Liam Neeson: ‘I got angrier and angrier. I’m an Irishman. I was an altar boy. But I was horrified’ – The Irish Times
Nearly a decade ago, Liam Neeson, long resident in the United States, sat down to read an article…
Catherine Corless: ‘I was always a bit determined. I was teased a lot growing up’ – The Irish Times
Where do you come in your family’s birth order and has it defined you? I was born in…
‘My proposal was to stop Confirmation’: Ireland’s ageing priests under pressure as numbers drop – The Irish Times
Fr Seamus Ahearne is turning 80 in November but shows no signs of slowing down and continues to…
Archbishop of Dublin criticises ‘exploitative’ landlords and denial of right to housing in Ireland – The Irish Times
Landlords who “exploit the desperate by packing them into disgraceful living conditions” and make them “pay dearly” for…
‘People say: my dad used to do that. We always thought he was just drunk’: The revival of sean-nós dancing around Ireland – The Irish Times
In the village of Drumsna in Co Leitrim, Edwina Guckian is dancing in her big sunlit kitchen. It’s…
Dublin’s new Catholic cathedral to close for €17m renovation – The Irish Times
St Mary’s Cathedral, one of Dublin’s “most important” Catholic church buildings, is to close next week until 2028…
Pure filth! Ireland’s banned films – and why the censor didn’t want you to see them – The Irish Times
A generation of Irish cinemagoers has grown up with no memory of the bad old days when theocratic…
Former Christian Brother ‘likely to die in prison’ after being jailed for five years – The Irish Times
A former Christian Brother already in prison for sexually abusing school pupils in Kilkenny in the 1970s is…
Former Christian Brother to be sentenced for sexually abusing boys – The Irish Times
A 90-year-old former Christian Brother is to be sentenced on Friday for sexually abusing boys in St Patrick’s…
Sr Colette Hickey obituary: Ireland’s oldest woman and carer for the homeless – The Irish Times
Born: January 31st, 1918Died: June 23rd, 2026 She may have been Ireland’s oldest woman for just a matter…
Breith, Beatha, Bás on RTÉ One: Charming snapshots of ordinary lives in a changed Ireland – The Irish Times
In 2024, civil ceremonies overtook church weddings in popularity – a turn of events that would have seemed…
‘We were told we were devil’s spawn’: Bessborough survivor says she witnessed illegal burial
Although it is now more than six decades ago, Therese ‘Terry’ Meyer is adamant that she saw a…