Podcaster Ger Gilroy on moving to RTÉ, his upstart attitude and starting over: ‘Your job is to win, right?’
After 24 years at the helm of Off the Ball on Newstalk, Gilroy has jumped to RTÉ to present a new daily sports podcast, Howler
Weekend
Stories that appear in the Weekend section of The Irish Times print edition
Dogs not welcome if we want to to enjoy the spectacle of returning overwintering birds
Pets should be kept away or kept on leash as bay welcomes these beautiful visitors
Ireland has the worst public access to countryside in Europe. How did this happen?
How has our country ended up with perhaps the worst public access to the countryside in Europe? There’s none of the ‘right to roam’ you find elsewhere
Sarah Moss: Is it possible for me, an immigrant writer, to produce ‘Irish fiction’?
Sarah Moss: Is it possible for me, an immigrant writer, to produce ‘Irish fiction’?
‘Economically it probably would make sense to close’: Clifden businesses prepare for barren winter
As the summer tourist throngs thin out, then disappear, the only thing keeping some businesses in the Co Galway town open is loyalty to staff
France is likely heading towards ECB support and a Marine Le Pen presidency
The country is being pushed closer to the once-unthinkable possibility of bankruptcy
Irish fashion influencer Verona Farrell: ‘My final exit from the Gaeltacht was a teary car ride’
The Kildare woman, who divides her time between Stockholm and Dublin, on why her friends sometimes call her The Dictator
Parents fear of dying before their disabled children: ‘Our family will be thrown into a crisis’
Some such parents have transformed their lifestyles in the hope of outliving offspring who cannot live independent lives
Dating in your 50s: Sharon Horgan is wrong. It’s not all freaks and weirdos
I admire Sharon Horgan but I strongly disagree with her depiction of dating in your 50s as scary
Yiyun Li on her sons’ deaths by suicide: ‘You can carry on being an alcoholic or you can carry on writing’
The Chinese-born writer on her new novel centred on Irish composer John Field, how she goes about writing exclusively in her second language, and coping with suicide
Who is Storm Austen named after?
Meteorologist at the centre of a storm: Englishman Austen H Nagle was a ‘tough and very capable administrator’
Horror is the main reaction to our decision to get rats as pets
We’re now a family with two rats and two cats
Did this hawk kill the pigeon in Dublin?
Eye On Nature: Éanna Ní Lamhna responds to your notes and queries on mushrooms, caterpillars and hawks
Gulliver’s Travels at 300: Did Jonathan Swift predict AI?
Satirical masterpiece has been irresistible to illustrators, abridgers and adaptors since its sensational arrival - and its lessons on human nature remain prescient
A generation late: 900,000 children have been denied treatment at the overdue Children’s Hospital
My concerns won’t go away once it opens, as it will be expensive to operate, staff and expand
Vincent Browne: Haughey loved Terry Keane. She made his life miserable
Journalist says he shed tears on hearing of Haughey’s death in 2006 but says the former taoiseach would have hated his upcoming book and viewed it as a ‘betrayal’
In pictures: Historic Dún Laoghaire racing yachts return to the waves
A project is under way to revive the entire fleet Dublin Bay 21-footer cruiser vessels, the older racing class in the world
The village fighting a data centre: ‘The country has been sold out to big tech’
A proposed new development in Kilmeaden village in Co Waterford has got local residents asking pointed questions including: who are data centres good for, and at what cost?
From dereliction to Airbnb, the Gaeltacht is being destroyed by the housing crisis
Young families make communities – and if they have no place to live, the community dies
‘We all call him baby Jesus’: Welcome to Marty Morrissey’s Marty Party on tour in Alicante
Kindness and community are to the fore at the Alicante event hosted by Marty Morrissey and featuring six of Ireland’s seven Eurovision winners
What Paris can teach Ireland about clean water
We’re paying a lot to clean polluted water, while investing little in restoring the rivers, wetlands and farmlands that could keep it pure in the first place
Will Sally Rooney’s books now be removed from shops across the UK?
Rooney’s Normal People has sold one million copies in UK while her first and third novels have each sold over 500,000 copies
The brown bat’s ears are three-quarters the length of its head and body combined
Your notes and queries for Éanna Ní Lamhna
Tolkien: the original Greta Thunberg-style eco‑warrior or a proto‑Elon Musk?
Those who love what the writer really stood for despair at the misuse and misunderstanding of his works
‘They poked a bear’: The pro-Palestine Columbia University graduate still fighting deportation from the US
The Columbia University graduate, a green card holder, who still faces the threat of deportation, has written a book about his arrest by Ice and subsequent detention
Ireland vs Europe apartment living: ‘When family come over... this is not what they envisioned’
Irish people happily living in apartments on the Continent highlight a chasm in building standards, attitudes to communal living and sense of stability
‘Pablo doesn’t patronise’: The Irish animated show with an autistic star
Eleven-year-old Alexander Myles, from Co Antrim, takes over the main role for Pablo: Next Level, as the protagonist wrestles with the move to secondary school
The late photographer Colin Keegan’s best work
Keegan won awards through the Press Photographers’ Association of Ireland for work capturing news, politics and entertainment
‘An intelligent, nonconformist man’: Galway’s homeless millionaire
‘An intelligent, interesting, nonconformist man’ – we speak to the people he interacted with in the city
This man had found one of the scarcest craneflies around in Ireland
Most of us have encountered a daddy-long-legs, but that is just one of 211 known cranefly species in Ireland
Conor O’Clery: I forced myself to attend an execution in the US and came away sickened
The condemned man was truly evil but I found myself shaking after the experience
We have just seen a perfect example of Ireland’s fiscal incontinence
The Irish State has become a monstrously bloated organisation that has lost all sense of value for money
How to talk to your children about school strikes
While it might be tempting to air your frustrations, a better approach might be a clear, open discussion
Dear Éanna, have I spotted a penguin in Portmarnock?
Our readers bring their pictures and queries to wildlife consultant Éanna Ní Lamhna
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