
‘I got a burning smell in my nose’: Third-wave Covid-19 patients share their experiences
- Health & Family
- January 17, 2021, 06:00
Recent sufferers from the virus describe how they got it and how it has affected them

‘A very nice baby with beautiful fair skin ... It was like they were selling a doll’
- Irish News
- January 16, 2021, 06:00
Sheila Shelton was adopted by a couple in the US from a Tipperary mother and baby home

‘The social worker said: Were two seconds of pleasure worth it for all this?’
- Irish News
- January 15, 2021, 01:00
Women who housed single pregnant girls in the 1970s and 1980s share their experiences

A new digit at the end of the year does not make a fresh beginning
- People
- January 6, 2021, 05:00
Rosita Boland: The events of the last year have followed us into this one

Ireland’s modern druids: ‘There is hidden knowledge you are asked not to share’
- Life & Style
- January 2, 2021, 06:00
The Tetteroos live near Killarney and know at least six other practising druids in Kerry

2020 was like an Irish summer from the 1950s
- Life & Style
- December 26, 2020, 06:00
2020 in review: There were picnics, Dubs in rural areas, no coaches and no American accents

The words we learned in 2020: Wet pubs, Tiger King and WFH
- Culture
- December 19, 2020, 06:00
The new normal is anything but normal, and social distancing is an oxymoron

Covid heroes: ‘We don’t need to change the world, just to change someone’s world for 10 minutes’
- People
- December 19, 2020, 06:00
Meet the people who have made a big difference to others in this strange, tough coronavirus year

Covid-19 in Ireland’s ‘gourmet capital’: ‘People not showing up is beyond belief’
- Food & Drink
- December 13, 2020, 06:00
'If there is a third lockdown in January, the next reopening after that would be very hard'

‘This is my favourite place in Dublin’: National Gallery and Museum reopen
- Culture
- December 1, 2020, 16:40
‘I became unemployed during the pandemic. I am excited to educate myself culturally here’

Michael Flatley’s house clear-out: from Hannibal Lecter mask for €85,000 to ‘gorgeous cushions’ for €190
- Fine Art & Antiques
- November 26, 2020, 18:01
The dancer’s taste is eclectic if nothing else, judging by the sale of items from his Co Cork estate

The Hags collective: ‘After months of lockdown, it’s like being let free to fly’
- Culture
- November 2, 2020, 06:00
A group of female artists in their 60s, 70s and 80s have come together under the moniker Na Cailleacha, or the Hags

Shining a light on Ireland’s places of famine, death and rebellion
- Travel
- October 31, 2020, 06:00
‘Sites here are generally reluctant to use the expression ‘dark tourism’ because it implies a certain exploitation of people’

The town that kept Covid-19 out: ‘The message has got through here’
- Health & Family
- October 10, 2020, 06:10
Bettystown-Laytown in Co Meath has remained virtually free of Covid-19. How?

My sister Dara Fitzpatrick ‘was more than a pilot and more than her death’
- Books
- October 4, 2020, 06:00
Niamh Fitzpatrick, psychologist and sister of the late helicopter pilot, on grief and loss

The Debenhams picketers: ‘We are like a little family’
- People
- September 19, 2020, 06:00
What has driven the former shop workers to mount one of the longest pickets in Irish history?

KUWTK: The juggernaut that kept on trucking
- TV, Radio, Web
- September 9, 2020, 13:04
Final season of Keeping Up with the Kardashians will air early in 2021

Thiago Osorio Cortes: ‘He was my fiance, but he was my best friend as well’
- Irish News
- September 4, 2020, 17:15
Brazilian (28) fatally injured while working as Deliveroo rider proposed to partner before lockdown

Rosita Boland: ‘I knew what was going to happen. The dog would be killed’
- People
- August 28, 2020, 06:00
Had I done the right thing? Should I have tried to call someone? But who?

Sarah Crossan: ‘People say they don’t approve of books about affairs’
- Books
- August 25, 2020, 05:00
Women in particular have been judgmental about her story of an extramarital affair

Roundstone’s lost summer: ‘Within an hour, most of my bookings were wiped out’
- People
- August 22, 2020, 06:00
The ‘D4 of Connemara’ struggled through summer 2020. Then came fresh restrictions

Rosita Boland: Either that beard goes or she does
- People
- August 21, 2020, 06:00
My father made a Faustian pact with my brother: a Concorde for his beard

36 hours on Northern Ireland’s Causeway Coast: ‘Everyone is having a wild time’
- Ireland
- August 15, 2020, 06:00
Towns are ‘buzzing’ but tourists are confused by different rules in the North and South

Without visitors, my home became an empty doll’s house
- People
- August 14, 2020, 00:00
Rosita Boland: My encounter with a toy house echoed what I’d lost during lockdown

Meet the Bearman of Buncrana: ‘I knew about Joe Exotic for years’
- People
- August 8, 2020, 06:00
Bears and wolves among the animals living at solicitor’s newly opened wildlife sanctuary

24 hours in Bundoran: ‘The town is mental. No one expected it to be so busy’
- Travel
- August 1, 2020, 06:30
The Donegal town is enjoying an unexpected tourist boom in the wake of lockdown

The 40 best Irish fictional characters – in order
- Culture
- August 1, 2020, 05:00
From Nidge and Connell Waldron to Gretta Conroy, Rashers Tierney and Pegeen Mike

At home in Birr Castle: ‘There are about 80 rooms, not as many as you’d think’
- Homes & Property
- August 1, 2020, 00:00
Held by the same family for centuries, the Castle is full of treasures and oddities

The Irish Times nude cover that never saw the light of day
- Fine Art & Antiques
- July 25, 2020, 06:00
Magazine was pulped after chairman ‘went ballistic’, but a copy has emerged for sale

36 hours in Ireland’s busiest tourist town: ‘We’re missing the Americans’
- Travel
- July 18, 2020, 06:00
Heavily reliant on North American visitors, Killarney has seen tourism drop sharply

David McWilliams: ‘Ireland is three decisions away from being a perfect country’
- Culture
- July 13, 2020, 20:00
McWilliams and Dermot Bannon were the first guests at the Irish Times Summer Nights Festival

The Chiffon Trenches: André Leon Talley’s bitchy, enjoyable memoir of half a century of excess
- Books
- July 13, 2020, 06:05
The long-time creative director at Vogue recounts the high life he lived around fashion

A blessing, not a burden – An Irishwoman’s Diary on rejecting ageist stereotypes
- Opinion
- July 13, 2020, 00:01

Hazel Chu: ‘The Green Party needs new leadership and a system overhaul’
- People
- July 11, 2020, 06:00
Dublin’s new Lord Mayor wants a new party leader, and to ‘make a difference’ for the city

During lockdown I did not bake, teach myself anything or read a book
- People
- July 8, 2020, 06:05
I struggled through the lockdown as if stupefied, suspended in perpetual paralysis

Vacation once again: A night at a campsite, a five-star hotel and a full-Irish B&B
- Ireland
- July 5, 2020, 06:00
Irish Times journalists sample the post-lockdown tourism experience

‘I am the only person in the pool.’ A postlockdown stay at a landmark Dublin hotel
- Ireland
- June 30, 2020, 12:45
The newly reopened Shelbourne hotel smells overwhelmingly of cleaning products

Irish Women in Harmony record Cranberries song in aid of Safe Ireland
- Music
- June 19, 2020, 12:20
Una Healy, Saint Sister, Imelda May and Soulé among 39 singers on cover of Dreams

Some pubs are reopening. Here’s everything you need to know about how it will work
- Food & Drink
- June 18, 2020, 17:47
Pubs that serve food can open their doors on June 29th if they follow Fáilte Ireland’s rules

Crisis Text Line launches 24-hour mental health service
- Health & Family
- June 16, 2020, 06:01
HSE-funded 24-hour texting service moves from pilot stage to countrywide rollout

Post-lockdown shopping: Every outlet has different rules
- Life & Style
- June 13, 2020, 06:00
One lets me try anything on. Another nothing. In a third, I can try a dress over my clothes

‘The patriarchy and power: an insult to me, to women’
- Books
- June 13, 2020, 06:00
Susanna Moore’s memoir is delivered with calm serenity, which makes for some devastating reading

Shopping reopens on Henry Street. ‘Masks? What’s the point in wearing them?’
- Life & Style
- June 8, 2020, 16:05
After three months at home, people are keen to get out. But safety rules could make life tricky

Rosita Boland: The ache for distant places remains
- Travel
- June 6, 2020, 06:00
Only 5% of world’s population has been on a plane. Maybe we’ll cherish it more next time

Oliver Callan: ‘I was a perfect candidate for exploitation’
- Culture
- June 6, 2020, 06:00
‘I came out to someone, and it was used as a controlling mechanism against me’

Meghan Markle makes impassioned and moving plea on George Floyd killing
- People
- June 5, 2020, 13:00
Duchess of Sussex tells students to use their vote in video message to graduating class

Come for the houses but stay for the drama: Selling Sunset is back
- Homes & Property
- May 26, 2020, 11:03
Netflix’s reality series follows the beautiful people who sell high-end Los Angeles homes

Ignatius and Mary O’Connell obituaries: ‘They died together. There's some small solace in that’
- People
- May 21, 2020, 12:15
Lives lost to Covid-19: Couple of almost 60 years died within three days of each other

So Trump’s valet has tested positive for coronavirus. Wait, the president has a valet?
- People
- May 12, 2020, 13:03
He has five, in fact, to see to his every need. It all sounds a bit Jeeves and Wooster

The opera lover, the Jesuit, the GAA star... 19 of the lives lost to Covid-19
- People
- May 9, 2020, 06:00
The public, private and very full lives of some of those who have died of Covid-19 in recent weeks

Tourism in Co Clare: ‘We will lose our céad míle fáilte if we have to socially distance’
- Ireland
- May 9, 2020, 06:00
Businesses are considering halving prices and chartering planes to keep their industry alive

Teresa Kelly obituary: ‘Selfless’ mother and homemaker
- People
- May 9, 2020, 00:00
Lives lost to Covid-19: ‘What she valued most in people was honesty and them being down to earth’

Brigid Sreenan obituary: A love of knitting and legacy of craft
- People
- May 9, 2020, 00:00
Lives lost to Covid-19: An independent woman who would not tolerate bullies

Betty Hart obituary: A ‘ball of energy’ who regularly walked, cycled and swam at the local leisure centre
- People
- May 9, 2020, 00:00
Lives lost to Covid-19: ‘She always said her 60s were the best decade of her life’

Florence Wylie obituary: Businesswoman with a keen interest in fashion
- People
- May 9, 2020, 00:00
Lives lost to Covid-19: ‘It was one of those drapery shops that sold everything from bras to buttons to zips’

Francis (Frank) Musgrave obituary: A hard worker who valued old-fashioned honesty
- People
- May 9, 2020, 00:00
Dubliner died on March 29th, two days before his Covid-19 test came back positive

Patricia Kelly obituary: ‘She was out every day, between bridge and golf and aqua aerobics’
- People
- May 9, 2020, 00:00
Lives lost to Covid-19: Patricia Kelly had a lifelong love of music and opera

James Hynes obituary: a caring man who was a life-long fan of Mayo and the GAA
- People
- May 9, 2020, 00:00
Lives lost to Covid-19: he gave up much of his time training junior teams, and treated the weakest player the same as the stronges(...)

Rosita Boland: I learned to be a better person in Bewley’s
- Food & Drink
- May 7, 2020, 15:52
I spent hours in the Dublin cafe, yet no waitress ever tried to clear my table as I sat there

Helplines during Covid-19: ‘There is an awful lot more drinking going on at home’
- People
- April 26, 2020, 06:00
Difficult domestic situations are now unbearable, say Childline, Samaritans and Women’s Aid

Rural cocooning: ‘I’ve been self-isolating for the last 10 years’
- Food & Drink
- April 18, 2020, 06:00
Volunteers are bringing meals to isolated older people during the Covid-19 pandemic

‘It’s rough living alone during coronavirus lockdown’
- Health & Family
- April 13, 2020, 06:00
Nightly video calls have become essential to stop me going out of my mind

A small-town lockdown: ‘We are all drinking much more now at home’
- Irish News
- April 11, 2020, 04:32
In Mountrath and Nenagh, fallout from the crisis is evident, as is a spirit of perseverance

Good News: Pandas finally get jiggy with it, and five other things making us happy today
- People
- April 8, 2020, 13:30
Going on a bear hunt, flatshare lockdowns, Covid-19 doctors show their true selves

Good news: Seven things that made us happy today
- People
- April 6, 2020, 16:00
Leo and an art bot, touring an Everest base camp, analysing Covid-19 dreams, putting manners on our pantry

Coronavirus: Offer of arts grants ‘ill-conceived and tone deaf’
- Culture
- April 5, 2020, 20:58
Arts community ‘dismayed’ at Government plans to support the sector during crisis

‘Free is insulting’: Theatre awards winners vent on funding proposals
- Stage
- April 4, 2020, 18:04
Recipients of Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards discuss challenges of Covid-19 crisis facing artists

Coronavirus and carers: ‘I am so scared right now’
- Health & Family
- April 4, 2020, 06:30
Three carers on working during the Covid-19 crisis, and how they are coping

Covid-19 jargon buster: What are ‘the curve’, R0 and the NPHET?
- Health & Family
- April 3, 2020, 06:00
How to read a coronavirus story without getting bamboozled, and remember who’s who

I was on the Peru rescue flight. This is what happened
- Abroad
- March 31, 2020, 14:49
Coronavirus: Ciara Hogan was at a jungle yoga course when Peru went into lockdown

‘Mute your mic when you chew’ – 10 rules of virtual dinner parties
- Food & Drink
- March 26, 2020, 23:29
The host of one of many ‘virtual parties’ this weekend has set a few ground rules

‘Am I worried about coronavirus? Nah. I just got engaged’
- Health
- March 23, 2020, 11:44
It’s eerily quiet at Johannesburg airport as expats and tourists prepare to travel home

Ireland’s abandoned babies: ‘Stories of unimaginable fear’
- Health & Family
- January 11, 2020, 06:15
Over five decades dozens of newborns have been abandoned, most recently in 2016

First Look: Inside The Mayson, Dublin’s new Docklands hotel
- Travel
- December 17, 2019, 06:10
Cocktail shakers are the new kettle in the slick rooms in this North Wall Quay hotel

‘There will always be two groups in Achill now’
- Social Affairs
- December 7, 2019, 06:00
24-hour protests continue against the acceptance of asylum seekers on Achill Island

Empty direct provision housing in Achill is costing Government €350,000
- Social Affairs
- December 7, 2019, 02:24
State is paying for the accommodation while protests prevent 38 asylum seekers moving in

Ritchie died alone at home, and lay undiscovered for six months
- People
- November 22, 2019, 11:59
How did the body of a man with friends and routines go for so long without being found?

Dublin Airport food: the most popular meal, cheapest coffee and bestselling pint
- Food & Drink
- November 17, 2019, 06:00
For some passengers, the airport’s 40 food outlets are too expensive and limited

Meet the woman who packs your online shopping, and carries a ‘gun’
- Food & Drink
- November 9, 2019, 06:35
As a ‘picker’ with a supermarket delivery service Marie McMahon never stops moving

Settled into an Irish cottage, Peig style
- Homes & Property
- November 9, 2019, 06:00
Artist Maria Simonds-Gooding settled in Dunquin in the 1960s in a Blasket islander’s cottage

Galway’s Lonely Planet award: ‘I don’t see how we will cope’
- Ireland
- October 27, 2019, 06:00
Galway is struggling with capacity problems and homelessness. A new travel award will not help

Six months on the Blasket: ‘People accused us of ruining it’
- People
- October 18, 2019, 12:00
‘People are protective of island life. They said we would attract more tourists’

‘Ask your husband to buy you one’: the mad world of 1960s kitchen ads
- Interiors
- October 12, 2019, 00:00
The kitchen was sold as the domain of the woman – with the man paying for everything

Hidden for 40 years: Renia Spiegel’s second World War diary
- Books
- September 28, 2019, 06:00
For decades, Elizabeth could not bring herself to read the diary of her late sister

Samantha Power: I called Hillary Clinton a monster, but I didn’t mean it
- People
- September 13, 2019, 14:54
Obama’s UN ambassador on her traumatic Irish childhood, Trump and ‘that’ interview

New Liffey Street plaza: ‘Madness, What’s the point of all the multi-storey car parks now?’
- People
- September 6, 2019, 12:00
Pedestrians and business owners give their views on plans for the new Dublin plaza

Why do Irish nursing homes have such bad press?
- Health & Family
- August 25, 2019, 06:00
Partly, it’s fear of the unknown. We visit a Galway home to see what life inside is like

First Look: Inside the Marlin, Dublin’s new €55m hotel
- Ireland
- August 21, 2019, 06:00
Everything is Insta-ready, from a giant stylised tree to a Vespa and retro phone booth

The nuns of Leap: ‘We refuse to go along with modernism’
- People
- August 17, 2019, 06:00
Most days, Mother Irene and Sr Anne Marie barely break silence. Today is different

Ground rules for car-free College Green: patronising and bizarre
- People
- July 27, 2019, 06:00
Dublin City Council turns traffic-free Sunday into an ‘event’ requiring stern warnings

Married to Gene Kelly: 'He didn't seem that old to me'
- Life & Style
- July 21, 2019, 06:00
Film star's widow on curating her husband's archive, and the 47-year age gap

Cabinet of Curiosities: what new wonders await at the Dead Zoo?
- Heritage
- July 12, 2019, 06:00
Natural History Museum displays new exhibition on theme of ‘predator and prey’

Ireland, 1984: A year of fierce debates and ‘mounting evils’
- Heritage
- July 6, 2019, 06:00
Ann Lovett, Joanne Hayes, Majella Moynihan – all victims of the highly conservative society of 1984

The town that got over a flood, a recession and a bypass
- Life & Style
- June 29, 2019, 06:00
In 2014, Gort was identified as the place in Ireland hit hardest by the recession

Podcast: Atlantic – The Unsolved Mystery of Peter Bergmann, Episode 3: The Black Notice
- Atlantic
- June 17, 2019, 12:30
In Episode 3 of the new Irish Times original podcast, Senior Features Writer Rosita Boland wonders whether a decade-long mystery w(...)

Podcast: Atlantic – The Unsolved Mystery of Peter Bergmann, Episode 2: The Golden Man
- Atlantic
- June 16, 2019, 06:30
In Part 2 of a new Irish Times original podcast, Senior Features Writer Rosita Boland reveals more hidden secrets about the man wh(...)

The unsolved mystery of Peter Bergmann
- People
- June 15, 2019, 06:35
Ten years ago a man was found dead on Rosses Point beach. Who was he?

New podcast: Atlantic – The Unsolved Mystery of Peter Bergmann, Episode 1: Land of Heart’s Desire
- Atlantic
- June 15, 2019, 06:00
In a new Irish Times original podcast, Senior Features Writer Rosita Boland explores in detail the decade-long mystery of a man wh(...)

Rosita Boland: What I’ve learned from 30 years travelling the world
- Travel
- May 25, 2019, 06:00
Exclusive extract from Elsewhere: One Woman, One Rucksack, One Lifetime of Travel