Ireland’s largest freshwater lake is dying before our eyes – The Irish Times
I spent most of my childhood lucky enough to have a view of Lough Neagh from my bedroom…
This red squirrel keeps visiting my flower box. It’s not doing what I thought it was – The Irish Times
This red squirrel was a regular visitor to our flower boxes during the summer. We first thought he…
Living with breast cancer: ‘I’ve possibly had one of the best years of my life. I’ve got rid of anything that didn’t matter’
I’m not fortunate enough to live in the wild – not yet, anyway – so when I’m home…
Living with breast cancer: ‘I’ve possibly had one of the best years of my life. I’ve got rid of anything that didn’t matter’
I’m not fortunate enough to live in the wild – not yet, anyway – so when I’m home…
Manchán Magan’s final part of his trilogy: Ireland was believed to be the outer limit of the known world – The Irish Times
In the seventeenth century, Seathrún Céitinn compiled a comprehensive history of Ireland from the earliest legendary times to…
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…
‘There’s nothing wrong with the bags’: inside Dublin’s latest waste war – The Irish Times
In the early years of the millennium, Dublin’s local authorities found themselves embroiled in waste wars. Hostilities started…
‘It’s not scientific, just anecdotal’: When health supplements do more harm than good – The Irish Times
As autumn takes hold, the thoughts of many turn to taking supplements in the hope of warding off…
It matters that Ireland is an island. That makes its past and present different from many other countries – The Irish Times
July 1972. I was 11 years old. In a country tense with uniformed killings and violent recrimination, my…
The five-decade love story of a forgotten Irish literary power couple – The Irish Times
The name of Padraic Colum may still be familiar to some, as the author of much-loved poems such…
Jolt from the blue: It’s a jellyfish − of course it stings – The Irish Times
On an ebb tide at Belderra Strand, Co Mayo, I found this lad, stranded. I’m wondering what kind…
Phil Coulter: ‘The song Congratulations has fed, clothed and educated my children’ – The Irish Times
In his very large office in a nondescript industrial estate, Phil Coulter is playing an electric baby grand…