Low crime rate and ‘proper summers’ drawing police officers to Australia
Officers from An Garda Síochána are also being tempted by lifestyle and pay and conditions
Australia
Somebody broke in and stole our Christmas gifts – but I felt a sense of gratitude
Even as we picked our mostly valueless property up, I marvelled at the fact that in Canberra, unlike in Dublin, you get storage as standard. Lots of it
Aoife was diagnosed with HIV in Australia in 2020: ‘He was unknowingly positive. We had no idea’
New campaign aims to tackle widespread ignorance about HIV, a treatable condition that, contrary to myths, cannot be spread by kissing or using the same utensils
One Australian police force receives ‘over 100’ applications from gardaí, though few make move
Efforts by police forces of Western Australia and South Australia to recruit Garda members appear to have yielded very few results in recent years
‘That would have never happened in Ireland,’ my boyfriend said after my trip to Australian A&E
When a doctor came out carrying the green whistle, only seen after the worst of rugby tackles, I knew it was bad
The new rules: what’s in and what’s out for 2025
Some things should be ushered into the new year like a much-loved guest being shown into the good room. Other things should be discarded like Christmas cardboard refuse
Moving to Australia? Beware, their economic fairytale won’t last forever
The extortionate level of property prices there are bound to face a correction some time. When prices crashed here, a generation that bought their first Irish home during the 2000s was stuck
New Year’s in Australia: When you leave home to live abroad, you take any traditions you can feasibly translate
I don’t really know what a new year in Australia might hold. It has a vast unfamiliarity to me that country itself still does
DFA helped Irish people find family in Australia in days before online communication
Emigrants sometimes lost touch with relatives who had no way to contact them
Emigration to Australia is at its highest level for a decade. We need to ask why
Those being pummelled by the cost of rent are living through a form of austerity, their take-home wages and disposable incomes decimated
‘The Christmas swim is going to be a lot nicer’: Young Irish expats embrace their first Australian Christmas
How do the Irish in Melbourne feel about spending their first festive season Down Under?
Much of what Irish emigrants prize in Australia can be found in Europe, but lazy logic gets in the way
Much of what Irish emigrants prize in Australia can be found in continental Europe. The only thing getting in our way is what’s euphemistically called ‘the language barrier’
How Australia used rugby league to tackle China’s Pacific power play
Geopolitics is a tough game but by getting Papua New Guinea on side, Canberra has shown the NRL is up to the task
A critic of this column thinks there’s too much negativity about Ireland, not enough about Australia’s beaches
That reader should know that, even though I live 3½ hours from the coast, I am taking her concerns on board
Catherine Martin’s greatest legacy as Minister for Media hangs in the balance
It’s a cliffhanger moment for the Irish screen industry. Will producers here be boosted by the kind of levy on streamers now commonly found across the EU?
The Debate: What should be done to boost voter turnout?
Official figures suggest national turnout fell to 59.71 per cent in the recent general election, 3.19 per cent down on the 2020 election
My list of people who annoy me gets longer every day
Top of the list are people who don’t vote. How dare they whinge about how things are run if they haven’t done the one thing that could have influenced it?
From an Irish workhouse to Australia – the story of the Famine orphan girls
Every year descendants of the thousands of orphaned Irish teenage girls sent to Australia during the Great Famine gather in Melbourne to remember them
Australia offers me a more dignified life than the one I had in Ireland. It’s not unpatriotic to say so
Like many emigrants, the reality is that I am more invested in Ireland than the country I have moved to
‘Trades are very well paid here compared to anywhere else in the world I have been’
Wild Geese: Chris Kidney is a carpenter in Melbourne, Australia
Many Irish have voted with their feet but can’t vote in the election. The reason is plain
What are opponents to voting abroad so afraid of? The explanations of ‘it’s too hard’ or ‘it’s too risky’ feel threadbare and lazy
Australia is so very far from Europe and US, and yet is as deeply rooted in Anglosphere norms, customs and culture
If you’re having an out-of-body experience, pasta and cheese may not strictly fix it, but they certainly won’t do you any harm
Brianna Parkins: ‘The Irish have a natural instinct for nosiness’
What better way to spend a hot sunny day than in the park, staking out two strange couples’ proposals?
Ian Botham rescued from crocodile-infested waters by cricket rival Merv Hughes
Botham (68) got his flip-flops tangled in a rope as he tried to board a boat and fell into the Moyle river
Australia hand debut to rugby league convert Suaalii for England Test
Wallabies’ head coach Joe Schmidt brings 21-year-old straight into starting XV
Laura Kennedy: Australians respond differently to nature compared to Irish people
I awoke early one morning in Canberra to a bizarre sound. What the actual f**k is that, I thought, a pterodactyl? It was a magpie, but not like the ones I’d known
A Hell’s Kitchen winner on life as a chef in the US
We hear from the man running The Irish Times pub in Prague, as well as some tips for travelling Europe by train and surviving long-distance flights
When you return home to Ireland from abroad, you notice that everyone is a little changed
Laura Kennedy: It shouldn’t take a trip back to realise that home is, above all, people
National Geographic names Cork as one of top 25 places in the world to visit
City is the only Irish entry on a list including destinations in Sweden and Mexico
Australian senator heckles King Charles in Canberra
Outburst from elected representative takes place as Charles makes first visit to Australia as King
Dublin Bus drivers are practised in the art of soundness. Sydney could learn from them
The girl sprinting for the ferry in Sydney late on a Saturday night was meanly cut off, prompting an unusual display of social solidarity
How working abroad can make it easier to secure a mortgage back in Ireland
Tens of thousands of Irish people go abroad every year: many see it as a short-term plan to turbocharge their homebuying prospects
Former rugby player Rocky Elsom says he will appeal French forgery conviction
Ex-Leinster and Australia forward alleges he was not allowed defend himself in what was a ‘clear perversion of justice’
Confidence Man: ‘We wanted to create something that was surreal and immersive’
Adrenaline-fuelled, London-based Brisbane band may be a couple, siblings or life-long friends but their dance music antics have brought them to the brink of stardom
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