Rosita Boland: I slept for 12 hours straight, and dreamt of nuns and donkeysDriving west for a reporting assignment, I realised the annoying little cough I’d left Dublin with was developing into something elseWed Feb 07 2024 - 06:00
Rosita Boland: When my black silk velvet cape met my Trumpian taxi driver My stupidly expensive silk velvet cape twice nearly suffered the same fate as my diamond engagement ring. Next time I wear it out, I won’t be taking it offWed Jan 31 2024 - 06:00
Modern day Brigids tell their story: ‘I knew it was the perfect name for a little girl who was going to have a lot of struggles in her life’Photographer Deirdre Brennan travelled Ireland photographing Brieges, Bríds and Bridgeens, Bridies, Brigids and BrigitSun Jan 28 2024 - 05:00
Hotelier John Brennan is wrong: The St Brigid’s public holiday is not the break ‘no one wanted’I would have thought an additional public holiday in February would have been potential boom to hospitalityWed Jan 24 2024 - 06:00
Ballinrobe protests: How plans to house 50 asylum seekers were changedThe Mayo town celebrates its multicultural population but a plan to house 50 male international protection applicants in a disused hotel mobilised protestsSat Jan 13 2024 - 06:00
Richard Coles: ‘Do you know who Shane MacGowan reminded me of? Maria Callas’ Both ‘lived on capital, not interest’, says the former Communard and recently retired vicar, who is bringing his Borderline National Trinket ‘stand-up memoir’ to IrelandSat Jan 13 2024 - 05:15
Anyone who thinks that TikTok is only for the young is totally wrongA few months ago all the news I was hearing was bad. I escaped into TikTok and I cannot tell you how calming it wasWed Jan 10 2024 - 06:00
The vet said my dog was ‘bright of mind and spirit’. May we all be like that in 2024Rosita Boland: ‘I had not expected my early morning visit to a canine optometrist to result in what amounted to a philosophic declamation’Wed Jan 03 2024 - 06:00
Tom Meskell on First Fortnight role: ‘I never ask people their station; I take them as I find them’Artist behind Silva Lumina does not identify volunteers who help make mesmerising figures for an installation opening at National Botanic Gardens this week as part of mental-health culture festivalWed Jan 03 2024 - 05:15
Rosita Boland: There are not enough true eccentrics in the world these daysJeth appeared like a bearded magician from a door beyond which I glimpsed an astonishing amount of cow printThu Dec 28 2023 - 06:00
My first Christmas away from home, I wore nothing but a hat and sunscreen on a beach with two new friends Rosita Boland reflects on two very different Christmases in far away placesMon Dec 25 2023 - 05:00
Alanna Quinn Idris: ‘I am a strong person but this was very hard’Alanna Quinn Idris was knocked unconscious and lost the sight in one eye in a brutal assault two years ago. The 19-year-old is unhappy at how the courts have treated her attackersSat Dec 16 2023 - 06:00
Dublin riots aftermath: ‘These people complain about the homelessness problem but they don’t care about actual homeless people’In the wake of violence and major disruption in Dublin city centre last week, there is a feeling among people on Parnell Street that less welcoming, more intolerant attitudes to immigrants are emergingFri Dec 01 2023 - 14:37
Thalidomide survivors: ‘Having no arms is an unusual disability, there’s no guidebook. I made one up’Irish Times photographer Nick Bradshaw has travelled around Ireland documenting the lives of people impacted by the drug for an intimate set of portraitsSat Nov 25 2023 - 04:00
‘It’s not the same anymore’: Tullamore continues to grieve after murder of Ashling Murphy Locals around the town and walking along the canal path react to the news of Jozef Puska’s convictionSat Nov 11 2023 - 06:00
‘You just know what people will order by the look of them’: Tales from Ireland’s food service lifersSome of Ireland’s longest-serving restaurant staff work at Aherne’s in Youghal and Trocadero in Dublin and they’ve seen plenty of good times, bad customers and failed marriage proposalsSun Nov 05 2023 - 05:55
Below Deck’s Irish star Daisy Kelliher: ‘Some guests behave appallingly badly. Some crew will fight and flirt’Over lunch, the reality TV show’s only Irish crew member talks conflict, romance and $20,000 tips on board the Parsifal yachtMon Oct 30 2023 - 06:00
Pollution on the Liffey: Algal blooms at Blessington a threat to Dublin’s drinking waterThe Poulaphouca Reservoir in Co Wicklow, which supplies an estimated 50 per cent of Dublin’s drinking water, is at huge risk from pollutionSun Oct 29 2023 - 07:00
Crosaire TikToker Aifric Gallagher: ‘It’s like learning a new language’The teacher and linguist creates TikToks that solve clues from The Irish Times cryptic puzzleSat Oct 28 2023 - 07:00
Clear turtle with cheese straws? Bizarre and wonderful dishes on old Irish menusMy parents attended a lot of beautiful and baffling dinners around Co Clare in the 1960s and 1970sSun Oct 22 2023 - 05:00
Barbados: an island determined to take full ownership over its past and presentFrom local sunset rituals to watching horses on the beach, this tiny country is thrilling to experienceSun Oct 15 2023 - 10:00
Suicide prevention patrol: ‘We said hello. There was no response. The next thing, she was in the water’In Limerick, two separate groups of volunteers do regular night-time patrols of the river Shannon in an effort to safeguard potentially suicidal peopleSun Oct 15 2023 - 06:00
Agnes Bernelle’s Jewish family, a looted heirloom and the decades-long hunt to get it backThe Berlin-born actor Agnes Bernelle, who married into the Leslies of Monaghan, was reunited with an unusual book lost during the second World War not long before her deathSun Oct 08 2023 - 06:30
Gymnast medal controversy: International attention focuses on Ireland A botched children’s medal ceremony lead to a messy series of events involving various organisations: Gymnastics Ireland; Sport Ireland; Sports Against Racism in IrelandSat Sept 30 2023 - 06:00
Anne Doyle: ‘I was very lucky many times that the mic was not on live before broadcasts’The former newsreader says she will never write a memoir - her new book is a rather more surprising collection of Irish ghost storiesSat Sept 30 2023 - 05:00
Red Lines review: meaning lost among beautiful balletic aerial rope tricksDublin Fringe Festival 2023: The considerable physical skills of aerialists Monika Palova and Sean McIlraith impressFri Sept 22 2023 - 12:06
Who would be a ‘Trinity W**ker’? World’s oldest debating society teases out contentious motionDays after Guinness recognised the 253-year-old Hist, it got to grips with a press subjectThu Sept 21 2023 - 15:14
You’re Needy (Sounds Frustrating) review: An eerie, claustrophobic and thought-provoking show for an audience of oneDublin Fringe Festival 2023: Theatre needs an audience to exist and one person per show seems a costly return for such a collective production effortFri Sept 15 2023 - 13:04
Rosita Boland: I wanted to be dispossessed of the grief that had consumed me for too longAs I wandered at my whim, I had many conversations with strangers. They all had to do with different kinds of lossSun Sept 10 2023 - 05:00
Life on Inishturk: It’s still not touristy here. You can see the Milky Way at night, and there is peaceRosita Boland takes the hour-long ferry ride to ‘Turk’, and falls in love with the islandMon Aug 14 2023 - 06:10
Mary from Dungloe: Poses, party pieces and Prosecco at Donegal’s original ‘lovely girls’ competitionThe 56th Mary from Dungloe Festival takes place this weekend, with Mr Festival himself, Daniel O’Donnell, once again doing MC dutiesSun Aug 06 2023 - 06:00
Sinéad O’Connor’s Dublin: ‘People did love her. I wonder, did she feel all that love when she was alive?’People of Dublin speak about the singer, the rebel and the personThu Jul 27 2023 - 17:54
Making The Ballroom of Romance in Co Mayo: ‘Even passing it today, I still think I can hear the music in it’In this series, Rosita Boland visits places in Ireland where films were made and assesses the legacy they left behindSun Jul 23 2023 - 06:00
The last letters of Ann Lovett and her sister TrishaAnn Lovett’s death 39 years ago was not only a tragedy for her family but also an infamous public scandal. Her sister Trisha died by suicide less than three months laterSat Jul 15 2023 - 06:00
Making Brooklyn in Enniscorthy: ‘Saoirse Ronan was lovely. She had a cup of tea in my kitchen’While the Irish scenes in the novel are set in Enniscorthy, it is extremely rare that the movie of a novel will be filmed in the actual streets and buildings depicted in the original story, as happened with BrooklynSun Jul 09 2023 - 06:30
Moby Dick in Youghal: ‘It was magic. It was just like Hollywood came to town’ In this series, Rosita Boland visits places in Ireland where films were made, and assesses the legacy they left behindSun Jul 02 2023 - 05:00
I was underwater in a submersible last weekend. I feel terror and pity for those on the TitanMissing Titanic submarine: On my trip in a submersible, I felt a sharp stab of panic as I comprehended that I was sealed underwaterWed Jun 21 2023 - 15:35
My visit to the Korean border is surreal. Bizarre. Sad. Horrible. Fascinating. Terrifying. Shameful As I look at a funfair – an incongruous sight in the DMZ – we can hear explosionsSun Jun 11 2023 - 06:00
Rosita Boland: Ireland is not as welcoming as we like to believeWe Irish like to portray ourselves as among the most welcoming people in the world. The thing about this notion though is that who we choose to welcome really depends on who they areWed Jun 07 2023 - 05:00
Michael Viney obituary: A life of self-sufficiency and curiosity in Ireland’s wild westEditor of The Irish Times says Viney ‘pioneered a new genre, his deep concern for biodiversity, climate action and sustainable living lighting the path for others to follow’Tue May 30 2023 - 19:00
Inch migrant blockade: ‘I heard a woman shouting: we don’t want them here. It was not subtle’A small rural community has become the scene of the latest protest over the Government’s attempts to find accommodation for refugees in the migrant housing crisisFri May 19 2023 - 13:13
No resolution in sight to asylum seeker dispute at picturesque Co Clare village International Protection applicants bussed from Dublin on Monday to be housed at Magowna House hotelWed May 17 2023 - 16:54
Wavewalker: Suzanne Heywood’s honest story of a makeshift childhood at sea An account of years of what seems very like wilful parental neglect, and the devastating impact this life at sea had on the authorMon May 15 2023 - 05:00
Will new leads help solve the mystery of Annie McCarrick’s disappearance? Gardaí do not now believe the 26-year-old travelled to Wicklow on day she went missingSun May 14 2023 - 13:08
Coronation celebration: The royals are ‘like a nice family we can all look up to’A London church congregation ‘from six continents’ celebrates the coronation of King Charles III: ‘His duty is to serve God’Sun May 07 2023 - 17:00
Waiting for King Charles: Diana and Meghan Markle dominate conversation as crowds gather for coronationAs the crowds stake their place on the Mall for the coronation, talk is more about Diana and Meghan Markle than the new kingSat May 06 2023 - 17:14
Invisibly famous: The brilliant Irish wartime codebreaker who worked at Britain’s Bletchley ParkThe name of Emily Anderson is remembered at University of Galway, where she worked until moving to London. A hundred years later, in 2017, the concert hall there was renamed for herSat May 06 2023 - 05:00
Mobile thrones, a bear with a TikTok and a ‘non-colonial crown’ all present at Westminster Abbey ahead of Charles’s coronationKing Charles's coronation: Royal watchers from home and abroad have descended on the capital to witness historyFri May 05 2023 - 15:43
Girl who almost hit Joe Biden with a sliotar says ‘it was such a bad shot’During the president’s visit to Farmleigh, Lucy Bourke (11) hit a sliotar uncomfortably close to Biden’s personFri Apr 14 2023 - 15:52
BookTok: The increasingly powerful force reshaping publishingAuthors have found huge audiences on the platform, and titles have enjoyed renewed interest because of the power of social sharingMon Jan 02 2023 - 05:00
