‘Why shouldn’t everyone have some nice things at Christmas?’: A day on a charity food run
Delivering 2,500 Christmas food boxes in Cork, the idea is that families get enough supplies for three key days
Dancehall days: ‘He asked me to dance. Now we’re married 42 years’
At a Galway event hosted by dance company Luail, people from the west and northwest share memories of ladies’ choice, chicken in a basket, and Bovril
‘Incomprehension’ at death of young man in Co Louth crash, mourners told
Alan McCluskey (23), from Drumconrath, was one of five young friends killed collision near Dundalk last Saturday night
First look: Hoxton Hotel brings back Dublin’s Library Bar and a new iteration of Rí-Rá
The ‘Irish Hox’ offers Dubliners and tourists alike a chance to drink in a revamped old haunt and dance at the site of the fabled, now defunct, club
Ireland’s Changing Suburbs: ‘Glanmire was a village when I moved here’
Across Ireland, once-rural towns and villages are being absorbed into cities
At the sacred centre of Ireland, thousands gather as Manchán Magan’s ashes are scattered
Month’s memorial hears world will be a less kind, generous, curious and gentle place with the writer’s passing
Ballyfin’s Michelin chef on winning his star: ‘If I’m not here tomorrow, the food has still got to be good’
Resident chef Richard Picard-Edwards says consistency with the offering is the key quality Michelin inspectors seek
Forget the Brontë sisters, they could never match Jilly Cooper for glamorous escapism, and sex
Rosita Boland: At the heart of Cooper’s books lay an ineffable warmth and kindness, written with such joy, I could not stop laughing as I read
In pictures: Portraits of Irish writers as you have never seen them before
Former New Yorker photographer Steve Pyke has compiled a striking book of portraits beginning with Neil Jordan in 1985 and including Marian Keyes, Edna O’Brien, Sebastian Barry
My week in Afghanistan: A little girl tells me she wants to be a dentist. But she won’t be going to school next year
Rosita Boland travelled in Afghanistan under the Taliban with Unicef, visiting schools and reception centres
Glenapp Castle: My double-height room has nine windows and a four poster bed
Glenapp offers a staggering 70 activities within its 110 acres
Ireland’s Greenest Places winners: The five locations our judges loved
Communities large and small around the country are making all sorts of admirable efforts to live more sustainably, but the Dingle Peninsula claims top prize in the Irish Times competition
Ireland’s second-smallest county: ‘There are not many of us who live on the street now’
Ireland’s county towns: Residents share how sport is replacing pub culture and historic buildings are taking on new lives
This county town is the home of Fab Vinnie, tortilla chips and novelist Laurence Sterne
A visit to Clonmel reveals several vacant premises but plenty of charm
Ireland’s county towns: ‘There were 300 people living on this street. Now it’s 17’
In the second in her series on county towns, Rosita Boland discovers there is a lot more to Sligo than its Yeats connection