A years-long battle in the Brazilian courts over Michael Lynn being extradited to Ireland may be ended by a corruption scandal, writes Caroline O’Doherty

Transport Infrastructure Ireland has 55 roads projects in 23 counties but securing funding for them is just part of the process in ensuring the proposals move from the planning stage to work beginning on the ground, writes Caroline O’Doherty.

With water charges a thing of the past, Caroline O’Doherty asks how we will finance Irish Water and essential infrastructural works.

Incarcerated in Egypt for four years and unsure of whether he’d ever get to return to his native

Since Eric Eoin Marquez, who has Asperger’s, was arrested in Dublin four years ago, he has languished in jail, battling extradition to the US, where he faces a potential life sentence, writes Caroline O’Doherty

Plastic has become a huge problem for our oceans, taking many decades to break down, and entering the food chain with often deadly results for the birds, fish and other creatures that end up ingesting it, writes Caroline O’Doherty

The Government is drawing up action plans and policies to encourage more physical activity in schools but Brendan O’Malley tells Caroline O’Doherty it is only rhetoric without action and a lot more needs to be done to counteract the negative perceptions of PE

From people who are reduced to begging on our streets, to the big charities — it seems that all of our responses to the homelessness issue involve the marketing of human misery, writes Caroline O’Doherty.

Introduction of a Court of Appeal has seen insurance awards cut and claims dismissed, writes Caroline O’Doherty

The Department of Agriculture had decided to halt use of glyphosate on food crops pending review, in line with Brussels. Why the change of heart, asks Caroline O’Doherty.

The health minister wants heads on plates over the emergency department crisis, but the labyrinthine management structures in the health services may make his targets hard to choose. Caroline O’Doherty tries to untangle a very messy bureaucratic web.

Caroline O’Doherty visits St James’s Hospital in Dublin to see staff cope with another night of the walking wounded

Caroline O’Doherty captures the mood as the United States gears up to vote for its next president

Donald Trump’s plan to drug-proof America with his wall along the Mexican border seems a little remote way up in the north-eastern state of Pennsylvania, writes Caroline O’Doherty.

When Harry Barry’s sixth book on anxiety was published last spring, it sold out so fast a second print run is now landing in bookshops. So why are so many of us suffering from the condition? Caroline O’Doherty reports.

In Europe, the UK, France, Italy, Spain, and Greece are all among the top users of solar power while worldwide, China is being chased by Japan and the US. So why has Ireland been so slow to follow suit? asks Caroline O’Doherty

She deprived her young son of sleep, dressed him in unfamiliar clothes and filled him full of liquids so that he struggled to control his bladder. And she did it out of love, writes Caroline O’Doherty

Leaks, mould, and damp are evidenced in numerous rental properties, but councils are far from overrun by complaints about landlords, writes Caroline O’Doherty

The justice minister is reviewing a system that costs €50m a year and that unquestioningly finances repeat offenders, but public defenders would not be cheaper and may involve a conflict of interest, writes Caroline O’Doherty

A founding member of the PDs, a taoiseach-questioning inquisitor at tribunals, and never afraid to go against the grain, the legal profession has suffered a huge loss, writes Caroline O’Doherty

The likelihood is one in three of the electorate will not cast their vote but what keeps people from the ballot box and how do we encourage repeat abstainers? asks Caroline O’Doherty

Eamon Ryan and Eoghan Murphy mix-up could see interesting poll results, writes Caroline O’Doherty

Caroline O’Doherty asks minister of state for trade Seán Sherlock how Ireland will live up to its pledges on overseas aid and climate change. Private firms could provide at least part of the answer, he says 

Colum McCann believes in the redemptive power of storytelling so he set up Narrative 4 to foster empathy in communities beset by conflict. He spoke to Caroline O’Doherty about his hopes for it and his new book.

Kevin Barry has accepted he will never write the great American Jewish novel but he still spends nights fretting about what John Lennon’s widow Yoko On might think of Beatlebone. He explains all to Caroline O’Doherty.

The white coffin of baby Mary Connors looked tiny in the hearse that was more suited to a casket three times its length and twice its width, but her little cousin did his best to fill the space around it with kisses, writes Caroline O’Doherty

IO Systems, the company at the centre of the postal dispute, promotes itself with the slogan, ‘Conveying Smart Solutions’, writes Caroline O’Doherty

One family’s desperate attempt to forge a new life for themselves in fleeing the Syrian civil war has focused world attention on the refugees’ plight by means of one extraordinarily powerful image, writes Caroline O’Doherty.

In part four of our special on rural Ireland. Caroline O’Doherty visits O’Gonnelloe in Co. Clare.

Tender, a novel about being a gay man in unwelcoming 1970s Ireland, was published just after the marriage equality amendment was passed. That was purely coincidental, Belinda McKeon assures Caroline O’Doherty.

Caroline O’Doherty separates the fact from the fiction ahead of next Friday’s marriage equality referendum

Anne Enright’s latest novel The Green Road is set on that great Irish battleground — the family. She spoke to Caroline O’Doherty about the institution and all its foibles — and trying to be an inspiring teacher.