It’s taken a global pandemic to show that the GAA is local to its very core
There has never been a bigger appetite for club games among a national audience
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While there is a subtlety in Tóbín’s text of this reimagined Antigone, Lisa Dwan’s stentorian performance conveys more thunder than thought
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The astute, captivating story of expat life of an American woman in Brazil
Vincent Browne regains control of ‘Magill’, the magazine he set up 40 years ago
Magazine became known for its in-depth investigative journalism
Ryan Tubridy is transitioning from young fogey to old codger
Radio review: He scorns political correctness like a grumpy old man, but in one respect he is still young at heart
Will we miss RTÉ’s kids’ TV?
After 55 years RTÉ is hoping to get out of making programmes for children. But will it make any difference in a world of always-on digital?
Returning to Ireland isn’t a realistic option for many of us emigrants
When we first leave, few of us think we are going for good. Time changes all that.
Julie Walters taps into her inner Mayo woman
The actor, who has channelled her Irish side once more for the film ‘Brooklyn’, talks about the class divide, Irish nuns and Mo Mowlam
Outhouse library: a new home in Dublin for LGBT literature
Ciarán Clark has brought the Outhouse centre’s library back to life and created a city centre gem in the process
Survey reveals the most borrowed library books in Ireland
To mark Library Ireland Week ‘The Irish Times’ surveyed the country’s libraries
‘My main lunchtime ritual is wandering around the living room absentmindedly eating slices of ham’
Una Mullally, journalist
Dear World . . . Love, Ireland
Five people compose letters from Ireland to the wider world. Read theirs, write your own, and we’ll publish the best ones on St Patrick’s Weekend
Ivor Browne: ‘When you give as much love as you can, you get it back 100-fold’
Nature will fight back by killing two-thirds of the world’s population, the education system creates conformists and giving love brings love, says ‘one of Ireland’s great liberators’, psychiatrist Ivor Browne, who at 84 finds himself surrounded by women
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