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.

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.

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.

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

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”.

You don’t need to be one of Agatha Christie’s famous detectives to uncover the charms of this famous spa town, says John Chambers.

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

A Leitrim man who sexually abused a boy in his community while calling him “a dirty little queer” has been jailed for eight years.

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

Páraic Kerrigan, a PhD Candidate in the Department of Media Studies at Maynooth University, suggests the recent Maynooth 'scandal' implies that some have not kept pace with changing attitudes to sexuality in wider Irish society.

David Norris will be honoured at this year’s Cork Pride. John Meagher visits him at his Dublin home, where he finds the senator in a contemplative mood.