Witnesses gave evidence to Mother and Baby Homes Commission report but their words failed to make any impact on its findings

Archaeologists in Kerry are in a race against time and tide, writes Clodagh Finn, as our priceless historical heritage is slowly eroded away by the sea.

Erosion — exacerbated by climate change — is gnawing away at a coastal heritage that is, quite literally, falling into the sea

Body dissatisfaction has also been working away, quietly and corrosively, behind closed doors over the last 15 months.

As we approach the 25th anniversary of her murder, the very least we can do is to rescue her and all those women murdered in 1996 from the brutality of their end, and remember them for who they were and all they might have been.

Sad irony in knowing that Ernest Shackleton’s exploration of the southernmost tip of the world is widely remembered while his sisters' adventuring days, at the opposite pole, and in warn-torn Europe and Canada, passed almost completely under the radar

As Covid-19 restrictions are gradually lifted, we now have a choice between falling back into our old habits or reinventing our world

Nothing offends quite like a politician’s swaggering hubris and sense of superiority

If she were still alive, Josie Airey, the Cork hospital cleaner, poet, and legal aid campaigner who went all the way to the European Court of Human Rights to secure civil legal aid in Ireland, would be celebrating her 89th birthday on May 4.

It is heartrending to think that Ireland’s most successful tennis player, five-time US Open tennis champion Mabel Esmonde Cahill, spent her final days in a workhouse and was buried in an unmarked grave.