Yeats’s very first oil painting to go on sale next month

Adam’s and De Vere’s sales offer a chance to purchase work from Ireland’s top artists

Auction results: Postcards from history and a stuffed baboon

What sold and what’s coming up in the auction rooms

Man crushed by bull died of head injuries, inquest hears

Kieran Byrne from Cadamstown, Kinnity, Co Offaly, died in Beaumont Hospital in Dublin

Call for an end to Presidents taking religious oaths

Atheist Ireland campaigns against exclusion of conscientious atheists from public office

‘Tsunami of vulnerable people’ worried over impact of Brexit

Veteran activist Bernadette McAliskey says migrants in panic and fear over where they will stand post-Brexit

Several thousand march through Derry for city’s annual Pride parade

March led by those who were prominent in the civil rights movement

Call for ‘legal pathway’ to allow under-16s self-declare gender identity

Free Legal Advice Centres (FLAC) says courts should be required to take interests of child into account

‘When I talk to the Taoiseach about class, he thinks communism’

Senator Lynn Ruane says society must move away from blaming those in poverty

Who is Justice Aileen Donnelly and why have her actions caused anger in Poland?

Judge suspended extradition of man to Poland over legal system changes there

An Irishman’s Diary: Connecticut’s Great Hunger Museum and the bagel maker who made it possible

Cleaner who overcharged Seán Dunne ‘flees solicitor’s office’ with deeds

Solicitor owed €100,000 from High Court case which found in Dunne’s favour

Illegal dumpers accused of ruining beauty spot

Westmeath residents want action after an increase in littering in north of the county

Direct provision is ‘killing our souls’, protest hears

Group marches in Dublin and calls for end to system for accommodating asylum seekers

Funeral of journalist Willie Collins told of ‘self-effacing’ man

Former assistant editor at Sunday Press worked at the Irish Press group for 36 years

Hunger striker turned lawyer in long-time fight for social justice

Michael Farrell earned his stripes in the bad old days of the Troubles before taking on human rights cases in the Republic

Call for parties to be pressed on constitutional rights

Michael Farrell says better protection for cultural, economic and social rights needed

Daryl Murphy full of confidence after ending goalless streak

Ipswich striker now keen to claim first goal for Ireland if called upon by Martin O’Neill

Upholsterer died after long needle pierced brain through eye

Brian Pimley (61) died after foot-long needle fatally injured him while working on chair

Lydia Foy becomes first transgender person to receive EU award

‘Hopefully we’ll have a more open mind and won’t be marginalising anybody,’ she says

‘My country finally recognised me for who I really am’

After long battle, Lydia Foy receives Irish birth certificate recognising her female gender

Lessons to be learnt from German experience with gender recognition

It was more than a legal issue for a German supreme court judge who is transgender

Transgender recognition Bill ‘flawed’, human rights lawyers say

Dr Lydia Foy expresses concern over exclusion of young people

Disarray after veto on joining human rights convention

The EU was left in disarray by the decision of the CJEU

Archive of human rights activist to be unveiled at NUI Galway

A visit to Detroit reminded Kevin Boyle ‘of the ghettos of Belfast’

Lydia Foy settles transgender birth cert case against State

Effective end of 21-year action based on Government intention to enact laws next year

Concussion on the political agenda

Leinster House told about one of the most serious issues to emerge in sport

More head injuries in A&E as concussion awareness grows

Committee told items such as scrum caps lead to ‘risk compensation’ among players

‘Wonderful life’ of Gordon Colleary recalled at his funeral

USIT founder ‘helped people realise their personal vision, or his personal vision as theirs’

Hume’s 1964 ‘Irish Times’ articles helped redefine nationalist attitudes to North

National public airing of principle of unity by consent

Thousands gather to remember Easter Rising in Dublin

Ministers of State welcome royal presence at 2016 commemorations

Flawed Gender Recognition Bill could benefit from changes

Opinion: Ireland is more isolated than ever in having failed to take action

A matchmaker for the cause of social justice

The Public Interest Law Alliance helps NGOs by pairing them with free legal muscle

Council of State calls for Constitution discussion on merits of religious oaths

Article could cause an ‘embarrassment to atheists, agnostics and humanists’

Poet laid to rest under shadow of sycamore trees

Priest says Bellaghy honoured that Heaney had chosen to be interred in his home town

Council of State meeting on abortion Bill ends

President Higgins must decide by Wednesday if Bill should be referred to Supreme Court

President must decide on Bill by Wednesday

Final preparations under way at Áras an Uachtaráin for first meeting of Council of State since President Higgins came to office

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