Every time I’m in a church and listening with adult ears, I’m struck by the reality that religion is a response to fear

The viral moments we’d like to preserve if the vast online archive disappeared tomorrow

In the days before Google Earth, it was fascinating to see a structure you knew so well from ground level from a brand-new, bird’s-eye view

Any Irish person who sees the film will likely have some connection to Ireland’s shameful institutions; my grandmother was an ‘inmate’

Emer McLysaght: When did we stop just ... going to sleep?

After turning on CNN, we watched in horror as the second plane hit the South Tower

Twenty years after witnessing the band’s now legendary set on the main stage at Oxegen in the pouring rain, I made it my business to go to Electric Picnic to see Pyro play once more

Could the Norman knight who built Drimnagh Castle in 1240 have imagined it would one day sit near an Aldi?

Misophonia, meaning ‘hatred of sound’, causes those affected to have strong emotional responses to specific noises

Emer Of The Past makes decisions that fill Emer Of The Present with anxiety, but having a packed schedule before this UK wedding was delightful

Encounter with diaphanous, ghostly presence was a real pain

If Shrewsbury Road residents have a neighbourhood WhatsApp, what do they text about?

Complaints about Christopher Nolan’s commitment to ‘historical accuracy’ are deeply entertaining

The fluctuating weight of my late teens and 20s meant I was at war with various parts of my body at any one time

I want neither wedges nor wedgies when I’m lying by the pool