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First Vogue cover to feature a Mexican transgender woman
- Fashion
- November 21, 2019, 09:48
A culture of indigenous transgender women that has been part of southern Mexico’s heritage for centuries is primed for global fashion cachet thanks to(...)

Raymond Chandler: Crime writer's family left Waterford, but the city never left him
- Abroad
- November 15, 2019, 07:06
Raymond Chandler, the quintessential crime writer, master of the noir genre, is remembered as chronicler of the grimy underside of rapidly expanding m(...)

Mugabe buried in home village as family snub national plans
- Africa
- September 28, 2019, 20:58
Zimbabwe’s former leader Robert Mugabe was buried on Saturday in his home village of Kutama, ending a dispute between his family and the government ov(...)

Church of Ireland marks 150 years since end of role as state church
- Religion & Beliefs
- July 29, 2019, 01:00
Standing before the impressive Neo-Romanesque doorway of St Ann’s Church of Ireland on Dublin’s Dawson Street, Fred Deane is handing out leaflets for (...)

Haloed Fellow Well Met – Frank McNally on GK Chesterton’s claims to sainthood
- Opinion
- June 13, 2019, 17:46
The writer GK Chesterton was unusual for many reasons, ranging from his physical enormity – he stood 6 feet 4 and weighed more than 20 stone (130kg) –(...)

Steph Curry – the ‘everyday guy’ who defied the odds to triumph in the NBA
- Other Sports
- June 8, 2019, 06:00
“I was shocked we were able to get him,” Bob McKillop says agreeably, recalling that strange thrilling moment when he – and probably he alone – unders(...)

French cardinal convicted of failing to act on sex abuse allegations
- Europe
- March 7, 2019, 10:25
A high-ranking French Catholic cleric, Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, was convicted on Thursday of failing to report allegations of sexual abuse in his d(...)

New expose on homosexuality in the Vatican is silly, offensive and potentially dangerous
- US
- February 17, 2019, 18:01
Marvelling at the mysterious sanctum that his new book explores, French journalist Frédéric Martel writes that “even in San Francisco’s Castro” there (...)

Significant growth in smaller, more ethnically diverse churches – survey
- Religion & Beliefs
- February 8, 2019, 00:56
A new survey has identified more than 500 non-mainstream churches across Ireland. Of those, 58 per cent have grown in size over the last five years wh(...)

Growing speculation that Archbishop Diarmuid Martin will step down
- Religion & Beliefs
- January 12, 2019, 00:01
Speculation that the Archbishop of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin is about to step down has intensified following a recent interview, which observers felt re(...)