Kathryn Thomas has just left Fota Wildlife Park. It was the TV presenter’s day off from filming a new RTE series about staycations, No Place Like Home, so she took her two year old to visit the animals.

Born 200 years ago, John Tyndall, a policeman’s son from Leighlinbridge, Co. Carlow, developed a love of problem-solving at Ballinabranagh National School.

I hid my mental health problems for two years. I should have got an Oscar. I have always been sports mad. My three older sisters were the exact same, as were my parents and extended family, particularly on dad’s side.

Aislinn Hurley is one of hundreds of cyclists who will be saddling up in aid of Down Syndrome Ireland this week

I'm fitter now than I have been in years says the RTÉ reporter and sailing enthusiast 

New Channel 5 thriller The Deceived has a seriously impressive cast. Meet the man of the moment, Paul Mescal.

My childhood dream was to be an astronaut or a pro tennis player. Writer wasn’t on the list. Although, looking back, I always wrote.  I’m a real introvert and I lived in my head a lot of the time.

An artist, an entrepreneur and a surfer tell Helen O'Callaghan how their lives and livelihoods have been influenced by the sea

After being cooped up for months, six strand fans explain why sand between your toes can be so good for your soul, and what they love about their own favourite local beaches

Flossie Donnelly, 13, has become well known for her campaign to clean Dublin's beaches of plastic waste. She speaks to Eve Kelliher

Majella O’Neill Collins is an artist based on Sherkin Island. The sea acts as a metaphor in her work. WHAT IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE OCEAN?“I live almost on the sea.

Armed with a new Kenwood mixer, Johnathan Healy decided to tackle the challenge of learning how to bake during lockdown. So far he’s served up scones — “a speciality” — white bread, brown bread, pizza and roulades.

Some of the most vulnerable secondary students would certainly benefit from creative summer group work

Ella McSweeney's new role is helping provide information and inspiration for small business owners getting back on their feet, writes Deanna O'Connor

I never intended to be a poet. I just wanted to find a way of expressing myself. I grew up in New Ross in Waterford feeling like an outsider.

JOHN COLEMANMY MOST vivid memory of primary school is the build-up to school tours: There was no motorway, so we would be up at the crack of dawn to take off and there would be a 2am return.

The BBC presenter talks about her battle with obesity and the irreversible surgery she chose to lose weight

It business as usual for the Cork hurling star who is back with his club and training three times a week

Ste Brown says it has been a crazy week but he is coping well with his newfound fame.

Suzanne Harrington talks to Deirdre O'Kane about that Normal People sketch, sexism in the Irish comedy scene and the positives of social media. Deirdre O’Kane is brilliant at a lot of stuff, including raising money for charities.

Conservationist Giles Clark takes on the illegal wildlife trade, as well as the task of building a bear sanctuary in Laos, South-east Asia, in BBC Two series Bears About The House.

Louisa Meehan reflects on her childhood in Leitrim, her traumatic pregnancy and her new new role as President of Network Ireland.

'I can’t eat anything without chilli flakes stuffed into it'

The Happy Pear have just launched their latest book, the ultimate teach-a-man-to-fish cookbook. They tell Helen O’Callaghan about lockdown gains and losses, about what it was like to turn 40, about how twin-ship can be hard on romantic relationships – and about what they’d love to do this summer.

I am completely surprised by my success. Constantly. Music was always my passion but I worked as an electrician for twelve years first.

LOVE Island winner Greg O’Shea has never been in better shape thanks to his lockdown fitness regimen. The Sevens rugby player is following a strict training programme at home.

MY MOST vivid memory of my primary school days in Durban, South Africa, is of standing on a wobbly wooden bench in “the babies playground” and “selling” lumps of my home-made toffee, wrapped in waxed-paper knots, to other small girls and boys, until ...

After the runaway success of his Irish Mammies books, based on his parody Twitter account, Irish Examiner columnist Colm O’Regan's first foray into fiction adopted the same observational approach, focusing on the humour of small-town Irish life.

A Russian teenager has described learning Welsh as her “biggest passion” despite never having visited Wales or having any roots in the country.