Law professor Prof Deirdre Madden and Tim Hynes of AIB among others to be appointed

Advice and ideas on how to make it through the festivities when it’s not a season of goodwill

Review recommends major changes to funding arrangements to voluntary service providers

‘Each of us in this world has a story worth telling,’ John Grogan tells students

When they hear my accent, people who have been there tell me how they loved Northern Ireland

Patients will be able to ‘remotely’ carry out IVF with donor egg, says company

At a meeting in Corfu, interesting similarities and divergences became apparent

Clinics say embryos created before change in rules should be used when women decide

Harris wants three-person panel to report within a year

Harris says the measure has potential to transform organ donation in the State

Ginny Hanrahan, the CEO of CORU, the health and social care regulator, explains its role in protecting the public from charlatans and unethical healthcare workers

Ginny Hanrahan, CEO of CORU, explains the role of the health and social care regulator

Must a small nation loosen grip of the past in order to embrace benefits of the future?

The refugee crisis and overdevelopment are beginning to deter holidaymakers

The collective works in our series show how molten and defiant Irish artworks can be

Margaret Murphy says staff are anxious about ‘putting their head above the parapet’

The power of the novelist’s work lies in its control and transformation of powerful feeling into understated art

Chris Connolly wins Emerging Fiction prize, Jane Clarke wins Emerging Poetry award and Éilís Ní Dhuibhne inducted into Hennessy Literary Awards Hall of Fame

Dublin Shakespeare Society; Kevin Curran reading; All-Ireland Poetry Day; Trinity talk on Derry authors; hunger strike talk at UCD

Move prompts FF spokesman Billy Kelleher to accuse Minister of making ‘blatant U-turn’

Fighting Words seeks volunteers, Nuala Ní Chonchúir and Paula McGrath launch new novels, and celebrities and authors read at Dubray Books

The latest Faber anthology of Irish stories contains an array of talent showcased in style

Analysis: Scant detail in Leo Varadkar’s proposals except in relation to surrogacy

‘I am at my happiest when I have completed a first draft of a novel and am about to begin a second’

Debut novel took nine years to find publisher

‘A Girl Is A Half-formed Thing’ author has already won Goldsmiths Prize and been shortlisted for Baileys, Folio and Desmond Elliott prizes

‘If there is a Hell being prepared for me, it will be a dinner party. But I’d like to be in a bar, late at night in New York, with Colm Toibin, Patti Smith, Dickens, St John of the Cross, Toni Morrison, Keats and Emily Bronte, with her brother Branwell leading the singsong while arm-wrestling’

A judge’s criticism has shone a spotlight on the sensitive area of medical negligence

Deirdre Madden’s new novel is about a slippery subject. But it’s far from being weird, obscure or overly philosophical

No legislation or guidelines in place to support research using human embryos