Gay
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‘When you are a person of colour in Ireland people don’t see you as gay’
- People
- April 14, 2021, 06:00
When Pradeep Mahadeshwar was growing up in Mumbai he regularly saw members of the city’s transgender and intersex community – known as hijra – in the (...)
National Library announces year-long LGBTI+ programme
- Irish News
- March 30, 2021, 12:34
A year-long programme exploring Irish LGBTI+ identity and experiences over the last several decades to the present has been announced by the National (...)
John Spillane: ‘Why can’t you sing about Ballincollig if you can sing about Phoenix, Arizona?’
- Music
- March 27, 2021, 05:00
“Thou dost have more hair than when last we met,” says John Spillane when my hairy face appears on his screen. “That’s a line from Coriolanus. I did i(...)
Covid-19: Australia suspends travel bubble over latest NZ outbreak
- Asia-Pacific
- February 14, 2021, 08:55
Australia has suspended quarantine-free travel with neighbouring New Zealand after three new community cases of Covid-19 were detected in Auckland ove(...)
Searing account of the sick soul of cycling still sadly relevant
- Other Sports
- February 13, 2021, 07:00
Summer 1990, and somewhere between finishing my Leaving Cert and going to run in college in America, my dad arrives home with a sports book under his (...)
Dublin film-maker David Shaw-Smith has died
- Irish News
- January 19, 2021, 22:35
David Shaw-Smith, the Dublin film-maker whose deep interest in the world of traditional crafts led to the celebrated Hands television series, has died(...)
In a Word . . . assassination
- Culture
- November 21, 2020, 00:30
It is safe to say there are few among our 2020 batch of new pensioners who don’t remember where they were on November 22nd, 1963. They would have bee(...)
Huge support for former Wallabies player who has come out as gay
- Rugby
- October 31, 2020, 06:00
There has been an outpouring of support for Dan Palmer, the Australian former rugby union player, after he became the first Wallabies player and just (...)
Toy shop operator: Kids ‘may have to take what they are given’ this year
- Consumer
- October 31, 2020, 01:00
Toy shop operators fear that parents – afraid they will be unable to secure must-have gifts for their children – will turn to major online retailers i(...)
Mairead McGuinness: journalist turned successful politician
- Politics
- September 4, 2020, 14:29
Fine Gael MEP Mairead McGuinness, who has been appointed as European commissioner in charge of financial services and financial stability, is a rare e(...)



