Charity shops: the great Christmas present treasure huntChallenge: a budget of €50 to buy gifts for four people; Result: perfect presents for less than €24; Feeling: smugSun Nov 20 2016 - 06:00
Raw fish, rose petals and frozen mice: feeding time at Dublin ZooWith a huge annual food budget and some picky eaters, the zoo must ensure its residents have an interesting menuSat Nov 19 2016 - 09:00
Minding my disabled daughter: ‘I don’t want to do this any more’Siobhan Powell, whose parents Rosita Boland interviewed in 2016, died a year ago this weekSat Nov 19 2016 - 06:00
Rooftop revolution: Ups and downs of off-grid electricityOur Power to the People series concludes as we run the rule over domestic renewablesTue Nov 01 2016 - 07:50
Power to the People: How Ireland went electricIn the 1950s, the Rural Electrification Scheme transformed the countryMon Oct 31 2016 - 07:26
Let there be light: the day all Ireland went electricIn our new series, we look at how people reacted to the arrival of electricity 70 years agoSat Oct 29 2016 - 06:00
How Irish-America sees IrelandIreland: a land of 100m people where abortion is legal and Protestants are ‘devils’. We visit Boston to meet Irish-Americans whose views of Ireland are a mix of confusion and piercing insight. Photographs by Kael AlfordFri Oct 21 2016 - 14:30
Rosita Boland: Inexplicable, ghastly deaths in CavanAlan Hawe’s violent killing of his family and then himself has devastated the community that the family belonged to, in this most rural part of IrelandSat Sept 03 2016 - 06:00
Shock and sadness at schools where Hawe parents taughtState psychological services assisting teachers and students in Castlerahan and OristownWed Aug 31 2016 - 17:42
Words ultimately futile as Ballyjamesduff deals with tragedyDeep sense of shock in Co Cavan village where the Hawe family lived and diedWed Aug 31 2016 - 01:00
Lilian Bland, the first woman to fly an aircraft in IrelandAlarmed by his daughter’s daring endeavours in the air, Bland’s father promised to buy her a car if she would stop flyingTue Aug 30 2016 - 06:00
Kilkenny protest over claim to cure homosexuality via prayerSouth African Pastor Angus Buchan: ‘If I love my wife, she will gladly submit to me’Thu Aug 25 2016 - 01:00
The writing group: the secret weapon for unlocking your inner novelOne west Cork writing group has had 108 publications. So why is group think so successful when it comes to literature?Tue Aug 23 2016 - 06:00
Sophie Bryant, mathematician and pioneer of education for womenThis week’s Herstory on The Women’s Podcast is an Irish mathematician described by George Bernard Shaw as having “a literary style that outdid George Eliot’s.”Tue Aug 23 2016 - 06:00
Census of the heart: Do Irish people feel happy?As forms were being dropped off and collected from households all over Ireland, a census of a different kind was circulating on social media – a Census of the HeartFri Aug 19 2016 - 08:00
Ada English, a psychiatrist and revoloutionary from Co KerryThis week’s Herstory on The Women’s Podcast is a Cumann na mBan member and friend of DevThu Aug 18 2016 - 06:00
'What do you think of my chimpanzee muff?'The strange world of American artist David McDermott in his Mullingar mansionFri Aug 12 2016 - 10:00
Waterford’s Dora Jordan was an actor and mother of ten children with King William IVThis week’s Herstory on The Women’s Podcast is an 18th century Irish woman who first went onstage as a teenagerWed Aug 10 2016 - 06:00
‘Irlande 66/69’: photographs of Ireland taken in the 1960sThis new book by photographers Nutan and Yellow documents life almost 50 years agoSat Aug 06 2016 - 03:45
British expats in Ireland: You can’t be a ‘stuck-up Brit’West Cork is home to the greatest concentration of British people living in Ireland. What do they think of Ireland – and Brexit?Sat Jul 30 2016 - 06:00
What young girls can learn from the KardashiansBroadside: The celebrity family have an interesting message for young girlsSun Jul 24 2016 - 08:00
My big regret? Waiting so long to get my eyes laseredWhen I finally did, in my 30s, it was like magicThu Jul 21 2016 - 11:00
One Dublin house, one week, 1,200 childrenMany of the young guests at St Vincent de Paul’s Sunshine House don’t know the regularity of three meals a dayTue Jul 19 2016 - 06:00
Creative Lab: how to get teenagers interested in artAxis Arts Centre hopes to inspire young Dubliners to follow a creative path to the likes of the National College of Art and DesignSat Jul 16 2016 - 06:00
The day our daughter drownedMore than 100 people drown each year in Ireland. Kayleigh Flynn drowned in 2009, at the age of 16. Her family tell her story and appeal for awareness of water safetySat Jul 16 2016 - 05:00
Hidden stories of abandoned mental hospital revealedAfter we published an anonymous account of life in St Ita's psychiatric institution, a photographer and a doctor were among readers to add to its portrait of life thereSat Jul 09 2016 - 06:00
Michael and Danny Healy-Rae: Gombeen men or political geniuses?Weekend Read: The brothers carved up Co Kerry and took the spoils of two Dáil seats. How did they do it? The voters in Healy-Rae Kingdom speak outSat Jul 09 2016 - 05:45
10-year-old girl wants to make a graffiti robot to cheer up ParisGirl wins a summer fellowship for PhD students to design a robot to paint street artFri Jul 01 2016 - 12:15
Fresh impressions: female portraits on wallsThere’s a severe dearth of women in portaits on Irish walls, and the Royal Irish Academy is doing its bit to redress the balanceSat Jun 25 2016 - 03:00
‘Isolated from the mainstream’: Portrane asylum in the 1950sA clinician’s eye-opening observations about the facility, from the 1950s on, have come to lightFri Jun 10 2016 - 06:00
A Portrane asylum patient: ‘Hopes of my discharge I have consigned to oblivion’This is the story of Gerald, from a fluent but sad letter dated September 1st, 1912. He was admitted on April 17th, 1901Fri Jun 10 2016 - 06:00
Broadside: Can anybody truthfully say that Irish is a necessary language?Rosita Boland: I do not like having my national identity pinned to a language I never use and cannot speakMon May 30 2016 - 06:00
How my father bought the Cliffs of MoherWeekend Read: The Cliffs of Moher are now one of Ireland’s top attractions, but in 1964 the fields leading to them were almost sold to a foreign buyer. Then a council official stepped inFri May 20 2016 - 11:00
Meet the Airbnb hosts in their 60sAbout 1,000 of Ireland’s 7,200 Airbnb hosts are in their 60s. Two such hosts, one from Clontarf and one from Mayo, reveal what led them to open their doorsFri May 13 2016 - 06:00
Dublin through the lens of homelessnessThe ‘In Sight’ project provided disposable cameras for 45 people living on streets.Fri May 06 2016 - 05:00
The 1916 Volunteer and ‘The Irish Times’This newspaper dismissed Edward Keegan when he left his desk to fight in the Easter Rising. Now, to honour him, it has bought his 1916 medal to put on permanent displaySat Apr 23 2016 - 01:00
Bhutan: the price of paradiseWeekend Read: the tiny Himalayan country, which long ago decided to limit tourism, has decided it’s time to welcome more visitors. Will this pristine kingdom change forever?Sat Jan 16 2016 - 14:00
Burma faces unknown after historic electionMilitary will not want to lose control of power regardless of people’s willTue Nov 17 2015 - 18:18
India: Land of 100 rapes a dayRosita Boland’s reports from India describe a country where children are kidnapped routinely, 27 women are killed every day, and 40 per cent of women have been beaten by their husbands, and rape is shockingly commonWed Nov 04 2015 - 16:00
The missing children of IndiaYou expect parents to be heartbroken if a daughter disappears, but in Delhi things are more complex, Rosita Boland writes in the second part of her seriesMon Nov 02 2015 - 12:00
Rosita Boland’s three questions for Brian FrielAt the MacGill Summer School in 2008 the playwright, a famously reluctant interviewee, finally agreed to talk to ‘The Irish Times’Fri Oct 02 2015 - 17:00
Islands of credibility in a sea of Old Moore missesWith its crazy talk of flying cars and Jennifer Aniston’s broodiness, it seems Old Moore’s Almanac was on the gin when making its September predictionsFri Oct 02 2015 - 06:00
Fabric fit for a princess: Limerick embraces the laceA recent exhibition at the city museum showcased the county’s rich history of lace. Well, if it’s good enough for Kate Middleton . . .Tue Sept 29 2015 - 06:00
‘Half dead’: a town in rural IrelandIn 1989 ‘The Irish Times’ reported on Kiltimagh, Co Mayo, one of many towns then blighted by emigration. A boom and a bust later, it’s still a typical Irish town, fighting to keep its community spirit in the face of a dwindling youth population and struggling main streetSat Sept 19 2015 - 08:00
Waltzing along the Danube in a luxury cruise shipIf you’re looking for a relaxing holiday in luxurious surroundings, an upmarket river cruise could be the answerSat Sept 19 2015 - 03:00
The Queen and us: joining in with our neighbour's birthday partyThere are a number of current European queens but, for most people here, there’s only one Queen to rule them allWed Sept 09 2015 - 18:00
A very mixed month for Old Moore’s predictionsOld Moore’s Almanac had a less than stellar August, as anyone eagerly awaiting a heatwave in Ireland can attestFri Sept 04 2015 - 06:00
Fantasy wrecking ball, part 2: the public art we love to hateWhat’s your least favourite piece of public art? Is it the mad moons on sticks near Kinnegad? the semi- submerged violin near Longford or the famine family on Dublin’s Quay? Tell us in the comments field of this articleSat Aug 22 2015 - 11:13
Recovery in Cavan: Liberty Insurance lay offs were a ‘shock’‘People are starting to relax’ but June’s news that 115 would lose their jobs was a setbackMon Aug 17 2015 - 01:00
Analysis: Recovery is not yet being felt in rural areas‘You can see the impact of recession in towns, just by how many people are idle’Mon Aug 17 2015 - 01:00
