State Papers: What we learned, from details of Boris Yeltsin’s Shannon no-show to Ireland’s lost moon rockDublin’s archive material is focused on 1994 - ‘a pivotal year for politicians, the Catholic Church and Anglo-Irish affairs’Tue Dec 31 2024 - 11:49
Roddy Doyle to chair 2025 Booker Prize judging panel alongside Sarah Jessica ParkerNovelists Ayobami Adebayo and Kiley Reid join critic Chris Power to decide prestigious prizewinnerTue Dec 10 2024 - 11:43
Edna O’Brien talked about a book-burning of The Country Girls in rural Clare. But did it actually happen?Plus: Dave Grohl’s Kerry drive in 1994; rhododendron set for ban; and some interesting local government ethics declarationsSun Aug 18 2024 - 06:00
Irish druid who once called Hitler a genius withdraws from Galway eventPlus: Kneecap film flummoxes and impresses US critics; the falling rate for Fair City photos; and Helen McEntee promises to drain the swampSun Aug 11 2024 - 06:00
RTÉ controversy was good news for Oireachtas TV’s viewing figuresOverheard: 2FM seeks replacements for departed stars; O’Malley clan’s new pirate queen; cricket club on a sticky wicket; OPW advertises for art collectorsSat Jul 06 2024 - 06:00
Bambie Thug impresses the scholars with Ogham messaging Ireland’s Eurovision entrant gets top marks for using ancient alphabet correctlySun May 12 2024 - 06:00
Simon Harris finds channelling Seamus Heaney is not so simple The presumptive taoiseach used a familiar quote when introducing himself as leader, but whose line was it anyway?Sun Mar 31 2024 - 06:00
Lost in translation: We live with nonsense placenames thanks to poor adaptation from Irish to EnglishRoad signs and town names are often the result of careless linguistic vandalism which masks or confuses the original nomenclatureSat Dec 30 2023 - 06:00
Why are there different versions of Irish place names on some Dublin street signs?It is not uncommon for signs at either end of a street to disagree about the name of that streetSat May 27 2023 - 05:00
