Athy, the town of the plaques, gets ready to welcome US senator Bernie Sanders
‘We’re a midlands town. We have got to sell ourselves however we can’
Irish revolutionary Madeleine ffrench-Mullen to be honoured with plaque at childhood home
Ffrench-Mullen with her lover Dr Kathleen Lynn founded St Ultan’s Hospital for children in Dublin
Celtic Tiger baby boom has turned to bust as fertility rates decline
There are 20,000 fewer children being born every year in the State compared to during the Celtic Tiger years
Metallica in Dublin: Band announce two shows at Aviva Stadium in June next year
No Repeats Weekend gigs will see different setlists and guests on each of two nights
Ireland’s population outperforms increasingly ageing EU
Ireland’s rate of population growth is almost four times EU average of 0.4 per cent, according to Eurostat
Book of Leinster goes on display in Trinity College Dublin
Caoimhe Ní Ghormáin, an expert in medieval Irish manuscripts, and John Gillis, who led the conservation, talk about the Book of Leinster. Video: Ronan McGreevy
The ‘Wikipedia of the age’: Restored 900-year-old Book of Leinster manuscript goes on first public display in Dublin
The 12th-century Book of Leinster contains the origin story of the Irish people
Ireland’s Norman heritage to be celebrated more than 850 years after arrival
European-wide initiative to celebrate group’s far-reaching impact on western civilisation
Smartphones for children ‘not a human right’, public meeting on a ban in primary schools is told
Schools in North Dublin hoping to implement collective ban on primary school children owning smartphones
‘My life is back’: Dublin’s Mater hospital marks 20 years since Ireland’s first lung transplant
Medics and former patients gather on Friday to acknowledge lives saved and improved as a result of the complex surgery
Death of Garda Kevin Flatley: Gardaí warn of ‘completely inaccurate’ misinformation circulating over incident
Alleged eyewitness accounts have ‘no basis whatsoever in fact’
‘Very satisfying, but madly fortunate, to have won’: student Oscar Despard on his University Challenge victory
Celebrations at Dublin’s Bretzel Bakery as president sends congratulations to captain of Christ’s College, Cambridge, team
Met Éireann forecasts Ireland’s extraordinary sunny weather to continue for at least 10 days
Met Éireann said temperatures will reach 24 degrees
Irish Times chess columnist JJ Walsh retires after 70 years: ‘Everything has to come to an end’
Walsh surpassed the world record as the longest-serving chess columnist in 2016 and kept going
Convicted Real IRA bomber speaks at event marking 80th anniversary of VE Day
At a gathering in Co Meath, John Connolly addressed those whose ancestors from the Soviet Union helped defeat Nazi Germany