Mary Kennedy: ‘I had to give up work when I was 65. I didn’t choose to leave RTÉ’
Former Nationwide presenter was obliged to retire. In Mary Kennedy: Fad Saoil she makes the case that older women still have an active role to play
Mary Kennedy
Call goes out for older women to safeguard bone health
Irish Osteoporosis Society data show almost 70% of hip fractures happening in women
Role of ‘survivor cannibalism’ during Great Famine detailed in new TV documentary
The Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine isRTÉ’s first major project on the catastrophe
McAleese warns of potential Brexit toll on Belfast Agreement
Small constituencies may ‘still have a grá for old violence’, former president tells podcast
Stardust preliminary inquest hearing a ‘momentous step’ in path to justice
Families of 1981 fire victims have to now ‘been met with obstacle after obstacle’, solicitor says
Mike Murphy: ‘I won’t do another over-70s lockdown’
Broadcaster on podcasting, parenting regrets, Gay Byrne, and getting bored quickly
Immaculate conditions greet golfers as fairways hum again
Huge logistical effort has gone in to setting up courses, as seen at Malahide Golf Club
‘Things got weird’: How Dancing with the Stars coped with coronavirus
Let’s hope in 12 months all we have to fret about are dancing priests and Nicky Byrne’s quiff
Dancing with the Stars: Mary Kennedy eliminated in knuckle-whitening conclusion
As quarter-finals loom, this is turning into the Hunger Games with bonus face glitter
Dancing With The Stars backstage: ‘I’d love to see Danny Healy Rae out there’
Patrick Freyne visits the set of ‘the biggest show on Irish telly’
Dancing with the Stars has hit Father Ted levels of farce
Fr Ray Kelly’s protective halo means frontrunner Sinéad O’Carroll is put through the wringer
Dancing with the Stars: Glenda Gilson sinks like Titanic
Somehow, against all logic, Fr Ray Kelly stays afloat. He can’t survive much longer
Cervical campaigner Stephen Teap wins Cork Person of the Year Award
Teap says award confirms affected women and families being heard by authorities
Funeral Mass for Gay Byrne in Pro-Cathedral
Ceremony will be covered live by RTÉ and followed by private burial in Sutton
Employee resource groups: AIB case study
The bank has developed a number of programmes designed to foster inclusion
Services for families of disabled children ‘like Third World’
Carer says she has to fundraise to pay for physiotherapy of son with rare genetic condition
Pioneering science students chosen as Cork Persons of the Year
Irish rugby coach, Joe Schmidt made an honorary Corkman for his contribution
Rose of Tralee: ‘A misty-eyed drunk on a New York barstool’
Give Daithi a night off, and make it a show for real women who shop in Penneys, may be over 28, don’t want to marry and have opinions
Why stiff upper lip means big bother for boys
When men talk its all about Man United or who’ll win the All-Ireland but it’s never about anything of substance, says veteran mental health professional Hubert McHugh
Animated version of McCourt’s Angela and Shane MacGowan on RTÉ’s Christmas menu
An animated Frank McCourt story, a Fairytale of New York doc and Mrs Brown
The childhood bird, the photo of mum: My favourite Christmas decoration
Celebrities tell us which item takes pride of place on their Christmas tree
Coast Guard volunteer Caitríona Lucas gets posthumous bravery award
Thea Foster-Lee, who saved her mother from a knife attack, also recognised at awards
‘Absolutely in shock’: Offaly’s Jennifer Byrne crowned Rose of Tralee
Junior doctor expresses the hope that she will do the participants all proud
‘Irish Times’ journalists honoured at Justice Media Awards
Expose of inaccurate Garda breath test figures, and story on rape sentences, win merit
Bravery awards include posthumous gold medal for boy (13)
Twenty-eight individuals, plus Kilmore Quay lifeboat crew, get National Bravery Awards
New Rose of Tralee tight-lipped on thorny abortion questions
Rows over Eighth Amendment and Fathers4Justice protest push festival profile
Rose of Tralee chief says there is place for politics on festival stage
‘If somebody has an opinion, they will express that opinion’
Security a key concern around and about Ploughing faithful
Voxpop: ‘There doesn’t seem to be any deterrent at all’
Radio: Brendan O’Connor misplaces his broadcaster’s instincts
Review: ‘The John Murray Show’, ‘The Last Word’, ‘Sunday With Miriam’
Judge rejects public servant’s claim transfer was unlawful
Mr Justice Seamus Noonan says Paschal Hosford saw himself as a whistleblower
IFA president says farmers again struggling to make a living
Commissioner and minister pledge to ensure farmers get fair price for their produce
Philadelphia Rose crowned 2014 Rose of Tralee
Native of Boston who moved to Mayo, Maria Walsh ‘absolutely shocked’ by the result
John Paul II’s dedication to prayer recalled
Million-strong crowd expected at canonisation of Popes John XXIII and John Paul II
Yellow Rose of Texas takes tiara and midnight madness begins
‘What goes on in Tralee stays in Tralee . . . Ah, but it’s a great festival all the same’
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