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Ireland’s conker season blown away

NO ONE will be playing conkers in Ireland this autumn. Maybe no one would anyway. I’m not sure th...

Malachi Odoherty

IS INISHEER one of the most beautiful songs there has ever been? I’ve heard it played on an acco...

CIVIL liberties are under attack in the UK. These ancient rights, like free speech, right of asse...

YOU’LL have heard the phrase blow-in. It’s used here in Ireland to describe those who move into a...

WORKING for the BBC as a religious affairs journalist in Northern Ireland meant that I had to be ...

MY FRIEND Lyra McKee died from a gunshot wound and became a symbol of a post-Troubles generation....

FROM where I was sitting on a fine sunny day I looked back at a landscape I’d roamed as a child. ...