Tribes, and many believe the solution is not to build more roads, but to build sustainability

Mon Jul 31 2023 - 00:00
Sinéad O’Connor’s love affair with America: From public enemy number one to helping out at the veterans’ hospital

Sinéad O’Connor’s love affair with America: From public enemy number one to helping out at the veterans’ hospital

Ripping up a picture of the pope made her a pariah in the eyes of many but the ‘elusive and intoxicating’ singer was adored by US musicians and music lovers

Sat Jul 29 2023 - 06:00
‘They sang soccer songs on the Hill. It wouldn’t happen now’: How Dubs’ success transformed the city

‘They sang soccer songs on the Hill. It wouldn’t happen now’: How Dubs’ success transformed the city

In the 1970s Kevin Heffernan’s team transformed a moribund urban tradition into a social movement that attracted a new fan base - but who the Dubs represent now?

Sat Jul 29 2023 - 06:00
Wolfhounds to witches: Ireland’s most unusual tours

Wolfhounds to witches: Ireland’s most unusual tours

‘When they start howling, it really, really shivers your timbers’: Aidan O’Sullivan and his dogs Spéir and Mairtín are a big hit in Co Mayo

Sat Jul 29 2023 - 05:30
Pain and glory: Artists explore how sport permeates life

Pain and glory: Artists explore how sport permeates life

An exhibition coming to the Butler Gallery as part of Kilkenny Arts Festival underlines how present sport is in every aspect of life

Sat Jul 29 2023 - 05:00
Whole new ball game: New York Times shuts sports department, gets Athletic subscribers

Whole new ball game: New York Times shuts sports department, gets Athletic subscribers

The Athletic represents a different model for covering sport at a time when the consumption of American sports has changed

Sat Jul 15 2023 - 06:00
Tubridy’s fall from grace has been jaw-dropping. But behind the persona is an individual in an isolated place

Tubridy’s fall from grace has been jaw-dropping. But behind the persona is an individual in an isolated place

A week of controversy over covert payments to Ryan Tubridy has raised many questions about the future of the national broadcaster

Sat Jul 01 2023 - 05:55
Druid & O’Casey: ‘The plays deal with the tenements, poverty... problems we are still deep dealing with’

Druid & O’Casey: ‘The plays deal with the tenements, poverty... problems we are still deep dealing with’

Garry Hynes’s latest project involves a cast of 18 actors for the Dublin trilogy: Shadow of a Gunman, Juno and the Paycock and The Plough and the Stars by Seán O’Casey

Sat Jul 01 2023 - 05:00
Meeting the murderer: Why did Mark O’Connell sit down to talk with Malcolm Macarthur?

Meeting the murderer: Why did Mark O’Connell sit down to talk with Malcolm Macarthur?

Forty-one years have passed since Macarthur emerged from the fringes of a driftless Irish gentrified background to commit two brutal killings

Sun Jun 25 2023 - 05:00
Teaching people to self-build homes at Clare’s Common Knowledge project: ‘It is just looking backwards to go forward’

Teaching people to self-build homes at Clare’s Common Knowledge project: ‘It is just looking backwards to go forward’

Harrison Gardner and Fionn Kidney’s project in Ennistymon is teaching people how to build their own homes, with a collective mindset

Sun Jun 18 2023 - 06:00
Msgr James Horan: The ‘madman’ with a dream who got Knock airport off the ground

Msgr James Horan: The ‘madman’ with a dream who got Knock airport off the ground

With Aer Lingus offering daily flights to London and Ryanair marking 10 million passengers passing through the airport, Ireland West is on course for its busiest ever year

Sun Jun 11 2023 - 05:00
‘Every little bone’: How 796 babies at Tuam’s mother-and-baby home will be exhumed

‘Every little bone’: How 796 babies at Tuam’s mother-and-baby home will be exhumed

Government-appointed director Daniel McSweeney will oversee ‘one of the most complicated forensic excavations in the world’

Sun Jun 04 2023 - 05:00
Are flights from Cork to Dublin really likely to return soon?

Are flights from Cork to Dublin really likely to return soon?

The head of the Dublin Airport Authority expects it to happen but Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary begs to differ

Sat Jun 03 2023 - 05:00
Caitríona Perry: ‘We’re leaving the country on a one-way ticket... but we will be back’

Caitríona Perry: ‘We’re leaving the country on a one-way ticket... but we will be back’

As the RTÉ news anchor departs the station and Ireland to be chief presenter for BBC News in Washington, she reflects on ambition, loss and destiny

Sat May 27 2023 - 06:00
‘It’s a celebration, a beautiful day for Galway’: Locals mark opening of new pedestrian bridge

‘It’s a celebration, a beautiful day for Galway’: Locals mark opening of new pedestrian bridge

A sister companion to the Salmon Weir, the development boasts unobstructed views and a new start for the city

Fri May 26 2023 - 17:15
Why is a stretch of road linking Dublin to Donegal the ‘most dangerous imaginable’?

Why is a stretch of road linking Dublin to Donegal the ‘most dangerous imaginable’?

Ireland's 'grim reaper' road: Plans to upgrade the A5 have been bogged down in a dismaying cycle of legal objection and stalemate. The volume of traffic has become heavier.

Sat May 20 2023 - 05:00
British Commonwealth: ‘King Charles could become the great moderniser. But he is not going to do that’

British Commonwealth: ‘King Charles could become the great moderniser. But he is not going to do that’

Historian Caroline Elkins talks to Keith Duggan about an enduring failure to recognise the villainy and legacy of the British Empire and the possibility of this being an inflection moment for Britain’s monarchy

Sat May 13 2023 - 05:00
How haphazard development made Galway the most choked city in Ireland

How haphazard development made Galway the most choked city in Ireland

German architect’s description of city as looking like ‘mouth full of broken teeth’ sparks debate about planning

Sun May 07 2023 - 05:00
‘We in England are not a grown-up country ... So how about getting some grown-up priorities?’

‘We in England are not a grown-up country ... So how about getting some grown-up priorities?’

Stuart Maconie is proud of his country. But after travelling it to write The Full English, he’d like it to focus on being happy, healthy and progressive

Mon May 01 2023 - 05:45
Seán Cox: ‘We can still enjoy life. It’s just different’ after catastrophic Anfield assault

Seán Cox: ‘We can still enjoy life. It’s just different’ after catastrophic Anfield assault

Seán Cox’s life was changed forever when he was brutally assaulted outside Anfield five years ago. But he and his wife are determined not to dwell on the past

Fri Apr 28 2023 - 05:00
Education across the Border: ‘I’ve always heard stories of the Troubles. I thought I knew more than I did’

Education across the Border: ‘I’ve always heard stories of the Troubles. I thought I knew more than I did’

Two schools are part of a project to aid understanding of a past in which their uniforms made them targets

Mon Apr 24 2023 - 06:00
Rugby: ‘Mothers say if they oppose their child playing the game, they are threatened with divorce’

Rugby: ‘Mothers say if they oppose their child playing the game, they are threatened with divorce’

The culture in the sport has changed and there is greater surveillance of injuries but medics remain concerned for young players

Sat Apr 15 2023 - 05:00
Biden in Ballina: ‘It has lifted the town. It does the heart good’

Biden in Ballina: ‘It has lifted the town. It does the heart good’

‘It will anchor Ballina in the minds of Ireland and the States forever more, Amen … Absolutely! We are very proud!’

Sat Apr 15 2023 - 05:00
Actor Bryan Murray on his Alzheimer’s: ‘There is no short-term memory. It is not the end of the world for me. But – there is a but’

Actor Bryan Murray on his Alzheimer’s: ‘There is no short-term memory. It is not the end of the world for me. But – there is a but’

Bryan Murray stars in Deirdre Kinahan’s new play at the Peacock. His role intersects with his own reality as he plays a man with Alzheimer’s

Sat Apr 08 2023 - 05:45
Uncovering the buried diary of an executed Ukrainian writer

Uncovering the buried diary of an executed Ukrainian writer

Before he was murdered by Russian troops in Izyum, poet and children’s author Volodymyr Vakulenko buried his diary of the Russian occupation

Sat Mar 25 2023 - 05:00
Clare Dunne: ‘Let’s stop being obsessed with getting everything by the time you are f**king 30’

Clare Dunne: ‘Let’s stop being obsessed with getting everything by the time you are f**king 30’

The star of Kin and Herself talks perseverance, the power of storytelling and the problem with dear old Dublin

Sat Mar 18 2023 - 05:00
Oscars 2023: Hugh Grant’s acid, waspish red-carpet interview with Ashley Graham was a toe-curler

Oscars 2023: Hugh Grant’s acid, waspish red-carpet interview with Ashley Graham was a toe-curler

Many viewers delighted in the star’s disdain for the entire spectacle. The other half wondered how Ashley Graham managed to maintain her poise

Mon Mar 13 2023 - 15:10
Paul Mescal: ‘Movie stardom is different to fame ... It takes so much work to achieve’

Paul Mescal: ‘Movie stardom is different to fame ... It takes so much work to achieve’

Mescal reflects on stardom, depression and the strange tension of the Oscar envelope-opening moment

Sat Mar 11 2023 - 06:00
Car-free life: ‘A few years ago, we said right, let’s get rid of the car’

Car-free life: ‘A few years ago, we said right, let’s get rid of the car’

‘It’s wet, yeah, and cold. But you are wrapped up and cycling past hundreds of cars that are not going anywhere’

Sat Mar 11 2023 - 05:00
‘They just looked at us as retail workers – mammies and nannies – they didn’t expect this’

‘They just looked at us as retail workers – mammies and nannies – they didn’t expect this’

New documentary charts the long-running protest by former Debenhams’ staff

Sat Feb 25 2023 - 05:00
The last fishermen of Castletownbere?: ‘We are in extinction mode’

The last fishermen of Castletownbere?: ‘We are in extinction mode’

Co Cork fishermen say quota restrictions mean that Irish fishing boats often have to literally steam away from rich catches

Sat Feb 18 2023 - 05:00
‘Just as his life was opening up, cruel fate took him away’: Funeral held for Christopher Stokes, who died in Menlo Pier tragedy

‘Just as his life was opening up, cruel fate took him away’: Funeral held for Christopher Stokes, who died in Menlo Pier tragedy

Grief-stricken community returned to Galway church for second funeral in 24 hours

Thu Feb 16 2023 - 13:02
Shergar, 40 years on: Codenames, kidnap, clairvoyants and a brutal end to a beautiful racehorse

Shergar, 40 years on: Codenames, kidnap, clairvoyants and a brutal end to a beautiful racehorse

Silence still hangs over the case of the great racehorse kidnapped by inept paramilitaries in February 1983

Sat Feb 04 2023 - 05:00
An Oscar ceremony dominated by Ireland... but will anybody be watching?

An Oscar ceremony dominated by Ireland... but will anybody be watching?

Back when host David Niven dealt with a male streaker, the Oscars were essential viewing. Now audiences have lost interest (unless a star assaults the host)

Sat Jan 28 2023 - 05:00
My daughter thinks someone in our home is trying to kill her. I called Camhs. No availability

My daughter thinks someone in our home is trying to kill her. I called Camhs. No availability

Parents share their frustrating experiences of trying to access Ireland’s Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services

Thu Jan 26 2023 - 13:00
‘In today’s terms, they were war crimes’: The ageing children of Ireland’s Civil War generation remember

‘In today’s terms, they were war crimes’: The ageing children of Ireland’s Civil War generation remember

The horrors inflicted during the conflict are still rarely spoken of but they continue to haunt an elderly generation

Sat Jan 21 2023 - 05:00
Bret Easton Ellis: The ageing poster boy of lurid 1980s excess and the author of his own success

Bret Easton Ellis: The ageing poster boy of lurid 1980s excess and the author of his own success

Few writers have ever plotted their way through the publishing game with the same deft stratagems

Sat Jan 14 2023 - 05:00
When Lisa Marie Presley went on David Letterman, she owned him by the end of their seven minutes

When Lisa Marie Presley went on David Letterman, she owned him by the end of their seven minutes

Keith Duggan: Being Elvis Presley’s daughter meant she lived a fishbowl life. But Lisa Marie Presley found a way to express her own personality

Fri Jan 13 2023 - 14:58
A big brother still remembered 50 years after the Belturbet bombing

A big brother still remembered 50 years after the Belturbet bombing

Teenagers Paddy Stanley and Geraldine O’Reilly were the first victims of the Troubles in the Republic when murdered by a loyalist car bomb in Belturbet, Co Cavan, in December 1972

Sat Jan 07 2023 - 05:00
Daughter’s death is the unbearable heartache a Ukrainian family has carried to Ireland

Daughter’s death is the unbearable heartache a Ukrainian family has carried to Ireland

Every day when they awake, refugees living in Co Clare endure a brief sense of estrangement before they accept that, no, this is not a dream

Sat Dec 10 2022 - 05:00
A united Ireland would be ‘like Brexit: so many knock-on effects’

A united Ireland would be ‘like Brexit: so many knock-on effects’

Prospect of unity brings a mix of hope and pragmatism to one Co Roscommon bar

Tue Dec 06 2022 - 05:00
Could he BE any more like Chandler? Matthew Perry’s memoir is fizzing and frank

Could he BE any more like Chandler? Matthew Perry’s memoir is fizzing and frank

Friends star tells his story with flair, from teen neuroses and sudden stardom to dating (and dumping) Julia Roberts, plus years of substance abuse and rehab

Sun Nov 27 2022 - 04:30
Eileen Dunne: ‘The hardest part is thinking of myself as a pensioner. I’m still 20 in my head’

Eileen Dunne: ‘The hardest part is thinking of myself as a pensioner. I’m still 20 in my head’

The newscaster has just retired after 42 years at RTÉ. She looks back on her decades in the strangest of roles

Sat Nov 26 2022 - 05:00
It’s a long way from Clare to Kyiv … and further by the day for displaced Ukrainians

It’s a long way from Clare to Kyiv … and further by the day for displaced Ukrainians

Housing challenges a looming and pressing problem as several hotels eye return of tourists

Sat Nov 19 2022 - 06:34
Wales is on the verge of its Italia ’90 moment. This rousing song is Cymru’s proud World Cup anthem

Wales is on the verge of its Italia ’90 moment. This rousing song is Cymru’s proud World Cup anthem

Keith Duggan: With Yma o Hyd, a far cry from the usual tournament pop song, Dafydd Iwan joins Michael Sheen in stirring their country’s nationalist spirit

Fri Nov 18 2022 - 12:16
Into the wild: The nature retreats bringing men back to basics

Into the wild: The nature retreats bringing men back to basics

Former Wexford hurler Diarmuid Lyng helps men reclaim their primal wildness

Sat Nov 12 2022 - 05:00
World Cup: ‘Qatar was a mistake - the choice was bad’

World Cup: ‘Qatar was a mistake - the choice was bad’

Qatar 2022: the extraordinary story of how a tiny desert state won the right to host the World Cup

Sat Nov 12 2022 - 05:00
Ireland’s ‘lagging’ north and west: Is the harsh label justified?

Ireland’s ‘lagging’ north and west: Is the harsh label justified?

The European Commission has identified the western and northern counties of Ireland as a ‘lagging region’

Sat Nov 05 2022 - 05:00
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