Mary Minihan

Mary Minihan

Acting Features Editor

Mary Minihan is Acting Features Editor of The Irish Times. She was previously an Assistant News Editor.

The idea of being asked to perform a ‘party piece’ still fills me with dread

Mary Minihan: Growing up musically mediocre in a place full of talent is daunting

My children rarely see me with a book, but my mobile is ‘an extension of my hand’

Mary Minihan: ‘There are lots of things to feel guilty about: reading shouldn’t be one of them’

Jan Carson: ‘I cried when I got my Irish passport’

Borderlines podcast: Author from Protestant evangelical background in Co Antrim speaks of ‘plural identities’

I’m sticking with my face mask. It’s no skin off my nose

Mary Minihan: Masks get a bad press, but I won’t be in any rush to give up mine

Author Séamas O’Reilly hints at screen adaption of Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?

Borderlines podcast: Second instalment of bestselling memoir ‘could be on cards as well’

Border poll could unleash ‘Troubles scenario’, says Belfast writer Rosemary Jenkinson

Author says unionists need to get involved in ‘discussion on the Border and what to do about it’

How a loyalist death threat stopped The Clash performing in Derry

Undertones bassist Mickey Bradley tells how Joe Strummer got letter from Red Hand Commandos

Boris Johnson cannot be trusted to handle NI affairs, says Paisley’s son

Brexit uncertainty has fuelled drive to seek united Ireland – Kyle Paisley

Neven Maguire on the UVF bombs that closed his family restaurant

Chef says Brexit has put unexpected obstacles in way of those involved in hospitality business

Bloody Sunday: The victims and the wounded

British soldiers gunned down civil rights protesters in Derry in 1972. These are their stories

‘At the height of the Troubles, Halloween took hold in Derry like nowhere else’

Bands deemed it too dangerous to come and perform there. We had to amuse ourselves

Mary Minihan: A bruising encounter with a beautician

The woman doing my facial knows just how to take the treat out my beauty treatment

How to talk Tyrone: They’re not people-pleasers, but I love their bluntness

Tyrone folk can bend words to a different meaning, with confusing results for outsiders

A brush with Barry McGuigan’s nipple and a Border checkpoint

As the Tricolour was raised for Kellie Harrington, I envied the uncomplicated embrace of flags

Remembering Omagh: ‘There were stories we couldn’t write because they were too horrific’

Most recall where they were when they heard about bomb that exploded 23 years ago