Keith Duggan: My flight delay offered a snapshot of a quintessential aspect of modern AmericaThe sheer numbers of people in this lone airport on a bitter, humdrum night was a snapshot of how perpetually in motion America is as a nationSat Jan 20 2024 - 06:00
Keith Duggan: How Trump triumphed with his peculiar mix of postmodern and Old Testament rhetoricRepublicans in Iowa are so frustrated with the world and the way things are that they are ready to facilitate the messianic return of the ‘outsider’ former president Donald TrumpSat Jan 20 2024 - 06:00
Frosty New Hampshire primary presents diverging roads for Trump challengerNikki Haley has four days to assert herself as the Republican alternative to TrumpFri Jan 19 2024 - 14:57
Victorious Donald Trump leaves Iowa snows behind for court appearanceFormer US president makes winning start in race to be Republican White House candidateTue Jan 16 2024 - 20:59
Iowa vote: Trump wins overwhelming victory in race to be Republican candidate for US presidentFormer US president Donald Trump secures 51 per cent of Iowa caucuses vote ahead of main rivals Ron DeSantis and Nikki HaleyTue Jan 16 2024 - 08:35
Caucus night in Iowa: Republican race for White House starts with 13 strangers in a roomResult in Polk County falls five votes apiece for Trump and Haley in a microcosm of clashing views and visions found among Iowan votersTue Jan 16 2024 - 07:02
Trump reinforces lead as Iowa’s Republican presidential nominee in last-minute appearanceFormer US president urges supporters to vote in state’s caucuses amid ongoing record breaking cold snapMon Jan 15 2024 - 08:50
Nikki Haley could emerge from Iowa caucuses as plausible alternative to Trump’s shadowMidwestern state swung from endorsing Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012 to Republican returns for the past two termsSun Jan 14 2024 - 16:14
Haley cometh: Republican presidential candidate hopes to benefit from Trump chaos theoryAs the Iowa caucuses draw near, Nikki Haley believes she can become that most elusive of things: a unifying national political figureSat Jan 13 2024 - 06:00
Downtown Des Moines felt like it was 3am – when it’s this cold, everyone, it seems, just bolts for homeAmerica Letter: There’s something reassuringly wonderful and eccentric about the tradition of the caucuses in the home state of writer Bill BrysonFri Jan 12 2024 - 15:29
Donald Trump plays the hits at Fox News reunion, but some voters want more than just a ‘winner’Iowa event shows abortion could be lingering issue for Republican frontrunner in the US presidential raceThu Jan 11 2024 - 07:31
Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy ploughs defiant path in wintry Iowa Entrepreneur campaigns in Des Moines for the US presidential nomination amid heavy snow and stagnant pollingWed Jan 10 2024 - 08:26
‘More words and empty sympathy’: Students demand action on gun violence as US presidential candidates hunt for votes in Iowa Keith Duggan: As mass shootings continue in the United States, gun ownership remains an issue on which Republicans and Democrats can find little common groundTue Jan 09 2024 - 18:11
Trump surges ahead in Iowa as Biden goes on the attack ahead of caucusJoe Biden invoked revolutionary history and Capitol riots to deliver a caustic attack on Trump’s record as president, as focus turns to IowaSun Jan 07 2024 - 18:31
‘What I see now is Nazi Germany in 1930s’: Fears grow for future of American democracy ahead of crucial election yearPolls have consistently demonstrated that the series of legal indictments facing Donald Trump has done nothing to damage his popularity among the many millions who believe in himSat Jan 06 2024 - 06:00
My grandmother Imogen Stuart: Wartime Berlin, a ‘crazy castle’ in Ireland and visits from Maud Gonne When Imogen moved to Ireland with Ian, they lived in the family home of Laragh, ‘this crazy castle which was so damp, so cold’Sun Dec 03 2023 - 05:00
Provincial news photography raised to the level of fine artThe photographs of Henry Wills documenting Mayo and Irish life were published in the Western People for more than 40 years. A book collecting his best images, In All Kinds Of Weather, was launched last weekSun Nov 26 2023 - 06:00
A Fabulous Failure: the Clinton presidency and how it transformed US capitalism A fatal tendency to bend to the will of corporate and financial giants defined Clinton’s terms in the White HouseMon Nov 20 2023 - 05:00
‘Ah, Jesus Christ, he is relentless’: How a veteran journalist sought the truth about Marilyn Monroe and the Kennedys ‘It is lovely how life pushes you around the board,’ Anthony Summers saysSun Nov 19 2023 - 06:00
Why is Ireland - the land of a thousand welcomes - the loneliest country in Europe?An epidemic of loneliness is sweeping the western world. What is going on? And what can be done?Sat Nov 18 2023 - 08:03
We motorists have a moral obligation to police ourselves on the endless lonely, winding roads throughout Ireland As winter deepens, the number of road deaths for 2023 stands at 166 lives lost, 11 more than the total lives lost in 2022Sat Nov 11 2023 - 06:00
Blindboy: ‘All I want is to live a boring life… I have no interest in fame. I couldn’t give a f**k about it’The Limerick podcaster and author on privacy, his autism diagnosis, biodiversity loss, his love of writing and feeling out of touch now he’s in his late 30sSat Nov 11 2023 - 05:30
The idealised decade: Friends, the 1990s and a vanished worldMatthew Perry’s death has again turned the spotlight on the stubborn refusal of Friends to recede from either the screen or the general imaginationSat Nov 04 2023 - 06:00
Modern GPs: ‘We’re hell for leather busy but can still look after patients and families for a lifetime’GPs in Kerry, Wicklow and Dublin on patient expectations, acute pressures and the way forwardSat Oct 28 2023 - 06:00
Crisis in the staffroom: ‘Teaching was once assumed to be a soft number. That’s over now’Many secondary schools are unable to fill vacancies, affecting educators and their pupilsSat Oct 07 2023 - 06:00
Elon Musk: The confusing, bizarre life of a risk-seeking billionaireWalter Isaacson shadowed the world’s most famous nerd for two years, talking to those closest to himFri Oct 06 2023 - 04:54
Boxer Carl Frampton on Barry McGuigan: ‘There was genuine love...Money got in the way’Belfast boxing hero talks about his autobiography, social class, sectarianism and his soured relationship with Barry McGuiganSat Sept 30 2023 - 06:00
Former Tipperary hurling coach Eamon O’Shea on his late mother’s dementia: ‘I look intensely at her eyes in photos’Former Tipperary hurling coach is a professor of economics specialising in gerontology whose professional life blurred with the personal when having to deal with his mother’s dementiaSun Sept 17 2023 - 06:00
‘I would sooner do time in Mountjoy’: A turf-cutter on his right to take fuel from the bog Matt Corbett’s winter haul is already stacked in the big shed adjoining the house, which was built in 1972. Turf has been the family’s main source of fuel since thenSat Sept 16 2023 - 07:00
The Donegal woman who talked to the Taliban: ‘There was one leader with only one eye. He made me move so I would be out of the line of sight’From Afghanistan to South Sudan and Nairobi, the practical and dauntless Mary Ellen McGrogarty of the World Food Programme focuses on respecting the dignity and individuality of people in desperate needSun Sept 10 2023 - 06:00
‘I never thought I would be on the streets campaigning to ask the Government to pay for my home’ Professor Paul Dunlop balances his professional life as a glaciologist with an intense investigation into the defective blocks that are steadily and irreversibly ruining his family homeSat Sept 02 2023 - 06:00
Poet Martin Dyar: ‘The world is changing but we can cling to Heaney in our uncertainty’Curator of the Festival in a Van programme and nine other poets will remember Seamus Heaney, who died on August 30th, 2013, at an event in Co Derry this weekendSun Aug 27 2023 - 06:00
‘When you are dealing with a mental health issue in the home, you drop out of society in some ways’Families whose children are under the care of Camhs are seeking improvements to servicesSat Aug 19 2023 - 06:00
Wicklow couple with world’s only wild bee sanctuary: ‘They are in trouble’The sanctuary with 20 hectares of organically cultivated wild land that allows the endangered bees and other wildlife including barn owls, woodpackers and ducks to thriveMon Aug 07 2023 - 06:00
Dillon Quirke: The hurler’s sudden death, grieving family and lifesaving legacyA year ago, the 24-year-old Tipperary hurler collapsed and died on the field at Semple StadiumSat Aug 05 2023 - 05:00
Time to plan for the Galway Arts Festival and the Galway Races, but where is the plan for the city’s clogged-up roads? Traffic is a perennial issue in the City of Tribes, and many believe the solution is not to build more roads, but to build sustainabilityMon Jul 31 2023 - 00:00
‘They sang soccer songs on the Hill. It wouldn’t happen now’: How Dubs’ success transformed the cityIn the 1970s Kevin Heffernan’s team transformed a moribund urban tradition into a social movement that attracted a new fan base - but who the Dubs represent now?Sat Jul 29 2023 - 06:00
Sinéad O’Connor’s love affair with America: From public enemy number one to helping out at the veterans’ hospitalRipping up a picture of the pope made her a pariah in the eyes of many but the ‘elusive and intoxicating’ singer was adored by US musicians and music loversSat Jul 29 2023 - 06:00
Wolfhounds to witches: Ireland’s most unusual tours‘When they start howling, it really, really shivers your timbers’: Aidan O’Sullivan and his dogs Spéir and Mairtín are a big hit in Co MayoSat Jul 29 2023 - 05:30
Pain and glory: Artists explore how sport permeates lifeAn exhibition coming to the Butler Gallery as part of Kilkenny Arts Festival underlines how present sport is in every aspect of lifeSat Jul 29 2023 - 05:00
Whole new ball game: New York Times shuts sports department, gets Athletic subscribersThe Athletic represents a different model for covering sport at a time when the consumption of American sports has changedSat Jul 15 2023 - 06:00
Tubridy’s fall from grace has been jaw-dropping. But behind the persona is an individual in an isolated placeA week of controversy over covert payments to Ryan Tubridy has raised many questions about the future of the national broadcasterSat Jul 01 2023 - 05:55
Druid & O’Casey: ‘The plays deal with the tenements, poverty... problems we are still deep dealing with’ Garry Hynes’s latest project involves a cast of 18 actors for the Dublin trilogy: Shadow of a Gunman, Juno and the Paycock and The Plough and the Stars by Seán O’CaseySat Jul 01 2023 - 05:00
Meeting the murderer: Why did Mark O’Connell sit down to talk with Malcolm Macarthur? Forty-one years have passed since Macarthur emerged from the fringes of a driftless Irish gentrified background to commit two brutal killingsSun Jun 25 2023 - 05:00
Teaching people to self-build homes at Clare’s Common Knowledge project: ‘It is just looking backwards to go forward’Harrison Gardner and Fionn Kidney’s project in Ennistymon is teaching people how to build their own homes, with a collective mindsetSun Jun 18 2023 - 06:00
Msgr James Horan: The ‘madman’ with a dream who got Knock airport off the groundWith Aer Lingus offering daily flights to London and Ryanair marking 10 million passengers passing through the airport, Ireland West is on course for its busiest ever yearSun Jun 11 2023 - 05:00
‘Every little bone’: How 796 babies at Tuam’s mother-and-baby home will be exhumedGovernment-appointed director Daniel McSweeney will oversee ‘one of the most complicated forensic excavations in the world’Sun Jun 04 2023 - 05:00
Are flights from Cork to Dublin really likely to return soon?The head of the Dublin Airport Authority expects it to happen but Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary begs to differSat Jun 03 2023 - 05:00
Caitríona Perry: ‘We’re leaving the country on a one-way ticket... but we will be back’As the RTÉ news anchor departs the station and Ireland to be chief presenter for BBC News in Washington, she reflects on ambition, loss and destinySat May 27 2023 - 06:00
‘It’s a celebration, a beautiful day for Galway’: Locals mark opening of new pedestrian bridgeA sister companion to the Salmon Weir, the development boasts unobstructed views and a new start for the cityFri May 26 2023 - 17:15
