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When my dad, Gerry Kelly, was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2021, my world turned upside down. Cancer is one of those words that lands with a...
Bradley Bytes – A sort of political column by Dara Bradley There’s a housing estate in Tuam where a third of all residents are not registered to...
Rory McIlroy was searching for the words, though he had no need of them. The catch in his voice said it all. “Rory, Rory, Rory,” the spectators...
The annual British-Irish Association bash alternates between Oxford and Cambridge. It’s been happening now for over 50 years. During the Troubles...
A paragraph in Charles King’s review of the new biography of William F Buckley (Buckley: The Life And The Revolution That Changed America)...
Social Democrats senator Patricia Stephenson shares what she experienced on a recent fact-finding mission to the occupied territory.
The suspenseful reality competition has raised some interesting conversations around age, writes Gwen Loughman.
What, if anything, will come from the annual political party “think-ins” that herald the beginning of the new Dáil term? These gatherings,...
Researchers at RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences in Dublin recently outlined how more than a quarter of adolescents described their...
World of Politics with Harry McGee The two councils that cover Galway City and County have nominated independent candidates in the past two...
A Different View with Dave O’Connell It’s well over a decade ago that what is now the University of Galway decided to take time and look at itself...
There was a huge crowd at the Dungourney versus Lisgoold hurling game in Castlelyons last Sunday. After a rip-roaring match, the men from Jamesey...
Breda O’Toole’s memoir is a story of the resilience of the human spirit.
The question as to whether the Government should chip in another €30 million to support the Ryder Cup at Adare Manor in Limerick in 2027 is a valid...
From hostile punctuation to inconsiderate parking, Gwen Loughman examines the behaviour and conducts her own experiment to see if it gets results.
Nearly everybody seems to own one. And, it seems, everybody else believes they should have one. Two weeks ago, shortly after my car – and me – were...
On Tuesday in Stormont, Sinn Féin once again faced the question of what to put first: Lough Neagh or the farming lobby. This time, for the first...
Mixed social housing has come to be seen as the ideal use for derelict land along interfaces. This is a noble vision and is usually the preference...
John Keats, the ingénue English Romantic poet, coined the idea of “negative capability”. He was trying to describe a characteristic of great...
Organ donation is when you give healthy organs and tissue from your body for transplantation into another person’s body, to replace their organs...
Our columnist says the murder of the 31-year-old conservative commentator will be consequential for the US in ways we can’t be sure of.