Weekend

It can seem that everyone else is easily making friends and having fun in the early days. Some of them are pretending

The Galwegian says she is essentially a hermit and her most important relationship is with nature

Queen’s colleges were established in 1845 in Belfast, Cork, and Galway to serve growing middle-class that included the island’s Catholic majority

The Castle was inspired by Ronson’s son finding himself in the home of an heir ‘trying to be Hugh Hefner at the worst moment in human history to be Hugh Hefner’

Foreign investment in US bond market has been a boon for Americans, but they are vulnerable to a change in sentiment

There are 400 hectares of trees planted on farms across Ireland under an agroforestry scheme, offering protection against drought, less pollution and greater biodiversity

Photographer Linda Brownlee came across a ‘prize find’ while combing the beach on Bull Island

A harrowing story of death and survival on the Atlantic migration route from west Africa, ‘the deadliest in the world’

Water is arriving in ways our infrastructure and modified landscape can no longer cope with

Treatment of ADHD is associated with significant benefits in physical and mental health outcomes, says Marie Boilson of the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland

More than 2,700 people have died since May, making it the African nation’s biggest outbreak, with frontline conditions described as ‘brutal’

Refusal to attend school is rarely a straightforward matter

‘Horse money’ is evident in Co Tipperary town where local group is working to keep knowledge of medieval past alive

Sometimes I want August to be over. It begins to feel like a waiting time, too much anticipation and not enough result

The remains of Hurricane Charley in 1986 brought exceptional levels of rainfall to Ireland

The Irish actor on her breakout role on the hit Apple TV series, being an older sister and ‘living the dream’

Five Irish people on that niggling holiday question: What would it be it like to live here?

As a child in Dublin the the Ross O’Carroll-Kelly author was ‘heavily incentivised’ to lose his English accent

Eye on Nature: Éanna Ní Lamhna responds to your notes and queries on dragonflies, ladybirds and more

US forces completed their withdrawal from Afghanistan on August 30th, 2021, marking the end of a 20-year war and the beginning of an exodus of Afghans

His supporters blame the media but others say public scrutiny of the tragic academic was justified

August 24th marks anniversary of massacre of Huguenots in France

People in affected regions in Dublin and Tipperary reflect on the damage caused by the summer wildfires, and their fear of future such events

Overharvesting, pollution and harsh winters all contributed to the decline of oysters in Ireland

Reach for the Stars competition received more than 140 entries from amateur and experienced photographers

Lawsuit against social media giant was filed jointly by 29 US state attorneys

Your notes and queries for Éanna Ní Lamhna

I’m not in favour of state surveillance, but more cameras on our roads would save lives

Growing up in Waterford, I naively believed Ireland might sidestep the entrenched divisions of its near neighbours

The Irish actor on the upcoming TV series Blade Runner 2099, working on an adaptation of Marian Keyes’s Grown Ups, and staying grounded

‘It’s great to get away from your mobile phone,’ says one pilgrim of this place of penance since the fifth century

French economist is co-director of World Inequality Lab, which is proposing an average monthly income of €5,000 per person by 2100

The Irish banking system is not functioning because there is not enough lending

Extradited Dubliner’s case will be heard in a three-judge court created to hear charges related to terrorism and organised crime

Lore suggests Athenry’s North Gate will collapse when the most handsome man in Ireland walks under it, so steer clear Michael Fassbender, Paul Mescal and Colin Farrell

Views could be best in the southwest– but proper eye protection is essential

I am not advocating giving up as a general principle, in relation to books or anything else

RTÉ Concert Orchestra general manager Alex Walden on connecting with an audience, receiving his first guitar and living on in your descendants

Agriculture takes up 74 per cent of the country’s land

There is a visceral sense of betrayal when it becomes clear we are being convinced to accept slop and be okay with it