Marc Scully

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Passengers at the departure gates at terminal 1 in Dublin airport on Thursday. Photograph: Colin Keegan/Collins
Ireland’s Covid travel debate shaped by a peculiar blindness

The public debate in Ireland since the pandemic struck has revealed a prevalent assumption that travelling outside the island means going on holiday. (...)

Seán Sorohan:"I know it's sad, but I do get a little thrill pulling out the Irish passport - my whole life I've been telling people I'm Irish with my London accent and now I've got the paper to prove it!"
‘I felt quite emotional’: The new Irish citizens in Britain

Matthew Semple was aware of his family’s Irish roots growing up in Bristol in the 1970s and 80s – his grandmother, who had migrated from Wat(...)

‘Gender and sexuality have consistently acted as drivers of emigration from Ireland, independently of the economic situation of the time.’ Photograph: iStock/Getty Images
Economics isn’t the only reason emigrants come home. Referendums play a role too

“Wondering how many “so, should we move back” conversations happening around Irish kitchen tables in Britain this weekend?” So tweeted the Channel 4 (...)

Seán Bailey. Photograph: John Knutson
When I held the letter of congratulations for my Irish passport application, I cried

Mary McEvoy Bailey emigrated to the US in 1886 with her young son, my grandfather Joseph, in tow. The sudden paralysis and later death of her husband (...)