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

Review team dispatch CCTV footage to top firm in UK in pursuit of ‘forensic enhancement’

Mary and Denis McDonnell cannot get residential care for their disabled daughter

How service has improved life for family of 13-year-old boy with Down syndrome

From floral art to stylish pottery, the holiday season is awash with colour and comfort

A recent article on a family finding it hard to care for their child brought many responses

Challenge: a budget of €50 to buy gifts for four people; Result: perfect presents for less than €24; Feeling: smug

With a huge annual food budget and some picky eaters, the zoo must ensure its residents have an interesting menu

Women's writing for Women's Day: 32-year-old Siobhan Powell can't walk, speak or eat solid food. Her exhausted, frustrated parents(...)

Our Power to the People series concludes as we run the rule over domestic renewables

In the 1950s, the Rural Electrification Scheme transformed the country

In our new series, we look at how people reacted to the arrival of electricity 70 years ago

Ireland: a land of 100m people where abortion is legal and Protestants are ‘devils’. We visit Boston to meet Irish-Americans whose(...)

Alan Hawe’s violent killing of his family and then himself has devastated the community that the family belonged to, in this most (...)

State psychological services assisting teachers and students in Castlerahan and Oristown

Deep sense of shock in Co Cavan village where the Hawe family lived and died

Alarmed by his daughter’s daring endeavours in the air, Bland’s father promised to buy her a car if she would stop flying

South African Pastor Angus Buchan: ‘If I love my wife, she will gladly submit to me’

One west Cork writing group has had 108 publications. So why is group think so successful when it comes to literature?

This week’s Herstory on The Women’s Podcast is an Irish mathematician described by George Bernard Shaw as having “a literary style(...)

As forms were being dropped off and collected from households all over Ireland, a census of a different kind was circulating on so(...)

This week’s Herstory on The Women’s Podcast is a Cumann na mBan member and friend of Dev

The strange world of American artist David McDermott in his Mullingar mansion

This week’s Herstory on The Women’s Podcast is an 18th century Irish woman who first went onstage as a teenager

This new book by photographers Nutan and Yellow documents life almost 50 years ago

West Cork is home to the greatest concentration of British people living in Ireland. What do they think of Ireland – and Brexit?

Broadside: The celebrity family have an interesting message for young girls

When I finally did, in my 30s, it was like magic

Many of the young guests at St Vincent de Paul’s Sunshine House don’t know the regularity of three meals a day

Axis Arts Centre hopes to inspire young Dubliners to follow a creative path to the likes of the National College of Art and Design

More than 100 people drown each year in Ireland. Kayleigh Flynn drowned in 2009, at the age of 16. Her family tell her story and a(...)

After we published an anonymous account of life in St Ita's psychiatric institution, a photographer and a doctor were among reader(...)

Weekend Read: The brothers carved up Co Kerry and took the spoils of two Dáil seats. How did they do it? The voters in Healy-Rae K(...)

Girl wins a summer fellowship for PhD students to design a robot to paint street art

There’s a severe dearth of women in portaits on Irish walls, and the Royal Irish Academy is doing its bit to redress the balance

This is the story of Gerald, from a fluent but sad letter dated September 1st, 1912. He was admitted on April 17th, 1901

A clinician’s eye-opening observations about the facility, from the 1950s on, have come to light

Rosita Boland: I do not like having my national identity pinned to a language I never use and cannot speak

Weekend Read: The Cliffs of Moher are now one of Ireland’s top attractions, but in 1964 the fields leading to them were almost sol(...)

About 1,000 of Ireland’s 7,200 Airbnb hosts are in their 60s. Two such hosts, one from Clontarf and one from Mayo, reveal what led(...)

The ‘In Sight’ project provided disposable cameras for 45 people living on streets.

This newspaper dismissed Edward Keegan when he left his desk to fight in the Easter Rising. Now, to honour him, it has bought his (...)

Weekend Read: the tiny Himalayan country, which long ago decided to limit tourism, has decided it’s time to welcome more visitors.(...)

Military will not want to lose control of power regardless of people’s will

Rosita Boland’s reports from India describe a country where children are kidnapped routinely, 27 women are killed every day, and 4(...)

You expect parents to be heartbroken if a daughter disappears, but in Delhi things are more complex, Rosita Boland writes in the s(...)

At the MacGill Summer School in 2008 the playwright, a famously reluctant interviewee, finally agreed to talk to ‘The Irish Times’

With its crazy talk of flying cars and Jennifer Aniston’s broodiness, it seems Old Moore’s Almanac was on the gin when making its (...)

A recent exhibition at the city museum showcased the county’s rich history of lace. Well, if it’s good enough for Kate Middleton .(...)

In 1989 ‘The Irish Times’ reported on Kiltimagh, Co Mayo, one of many towns then blighted by emigration. A boom and a bust later, (...)

If you’re looking for a relaxing holiday in luxurious surroundings, an upmarket river cruise could be the answer

There are a number of current European queens but, for most people here, there’s only one Queen to rule them all

Old Moore’s Almanac had a less than stellar August, as anyone eagerly awaiting a heatwave in Ireland can attest

What’s your least favourite piece of public art? Is it the mad moons on sticks near Kinnegad? the semi- submerged violin near Long(...)

Co Laois town, bypassed during recession, is seeing slow growth but it is ‘very, very fragile’

‘You can see the impact of recession in towns, just by how many people are idle’

‘People are starting to relax’ but June’s news that 115 would lose their jobs was a setback

Tourists have an endless capacity for daftness. That’s what our correspondent learned while being an apple-pie-making bean an tí f(...)