Jo Spain: ‘It wasn’t a peaceful childhood. I saw a lot of drugs and crime’The crime novelist talked to Bernice Harrison at The Irish Times Summer Nights FestivalThu Jul 01 2021 - 22:00
Ethel Rosenberg: a gruesome death by execution that shocked the world‘I think it is the most horrific story. Her death was so barbaric’ – biographer Anne SebbaSat Jun 26 2021 - 06:00
Pesto eggs are the new smashed avocado. But are they as nice?Substituting pesto for oil, this photogenic dish looks healthy, fresh and appetisingFri Jun 25 2021 - 10:00
Assistance dogs in schools: ‘I have learned to talk things out, and it has really helped a lot’Schools cover the cost of food for the dog, any veterinary treatment and general upkeepSat Jun 12 2021 - 06:00
A lonely Sligo death still shrouded in mysteryIn 2009 the body of Peter Bergmann was washed up at Rosses Point, but who was he?Sat Jun 12 2021 - 06:00
What the Best Place to Live in Ireland award did for WestportWestport won the 2012 competition. Residents have some advice for this year’s entrantsSat Jun 12 2021 - 06:00
Meghan Markle has written a children’s book. It’s awfulThe Bench apparently began as a message to Harry. It should have stayed between themWed Jun 09 2021 - 13:24
Sarah Winman: ‘Governments fear people having empathy’Actor turned novelist on Florence flood novel and how pandemic may stifle memoryTue Jun 08 2021 - 05:00
Wicklow bookstore owner appeals for successor to village businessJanet Hawkins of Blessington Book Store will be on hand to advise whoever takes overTue May 18 2021 - 10:15
A year living alone: ‘I have found the lockdowns soul-destroying’‘A fourth lockdown would destroy me’: Five people share their experience of living alone through every lockdownSat May 08 2021 - 00:00
Living legends and celebrity stallion welcome visitors againThe National Stud and a number of heritage sites reopened this week, providing a change of scene for locked-down localsSat May 01 2021 - 06:00
Rosita Boland: I have a confession to make – music does nothing for meMusic passes through my consciousness like water flowing downhill. I can never retain itWed Apr 28 2021 - 06:00
Annie McCarrick, Deirdre Jacob, Fiona Pender... ‘There must be witnesses out there’Eight women who disappeared in Ireland are the subject of a new audiobook from AudibleSun Apr 25 2021 - 06:00
Rosita Boland: By admitting to feeling lonely, I feel I’m failing in some wayI wake up wondering how long it would take for someone to find me if I died in my sleepWed Apr 21 2021 - 06:00
The landmark paternity suit that ruined an entire familyBoy 11963 is an incredible story of a life changed forever by a Longford scandalSun Apr 18 2021 - 06:00
Rosita Boland: I stood under a tree in case Goldilocks showed upA pot of steaming porridge in a Dublin park and other mysteries found while walkingWed Apr 14 2021 - 06:00
Rosita Boland: When this is all over I’m going non-essential shoppingCall me a barbarian, but when lockdown ends, the theatre is not the first place I want to goWed Apr 07 2021 - 06:00
‘From the minute I started to write, I didn’t care if the house fell down around me’Chef-turned-writer Louise Kennedy creates a stir with her debut book of short storiesSat Apr 03 2021 - 00:00
My dinner guests will need reminding of how to behave in Good SocietyRosita Boland: My servants are all on the pandemic unemployment paymentWed Mar 31 2021 - 06:00
Return of the penpal: ‘It feels nice to spread some joy around the place’American in Dublin Liz Maguire has accrued an astonishing 80-plus penpals in the last year aloneTue Mar 30 2021 - 17:00
Rosita Boland: A tiny cardboard Galway is not the one I wantIn the late 1990s I built my own Galway, roaming the city day and nightWed Mar 24 2021 - 06:00
Three lockdowns in, what has a meal-kit restaurant learned?Restaurants all over Ireland have reinvented themselves. Host in Ranelagh tells how it worksSun Mar 14 2021 - 06:00
Naoise Dolan: ‘I feel pressure to tell people I am autistic, in case I am too blunt’It has been a truly extraordinary year for the Dublin writerSat Mar 13 2021 - 06:00
I’d so wanted a Simone Rocha x H&M capsule piece. They weren’t just clothes. They were hopeI was up before sunrise today to queue online. The website taunted me to keep tryingThu Mar 11 2021 - 13:34
Piers Morgan’s diabolical behaviour: How much of a tantrum can a man throw?Rosita Boland: The TV presenter’s mystifying obsession with Meghan Markle has hit a new lowTue Mar 09 2021 - 13:45
Murmuration of starlings: How our stunning front-page photograph was takenJames Crombie, press photographer of the year, spent months chasing the perfect shotThu Mar 04 2021 - 09:47
‘I don’t think there is anyone in Ireland whose life hasn’t been touched by addiction’Lisa Harding on her new novel, Bright Burning Things, and the nomadic insecurity of renting in your 40sWed Mar 03 2021 - 06:00
British holiday park identified ‘people with Irish accents’ as ‘undesirable guests’Pavee Point calls the list of Irish surnames, some common among Travellers, ‘despicable’Tue Mar 02 2021 - 12:45
Cura and Ally were a different set of walls for women with unplanned pregnanciesGovernment must support those who chose family placement over mother and baby homesThu Feb 25 2021 - 17:24
Stories of concealed pregnancy in Ireland: 1973-2013Mother and baby homes weren’t the only places for women with unplanned pregnanciesSat Feb 06 2021 - 06:00
‘I got a burning smell in my nose’: Third-wave Covid-19 patients share their experiencesRecent sufferers from the virus describe how they got it and how it has affected themSun Jan 17 2021 - 06:00
‘A very nice baby with beautiful fair skin ... It was like they were selling a doll’Sheila Shelton was adopted by a couple in the US from a Tipperary mother and baby homeSat Jan 16 2021 - 06:00
‘The social worker said: Were two seconds of pleasure worth it for all this?’Women who housed single pregnant girls in the 1970s and 1980s share their experiencesFri Jan 15 2021 - 01:00
A new digit at the end of the year does not make a fresh beginningRosita Boland: The events of the last year have followed us into this oneWed Jan 06 2021 - 05:00
Ireland’s modern druids: ‘There is hidden knowledge you are asked not to share’The Tetteroos live near Killarney and know at least six other practising druids in KerrySat Jan 02 2021 - 06:00
2020 was like an Irish summer from the 1950s2020 in review: There were picnics, Dubs in rural areas, no coaches and no American accentsSat Dec 26 2020 - 06:00
The words we learned in 2020: Wet pubs, Tiger King and WFHThe new normal is anything but normal, and social distancing is an oxymoronSat Dec 19 2020 - 06:00
Covid heroes: ‘We don’t need to change the world, just to change someone’s world for 10 minutes’Meet the people who have made a big difference to others in this strange, tough coronavirus yearSat Dec 19 2020 - 06:00
Covid-19 in Ireland’s ‘gourmet capital’: ‘People not showing up is beyond belief’'If there is a third lockdown in January, the next reopening after that would be very hard'Sun Dec 13 2020 - 06:00
‘This is my favourite place in Dublin’: National Gallery and Museum reopen‘I became unemployed during the pandemic. I am excited to educate myself culturally here’Tue Dec 01 2020 - 16:40
Michael Flatley’s house clear-out: from Hannibal Lecter mask for €85,000 to ‘gorgeous cushions’ for €190The dancer’s taste is eclectic if nothing else, judging by the sale of items from his Co Cork estateThu Nov 26 2020 - 18:01
The Hags collective: ‘After months of lockdown, it’s like being let free to fly’A group of female artists in their 60s, 70s and 80s have come together under the moniker Na Cailleacha, or the HagsMon Nov 02 2020 - 06:00
Shining a light on Ireland’s places of famine, death and rebellion‘Sites here are generally reluctant to use the expression ‘dark tourism’ because it implies a certain exploitation of people’Sat Oct 31 2020 - 06:00
The town that kept Covid-19 out: ‘The message has got through here’Bettystown-Laytown in Co Meath has remained virtually free of Covid-19. How?Sat Oct 10 2020 - 06:10
My sister Dara Fitzpatrick ‘was more than a pilot and more than her death’Niamh Fitzpatrick, psychologist and sister of the late helicopter pilot, on grief and lossSun Oct 04 2020 - 06:00
The Debenhams picketers: ‘We are like a little family’What has driven the former shop workers to mount one of the longest pickets in Irish history?Sat Sept 19 2020 - 06:00
KUWTK: The juggernaut that kept on truckingFinal season of Keeping Up with the Kardashians will air early in 2021Fri Sept 11 2020 - 11:18
Thiago Osorio Cortes: ‘He was my fiance, but he was my best friend as well’Brazilian (28) fatally injured while working as Deliveroo rider proposed to partner before lockdownFri Sept 04 2020 - 17:15
Rosita Boland: ‘I knew what was going to happen. The dog would be killed’Had I done the right thing? Should I have tried to call someone? But who?Fri Aug 28 2020 - 07:29
Sarah Crossan: ‘People say they don’t approve of books about affairs’Women in particular have been judgmental about her story of an extramarital affairTue Aug 25 2020 - 05:00
