With plump, ripe blackberries now in the hedges, I find it hard to cover distance when I go walking. There must be a gatherer, if not a hunter, in my blood. We were, all of us, of course, once hunter-gatherers, writes Damien Enright

The origins of Irish people owe more to migrants from as far away as the Middle East than previously thought, genetic research suggests.

The genetic science that is making advances in future medicine is starting to unravel some of the deepest secrets of Irish people’s past.