Jason Byrne

‘This book is like my final session with a therapist,” Dr Rosaleen McDonagh says with a smile. “It’s like it’s all been wrapped up now.”  Travel(...)

Artist Fiona Breheny donated works to Jack & Jill’s Incognito fundraising art sale three years ago before she knew her husband’s niece was about t(...)

When Saoirse Gill was born in a Sydney hospital four years ago, she was “jittery” and her Irish parents, who had lived in Australia for nearly 10 year(...)

You may have the best creative idea in the world, but it won’t come to anything if you don’t have the right place or proper equipment to produce it. F(...)

What is the biggest challenge you have faced in your life? Having children. No one teaches you how to raise them; you need a license for a dog but no(...)

On Sunday morning at Electric Picnic, The Academic were doing a soundcheck in the Today FM SoundGarden when a group of curious passersby gathered to w(...)

Current favourite book I travel on my own so much that I rely on books. I’ve just finished This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor b(...)

Cork Midsummer Festival Cork City, June 13th-23rd; corkmidsummer.com The Rebel County's family-friendly festival takes place in venues all o(...)

GET BACK TO NATURE Dublin City Farm St Anne’s Park, Raheny; free; dublincityfarm.com Dublin County Council’s first urban farm has only been open(...)

DUBLIN Bloom Phoenix Park, Dublin 8; until Monday, June 3; bloominthepark.com Ireland’s answer to the Chelsea Flower Show, Bord Bia’s annual extravag(...)