Person: Cú Chulainn

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

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outdoors

Richard Collins: The avian 'prince of darkness' is thriving

Ravens have fed on corpses at battlefields and an 'unkindness of ravens' is one collective noun for a group of these birds

gaa

Poc Fada may help ease longing for GAA, says Donnelly

news

Best-selling Percy Jackson author Rick Riordan studying at UCC

news

Exhibition of comic book art set to take place in Cork

columnists

Camogie is the greatest game — just call it hurling

columnists

Cú Chulainn had no puckout strategy but the myths endure

The Shape I’m In with Shane Byrne: 'During the week we only eat natural food. There is no processed food whatever'

SHANE BYRNE likes to take on a challenge.

Fri, 21 Sep, 2018

Sutherland, and his ideas, on the same level as Dev and Robinson

In Burying Peter Sutherland tomorrow, we lay to rest one of very few who rose out

Wed, 10 Jan, 2018

Fascinating look at a taoiseach’s life and history of hurling

A unique collection of ex-Taoiseach and GAA legend Jack Lynch’s personal, political and sporting belongings is available for close inspection in his native Cork for the first time.

Sat, 26 Aug, 2017

Hurling, like quidditch, owes much to literature

The world of sport, with its seemingly endless capacity to invent and reinvent itself, has demonstrated time and again that there is nothing permanent, nothing resistant to transition.

Fri, 14 Jul, 2017

Michael Ryan: Were we championship ready? No, we weren’t

“It was almost as if the bubble burst. The honeymoon ended.” You get a sense Michael Ryan has walked around that defeat a few times, had a look at it from all sides.

Wed, 17 May, 2017

Dear Sir... Readers' Views (10/11/16)

Your letters, your views...

Thu, 10 Nov, 2016

Tipperary tick another box as sweeper gets brushed aside

The old order changeth, Tennyson tells us, giving place to the new. Was yesterday’s Munster final an example of the new or the old, though?

Mon, 11 Jul, 2016

GAA needs room for manoeuvre

Not all of the GAA’s proudest traditions have proved robust. 

Sat, 02 Apr, 2016

1916: Ireland and the Challenge of the Cultural Revolution

As we move toward the centenary celebrations of 1916 it is important to remember the contribution made by artists and writers who, as part of the Cultural Revival, contributed to the construction of the Irish nation, writes Martin McConigley    

Mon, 01 Feb, 2016

Ask Audrey has been sorting out Cork people for years

Got an issue? Ask Audrey...

Fri, 16 Oct, 2015

What to watch on TV this week

Wayne Rooney opens up his life to the TV cameras for a major documentary, Rooney — The Man Behind The Goals, on BBC One on Monday.

Sat, 03 Oct, 2015

Collins the greatest, but country unfair and impoverished

Broadcaster and sports pundit George Hook has said Ireland is a country that is unfair and impoverished ahead of his address at the annual Michael Collins commemoration this weekend.

Thu, 21 Aug, 2014

Funny woman, Aisling Bea, is of good stock

Aisling Bea is a performer in the old vaudeville tradition, a Lucille Ball for modern times — she writes, she acts and she does stand-up.

Fri, 18 Jul, 2014

Tyrrell back in Kilkenny defence

Kilkenny continue the policy of rotation for tomorrow’s Allianz Hurling League Division 1 final in Semple Stadium (throw-in 3.30pm).

Sat, 03 May, 2014

Comic illustrator Will Sliney - a Marvel of a man

WILL SLINEY is an illustrator with Marvel Comics. It’s his dream job.

Tue, 03 Dec, 2013

Prepare to be transported to the ancient land of a hero

Celtic Warrior: The Legend of Cú Chulainn

Sat, 22 Jun, 2013

Cú Chulainn puts artist in the frame for success

A talented Irish artist hopes that his gory reworking of Ireland’s first superhero will inspire a Hollywood blockbuster.

Thu, 11 Apr, 2013

Have a nice stay

THE CELTIC CAMINO IN WATERFORD AND TIPPERARY

Sat, 17 Mar, 2012

Fassbender set for romantic drama role

Michael Fassbender is being lined up for a role in 'The Mountain Between Us'.

Thu, 15 Mar, 2012

At their peak ...

ADOPTED Irishwoman, the aviatrix Daphne Pochin Mould wrote the first book about Irish mountains in 1955.

Tue, 26 Jul, 2011

‘He had that indefinable something, that magic’

IN a glowing and touching homily to his brother, Fr Eoghan Haughey yesterday paid tribute to Charles Haughey, saying there would never be his like again.

Sat, 17 Jun, 2006

Cú Chulainn would be turning in his grave

THE Gaelic Athletic Association, with Fianna Fáil and the Catholic Church, are considered by many to be the three great institutions of Irish life.

Thu, 30 Mar, 2006

Academics demand re-routing of Meath motorway

Top academics from across the world gathered on the historic Hill of Tara today to highlight the reasons plans for the M3 motorway should be abandoned.

Sun, 26 Jun, 2005

Academics plan motorway protest at Tara

International academics will gather at the Hill of Tara site on Sunday to protest against the M3 motorway planned for the area.

Fri, 24 Jun, 2005

Will Bertie call out Willie’s number?

WELL, if Arnie can become Governor of California, there’s no reason why Groucho Marx can’t be elevated to the Cabinet.

Sat, 21 Aug, 2004