Seamus Heaney

The BBC was founded 100 years ago by Lord Reith with a mission to “inform, educate and entertain”. But those pioneering boffins in London in 1922 coul(...)

In American Football, there is a common phrase that can be heard reverberating around locker rooms throughout this sacred season. I first heard these (...)

“Human beings suffer/ they torture one another, they get hurt and get hard.” These words by Seamus Heaney have rattled around my mind while covering (...)

As Charlie Bird opens his front gate, there’s no hint that anything might be amiss. Lean and spry in build, sporting the goatee he grew since his reti(...)

Jaded travellers bemoaning the remoteness of Sakhalin, a rugged island in the Russian Far East that is twice the length of Ireland, should spare a tho(...)

Sometimes words really do fail us. There are truths that can be articulated only in a heart-wrenching sigh. We heard that sound last week on RTÉ radi(...)

About one-third of people with undiagnosed and untreated pulmonary embolism don’t survive, according to the Mayo Clinic. When the condition is diagnos(...)

The first documented report of a UFO,or flying saucer, in the United States was in 1947 when entrepreneur Kenneth Arnold claimed to see a group of nin(...)

'There has been no straight flight path from the poor and benighted Ireland of the 1950s to... shiny modernity': Fintan O'Toole looks at the story&(...)

There was lively bidding in Los Angeles this week when the gun used to kill Billy the Kid sold for in excess of $6 million (€5.78 million) at a Bonham(...)