Rosita Boland witnesses the final day of the local post office in Ballindine, Co Mayo - pop. 349

Evan Davis gave the annual Hubert Butler lecture at Kilkenny Arts Festival. Other highlights included a gaze-activated dress

The buses are waiting and local craftspeople have set out their wares when the big liners come calling

What happens when a city becomes too expensive to sustain its creative community? David Kitt’s remarks about Dublin’s high rents h(...)

Galway International Arts Festival review: President’s address, and hit show ‘Flight’

The county is experiencing an epidemic of road safety issues, with tragic results

Belfast poet Stephen Sexton takes award for poets under 30

What really goes on in the Majorcan resorts? Drinking, drinking and more drinking

Paul Muldoon’s long poem in memory of his former partner is premiering as a theatre piece at the Galway Arts Festival with a perfo(...)

The 19th-century ornithologist who hit upon a novel way of tracking bird migration

Food markets, petrol pumps of wine and coffee all part of the Italian experience

Virtually everyone has been here several times, or will return. Clear-cut cases are rare

Ann Lovett died in 1984 after giving birth at a grotto in Granard, Co Longford – a tragedy that continues to resonate. Here, Ann’s(...)

Muriel Slevin has lived with her ill son in hospital since 2014. He is due out but they have nowhere to go

The GMIT training restaurant gives culinary students a chance to perfect their skills

The 15-year-old who died after giving birth at a grotto in Granard would have turned 50 in April

It is said the stitches in Aran jumpers were like unique family crests. Could this be true?

A book published in 1996 gave insights as to how the great and good of Ireland entertained

Nine dead male Irish writers and no women – but Marian Keyes and Maeve Binchy are on a shortlist

A tour at the Chester Beatty uses artefacts as a visual springboard into past events

This true crime book about a serial rapist – to be made into a Netflix series – is an important piece of reporting but it fails to(...)

10 years after Moate was bypassed, finding parking is easy. Running a business is not

Assault, drink-driving, parents who do not talk ... It’s all in a day’s work for the District Court

At least 200 people adopted from Ireland to the US in the 1940s-1960s fear for their future

You outline what a community bookshop could do for the rural towns you live in

The Blasket Island storyteller received visitors in a Dublin hospital 66 years ago today

Books@One, a community initiative, has the potential to reinvigorate Irish towns

The parents of Milly Tuomey (11) want a suicide prevention body to be established

Response ‘would have warranted an immediate assessment, treatment and support’

The kindness of neighbours: Fuel for the fire and a hundred chats over the wall

The death of the New Delhi student sparked a wave of protest but her parents say the situation for women is now worse

Up to 50 homeless men from eastern Europe avail of Mendicity Institution’s services

‘You can’t tell us a story about Trevor that we haven’t heard,’ says his brother Mark

Next week, Spike Island in Co Cork could be named world’s best tourist attraction. Is it?

Laura Ingalls Wilder’s oeuvre of a pioneer family had a flexible relationship with truth

Theta Omnicron, a 100-strong fraternity, is unknown even to most current students

Householder asks: ‘If we fix it all up, what happens next week, next month or next year?’

Food month: Once aimed at home-makers, the subject now targets a wide range of students with focus on balanced diets and food labe(...)

Being a living kidney donor to his wife `scares the bejaysus’ out of Mark Gilnagh

An ad-hoc food bank at the Boyle Family Resource centre has seen a surge in demand from local families and beyond

Part panto, part theatre, part medieval-themed cabaret, the banquet at Bunratty Castle has been serving visitors since 1963. So ho(...)

The broadcaster shares her thoughts on grief and regret, politics and poetry with Rosita Boland

Homeowners on opening their houses to the public for the architectural festival

After six hopeful weeks, investigation in Chapelizod fails to bring closure to 17-year campaign

With more than 40,000 acres of orchards, Armagh is well stocked for its annual food and cider festival

Nicola Wall and Brian Scallan share their experiences of a widely misunderstood disorder

National Ploughing Association director Anna May McHugh looks back on her 66-year career

David and Denise Heather’s retirement marks the loss of another independent store

Ireland’s Islands: A restaurant and cookery school put Cork’s Hare Island on the map

As I sit, I see drug deals, fights, begging and urination into the Liffey. All in broad daylight

The first in the author’s volume reads like a stream-of-consciousness over 25 years

The RNLI’s volunteers are the essential ingredient in any rescue operation

The Taoiseach’s West Dublin constituency is one of Ireland’s most socially divided areas

‘I come with the experience of finding the stories that need to be told,’ says Chris Baldwin

Broadside: To an outsider, the book-club cult looks as exclusive as the Bilderberg Group

Number of Presentation sisters using the house had dwindled to single figures

The singer who had a hit at nine talks showbiz, ‘Grease’ and Michael Jackson’s snake

Jam-packed programme for 10-day celebration of food and drink

Its population is rising, its buildings are full. How did Kildorrery, Co Cork, pull itself out of decline?

Carers in Crisis: Theresa Kinsella (82) has significant dementia but must care for her intellectually disabled daughter Fiona (52)

Adult daughter with intellectual disabilities on residential waiting list for 13 years

The very busy BBC presenter sportingly answers a mixed-bag of questions

The Belfast poet on his latest collection and the ‘clickety-clickety-click’ thrill of writing

Broadside: No to bad smells and wet floors. Yes to spacious stalls and sensible sinks

Interview: The Senator and ‘computer virgin’ has no regrets over the 2011 presidential election

Galway Arts Centre show ‘Becoming Christine’ highlights woman’s transgender journey

The late author’s husband says his memories of her are so good he ‘can never really be sad’

After one assault I’d three broken ribs, a broken cheekbone and bruising all over my body

He pioneered awake craniotomy and, at 67, is still getting inside people’s heads

With 80m unexploded bombs in the ground, it is usual to see defused ordnance in gardens

Many victims of cluster bomb explosions suffer horrific injuries and often lose limbs

The US dropped 270 million bombs on Laos during the Vietnam war. More than 40 years later, the devices are still killing people

Self-harm, anxiety and trauma have all increased in recent years, says Prof Jim Lucey

Face the 50: The X-ile Project's online gallery of women who shared experiences of abortion has grown to 50 photos

A new book charts the journey of a young man and woman from ‘rape to reconciliation’

The author’s latest book ‘When Light Is Like Water’ explores themes of home – though it’s not a memoir, she explains

Census figures reveal that the Cavan town is the least occupied municipality in Ireland

Inflexibility of Fair Deal scheme limits homecare options for people with disabilities

Catholic and Protestant communities fought recession together, but integration is slow

A love of flying through the air, clowning and juggling is taken to new levels

Start-ups by women in rural Ireland benefit from low overheads, a mentoring network and conversation without ‘bullsh**t’

With 150 demonstrators around the country, devotees are never far from a party

In November 2012, Paula and Padraic Naughton were told their three sons, Archie, George and Isaac, had Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy(...)

Creator Apis Cor saved more than 70% on usual construction costs, including labour

Just two hours from Dublin, Portugal’s beautiful second city offers a range of delights

Former archbishop John Charles McQuaid is among those roaming the theatre long after the curtain comes down, say the theatre's bac(...)

If everyone observed Lent, even the rich and famous, it might look a bit like this ...

A Glenamaddy parish priest is facilitating busy parishioners on Ash Wednesday

Sinéad Moriarty's new novel explores Irish hospitals, euthanasia and unconditional love

Actor Stephen Rea on the late Nobel laureate’s warmth, wisdom and influence on his career

The first novel in new trilogy will come out in October, 17 years after the last instalment

Two powerful, famous, talented women acknowledging each other, and the societal challenges that being a woman still carries in 201(...)

The Mayo mansion saw decades of tension between its owners and the town they created

Almost 80 puppies will square up against each other as the Ruffs take on the Fluffs – and Kitty Gaga will perform at halftime

The team are among the nominees for the annual Outsider awards, for achievements in Ireland’s outdoor and adventure scene

Tourist-friendly developments show a city brimming with newfound confidence

Belfast journalist Lyra McKee’s account of being gay in a hostile environment has been turned into a short film

Gifts for Prince Charles included fishing flies and toiletries on a visit to Donegal last May

Rosita Boland spends a night in the president-elect's County Clare hotel

Rosita Boland has a world exclusive interview with the man of the moment