What makes pink cowboy hats irresistible to an Irish audience? Blame Garth Brooks
From Metallica to Taylor Swift, country star has pushed unlikely merch into the mainstream
A selection of the best human interest reporting, interviews, opinion and lifestyle features.
From Metallica to Taylor Swift, country star has pushed unlikely merch into the mainstream
Mark Moriarty’s fine-dining restaurant in Wilton Park feels like a subterranean party zone of the best culinary kind
Tell Me About It: ‘I have dated guys who have regular jobs and who turn up on time but they bore me’
It takes a particular kind of courage to be sincere with someone you don’t yet know and tell them you’d like to know them better.
My HR team is based in the UK. How best can I approach them about this?
All you need to know to make the most of changes
Dublin Port bursary helped Amy Doyle, now doing a PhD at Imperial College London, to ease off working and focus on studies
HSE estimates one in seven women could be affected by the ‘difficult to diagnose’ and treat condition
At a time when machine-made lace is making a comeback, the painstaking handwork of a group of Co Monaghan lacemakers who brought this intricate gown to completion stands out
Dubliner Byrne is a DJ, broadcaster and teacher
Despite concerns, over six in 10 workers have never reviewed pension arrangements with an adviser
Ask Roe: Our routines and expectations are so different; he says I’m constantly criticising him
Remarkable camogie achievements with club and county a source of inspiration for others with the condition
Simone Gannon selects Advent calendars worth unwrapping this festive season
A generation raised to believe marriage is a choice is now realising two incomes are the price of admission to a full adult life
At a Time of Climate Crisis: Brilliant jobs to protect the planet can protect children from despair
An instant scene has developed in the latest Dublin 6 outpost in Jules Mak’s empire
Cat Brogan was initially receiving maternity care in Derry, a 15-minute drive from her Donegal home
Work Q&A: I have a bad feeling about it all. I’m not looking for compensation, but is there anything I can do about this?
Make sure it’s the right choice before you rush to meet the November 18th deadline
Nerina Pallot had to negotiate blokey media and music worlds early in her career. Now, with a lot more creative control, the singer-songwriter sets her own course
The An Post Irish Book Awards nominee on how quitting running made her a writer, who she’d cast as the main character in her book Eggshells, and the dangers of scramblers
The deaths of two pregnant women in a snowstorm 200 years ago gave birth to ‘the Coombe’, a maternity hospital deeply intertwined with the capital and its history
George Michael: The Faith Tour underlines how watching live music performances at the cinema can be a strange, bittersweet experience
The Irish comedian, who is on her Borrowing Trouble tour, has been playing her biggest rooms, watching ‘smut’ and ‘winning the nerd Olympics’
Rarefied market includes jeans-wearing hipsters in their 20s and wealthy people in their 40s with family links to Ireland
The State’s relatively low debt has insulated it so far. But political turmoil abroad and a speculative AI boom could still hit the economy hard
While the spooky season might lure the thrillseekers, I will bury myself in blankets and carve friendly faces on to pumpkins
Tony Cantwell, Shane Daniel Byrne and Killian Sundermann, the three comedians behind the hit podcast, on friendship, mental health and the manosphere
South of the Liffey, the city centre is awash with pizza-by-the-slice joints, but are they all the same? And how much is too much to pay for a slice of pizza?
NAZA documentary shows how modern warfare is pushing man’s inhumanity to man to terrifying new frontiers
From the best shower oil for dry, irritated skin, to luxurious body serums, balms and exfoliating treatments
Recent research confirms that less than half of customers’ bills reflect the cost of the actual electricity they use
Clauses preventing workers moving to a rival for months can limit job opportunities and lead to costly legal rows
Next spring, Rice will embark on a world tour of 25 cities, including Dublin, to mark 25 years since the release of his debut album O
Influencers like King Kenny and Maya Jama have something people like McNally and actor Richard E Grant do not - an ability to manufacture intimacy
My friend was like the best of Canada packed into one person: creative, kind, and full of divilment
Most millennial women grew up at war with their bodies – viewing them as limiting, alien objects that kept us in constant horror of ourselves
To mark his 50th year in music, Antoni O’Breskey has made the album A Wild Inhabitation with his daughter. It draws on all they’ve learned through decades of cultural melding
Key thing is not to leave any cash beyond emergency funds sitting on deposit when much better options are available
National Economic and Social Council report likely to conclude such arrangements ‘generate a combination of gains and trade-offs’
We compare the cost of living in Ireland’s capital with Cork, Galway and Limerick. The result is not what you might expect
Since becoming a mother, I have not yet reconciled my two identities
Ask Roe: ’I am not prepared to move back into the same bedroom unless we address these issues properly through couples therapy’
The writer on new novel Together for Christmas, the Omagh bombing, and writing Country Girl: The Musical
The Chinese-born writer on her new novel centred on Irish composer John Field, how she goes about writing exclusively in her second language, and coping with suicide
Health Service Executive says it is ‘exploring’ using new technology due to increased demand and shortage of radiographers
The more we tolerate mé féinism the less likely we are to treat each other as human beings, and the more society tears itself apart
Experts advise on the hair types best suited to extensions and those who should avoid taking the plunge
This brilliant comic deserves every opportunity coming her way
Blood clots can happen to anyone, but pregnancy and birth raise risks for women
Guardians can research the multiple choices available and act as a sounding board, but an independent decision is key to success
Ireland’s national gender pay gap stands at 8.3%
There are very few writers as famous as Rooney, and almost none as willing to leverage that fame as bravely for a moral cause
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices