Recent sufferers from the virus describe how they got it and how it has affected them

Sheila Shelton was adopted by a couple in the US from a Tipperary mother and baby home

Women who housed single pregnant girls in the 1970s and 1980s share their experiences

Rosita Boland: The events of the last year have followed us into this one

The Tetteroos live near Killarney and know at least six other practising druids in Kerry

2020 in review: There were picnics, Dubs in rural areas, no coaches and no American accents

The new normal is anything but normal, and social distancing is an oxymoron

Meet the people who have made a big difference to others in this strange, tough coronavirus year

'If there is a third lockdown in January, the next reopening after that would be very hard'

‘I became unemployed during the pandemic. I am excited to educate myself culturally here’

The dancer’s taste is eclectic if nothing else, judging by the sale of items from his Co Cork estate

A group of female artists in their 60s, 70s and 80s have come together under the moniker Na Cailleacha, or the Hags

‘Sites here are generally reluctant to use the expression ‘dark tourism’ because it implies a certain exploitation of people’

Bettystown-Laytown in Co Meath has remained virtually free of Covid-19. How?

Niamh Fitzpatrick, psychologist and sister of the late helicopter pilot, on grief and loss

What has driven the former shop workers to mount one of the longest pickets in Irish history?

Final season of Keeping Up with the Kardashians will air early in 2021

Brazilian (28) fatally injured while working as Deliveroo rider proposed to partner before lockdown

Had I done the right thing? Should I have tried to call someone? But who?

Women in particular have been judgmental about her story of an extramarital affair

The ‘D4 of Connemara’ struggled through summer 2020. Then came fresh restrictions

My father made a Faustian pact with my brother: a Concorde for his beard

Towns are ‘buzzing’ but tourists are confused by different rules in the North and South

Rosita Boland: My encounter with a toy house echoed what I’d lost during lockdown

Bears and wolves among the animals living at solicitor’s newly opened wildlife sanctuary

The Donegal town is enjoying an unexpected tourist boom in the wake of lockdown

From Nidge and Connell Waldron to Gretta Conroy, Rashers Tierney and Pegeen Mike

Held by the same family for centuries, the Castle is full of treasures and oddities

Magazine was pulped after chairman ‘went ballistic’, but a copy has emerged for sale

Heavily reliant on North American visitors, Killarney has seen tourism drop sharply

McWilliams and Dermot Bannon were the first guests at the Irish Times Summer Nights Festival

The long-time creative director at Vogue recounts the high life he lived around fashion

Dublin’s new Lord Mayor wants a new party leader, and to ‘make a difference’ for the city

I struggled through the lockdown as if stupefied, suspended in perpetual paralysis

Irish Times journalists sample the post-lockdown tourism experience

The newly reopened Shelbourne hotel smells overwhelmingly of cleaning products

Una Healy, Saint Sister, Imelda May and Soulé among 39 singers on cover of Dreams

Pubs that serve food can open their doors on June 29th if they follow Fáilte Ireland’s rules

HSE-funded 24-hour texting service moves from pilot stage to countrywide rollout

One lets me try anything on. Another nothing. In a third, I can try a dress over my clothes

Susanna Moore’s memoir is delivered with calm serenity, which makes for some devastating reading

After three months at home, people are keen to get out. But safety rules could make life tricky

Only 5% of world’s population has been on a plane. Maybe we’ll cherish it more next time

‘I came out to someone, and it was used as a controlling mechanism against me’

Duchess of Sussex tells students to use their vote in video message to graduating class

Netflix’s reality series follows the beautiful people who sell high-end Los Angeles homes

Lives lost to Covid-19: Couple of almost 60 years died within three days of each other

He has five, in fact, to see to his every need. It all sounds a bit Jeeves and Wooster

The public, private and very full lives of some of those who have died of Covid-19 in recent weeks

Businesses are considering halving prices and chartering planes to keep their industry alive

Lives lost to Covid-19: ‘What she valued most in people was honesty and them being down to earth’

Lives lost to Covid-19: An independent woman who would not tolerate bullies

Lives lost to Covid-19: ‘She always said her 60s were the best decade of her life’

Lives lost to Covid-19: ‘It was one of those drapery shops that sold everything from bras to buttons to zips’

Dubliner died on March 29th, two days before his Covid-19 test came back positive

Lives lost to Covid-19: Patricia Kelly had a lifelong love of music and opera

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I spent hours in the Dublin cafe, yet no waitress ever tried to clear my table as I sat there

Difficult domestic situations are now unbearable, say Childline, Samaritans and Women’s Aid

Volunteers are bringing meals to isolated older people during the Covid-19 pandemic

Nightly video calls have become essential to stop me going out of my mind

In Mountrath and Nenagh, fallout from the crisis is evident, as is a spirit of perseverance

Going on a bear hunt, flatshare lockdowns, Covid-19 doctors show their true selves

Leo and an art bot, touring an Everest base camp, analysing Covid-19 dreams, putting manners on our pantry

Arts community ‘dismayed’ at Government plans to support the sector during crisis

Recipients of Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards discuss challenges of Covid-19 crisis facing artists

Three carers on working during the Covid-19 crisis, and how they are coping

How to read a coronavirus story without getting bamboozled, and remember who’s who

Coronavirus: Ciara Hogan was at a jungle yoga course when Peru went into lockdown

The host of one of many ‘virtual parties’ this weekend has set a few ground rules

It’s eerily quiet at Johannesburg airport as expats and tourists prepare to travel home

Over five decades dozens of newborns have been abandoned, most recently in 2016

Cocktail shakers are the new kettle in the slick rooms in this North Wall Quay hotel

24-hour protests continue against the acceptance of asylum seekers on Achill Island

State is paying for the accommodation while protests prevent 38 asylum seekers moving in

How did the body of a man with friends and routines go for so long without being found?

For some passengers, the airport’s 40 food outlets are too expensive and limited

As a ‘picker’ with a supermarket delivery service Marie McMahon never stops moving

Artist Maria Simonds-Gooding settled in Dunquin in the 1960s in a Blasket islander’s cottage

Galway is struggling with capacity problems and homelessness. A new travel award will not help

‘People are protective of island life. They said we would attract more tourists’

The kitchen was sold as the domain of the woman – with the man paying for everything

For decades, Elizabeth could not bring herself to read the diary of her late sister

Obama’s UN ambassador on her traumatic Irish childhood, Trump and ‘that’ interview

Pedestrians and business owners give their views on plans for the new Dublin plaza

Partly, it’s fear of the unknown. We visit a Galway home to see what life inside is like

Everything is Insta-ready, from a giant stylised tree to a Vespa and retro phone booth

Most days, Mother Irene and Sr Anne Marie barely break silence. Today is different

Dublin City Council turns traffic-free Sunday into an ‘event’ requiring stern warnings

Film star's widow on curating her husband's archive, and the 47-year age gap

Natural History Museum displays new exhibition on theme of ‘predator and prey’

Ann Lovett, Joanne Hayes, Majella Moynihan – all victims of the highly conservative society of 1984

In 2014, Gort was identified as the place in Ireland hit hardest by the recession

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