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
‘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
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
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
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
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
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
Ignatius and Mary O’Connell obituaries: ‘They died together. There’s some small solace in that’Lives lost to Covid-19: Couple of almost 60 years died within three days of each otherThu May 21 2020 - 12:15
So Trump’s valet has tested positive for coronavirus. Wait, the president has a valet?He has five, in fact, to see to his every need. It all sounds a bit Jeeves and WoosterTue May 12 2020 - 13:03
The opera lover, the Jesuit, the GAA star... 19 of the lives lost to Covid-19The public, private and very full lives of some of those who have died of Covid-19 in recent weeksSat May 09 2020 - 06:00
Tourism in Co Clare: ‘We will lose our céad míle fáilte if we have to socially distance’Businesses are considering halving prices and chartering planes to keep their industry aliveSat May 09 2020 - 06:00
Betty Hart obituary: A ‘ball of energy’ who regularly walked, cycled and swam at the local leisure centreLives lost to Covid-19: ‘She always said her 60s were the best decade of her life’Sat May 09 2020 - 00:14
Teresa Kelly obituary: ‘Selfless’ mother and homemakerLives lost to Covid-19: ‘What she valued most in people was honesty and them being down to earth’Sat May 09 2020 - 00:13
James Hynes obituary: a caring man who was a life-long fan of Mayo and the GAALives lost to Covid-19: he gave up much of his time training junior teams, and treated the weakest player the same as the strongestSat May 09 2020 - 00:13
Francis (Frank) Musgrave obituary: A hard worker who valued old-fashioned honestyDubliner died on March 29th, two days before his Covid-19 test came back positiveSat May 09 2020 - 00:12
Florence Wylie obituary: Businesswoman with a keen interest in fashionLives lost to Covid-19: ‘It was one of those drapery shops that sold everything from bras to buttons to zips’Sat May 09 2020 - 00:08
Patricia Kelly obituary: ‘She was out every day, between bridge and golf and aqua aerobics’Lives lost to Covid-19: Patricia Kelly had a lifelong love of music and operaSat May 09 2020 - 00:07
Brigid Sreenan obituary: A love of knitting and legacy of craftLives lost to Covid-19: An independent woman who would not tolerate bulliesSat May 09 2020 - 00:03
Rosita Boland: I learned to be a better person in Bewley’sI spent hours in the Dublin cafe, yet no waitress ever tried to clear my table as I sat thereThu May 07 2020 - 15:52
Helplines during Covid-19: ‘There is an awful lot more drinking going on at home’Difficult domestic situations are now unbearable, say Childline, Samaritans and Women’s AidSun Apr 26 2020 - 06:00
Rural cocooning: ‘I’ve been self-isolating for the last 10 years’Volunteers are bringing meals to isolated older people during the Covid-19 pandemicSat Apr 18 2020 - 06:00
‘It’s rough living alone during coronavirus lockdown’Nightly video calls have become essential to stop me going out of my mindMon Apr 13 2020 - 06:00
A small-town lockdown: ‘We are all drinking much more now at home’In Mountrath and Nenagh, fallout from the crisis is evident, as is a spirit of perseveranceSat Apr 11 2020 - 04:32
Good News: Pandas finally get jiggy with it, and five other things making us happy todayGoing on a bear hunt, flatshare lockdowns, Covid-19 doctors show their true selvesWed Apr 08 2020 - 13:30
Good news: Seven things that made us happy todayLeo and an art bot, touring an Everest base camp, analysing Covid-19 dreams, putting manners on our pantryMon Apr 06 2020 - 16:00
Coronavirus: Offer of arts grants ‘ill-conceived and tone deaf’Arts community ‘dismayed’ at Government plans to support the sector during crisisSun Apr 05 2020 - 20:58
‘Free is insulting’: Theatre awards winners vent on funding proposalsRecipients of Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards discuss challenges of Covid-19 crisis facing artistsSat Apr 04 2020 - 18:04
Coronavirus and carers: ‘I am so scared right now’Three carers on working during the Covid-19 crisis, and how they are copingSat Apr 04 2020 - 06:30
Covid-19 jargon buster: What are ‘the curve’, R0 and the NPHET?How to read a coronavirus story without getting bamboozled, and remember who’s whoFri Apr 03 2020 - 06:00
I was on the Peru rescue flight. This is what happenedCoronavirus: Ciara Hogan was at a jungle yoga course when Peru went into lockdownTue Mar 31 2020 - 14:49
‘Mute your mic when you chew’ – 10 rules of virtual dinner partiesThe host of one of many ‘virtual parties’ this weekend has set a few ground rulesThu Mar 26 2020 - 23:29
‘Am I worried about coronavirus? Nah. I just got engaged’It’s eerily quiet at Johannesburg airport as expats and tourists prepare to travel homeMon Mar 23 2020 - 11:44
Ireland’s abandoned babies: ‘Stories of unimaginable fear’Over five decades dozens of newborns have been abandoned, most recently in 2016Sat Jan 11 2020 - 06:15
First Look: Inside The Mayson, Dublin’s new Docklands hotelCocktail shakers are the new kettle in the slick rooms in this North Wall Quay hotelTue Dec 17 2019 - 06:10
‘There will always be two groups in Achill now’24-hour protests continue against the acceptance of asylum seekers on Achill IslandSat Dec 07 2019 - 06:00
