The same-sex marriage referendum sparked an influx of calls to a support service for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people as it recorded its busiest year.

The Government can’t even stave off a nurses strike, Martin thinks he can be Taoiseach propped up by a rag bag of independents and Adams’ Disney economics all make for a dismal election outlook, writes Shaun Connolly.

The man who changed the way basketball was played died on January 30, aged 95.

The people of Limerick may have forgotten they have their own namesake earl in the British aristocracy, but he has remembered to use their world famous way with words in order to fight for a seat in the House of Lords.

Your recent feature “Rampant cannibalism in German concentration camp” made for sober reading.

An exhibition by Cork-born Patrick Hennessy (1915-1980), one of Ireland’s most successful post-war realist painters, runs at the Irish Museum of Modern Art from March 24 to July 24.

Martin O’Neill has apologised for his use of the pejorative word “queer” during an onstage interview in Cork last week, admitting the remark — intended as a joke — was “crass” and “inappropriate”, and said that he accepts that people were fully entitled to criticise him for it.

It was a day of corrections, clarifications, apologies but also no little defiance from Martin O’Neill, after Ireland training had resumed at Abbotstown yesterday.

Here we are, back again to those regular bedfellows, the bantz and the ‘controvassy’.

Orange Is The New Black may masquerade as a fish-out-of-water drama, but it also acts as a much-needed celebration of diversity, its stars tell Ed Power.

The GAZE International LGBT Film Festival returns to Dublin for the August bank holiday 2016, bringing a host of Irish and International features to our capital.

From Love/Hate to Once, Maureen Hughes is Ireland’s go-to casting agent. Esther McCarthy meets the woman who made Cillian Murphy a star.

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On May 22, 2015, Ireland became the first country in the world to say yes to same-sex marriage, voting by 62.1% to change the constitution. Clodagh Finn asks five people how their lives have changed.

Victoria Curtis is a bit of tomboy. She likes to dress in jeans and wears her hair cut short. In other words, as she puts it herself, she is “identifiably gay”.