Druid & O’Casey: ‘The plays deal with the tenements, poverty... problems we are still deep dealing with’ Garry Hynes’s latest project involves a cast of 18 actors for the Dublin trilogy: Shadow of a Gunman, Juno and the Paycock and The Plough and the Stars by Seán O’CaseySat Jul 01 2023 - 05:00
Meeting the murderer: Why did Mark O’Connell sit down to talk with Malcolm Macarthur? Forty-one years have passed since Macarthur emerged from the fringes of a driftless Irish gentrified background to commit two brutal killingsSun Jun 25 2023 - 05:00
Teaching people to self-build homes at Clare’s Common Knowledge project: ‘It is just looking backwards to go forward’Harrison Gardner and Fionn Kidney’s project in Ennistymon is teaching people how to build their own homes, with a collective mindsetSun Jun 18 2023 - 06:00
Msgr James Horan: The ‘madman’ with a dream who got Knock airport off the groundWith Aer Lingus offering daily flights to London and Ryanair marking 10 million passengers passing through the airport, Ireland West is on course for its busiest ever yearSun Jun 11 2023 - 05:00
‘Every little bone’: How 796 babies at Tuam’s mother-and-baby home will be exhumedGovernment-appointed director Daniel McSweeney will oversee ‘one of the most complicated forensic excavations in the world’Sun Jun 04 2023 - 05:00
Are flights from Cork to Dublin really likely to return soon?The head of the Dublin Airport Authority expects it to happen but Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary begs to differSat Jun 03 2023 - 05:00
Caitríona Perry: ‘We’re leaving the country on a one-way ticket... but we will be back’As the RTÉ news anchor departs the station and Ireland to be chief presenter for BBC News in Washington, she reflects on ambition, loss and destinySat May 27 2023 - 06:00
‘It’s a celebration, a beautiful day for Galway’: Locals mark opening of new pedestrian bridgeA sister companion to the Salmon Weir, the development boasts unobstructed views and a new start for the cityFri May 26 2023 - 17:15
Why is a stretch of road linking Dublin to Donegal the ‘most dangerous imaginable’?Ireland's 'grim reaper' road: Plans to upgrade the A5 have been bogged down in a dismaying cycle of legal objection and stalemate. The volume of traffic has become heavier.Sat May 20 2023 - 05:00
British Commonwealth: ‘King Charles could become the great moderniser. But he is not going to do that’Historian Caroline Elkins talks to Keith Duggan about an enduring failure to recognise the villainy and legacy of the British Empire and the possibility of this being an inflection moment for Britain’s monarchySat May 13 2023 - 05:00
How haphazard development made Galway the most choked city in IrelandGerman architect’s description of city as looking like ‘mouth full of broken teeth’ sparks debate about planningSun May 07 2023 - 05:00
‘We in England are not a grown-up country ... So how about getting some grown-up priorities?’Stuart Maconie is proud of his country. But after travelling it to write The Full English, he’d like it to focus on being happy, healthy and progressiveMon May 01 2023 - 05:45
Seán Cox: ‘We can still enjoy life. It’s just different’ after catastrophic Anfield assaultSeán Cox’s life was changed forever when he was brutally assaulted outside Anfield five years ago. But he and his wife are determined not to dwell on the pastFri Apr 28 2023 - 05:00
Education across the Border: ‘I’ve always heard stories of the Troubles. I thought I knew more than I did’Two schools are part of a project to aid understanding of a past in which their uniforms made them targetsMon Apr 24 2023 - 06:00
Rugby: ‘Mothers say if they oppose their child playing the game, they are threatened with divorce’The culture in the sport has changed and there is greater surveillance of injuries but medics remain concerned for young playersSat Apr 15 2023 - 05:00
Biden in Ballina: ‘It has lifted the town. It does the heart good’‘It will anchor Ballina in the minds of Ireland and the States forever more, Amen … Absolutely! We are very proud!’Sat Apr 15 2023 - 05:00
Actor Bryan Murray on his Alzheimer’s: ‘There is no short-term memory. It is not the end of the world for me. But – there is a but’Bryan Murray stars in Deirdre Kinahan’s new play at the Peacock. His role intersects with his own reality as he plays a man with Alzheimer’sSat Apr 08 2023 - 05:45
Uncovering the buried diary of an executed Ukrainian writerBefore he was murdered by Russian troops in Izyum, poet and children’s author Volodymyr Vakulenko buried his diary of the Russian occupationSat Mar 25 2023 - 05:00
Clare Dunne: ‘Let’s stop being obsessed with getting everything by the time you are f**king 30’The star of Kin and Herself talks perseverance, the power of storytelling and the problem with dear old DublinSat Mar 18 2023 - 05:00
Oscars 2023: Hugh Grant’s acid, waspish red-carpet interview with Ashley Graham was a toe-curlerMany viewers delighted in the star’s disdain for the entire spectacle. The other half wondered how Ashley Graham managed to maintain her poiseMon Mar 13 2023 - 15:10
Paul Mescal: ‘Movie stardom is different to fame ... It takes so much work to achieve’Mescal reflects on stardom, depression and the strange tension of the Oscar envelope-opening momentSat Mar 11 2023 - 06:00
Car-free life: ‘A few years ago, we said right, let’s get rid of the car’‘It’s wet, yeah, and cold. But you are wrapped up and cycling past hundreds of cars that are not going anywhere’Sat Mar 11 2023 - 05:00
‘They just looked at us as retail workers – mammies and nannies – they didn’t expect this’New documentary charts the long-running protest by former Debenhams’ staffSat Feb 25 2023 - 05:00
The last fishermen of Castletownbere?: ‘We are in extinction mode’Co Cork fishermen say quota restrictions mean that Irish fishing boats often have to literally steam away from rich catchesSat Feb 18 2023 - 05:00
‘Just as his life was opening up, cruel fate took him away’: Funeral held for Christopher Stokes, who died in Menlo Pier tragedyGrief-stricken community returned to Galway church for second funeral in 24 hoursThu Feb 16 2023 - 13:02
Shergar, 40 years on: Codenames, kidnap, clairvoyants and a brutal end to a beautiful racehorseSilence still hangs over the case of the great racehorse kidnapped by inept paramilitaries in February 1983Sat Feb 04 2023 - 05:00
An Oscar ceremony dominated by Ireland... but will anybody be watching?Back when host David Niven dealt with a male streaker, the Oscars were essential viewing. Now audiences have lost interest (unless a star assaults the host)Sat Jan 28 2023 - 05:00
My daughter thinks someone in our home is trying to kill her. I called Camhs. No availabilityParents share their frustrating experiences of trying to access Ireland’s Child and Adolescent Mental Health ServicesThu Jan 26 2023 - 13:00
‘In today’s terms, they were war crimes’: The ageing children of Ireland’s Civil War generation rememberThe horrors inflicted during the conflict are still rarely spoken of but they continue to haunt an elderly generationSat Jan 21 2023 - 05:00
Bret Easton Ellis: The ageing poster boy of lurid 1980s excess and the author of his own successFew writers have ever plotted their way through the publishing game with the same deft stratagemsSat Jan 14 2023 - 05:00
When Lisa Marie Presley went on David Letterman, she owned him by the end of their seven minutesKeith Duggan: Being Elvis Presley’s daughter meant she lived a fishbowl life. But Lisa Marie Presley found a way to express her own personalityFri Jan 13 2023 - 14:58
A big brother still remembered 50 years after the Belturbet bombingTeenagers Paddy Stanley and Geraldine O’Reilly were the first victims of the Troubles in the Republic when murdered by a loyalist car bomb in Belturbet, Co Cavan, in December 1972Sat Jan 07 2023 - 05:00
Daughter’s death is the unbearable heartache a Ukrainian family has carried to Ireland Every day when they awake, refugees living in Co Clare endure a brief sense of estrangement before they accept that, no, this is not a dreamSat Dec 10 2022 - 05:00
A united Ireland would be ‘like Brexit: so many knock-on effects’Prospect of unity brings a mix of hope and pragmatism to one Co Roscommon barTue Dec 06 2022 - 05:00
Could he BE any more like Chandler? Matthew Perry’s memoir is fizzing and frankFriends star tells his story with flair, from teen neuroses and sudden stardom to dating (and dumping) Julia Roberts, plus years of substance abuse and rehabSun Nov 27 2022 - 04:30
Eileen Dunne: ‘The hardest part is thinking of myself as a pensioner. I’m still 20 in my head’The newscaster has just retired after 42 years at RTÉ. She looks back on her decades in the strangest of rolesSat Nov 26 2022 - 05:00
It’s a long way from Clare to Kyiv … and further by the day for displaced UkrainiansHousing challenges a looming and pressing problem as several hotels eye return of touristsSat Nov 19 2022 - 06:34
Wales is on the verge of its Italia ’90 moment. This rousing song is Cymru’s proud World Cup anthemKeith Duggan: With Yma o Hyd, a far cry from the usual tournament pop song, Dafydd Iwan joins Michael Sheen in stirring their country’s nationalist spiritFri Nov 18 2022 - 12:16
Into the wild: The nature retreats bringing men back to basicsFormer Wexford hurler Diarmuid Lyng helps men reclaim their primal wildnessSat Nov 12 2022 - 05:00
World Cup: ‘Qatar was a mistake - the choice was bad’ Qatar 2022: the extraordinary story of how a tiny desert state won the right to host the World CupSat Nov 12 2022 - 05:00
Ireland’s ‘lagging’ north and west: Is the harsh label justified?The European Commission has identified the western and northern counties of Ireland as a ‘lagging region’Sat Nov 05 2022 - 05:00
Zak Moradi: ‘Every time I come to Leitrim, my whole face just brightens up. I’m home’Kurdish man and one-time refugee lived in Carrick-on-Shannon for two years, but the town made an imperishable impression on himSat Oct 22 2022 - 05:00
Creeslough: ‘This county is used to its share of tragedy. But nothing of this scale’Through its unimaginably darkest hour, where 10 lives were so abruptly ended, the best of Creeslough and Donegal shone throughSat Oct 15 2022 - 05:00
Creeslough seeks the words to make sense of an unfathomable tragedyDonegal village prepares for 10 heartbreaking funerals and goodbyesMon Oct 10 2022 - 21:12
Rowing across the Atlantic: ‘The first capsize came quickly… the cabin was breached by water’Back on dry land after 112 days and 4,450 nautical miles, Damian Browne talks about the epic physical and mental ordeal of rowing alone from New York to GalwayFri Oct 07 2022 - 16:00
The 2 Johnnies: Tipperary double act who stormed Ireland without ever leaving CahirO’Brien and McMahon, in between the gags, are prizing open conversations among a generation of young people, to whom that skill does not always come easilySat Oct 01 2022 - 05:00
Michael Palin: ‘Monty Python didn’t pay particularly well — to start with, anyway’The travel presenter recounts his journey from comedy pioneer to serious broadcasterSat Sept 24 2022 - 05:00
Richie Fitzgerald: ‘I often hear it said that surfing saved Bundoran’A survivor of self-taught surfing and a pioneering figure in the highly dangerous pursuit of heavy waves in the waters off Bundoran tells his storySat Sept 24 2022 - 05:00
Queen’s leaving of London confirms the end of an ageA visual wonderland contained sights and sounds far more relevant at the beginning of her long lifeMon Sept 19 2022 - 20:37
Long connection between queen and public ends with closure of Westminster Hall doorsWorld leaders gather for Queen Elizabeth’s funeral service in Westminster AbbeyMon Sept 19 2022 - 05:00
