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”.

Last month a new website www.TheHunRealIssues.com was launched to educate a generation of women who feel they aren’t affected by gender inequality.

Having never met a transgender person, Declan G Henry wanted to explore why somebody would be unhappy about their gender and seek to change it. His quest saw him travel widely to interview trans people for his book.

Even if LGBT people achieved absolute social acceptance in Ireland, the parades that inject Irish cities with a rainbow of colour would still be necessary. Brian O’Flynn explains why

Christian bakers who refused to make a cake with a pro-gay marriage slogan could not sin by going against their consciences, their lawyer has told an appeal hearing.

No state can always protect its people from acts of evil mania. But the US chooses to put the means of perpetration within easy reach, writes Gerard Howlin

The title of this book about a respectable, but sexually unorthodox English family, will prove a let-down for readers hoping for titillating content.

Some principals may be too dismissive in how they deal with homophobic bullying in primary schools, researchers have found.