Alison Healy

Alison Healy

Contributor

Alison Healy is a contributor to The Irish Times. She was previously food and farming correspondent.

Panic attack – Alison Healy on the Great Sheep Panic of 1888

Unruly flocks

Cool customers – Alison Healy on one way to boost a business

Battered sausage? Step this way, Colin Farrell

What this game needs is a rooster – Alison Healy on World Cup mishaps

It’s all in the game

The Irish priest who founded Glasgow Celtic football club

Celtic

Many happy returns – Alison Healy on wandering pets

These paws were made for walking

Masal Bugduv: Alison Healy on the trail of the mysterious Moldovan soccer ace

The clue is in the name

A turn-up for the books: Alison Healy on overdue library books

Monday

Plaque attack: Alison Healy on the Father Pat Noise memorial

A hero of our time

Absent socks in search of a comrade

That elusive second sock

The messages: Alison Healy on great shopping lists of history

From Michelangelo to Darwin, the list endures

Presidential menageries: Alison Healy on leaders and their pets

Pet projects

An abundance of caution: Alison Healy on taking risks

Risk-taker or naturally cautious citizen? A series of simple tests to help you decide

Read all about it – Alison Healy on slow news days

An Irishwoman’s Diary

Death by water bottle – Alison Healy on life and fate

An Irishwoman’s Diary

History’s bold scam artists – Want to buy the Brooklyn Bridge? The Eiffel Tower?

Long before the internet made it easy, fraudsters profited from audacious plans