Irish abroad

Following a post-holiday dream, Irish-born Niall O’Toole and his family now run a wine and holiday business in Tuscany

Wild Geese: Martin O’Regan has a leading role in a niche business in the island nation

What are opponents to voting abroad so afraid of? The explanations of ‘it’s too hard’ or ‘it’s too risky’ feel threadbare and lazy

I don’t really do envy, but I envied the sense of belonging all the native speakers had with their array of languages

If you’re having an out-of-body experience, pasta and cheese may not strictly fix it, but they certainly won’t do you any harm

Dublin woman Patricia Killeen always enjoys an excellent experience with her meal in Paris - but only if she goes go out

What better way to spend a hot sunny day than in the park, staking out two strange couples’ proposals?

Plans changed when this family paid a visit to a little piece of paradise during a round-the-world yacht trip

Patrick McKenna fitted right into the political hothouse in Montreal in 1978, which provided him with the adrenaline rush he had been missing since leaving Belfast

I awoke early one morning in Canberra to a bizarre sound. What the actual f**k is that, I thought, a pterodactyl? It was a magpie, but not like the ones I’d known

This Dubliner has seen a lot of change happen in London, but when will she come back to Ireland?

Solicitor Fiona Healy cites the lower cost of living, the international focus and the ease of doing business as reasons why she loves living on the Mediterranean island

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, academic and musician Paul Muldoon on growing up in a nationalist family in Co Armagh, life in Belfast during the Troubles and moving to the US

We hear from the man running The Irish Times pub in Prague, as well as some tips for travelling Europe by train and surviving long-distance flights

A Dubliner returning to France finds smoky bars replaced by bubblegum clouds from vapes, that you no longer risk going tealess, and you can even ask directions in English

O’Sullivan, who hails from Cork, won season 22 of Gordon Ramsay’s US television show Hell’s Kitchen

Tipperary woman Phoebe Moore and Moneer Seify headed on a journey from London-Paris-Marseille-Hyères-Genova-Bologna-Venice

Laura Kennedy: It shouldn’t take a trip back to realise that home is, above all, people

The girl sprinting for the ferry in Sydney late on a Saturday night was meanly cut off, prompting an unusual display of social solidarity

Tens of thousands of Irish people go abroad every year: many see it as a short-term plan to turbocharge their homebuying prospects

‘As the new world invited those of us with unusual names in, and as this country accepted me, I welcome my Venezuelan deliverers to this world where they find themselves – Colombia’

Grief has given a Danish journalist the strength to live her life in Dublin on her own terms and find healing

Wild Geese: Eoghan MacDonagh is a senior associate with the law firm Clifford Chance

Since friends or family giving Irish emigrants helpful information is forbidden in our culture, you can rely on me to do it for you

Immigrants and Irish people returning after working abroad need to consider their potential tax liabilities regarding savings, property and pensions

I was not disappointed. The natural landscape leads to jam-packed summers brimming with camping trips, sunrise swims and mountain hikes

Wild Geese: Richard Curran, Prague

Is this how it feels to have been a man for the best part of the 20th century? Because it’s been pretty great

Irishman in Portugal: Life is very different in Porto but it has numerous advantages including good healthcare and transport systems

I feel I’m more relaxed, as a writer and a father, than I’d be if I was living in Ireland

Gillian Moore writes about moving from Kilkenny to Medellín while Patricia Killeen talks about life in Paris after the Olympics

Wild Geese: Sophie Colgan, New Jersey-based charity auctioneer

For this Blackrock native, training gives her days meaning, structure and direction amid other struggles

Laura Kennedy: When I return from Australia to visit home, I sit in the consequences of that choice to leave

When film director Maeve Murphy went to Hollywood - finally - she found a deep Irish connection and inspiration from US independent cinema

Wild Geese: Jonathan O’Connor lives in Atlanta, Georgia

The Olympics and Paralympics made this Irishwoman proud to live in Paris

The ubiquity of therapy in Berkeley infuses the words people use and their lifestyles with an odd deliberateness

Her experiences in the north African country have made a piano player and from Wexford feel accepted

Wild Geese: For Dubliner John McGrail, what began as a six-month trip to Spain after graduation turned into a lifelong love affair with the country