North-South collaboration: ‘Dying is dying. It doesn’t matter where you live’
Hospices both sides of Border are pooling skills and insights to improve palliative care
Entertainer Josephine Baker joins elite in France’s Panthéon
Paris Letter: Dancer titillated audiences while working for the French Resistance
Medicine hunters scour Ireland for ingredients for drugs
Scientists are researching plants and microbes in soil and water for pharmaceuticals
Reworked Brussels metro map celebrates Irish women
Constance Markievicz and Mary Robinson in roll-call of women who have helped shape Europe
Make a holiday in Ireland an unforgettable experience
There are many once-in-a-lifetime opportunities for this year’s holidays at home
Historian-in-chief Macron commemorates 150 years of French republic
President promises new law to tackle ‘separatism’
Gig of the Week: Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival
Irish-made films Sea Fever, Vivarium, Arracht and Herself head the line-up this year
Dead white men: What have they ever done for us?
William Reville: We have good reason to be proud of our European heritage
Nobel Prize for Physics awarded for cosmology and exoplanet breakthroughs
James Peebles, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz are jointly awarded the 2019 prize
‘A third of the Arctic is frozen penguin wee’ and other science facts for kids
Trinity professor Luke O’Neill has written a new book. Now three kids visit the lab to interview him
Which films are in contention as interminable awards season ramps up?
Donald Clarke runs the rule over the likely winners ahead of this week’s festival trifecta
Time for the RDS to flex its cultural muscles
Society should go back to its roots, as scattergun use of venue is not helping it fulfill its potential
Lara Marlowe: After the longest journey of my life, I am now a French citizen
The process was Kafkaesque, but I now cannot wait to vote as Citoyenne Marlowe
Can the inventor of the web save its future?
On system’s 30th birthday, Tim Berners-Lee hopes to ensure it stays safe and open
Figuring out why women don’t figure in Stem industries
How do we encourage more girls to defy the stereotypes and take up Stem subjects?
Former nurse sets-up Ireland’s first ‘truly mobile’ X-ray service
‘If we can send men to the moon why can’t we take an X-ray machine to the nursing home’
The Nobel prize winning scientist who wasn’t famous enough for Wikipedia
Donna Strickland’s low profile highlights women scientists’ battle for recognition
Nobel Prize for Physics awarded to woman for first time in 55 years
Donna Strickland was among trio of scientists given the award for laser breakthroughs
Roger Bannister dies aged 88: Obituary
The first athlete to run a sub four-minute mile was also an eminent neurologist
Cork French Film Festival sees women to the fore in diverse programme
Festival includes Q & A with award winning French actress Sandrine Bonnaire
What was in seven-year-old Donald Trump’s letter? Santa reveals all
Rosita Boland has a world exclusive interview with the man of the moment
Female portraits to go on RIA’s walls for first time in 230 years
‘Women on Walls’ project aims to redress imbalance and inspire other offices to do same
Trinity joins Oxford and Cambridge in European college network
23-strong League of European Research Universities is major player at EU level
Fintan O’Toole: Anti-abortion ‘zygopaths’ make a mockery of equality
It is wrong to equate a woman to a group of cells at the moment of conception
Belleek residents fear Brexit may bring economic woe
Locals of Northern town feeling ill-informed, not least on the question of Border controls
Web Log: Stephen Hawking meets Mortal Kombat in new game
Science Kombat is a browser-based game that is charming, fun and vaguely educational
Irish scientist recreates fossil in full colour for the first time
UCC’s Dr Maria McNamara makes breakthrough using the skin of a fossilised snake
A Ghost’s Story review: haunted history
The fictional story of a real-life spook is overshadowed by the tale’s lumbering biography. The result is a novel that lacks spirit
Equine and floral painter Nicola Russell dies, aged 51
Artist also specialised in portraits including subjects such as Bill Clinton and Mo Mowlam
Physics Nobel Prize awarded to inventors of blue LED
Award for creation of energy efficient light source won by American and Japanese trio
Son of Irish emigrants wins Nobel Prize for medicine
John O’Keefe jointly won for discovering how brain’s inner position system works
The Irish man who brought radiotherapy forward
John Joly was a maverick scientist from Co Offaly who invented the ‘Dublin method’ 100 years ago
#NoMakeupSelfie craze raises €400,000 for cancer research
Phenomenon has also raised £2 million in UK
Hollande caught between Pantheon and a hard place
The French president’s comment on the need to honour women heroes has created a dilemma
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