Brian Lynch

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Protesters outside the event in Belfast. Photograph: Amanda Ferguson
LGBT campaigners protest at conference run by Christian group in Belfast

LGBT campaigners have protested outside a conference on “same-sex attraction” run by a Christian group in Belfast. The conference is being run by the(...)

Illustration: Getty Images
Warning to Irish doctors as US children hit by polio-like condition

Irish doctors have been urged to be on the lookout for cases of a paralysing, polio-like condition that has affected hundreds of children in the US. (...)

Sarah Healy’s 1,500 metres time of 4:09.25 is some 10 seconds faster than the next best entrant.
Irish youth team travels with real medal hopes

It’s been a while since any Irish athletics team boasted so many medal prospects, especially with the O’Sullivan name among them. Even if it’s only th(...)

Sophie O’Sullivan is presented with a medal from her mother Sonia at the Cork City Sports last year. Photograph: Oisin Keniry/Inpho
Sophie O’Sullivan to make Irish debut next month

Sophie O’Sullivan, daughter of Olympic silver medallist Sonia O’Sullivan, will make her international debut in an Irish vest over 800 metres at the Eu(...)

Misha French Molloy is suffering from an invisible disease and, like an iceberg, her health problems lurk below the surface
Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: ‘if I had cancer, I would have more support’

All Misha Ffrench Molloy wants is to be a “normal” 14-year-old, whose biggest worries are her upcoming Junior Cert and what to wear to the next disco.(...)

The painful reality: some 880 children were waiting to see a paediatric rheumatology consultant in December 2017. Photograph: iStock
Juvenile idiopathic arthritis: the invisible disease 1,200 Irish children live with

Negative experiences in school are unfortunately quite common for children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), according to Wendy Costello, chai(...)

Amanda Geard, who was diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis, a form of arthritis, at 22.
Why are we still waiting? – the painful reality for over 15,000 arthritis sufferers

It started with a niggle. An itchy pressure at the back of my pelvis: distracting, annoying, omnipresent. It was 2003 and I felt in my prime. I was st(...)

Anglo Irish trial: David Drumm denies conspiracy to defraud and false accounting. Photograph: Collins Courts
Central Bank ‘didn’t query’ Anglo Irish liquidity report with Drumm

The Central Bank of Ireland didn’t query a report on the liquidity of Anglo Irish Bank that David Drumm discussed with them in October 2008, a witness(...)

Novena of poems: Caitríona Ní Chléirchín reads “In Memory of My Mother” at the graveside of Patrick Kavanagh in Inniskeen, Co Monaghan, as part of a tribute to mark the 50th anniversary of his death. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times
Poems and pipes: Kavanagh commemorated thus beautifully

It was “a day for the long johns”, as one of the older men present said to his neighbour. Nevertheless, 50 years after Patrick Kavanagh’s death on Nov(...)

Some of of Ireland’s finest writers and poets will gather to pay tribute to Kavanagh on the 50th anniversary of the poet’s death. Photograph courtesy of the Wiltshire Collection/National Library of Ireland
Poets gather for graveside reading of Kavanagh's work

In Iniskeen, Co Monaghan, the weather forecast predicted Thursday would be 4 degrees with showers (37 per cent chance of precipitation) and a bit(...)

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