‘I thought Belfast looked very like rougher areas in the south of LA’: How international tourists see Ireland
The wind whips at the pages of our senior features writer’s notebook as she travels around Ireland with visitors from China, Taiwan, Tasmania, LA, Michigan and Canada
First-time visitors to Ireland: ‘Some people have saved up all their lives to come here’
Rosita Boland travels with a group of enthusiastic first-time visitors to Ireland
Inside Grenane House, one of the oldest lived-in houses in Ireland: ‘It has never been bought or sold’
Grenane House in Co Tipperary, which has been in the same family’s hands for its 300-year history, opens to the public at certain times of the year
‘Talbot Street is known as Tablet Street now’: Will a €2m makeover be enough to turn things around?
Street in Dublin’s north inner city has been declining for several years. One local worker describes it as a ‘hellhole’ while another says ‘there is often chaos’
Donkey stunts, new public toilets and a crystal elephant: Remembering Ronald Reagan’s visit to Ballyporeen 40 years on
‘There was a woman in charge of the Secret Service, and that was a big surprise to members of the local council here: they had never had a female boss'
Ireland through the eyes of foreign travel writers: ‘English speaking, but not Britain. No hustle. Safe’
We join a group of international travel journalists and find the Ireland they are shown is a John Hinde postcard come alive
Friends, colleagues and family bid farewell to the late, great Larry Masterson
‘The expression he used always say to me was, “Unto yourself be true” and it’s always been, and always will be, my mantra’
‘He turned out to be a psychopath’: My ex-boyfriend and the women he cheated on
Author Chimene Suleyman went with her then boyfriend to an abortion clinic. What happened next reveals a manipulative, coercive man who stole, lied and cheated his way around the globe
The life of an undertaker: ‘I was 20 the first time I drove the hearse ... I can remember my father making boxes for amputated limbs’
One of Ireland’s relatively few women undertakers reflects on how Ireland’s culture of death has changed over the decades
The extra leap year day is upon us: what will you do with yours?
Sadly, this additional 24-hour period has been tagged on to one of the worst months of the year, requiring a leap of faith to fathom
The day Bord Gáis Lady and I wished we had never picked up the phone to each other
On the day set aside for a boiler service, I was at home. I received a confirmation notice the day before. By 6pm, nobody showed up. A battle by telephone seemed inevitable
I’m still searching for the old TV commercial starring my father
Does anyone out there have a link to Eircom ad featuring Joe Boland in Connemara?
‘The blackboard is like looking at charts in a war room’: Behind the scenes at the Abbey to watch Marina Carr’s new play take shape
Turning a script into a finished show is hugely complex. We spend a day at the National Theatre to see Audrey or Sorrow come together
Karen’s Diner: ‘Sit down and shut up!’ one waiter shouts as I eat my flavourless burger
Waiter addresses me as ‘Nanny’ - whether this is because I remind him of a goat or a grandmother, I don’t know
Rosita Boland: I wondered if the cat I encountered in Florence was trying to emulate Taylor Swift’s feline
Walking to the Uffizi, I reflected on my first and only other visit to the city when, in my 20s, I came across an item that remains a mystery to this day