Mary O Connor

The fear of cancer returning was one of the biggest hurdles for Mary O’Connor to get through after she had recovered from her breast surgery and treat(...)

There’s a story in Mary White’s book Relentless that begins with Rena Buckley driving through Macroom on a Saturday night in 2011. It’s just short of (...)

The funeral has taken place in Listowel of Mary Keane, the widow of the late playwright John B Keane. Ms Keane, who was born Mary O’Connor, died on S(...)

The Government has hit on an amazing new strategy for winning the election. Step one is to build up expectations for months about a mega new announ(...)

David Gray, who gives an extremely enlightening and at times poetic talk at Banter in Foxy John’s pub earlier in the evening with Jim Carroll, has pre(...)

A judge has asked the governor of Dóchas women’s prison to explain the policy of temporary release that resulted in a serial thief serving just three (...)

The new national children’s hospital in Dublin risks becoming a “magnet” for less serious cases unless the same standards of care are available in the(...)

Former solicitor Thomas Byrne has told his theft and fraud trial that he was under threat from property developer John Kelly to fund his “outlandish” (...)

Ireland’s recent past is a foreign country, the jury was told on the opening day of Thomas Byrne’s trial four weeks ago. Yesterday they took a guided (...)

Teenage dialysis patient Mary Bracken didn’t quite know what to make of artist Rachel Tynan when she arrived at her hospital bedside one day last year(...)