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.

Imagining the changing colours of the mountains is only the start of our virtual road trip. And, this time, I am the one asking — are we there yet?

The contrast between the stated aims of Autism Awareness Week and the practices revealed by a civil servant whistleblower last week could not be more pronounced

“When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.

From Michael Collins' slippers to a mug of tea to the Loughnashade trumpet, let's celebrate St Patrick's Day, online for the second year in a row, with a virtual tour

We’ve heard matter-of-fact stories of the elderly people who are still driving, still shopping and still communicating despite lockdown. Many of them took to Zoom without a second thought to keep in touch