Ann Marie Hourihane

Participation in a mother and baby group led to a wonderful support network for five women in the hectic first year of motherhood

Linda Ervine, a sister-in-law of the late unionist politician David Ervine, is introducing the Irish language to loyalist parts of the city

Since the 1970s Denmark has come top of the Eurobarometer survey on happiness. Here’s why

Noel Adamson and Damien Tuohy are close observers of their communities in Clontarf in Dublin and Gort in Galway. They both love their jobs and see the economy improving

From their Danish base, Lennart Lajboschitz and his wife, Suz, have sold their vision of design-led, low-cost retail all over the world and reinvented the image of the pound shop

Interview: Sal Khan went from tutoring his cousin to setting up Khan Academy, a not-for-profit online school. He talks about his own education, and expanding his ‘flipped learning’ worldwide

Amanda McCarthy is a carer employed by a private agency. She looks after older people in their own homes

The Sunday Times columnist doesn’t hold back in her book about middle age and the menopause. Nuggets include the best person to go to for Botox and why middle-aged women shouldn’t go on top

Sheila O’Flaherty is a senior psychiatric social worker with the child and adolescent mental health services for north Co Dublin

The Ulster and Ireland rugby winger is watching a lot of television following a ligament injury to his big toe. So how did it feel to be named Player of the Year

He was the boy from Macroom who became a teacher, historian, politician and thorn in the side of ‘republicans’. Now 87, the professor is still working – and still provoking people with his writings

A Dublin firm has come up with the Pip – it measures stress and plays scenarios that may calm you down

At the age of nine Declan Bowens became vegetarian, and later vegan. ‘Just because we can do it, doesn’t mean we should,’ he says of meat-eating – not a popular position in rural Ireland

When you give up drinking, you miss drinking: and when you go back to drinking, you miss giving up

A Diageo scheme takes 15 young, long-term unemployed people from working-class areas of Dublin and trains them for the hospitality industry. We meet three of them