The Irish Times

How to really cut your carbon footprint? Buy three garments a year. Don’t fly for 36 months

If you want to make a real difference, adopt a plant-based diet and don’t buy a new car

Sat Mar 19 2022 - 06:00

The mind of the mathematician

The stereotype is a dishevelled scatterbrain but in reality we come in all shapes and sizes

Thu Jan 06 2022 - 01:01

X-ray vision – Brian Maye on trailblazing scientist Kathleen Lonsdale

An Irishman’s Diary

Sun Mar 28 2021 - 17:01

Earth has lost 28 trillion tonnes of ice in less than 30 years

‘Staggering’ study indicates sea level rises could reach a metre by the end of the century

Mon Aug 24 2020 - 17:18

How to eat on a first date to make sure you get a second one

The key is to share your dishes – so pass that spoon seductively – and never order spaghetti

Wed Aug 14 2019 - 06:00

Second-generation Irish: ‘We were outsiders among the English – and the Irish too’

Ian Duhig’s parents emigrated to England in the 1950s in search of a better life. In this essay, he looks at growing up under the influence of Ireland and never feeling quite at home

Wed Jun 26 2019 - 06:15

The Kildare woman who blazed a global trail for female scientists

Extraordinary Emigrants: Kathleen Lonsdale was the first woman professor at UCL

Tue Feb 13 2018 - 14:00

First edition of Tolkien’s ‘The Hobbit’ fetches £137,000

Book is inscribed with a handwritten note from the author in Elvish

Thu Jun 04 2015 - 18:28

Alt-J: from days of hunger to Hunger of the Pine

The Leeds band have so far enjoyed success without the crushing fame - but now that they're on Miley Cyrus's rader they can kiss all that goodbye . . .

Fri Sept 12 2014 - 00:00