2+ hour, 2+ min ago   (265+ words) July 1972. I was 11 years old. In a country tense with uniformed killings and violent recrimination, my mother’s Austin A40 made a tortuous one-day journey to Toormore Bay in west Cork. It was a warm summer, but televised outrage had kept the…...

4+ hour, 30+ min ago   (336+ words) John Francis Flynn is up against it at Bohemian FC’s Dalymount Park, where he has to overcome not only the revelation that he once had a passing fancy for Bohs’ nearby rivals Shelbourne, but also the audience’s incessant chatter. The…...

11+ hour, 12+ min ago   (784+ words) The Covid-19 lockdown provided the nudge Edel Duffy needed to launch her online business, Her Place Cosmetics. The Galway native and marketing graduate had moved to Australia in 2010, settling in Sydney, having first lived in Perth, but she missed her…...

11+ hour, 11+ min ago   (272+ words) To answer this question, we need to understand the benefits of the economic activity enabled by the industry in question. The Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment commissioned a study by KPMG to that very end. The study contains a…...

12+ hour, 42+ min ago   (535+ words) “You aren’t given power. You take it.” The Red Book of Farewells (Penguin International Writers, £14.99), in a sparkling translation by Mia Spangenburg, is the final volume in Pirkko Saisio’s hugely acclaimed Helsinki trilogy. It continues, as with previous works Lowest…...

11+ hour, 4+ min ago   (407+ words) One has to imagine that somewhere in the basement of the Department of Finance there’s a large, industrial-sized recycling centre for public policies. How else can we explain the re-emergence of a proposal to abolish stamp duty for first-time buyers…...

10+ hour, 11+ min ago   (703+ words) The Irish Times A realistic emergency preparedness booklet would say ‘prepare for a slow decline’ Climate change for most of us will be a slow, banal deterioration in our quality of life – and we’re the lucky ones…...

16+ hour, 42+ min ago   (388+ words) I heard some terrific news the other day: “The happiest men over 40 are 25lbs overweight.” So said Prof Arthur Brooks of the John F Kennedy school of government at Harvard University in the United States, more commonly known as the Harvard…...

11+ hour, 12+ min ago   (1109+ words) As students get ready to attend this year’s Higher Options at the RDS in Dublin, many may be wondering what the experience might offer them. Or indeed how to get the information they need and want from an event laden…...

22+ hour, 2+ min ago   (569+ words) Palestine, Iran, paedophilia, racism, misogyny, transphobia, corruption, climate destruction – there was a placard for all. The crowds that gathered in Dublin to protest the visit of Donald Trump had a pick ‘n’ mix assortment of grievances to air. “I have…...