At a Galway event hosted by dance company Luail, people from the west and northwest share memories of ladies’ choice, chicken in a basket, and Bovril

Alan McCluskey (23), from Drumconrath, was one of five young friends killed collision near Dundalk last Saturday night

The ‘Irish Hox’ offers Dubliners and tourists alike a chance to drink in a revamped old haunt and dance at the site of the fabled, now defunct, club

Across Ireland, once-rural towns and villages are being absorbed into cities

Month’s memorial hears world will be a less kind, generous, curious and gentle place with the writer’s passing

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