Resident chef Richard Picard-Edwards says consistency with the offering is the key quality Michelin inspectors seek

Rosita Boland: At the heart of Cooper’s books lay an ineffable warmth and kindness, written with such joy, I could not stop laughing as I read

Former New Yorker photographer Steve Pyke has compiled a striking book of portraits beginning with Neil Jordan in 1985 and including Marian Keyes, Edna O’Brien, Sebastian Barry

Rosita Boland travelled in Afghanistan under the Taliban with Unicef, visiting schools and reception centres

Glenapp offers a staggering 70 activities within its 110 acres

Communities large and small around the country are making all sorts of admirable efforts to live more sustainably, but the Dingle Peninsula claims top prize in the Irish Times competition

Ireland’s county towns: Residents share how sport is replacing pub culture and historic buildings are taking on new lives

A visit to Clonmel reveals several vacant premises but plenty of charm

In the second in her series on county towns, Rosita Boland discovers there is a lot more to Sligo than its Yeats connection

Downpatrick is the reputed burial place of three Irish saints

Big-name writers Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, Paul Krugman and Tina Brown have flocked to the platform

Gracie Marshall quit school to train to be a performer. Now Sabotage, in which she stars, is on its way to Galway International Arts Festival

I am fairly confident if I had asked them why, they would have said it was a joke

Children at Bere Island's two-room school go nature-spotting on the beach and mixed-age groups play in the yard at break

The Cork actor, who has returned to live in Ireland after 30 years, on ageing, working with Cillian Murphy, and her upcoming role in a 24-hour play with 100 unknown men