
Neighbourhood watch: covering the crime beat in Honduras
- Kenco
- November 26, 2016, 06:00
After a week travelling Honduras with the Coffee Vs Gangs project, Gary Quinn joins a journalist reporting from the scene of a mur(...)

Gary Quinn’s big regret? Throwing a kind man’s shoes in the bin
- People
- October 6, 2016, 05:00

Clover Mini gives small retailers the edge
- Clover
- July 6, 2016, 10:00
The latest addition to the Clover family lets small retailers take control

Redrawing the lines: a return to Honduras
- Kenco
- June 25, 2016, 10:00
Gary Quinn returns to Honduras to chart the progress of the second year of the Kenco Coffee Vs Gangs project

Creative intent: Foals singer on ambition and protecting core beliefs
- Sponsored
- March 17, 2016, 12:00
In the final Guinness film following the release of John Hammond - Intolerant Champion ad, lead singer with Foals, Yannis Philippa(...)

Barfly: The Bridge Bar, Portmagee, Co Kerry
- Food & Drink
- March 5, 2016, 02:00
Used by the ‘Star Wars’ production crew, this bar is charming – and close to the Skelligs

Barfly: Nancy’s, Ardara, Co Donegal
- Food & Drink
- February 27, 2016, 02:00
Seven generations of the same family have run this incredibly cosy landmark pub, perched on the Wild Atlantic Way

Forging change: Lady Leshurr channels John Hammond’s ‘force for good’ ideals
- Guinness - Intolerant Champion
- February 25, 2016, 08:00
The second in the series of Guinness short films with UK rapper Lady Leshurr, discusses how music and lyrics continue to be a forc(...)

Backstage at a five-star wedding resort – the Powerscourt Hotel experience
- Powerscourt
- February 23, 2016, 05:00
The Powerscourt Resort in Wicklow has doubled its number of weddings over the past two years - we went backstage at the five-star (...)

Barfly: Osbornes Bar, Rathanna, Co Carlow
- Food & Drink
- February 20, 2016, 02:00
The interior has been returned to its peak yet the passing of time is captured on every surface

Barfly: The Harbour Bar, Howth
- Food & Drink
- February 13, 2016, 05:00
A micro-brewery and a warm, traditional bar interior have reinvented the old Cock Tavern in Howth, celebrating its lofty position,(...)

Barfly: Bowes, Fleet Street, Dublin 2
- Food & Drink
- February 6, 2016, 02:00
Some 227 whiskey bottles beckon from across the bar and, as well as every shade of Irish, you’ll find an enviable collection of Sc(...)

The finalists: AIB Startup Academy judges find their final ten
- Business
- February 5, 2016, 13:30
Ten places filled on the AIB Start-up Academy but, for those who didn’t make it, there’s one wildcard spot still open on this year(...)

Barfly: John Fallons, the Capstan Bar, Dublin 8
- Food & Drink
- January 30, 2016, 02:00
Fallon’s is a much-loved pub that has seen and survived change over the years

The Shortlist: AIB Startup Academy reveals shortlist
- AIB Start-up Academy
- January 29, 2016, 06:00
Irish language adventure, sick bags and healthy food dominate in diverse group of Irish startups

Barfly: Moran’s Mornington, Co Meath
- Food & Drink
- January 23, 2016, 02:00
The original traditional bar Agnes Moran ran retains its pride of place in the village, while its new owners have carved out an el(...)

Barfly: the Drift Inn, Buncrana
- Food & Drink
- January 16, 2016, 12:00
Gastropub of the Year 2015 is beautiful inside and out

Barfly: The Open Gate Brewery, James St, Dublin
- Food & Drink
- January 9, 2016, 04:00
Guinness taps into the popularity of craft beers with this unique taster pub down the street from the Storehouse

Great Irish Pubs: your top ten Barfly reviews in 2015
- Food & Drink
- December 31, 2015, 15:00
Barfly visited 51 pubs in 19 counties in 2015. Here's the top ten most-read and most-shared on social media by our readers

Barfly: A walk to the pub
- Travel
- December 26, 2015, 10:00
Gary Quinn visited the four provinces to find great pubs in walking areas that will encourage even the laziest walker out of their(...)

Barfly: Mulligan’s of Poolbeg Street, Dublin 2
- Food & Drink
- December 24, 2015, 01:00
The iconic pub has become part of the fabric of the city

Barfly: Jack Ryan’s, Beggars Bush, Dublin
- Food & Drink
- December 19, 2015, 01:00
A new limited edition whiskey brings Barfly to the heart of a Dublin institution

Barfly: P Macs, Stephen Street Lower, Dublin 2
- Food & Drink
- December 12, 2015, 04:00
Stuffed with fun and atmosphere, this is easily one of the best craft beer houses in the city

Five great Irish whiskeys for Christmas
- Drink
- December 11, 2015, 06:00
The Irish whiskey market is surging ahead and new arrivals and complex blends add to its repertoire every month. These are five th(...)

Barfly: McHugh’s Bar, Belfast
- Food & Drink
- December 5, 2015, 12:45
Barfly visits Belfast and finds tradition that comes with a twist

Family ski school on the snowy slopes of Sandyford
- Travel
- November 28, 2015, 07:00
Tired legs, laughter and mastering the slopes are all part of Dublin’s indoor ski school

Barfly: Söder + Ko
- Food & Drink
- November 28, 2015, 05:00
A warming, sophisticated, Scandinavian ambiance pervades this George’s Street bar

Ten great Irish whiskeys you'll want to keep for yourself
- Food & Drink
- November 25, 2015, 16:15
Irish whiskey has never been hotter, but discovering what you like takes time. Here, Gary Quinn reveals two of his favourites and (...)

Barfly: Graces, Rathmines, Dublin
- Food & Drink
- November 21, 2015, 02:00
Their currency is space for conversation, comfort, a welcome for musicians and excellent service

Barfly: Courtney’s, Plunkett Street, Killarney
- Food & Drink
- November 14, 2015, 04:00
This family-run bar feels like a place that’s moving with the times

13 things to do indoors this winter: ski, climb, watch, visit
- People
- November 9, 2015, 12:00
It’s getting colder, darker, wintrier. Whether you favour active or stationary pursuits, these suggestions will get you through th(...)

Barfly: The Black Sheep, Capel St, Dublin 1
- Food & Drink
- November 8, 2015, 09:30
There’s always good humour among the punters in the Black Sheep

Servants and ladies: 100 years ago today in The Irish Times
- Heritage
- November 3, 2015, 13:00
The Irish Times of November 3rd 1915 was dominated by Britain, war and servants’ positions, while The Irish Times Servant Registry(...)

Barfly: Wicklow Brewery
- Food & Drink
- October 31, 2015, 05:45
Protecting the essence of the craft in craft beer, Wicklow Brewery plan to keep their brews local to Wicklow and Dublin

Travel Writer: the Shortlist
- Travel
- October 30, 2015, 16:30
With nearly 600 entries and a longlist of 45, our shortlist of the ten best travel writer competition entries is here

Liquorice, lather, and lies about whiskey
- Food & Drink
- October 24, 2015, 05:00
In his new book, A Glass Apart, Fionnan O’Connor recounts a glorious history and exciting future for Irish Single Pot Still Whiske(...)

Barfly: The Bloody Stream, Howth
- Food & Drink
- October 24, 2015, 00:00
Owned by local man Michael JF Wright of the Wrights of Howth family, The Bloody Stream is just one of a portfolio of bars and venu(...)

On this day, 1949: ants attack Vatican, troops on Yugoslav borders, babies born to refugees in Cork
- TV, Radio, Web
- October 20, 2015, 11:15
October 20th 1949 was a busy day: IRA men were being released from prison, ‘Chinese Communists’ were getting ready to take ‘vital (...)
Barfly: Flannerys, Denmark St, Limerick
- Food & Drink
- October 17, 2015, 04:00
With a 130-bottle whiskey collection and beautiful snug and grocery bar, the old-style pub at the front of Flannery's has become i(...)

Dick Mack’s pub and Redbreast 21 whiskey retain their title of Ireland’s best
- Food & Drink
- October 16, 2015, 15:30
The Teeling Distillery in Dublin hosted the 3rd annual Irish Whiskey Awards and while the top honours stayed with last year’s winn(...)

50 years ago today: Bing Crosby, workers’ strikes and a fine for deserting a cat
- TV, Radio, Web
- October 13, 2015, 10:00
In the first of a new archive series we take a look at the news that made The Irish Times this day 50 years ago - Oct 13th 1965

Barfly: The Sky & The Ground
- Food & Drink
- October 10, 2015, 12:00
This Wexford pub, named after a Pierce Turner song, is a true family endeavour

Barfly: Sean’s Bar, Athlone, Co Westmeath
- Food & Drink
- October 3, 2015, 06:00
Claiming the title of oldest bar in Ireland, and possibly the world, Sean’s Bar in Athlone has a lot to live up to

Barfly: Peruke and Periwig, Dawson St, Dublin 2
- Food & Drink
- September 26, 2015, 20:00

Barfly: Porterhouse Temple Bar, Dublin
- Food & Drink
- September 19, 2015, 14:00
Nineteen years after it opened, the chain’s first Dublin pub is thriving

Barfly: The Treehouse at AMPM, Belfast
- Food & Drink
- September 12, 2015, 05:45
No 29: The Treehouse rooftop bar, with its retractable roof, defeats the weather and continues ot grow in popularity

Spirit of Folk’s new identity and the top ten acts to catch
- Music
- September 10, 2015, 10:15
The Spirit of Folk festival kicks off next weekend in Meath. Festival illustrator Dearbhla Kelly introduces the new look and sugge(...)

Barfly: Jim O’ the Mill, Upperchurch, Tipperary
- Drink
- September 6, 2015, 10:45
Could this one-night-per-week pub be one of the best in Ireland?

Barfly: Mohan’s The Hut, Phibsboro, Dublin 7
- Food & Drink
- August 29, 2015, 01:07

Barfly: the Shebeen, a bar on wheels
- Food & Drink
- August 22, 2015, 01:00

Barfly: House Wine Bar and Tap Room, Letterkenny, Co Donegal
- Food & Drink
- August 15, 2015, 01:00
The owners are huge fans of locally brewed Kinnegar beers, on tap and in bottle, and by the time I’ve tried a few I can see why

Barfly: Cavern, Baggot Street, Dublin 4
- Food & Drink
- August 8, 2015, 04:00
Going underground always feels edgy but Cavern under Baggot Street Wines is not just cutting-edge but incredibly welcoming too

Barfly: The Harbour Bar, Bray, Co Wicklow
- Food & Drink
- August 1, 2015, 09:00
A fantastic hodgepodge of experience: scruffy, wild and elegant

Barfly: The Gin Palace, Middle Abbey Street, Dublin 1
- Food & Drink
- July 25, 2015, 13:45
No 20: The Gin Palace. This is what great pubs are about - introducing strangers, great staff and the ease of conversation

Barfly: Tigh Giblins, An Spideal, Connemara
- Food & Drink
- July 18, 2015, 16:00
The young staff show no fear in the face of throngs of people – smiling, laughing and switching languages with ease as they champi(...)

Barfly: The Coach House and Olde Bar, Glaslough, Co Monaghan
- Food & Drink
- July 11, 2015, 10:30
The stone-cut architecture and its wood-panelled interior is currency enough but what makes this place extra special is the good h(...)

Barfly: the Salthouse, Raven Terrace, Galway
- Food & Drink
- July 4, 2015, 08:49
This friendly craft-beer palace is a refuge for those tired of the same old tastes

Barfly: The Dingle Whiskey Bar, Nassau Street, Dublin
- Food & Drink
- June 27, 2015, 23:00
This is a dark, inviting space that is all about the wood, the whiskey and the welcome

Barfly: the Hanged Man’s pub, Milltown, Co Kildare
- Food & Drink
- June 21, 2015, 08:45
Oasis of calm on the banks of the Grand Canal

Barfly: Toner's Yard - The perfect place to see out a Dublin summer
- Food & Drink
- June 14, 2015, 19:00
A big, sunny and very snug beer garden in the city centre

Barfly: Bang Bang bar, Teeling Whiskey Distillery
- Drink
- June 6, 2015, 14:00
Bang Bang doesn’t shy away from the fact that it’s a working distillery

Can coffee bring hope to Honduras?
- Coffee vs Gangs
- May 31, 2015, 12:00
Honduras is one of the most dangerous places in the world, so why would Kenco set up a training scheme there?

Make mine a double: Gin two ways
- Food & Drink
- May 30, 2015, 18:00

Barfly: Clarke's Bar, Drogheda
- Food & Drink
- May 30, 2015, 15:15
A bar that loves its place in the world and revels in its own accent

Barfly: The Lord Edward, 23 Christchurch Place, Dublin 8
- Food & Drink
- May 23, 2015, 20:00
No 11: Steeped in history, the atmosphere in the upstairs lounge of this historic pub makes every newcomer believe they’re the fir(...)

Mixing it with aplomb at Irish Bartender of the Year competition
- Drink
- May 23, 2015, 01:00
Six finalists battle for chance to represent Ireland at the world final in South Africa in August

Barfly: The Greenore Railway Saloon, Dundalk, Co Louth
- Food & Drink
- May 16, 2015, 11:00
No 10: A back-of-the-bar extension gives this already elegant slice of history the feel of a 19th-century railway waiting room

Barfly: The Snug, Skerries, Co. Dublin
- Food & Drink
- May 9, 2015, 10:00
No 9: Despite the speed at which the retro style of the Snug will cast you back into your own imagination, it’s a calm and elegant(...)

Barfly: John Kavanagh’s (The Gravediggers), Glasnevin,Dublin
- Food & Drink
- May 2, 2015, 11:00
No 8: Family establishment still going strong with eighth generation behind the bar

Barfly: Lily Finnegan’s, Whitestown, Carlingford, Co Louth
- Food & Drink
- April 25, 2015, 11:12
Along the winding country roads of the Cooley Peninsula, this is a pub you could easily call home

Competition winner: from Bahrain to Strandhill
- Ireland
- April 18, 2015, 20:26

Barfly: Grogan’s Castle Lounge, 15 William St South, Dublin 2
- Food & Drink
- April 18, 2015, 17:00
No 6: Established in 1899, Grogan’s has held its current position as a refuge for the literary and the lost since the 1970s

Barfly: J O’Connells, Skryne, Co Meath
- Food & Drink
- April 11, 2015, 12:15
No 5: Entire lifetimes have been consumed keeping a fire blazing at the heart of this incredible pub

Ethiopia, risen from the ashes
- Long Haul
- April 11, 2015, 09:15
A safe country for tourists, well managed with a young educated workforce and a culture that runs much deeper than old headlines s(...)

Barfly: Kehoe’s, South Anne Street, Dublin 2
- Drink
- April 4, 2015, 13:00
Pub perfection No 4: Kehoe’s has that literary feeling other pubs try to buy but can’t

Barfly: The Long Hall, Georges St, Dublin
- Drink
- March 28, 2015, 13:30
There are few pubs in Dublin that can match this great Victorian relic

Barfly: Nora Murphy’s Bar, Brandon, Co Kerry
- Food & Drink
- March 21, 2015, 01:00
Pub perfection No 2: The view from its front door is beautiful and there’s always a great welcome inside

Barfly: the Cobblestone in Dublin’s Smithfield
- Food & Drink
- March 14, 2015, 10:00
It’s hard to imagine the art of Irish song under any kind of threat after a session at this pub

A walk on the wild side: meet the first woman to YoYo the Pacific Crest Trail
- People
- January 24, 2015, 10:15
Dubliner Olive McGloin is the first woman to walk the Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada – and back

Inside the four best whiskey bars in Ireland
- Food & Drink
- December 21, 2014, 10:45
Now in its second year, the Irish Whiskey Awards are maturing nicely. Among the awards this year were those for the whiskey bars o(...)

Sports ideas for Christmas: think outside the penalty box
- Its Christmas
- November 24, 2014, 19:00
The latest football jersey is too easy - look further afield for something special for the sports fan

Can these young Hondurans save their own lives?
- People
- October 25, 2014, 00:00
Coffee may offer a way out of gang culture in one of the world’s most violent countries

Ethiopia: 30 years after the famine
- Africa
- October 11, 2014, 01:00
It’s three decades since Michael Buerk’s powerful BBC reports told the world about the country’s famine. The image has stayed with(...)

A walking festival built the Kerry way
- Travel
- May 31, 2014, 00:01
Killarney is preparing to give summer a wild mountain and valley welcome with its first walking festival. Gary Quinn took his fami(...)

Arctic video challenge for secondary students
- People
- February 27, 2014, 14:55
Have you got an opinion on climate change? Want to work with Irish Times journalists? Then take part in our student 30-sec video c(...)

What the Arctic project is all about and who's involved
- People
- February 22, 2014, 01:00
The background, what to expect and how you can get involved

Charlie Bird: reporting from the Arctic for ‘The Irish Times’
- People
- January 25, 2014, 01:00
From late February the former RTÉ journalist will be living among an Inuit community in Nunavut, documenting it in print and onlin(...)

The Irish Times Toy Show
- Life & Style
- November 21, 2013, 01:00
Our group of 10 reviewers, aged five to 11, give their verdict on the top 10 toys for Christmas

Making the grade at Dingle whiskey school
- Food & Drink
- November 16, 2013, 09:32
A three-day trip to Dingle Distillery proves the future is bright for Irish whiskey, writes Gary Quinn
Video: The Best B&B breakfast in Ireland and not a pudding in sight
- Food & Drink
- November 14, 2013, 11:01
The White Cottages in Skerries has recently been awarded the Georgina Campbell Best B&B in Ireland award and the Best B&B Breakfas(...)

Nuala Moore: Becoming an ice queen
- People
- November 9, 2013, 01:00
Ice swimmer Nuala Moore is in the running to be crowned world open water swimming woman of the year – but her greatest victories a(...)

Oscar Wilde named most quotable figure in the English language
- Books
- October 16, 2013, 18:40
The ‘Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations’ places Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw in first and second place as most quoted
A screen near you: why the Strypes, Eugene McCabe and Jinx Lennon want you at Clones Film Festival
- Film
- October 16, 2013, 15:00
Video: In a new strand of local film festival coverage - A Screen Near You - we set Clones Film Festival a challenge: make a short(...)

Extra, Extra! Forging a family adventure in Kilkenny
- Ireland
- August 10, 2013, 00:00
From swinging through treetops to swigging rare whiskey, a break in Kilkenny was all about that ‘something extra’, and it’s easy t(...)

Hanging with Hemingway
- Long Haul
- July 6, 2013, 01:00
Ernest Hemingway is Key West, Florida’s, most famous literary son and when they celebrate his legacy they do it in style

Islandmen reborn – capturing a Blasket gathering
- Heritage
- June 22, 2013, 00:00
A film about two American cousins who’d previously never met, on an island they’ve never been to – why does the story of ‘The Cres(...)

Viva Las Vegas
- Long Haul
- June 15, 2013, 01:00
While known for its gambling, Las Vegas is constantly upping its game by offering bigger and better hotels and food as well as spe(...)
Fire and ice
- Europe
- June 2, 2012, 01:00
GO SWEDEN: STOCKHOLM MAKES ME want to have an affair
See the light in Dublin
- People
- May 19, 2012, 01:00
Fresh from its selection as one of the best-of-show products at last weekend’s Grand Designs London show, Shane Holland’s 6ft…