This dramatic change in the landscape around Dublin had somehow passed me by

Plus a suspicious detail about a banshee’s ominous cries

The Taliban have banned women’s sport, while Cricket Ireland received €70,000 to promote gender equality

The competition’s storied past takes in the nascent Irish State, Shergar and changing times

Extraordinary sound – ‘neither voice nor instrument’ – heralded baron’s death in 1801

The Odyssey predates the earliest evidence for Ireland’s Táin Bó Cúailnge by around 1,400 years

A felicitous aspect of a reporter’s work is the amount of time spent in the rooms and corridors of Ireland’s architectural treasures

Preparing to climb the old-fashioned way, I am reminded that the modern Reek Sunday is nothing like it was 25 or 30 years ago

Mayo’s 1952 All-Ireland win was followed by quiet years, rain and the county’s closest neighbours rubbing salt in the wound

After hitchhiking back from Craogh Patrick, the celebrations in Westport led to an unexpected ending for the weekend

Known by many colourful names, a decent slice of it and you were good for the afternoon

My 55th time at a final, but I had never witnessed anything like the outpouring of raw emotion

Immaculate conception, fine half, electrocution lessons, a fifty and more in professor’s compendium

The late Paddy McNally spent some of his childhood in Ireland, romanced Sarah Ferguson and had brothers who did unspeakable things to cats

The issue is the dried-in grime, accumulated from two months of leaks and spillages, and from the primordial ooze that gathers around the base of bins

Addition of a step to help people onto the stone has hastened the demise of its 6,000-year-old carvings

I’ll give Christopher Nolan’s film this much: the wooden horse was good

There’s an audience for everything, no matter how niche its topic

An Post has not always avoided controversy with its choice of prominent figures

Plus: Diplomacy requires envoys of bad luck to avoid Spain’s and Argentina’s embassies on Sunday