Cura and Ally were a different set of walls for women with unplanned pregnanciesGovernment must support those who chose family placement over mother and baby homesThu Feb 25 2021 - 17:24
Stories of concealed pregnancy in Ireland: 1973-2013Mother and baby homes weren’t the only places for women with unplanned pregnanciesSat Feb 06 2021 - 06:00
‘I got a burning smell in my nose’: Third-wave Covid-19 patients share their experiencesRecent sufferers from the virus describe how they got it and how it has affected themSun Jan 17 2021 - 06:00
‘A very nice baby with beautiful fair skin ... It was like they were selling a doll’Sheila Shelton was adopted by a couple in the US from a Tipperary mother and baby homeSat Jan 16 2021 - 06:00
‘The social worker said: Were two seconds of pleasure worth it for all this?’Women who housed single pregnant girls in the 1970s and 1980s share their experiencesFri Jan 15 2021 - 01:00
A new digit at the end of the year does not make a fresh beginningRosita Boland: The events of the last year have followed us into this oneWed Jan 06 2021 - 05:00
Ireland’s modern druids: ‘There is hidden knowledge you are asked not to share’The Tetteroos live near Killarney and know at least six other practising druids in KerrySat Jan 02 2021 - 06:00
2020 was like an Irish summer from the 1950s2020 in review: There were picnics, Dubs in rural areas, no coaches and no American accentsSat Dec 26 2020 - 06:00
The words we learned in 2020: Wet pubs, Tiger King and WFHThe new normal is anything but normal, and social distancing is an oxymoronSat Dec 19 2020 - 06:00
Covid heroes: ‘We don’t need to change the world, just to change someone’s world for 10 minutes’Meet the people who have made a big difference to others in this strange, tough coronavirus yearSat Dec 19 2020 - 06:00
Covid-19 in Ireland’s ‘gourmet capital’: ‘People not showing up is beyond belief’'If there is a third lockdown in January, the next reopening after that would be very hard'Sun Dec 13 2020 - 06:00
‘This is my favourite place in Dublin’: National Gallery and Museum reopen‘I became unemployed during the pandemic. I am excited to educate myself culturally here’Tue Dec 01 2020 - 16:40
Michael Flatley’s house clear-out: from Hannibal Lecter mask for €85,000 to ‘gorgeous cushions’ for €190The dancer’s taste is eclectic if nothing else, judging by the sale of items from his Co Cork estateThu Nov 26 2020 - 18:01
The Hags collective: ‘After months of lockdown, it’s like being let free to fly’A group of female artists in their 60s, 70s and 80s have come together under the moniker Na Cailleacha, or the HagsMon Nov 02 2020 - 06:00
Shining a light on Ireland’s places of famine, death and rebellion‘Sites here are generally reluctant to use the expression ‘dark tourism’ because it implies a certain exploitation of people’Sat Oct 31 2020 - 06:00
The town that kept Covid-19 out: ‘The message has got through here’Bettystown-Laytown in Co Meath has remained virtually free of Covid-19. How?Sat Oct 10 2020 - 06:10
My sister Dara Fitzpatrick ‘was more than a pilot and more than her death’Niamh Fitzpatrick, psychologist and sister of the late helicopter pilot, on grief and lossSun Oct 04 2020 - 06:00
The Debenhams picketers: ‘We are like a little family’What has driven the former shop workers to mount one of the longest pickets in Irish history?Sat Sept 19 2020 - 06:00
KUWTK: The juggernaut that kept on truckingFinal season of Keeping Up with the Kardashians will air early in 2021Fri Sept 11 2020 - 11:18
Thiago Osorio Cortes: ‘He was my fiance, but he was my best friend as well’Brazilian (28) fatally injured while working as Deliveroo rider proposed to partner before lockdownFri Sept 04 2020 - 17:15
Rosita Boland: ‘I knew what was going to happen. The dog would be killed’Had I done the right thing? Should I have tried to call someone? But who?Fri Aug 28 2020 - 07:29
Sarah Crossan: ‘People say they don’t approve of books about affairs’Women in particular have been judgmental about her story of an extramarital affairTue Aug 25 2020 - 05:00
Roundstone’s lost summer: ‘Within an hour, most of my bookings were wiped out’The ‘D4 of Connemara’ struggled through summer 2020. Then came fresh restrictionsSat Aug 22 2020 - 06:00
Rosita Boland: Either that beard goes or she doesMy father made a Faustian pact with my brother: a Concorde for his beardFri Aug 21 2020 - 06:00
36 hours on Northern Ireland’s Causeway Coast: ‘Everyone is having a wild time’Towns are ‘buzzing’ but tourists are confused by different rules in the North and SouthSat Aug 15 2020 - 06:00
Without visitors, my home became an empty doll’s houseRosita Boland: My encounter with a toy house echoed what I’d lost during lockdownFri Aug 14 2020 - 00:00
Meet the Bearman of Buncrana: ‘I knew about Joe Exotic for years’Bears and wolves among the animals living at solicitor’s newly opened wildlife sanctuarySat Aug 08 2020 - 06:00
24 hours in Bundoran: ‘The town is mental. No one expected it to be so busy’The Donegal town is enjoying an unexpected tourist boom in the wake of lockdownSat Aug 01 2020 - 06:30
The 40 best Irish fictional characters – in orderFrom Nidge and Connell Waldron to Gretta Conroy, Rashers Tierney and Pegeen MikeSat Aug 01 2020 - 05:00
At home in Birr Castle: ‘There are about 80 rooms, not as many as you’d think’Held by the same family for centuries, the Castle is full of treasures and odditiesSat Aug 01 2020 - 00:00
The Irish Times nude cover that never saw the light of dayMagazine was pulped after chairman ‘went ballistic’, but a copy has emerged for saleSat Jul 25 2020 - 06:00
36 hours in Ireland’s busiest tourist town: ‘We’re missing the Americans’Heavily reliant on North American visitors, Killarney has seen tourism drop sharplySat Jul 18 2020 - 06:00
Marian Keyes: ‘I thought when I stopped drinking my life was over. It was just beginning’Marian Keyes spoke to Róisín Ingle as part of the Irish Times Summer Nights FestivalTue Jul 14 2020 - 09:57
David McWilliams: ‘Ireland is three decisions away from being a perfect country’McWilliams and Dermot Bannon were the first guests at the Irish Times Summer Nights FestivalMon Jul 13 2020 - 20:00
The Chiffon Trenches: André Leon Talley’s bitchy, enjoyable memoir of half a century of excessThe long-time creative director at Vogue recounts the high life he lived around fashionMon Jul 13 2020 - 06:05
A blessing, not a burden – An Irishwoman’s Diary on rejecting ageist stereotypesMon Jul 13 2020 - 00:01
Hazel Chu: ‘The Green Party needs new leadership and a system overhaul’Dublin’s new Lord Mayor wants a new party leader, and to ‘make a difference’ for the citySat Jul 11 2020 - 06:00
During lockdown I did not bake, teach myself anything or read a bookI struggled through the lockdown as if stupefied, suspended in perpetual paralysisWed Jul 08 2020 - 06:05
Vacation once again: A night at a campsite, a five-star hotel and a full-Irish B&BIrish Times journalists sample the post-lockdown tourism experienceSun Jul 05 2020 - 06:00
‘I am the only person in the pool.’ A postlockdown stay at a landmark Dublin hotelThe newly reopened Shelbourne hotel smells overwhelmingly of cleaning productsTue Jun 30 2020 - 12:45
Irish Women in Harmony record Cranberries song in aid of Safe IrelandUna Healy, Saint Sister, Imelda May and Soulé among 39 singers on cover of DreamsFri Jun 19 2020 - 12:20
Some pubs are reopening. Here’s everything you need to know about how it will workPubs that serve food can open their doors on June 29th if they follow Fáilte Ireland’s rulesThu Jun 18 2020 - 17:56
Crisis Text Line launches 24-hour mental health serviceHSE-funded 24-hour texting service moves from pilot stage to countrywide rolloutTue Jun 16 2020 - 06:01
Post-lockdown shopping: Every outlet has different rulesOne lets me try anything on. Another nothing. In a third, I can try a dress over my clothesSat Jun 13 2020 - 06:00
‘The patriarchy and power: an insult to me, to women’Susanna Moore’s memoir is delivered with calm serenity, which makes for some devastating readingSat Jun 13 2020 - 06:00
Shopping reopens on Henry Street. ‘Masks? What’s the point in wearing them?’After three months at home, people are keen to get out. But safety rules could make life trickyMon Jun 08 2020 - 16:05
Oliver Callan: ‘I was a perfect candidate for exploitation’‘I came out to someone, and it was used as a controlling mechanism against me’Sat Jun 06 2020 - 06:00
Rosita Boland: The ache for distant places remainsOnly 5% of world’s population has been on a plane. Maybe we’ll cherish it more next timeSat Jun 06 2020 - 06:00
Meghan Markle makes impassioned and moving plea on George Floyd killingDuchess of Sussex tells students to use their vote in video message to graduating classFri Jun 05 2020 - 13:00
Come for the houses but stay for the drama: Selling Sunset is backNetflix’s reality series follows the beautiful people who sell high-end Los Angeles homesTue May 26 2020 - 11:03
