Notes from Sheepland review: Please flock to see this delightful and funny study of artist and shepherd Orla Barry
Despite the intellectual heft, this is a film that knows when to cut towards playful diversion
Orla Barry
Artist and farmer
Artist and shepherd Orla Barry: ‘Breeding animals is like making an artwork. You’re putting certain animals together’
Orla Barry took up farming as a more financially secure sideline to her art. As the new film Notes from Sheepland shows, it has proved equally precarious
The sporting decade that was: Athletes, first and foremost, without an asterisk
The 2016 Paralympics threw up 4,350 unique stories, with many written by Irish athletes
Joanne O’Riordan: Let’s keep the fire burning for women in sport
This year has brought fresh female athletes to look up to, but we must support them too
Orla Comerford adds 100m bronze to bring Irish medal tally to eight
20-year-old takes final medal spot by just .01 of a second in Berlin
Para Athletics Championships: Noelle Lenihan wins Ireland’s fourth gold
Cork athlete’s feat on day three comes after Irish hat-trick of medals in Berlin
Smyth sets new record as he storms to a 17th gold medal success
Derry athlete leaves most of the field trailing in his wake in T 13 200m final
Reduced number of Ireland’s sporting elite receive maximum funding
Rob Heffernan among notable absentees as Paralympics and rowing are best supported
The woolly wonderland of a sheep farmer and artist
Orla Barry is both, and her latest exhibition draws pleasingly from both worlds
What Irish broadcasting needs: more Bibi Baskins
Ray D’Arcy’s interview with former broadcaster shows what Irish radio is missing
Smyth and McKillop notch up another double world gold
Duo claim victories within 10 minutes of each other at World Para Athletics Championships
Annalise Murphy is the Irish Times/Sport Ireland 2016 Sportswoman of the Year
Her silver medal in Rio was Ireland’s first medal in sailing since David Wilkins in 1980
Breaking Rainbows review: equal parts gently imaginative and conceptually woolly
Dublin Theatre Festival: Ideas flock together in visual artist and shepherd Orla Barry new performance piece
Mechanical failure costs Eoghan Clifford chance of third Paralympic medal
Chain drop sees Galway lecturer finish fifth in road race
Paralympics: Niamh McCarthy wins silver medal
Discus thrower from Carrigaline secures Ireland’s ninth honour of the Games
Rio 2016: Day eight, medal number eight. Target achieved
No messages from Skibberreen for Patrick O’Leary, but you can’t have everything
Orla Barry takes silver to bring Irish tally to eight medals
The Cork woman followed up on World Championship silver in F57 Discus final
Paralympics: Great expectations for Ireland’s elite at Rio 2016
The 48-strong Irish team will be seeking to beat their medal haul at London Games
Ireland select 44 athletes for Rio Paralympics
Champions Smyth and McKillop lead the team aiming to secure eight medals
Radio: Newstalk men will be heard, by Hook or by crook
Review: ‘The Right Hook’, ‘Breakfast’, ‘The Green Room’, ‘The Pat Kenny Show’, ‘Lighthouse Stories’
Noelle Lenihan is sportswoman of the month for October
Silver medalist in Discus at Paralymic Athletics World Championships sets Cork girl apart
Orla Barry claims bronze at Paralympic World Championships
‘It’s been a long season, to save my best for when it mattered is really satisfying’
Teenager Noelle Lenihan claims discus silver at Paralympic Games
Fifteen-year-old from Charleville threw F38 world record on second effort
Lorraine Regan fifth in Shot Put in Swansea
Catherine O’Neill finished sixth in the Club Throw at Paralympics European Championships
Jason Smyth reclassified due to deterioration of his eye condition
Irish Paralympic sprinter will be able to go for double gold in Rio
Radio: Summertime, and the living ain’t easy for Tubridy and co
The seasonal news lull is certainly a challenge for talk-radio hosts, but last week’s items sank like a saggy mattress
Norah Casey brings ‘Mindfood’ to Newstalk
New weekend schedule includes ‘Best of Pat Kenny’ and ‘Coleman at Large’
After the Asylum: ‘I loved the severe physical pain. It was better than the mental pain'
Rory Doody spent years in and out of psychiatric hospitals and institutions. Today, he helps others in the community
Mental health services for minors in last decade ‘woefully inadequate’, says Minister for Children
Mental health needs of young people in the care and youth justice systems not being met, report finds
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