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With more than 24,000 people newly diagnosed with cancer each year in Ireland, Cancer Trials Ireland is dedicated to finding new ways to prevent,...
World of Politics with Harry McGee I was out in North Connemara last weekend for a walk commemorating a good friend who had died. It was a lovely...
My mother was born on this day 100 years ago - May 15, 1925. She was just 71 when she died in 1996 and scarcely a day passes that I don’t think of...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell Maybe it was the nostalgia – all the references to Italia ’90, the Trip to Tipp, the West’s Awake – or...
Inside Track with John McIntyre Until last year, it had been a noose hanging around the neck of Galway footballers. Not since the All-Ireland semi-...
Who exactly are the Irish citizens in Northern Ireland? The question arises from a Sinn Féin motion in Stormont last week and an Aontú Bill...
We all have our part to play in saving the putrid puddle in the middle of Northern Ireland, according to a campaign by the Lough Neagh Partnership,...
Conventional dinner party wisdom goes something like this: Ireland has resisted the populist wave cresting over Europe but it should not be...
It is deeply disappointing that the Department for the Economy has not offered a more comprehensive explanation for its decision to go ahead and...
Skort: a pair of shorts made to resemble a skirt (as with an overlapping front panel). Fair to say many outside camogie circles were unaware of the...
DONALD Trump’s first hundred days were hectic, unprecedented even. Since that milestone, the pace...
AFTER the disappointment of defeat in the Connacht Final against Galway, Mayo must dust themselves down and go again with the prospect of three big...
After years of promises and planning, Ireland’s long-awaited auto-enrolment pension scheme, entitled My Future Fund, has hit another bump in the...
Odd, isn’t it, the way we once took for granted such a number of customs that negatively affected women. Now, many of these traditions, once an...
Dr Catherine Conlon looks at the billionaire’s comments on remote working this week and says O’Brien is relying on the old mantra of work ethic...
This paper reported last Saturday that on the BBC’s The View, the DUP’s Philip Brett dodged answering whether, before attending parades, the...
The appalling practice known as ‘catfishing’, which is more accurately described as using a false identity to gain the trust of someone before...
Speaking to Winston Churchill in May 1922, the Northern Ireland prime minister James Craig claimed: “The Boundary Commission is at the root of all...
A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself, said playwright Arthur Miller. And in the hours after Alan Hawe brutally murdered his...
“Up Periscope”. We are all familiar with these words from wartime movies. They signify that those who have been tensely awaiting events are about...
You’ve seen the horrors. Or maybe you looked away, switched the channel. Gaza is being bombed, starved, and dismantled before the world’s eyes,...
I visited the seaside town of Blackrock, Co Louth, for the first time recently. Bathed in sunshine, the bustling seaside village is filled with...
Mary Ann Kenny, an author and academic, shares a chapter from her new book, The Episode, in which she explores loss, grief and the struggle to...