Davy Fitzgerald: I love the stories of families watching Ireland’s Fittest Family together
Davy Fitzgerald carries a little black notebook around with him. There are ideas in it for television programmes,…
Kate Nash: ‘It was fine until Ed Sheeran dropped Macklemore’
Kate Nash has spent the better part of the past eleven years trying to bypass her stint as…
Meet the new generation of farmers adapting to an evolving world: ‘It’s a very different way of farming’
From the runaway popularity of Clarkson’s Farm to ‘FarmTok’ and our fascination with the Ploughing Championships, it seems…
€5.5m Killarney distillery set for revival with new whiskey and beer plans
Walking into the Killarney Brewing and Distilling Company, and its visitor centre, felt like somewhere frozen in time…
Six of Ireland’s greatest female athletes speak about their role models and inspirations
If you can’t see it you can’t be it! That’s a phrase largely attributed to the legendary feminist…
50 years on, how a Cork couple became the big cheese of farming
Fifty years ago, a young couple faced a dilemma as they tried to eke out a life of…
My mother was ‘trafficked’: Daughter’s search uncovers family link to Bessborough’s missing children
Mary Donovan knew she had a brother born in a Cork mother and baby institution, but it was…
For the first time, Mayo’s All-Ireland winners bring Sam Maguire to Achill Island
The sight of hardened grown men crying told you just how much this meant to Achill people. In…
‘127 prison guards applied’: I visited The Traitors Ireland set — here’s what to expect this year
An iron-clad NDA, cloak-and-dagger travel arrangements, dodging cameras, and skulking around a castle. It was all part and…
Restaurant Chestnut owners reveal why they are closing the Michelin-starred West Cork restaurant
One dark, cold, and foggy evening in March 2018, I set out to join friends for dinner at…
Ireland’s festival posters are a time capsule for music — and the country
Festival posters are time capsules. Long after the wristbands have been cut off and the tents packed away,…
Mick Clifford on the Healy-Rae documentary: A political soap opera turned Greek tragedy
The Healy-Raes would have fitted neatly into ancient Greece, with their heroes, homespun philosophy and unique twist on…