The Irish Times

North-South collaboration: ‘Dying is dying. It doesn’t matter where you live’

Hospices both sides of Border are pooling skills and insights to improve palliative care

Fri Jan 07 2022 - 01:00

Entertainer Josephine Baker joins elite in France’s Panthéon

Paris Letter: Dancer titillated audiences while working for the French Resistance

Wed Nov 24 2021 - 01:00

Medicine hunters scour Ireland for ingredients for drugs

Scientists are researching plants and microbes in soil and water for pharmaceuticals

Thu Jul 29 2021 - 06:00

Reworked Brussels metro map celebrates Irish women

Constance Markievicz and Mary Robinson in roll-call of women who have helped shape Europe

Sat May 15 2021 - 06:00

Make a holiday in Ireland an unforgettable experience

There are many once-in-a-lifetime opportunities for this year’s holidays at home

Sat Jan 16 2021 - 06:00

Historian-in-chief Macron commemorates 150 years of French republic

President promises new law to tackle ‘separatism’

Fri Sept 04 2020 - 20:00

Gig of the Week: Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival

Irish-made films Sea Fever, Vivarium, Arracht and Herself head the line-up this year

Sat Feb 15 2020 - 05:00

Dead white men: What have they ever done for us?

William Reville: We have good reason to be proud of our European heritage

Thu Feb 06 2020 - 01:00

Nobel Prize for Physics awarded for cosmology and exoplanet breakthroughs

James Peebles, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz are jointly awarded the 2019 prize

Tue Oct 08 2019 - 17:02

‘A third of the Arctic is frozen penguin wee’ and other science facts for kids

Trinity professor Luke O’Neill has written a new book. Now three kids visit the lab to interview him

Sat Oct 05 2019 - 06:02

Which films are in contention as interminable awards season ramps up?

Donald Clarke runs the rule over the likely winners ahead of this week’s festival trifecta

Fri Aug 30 2019 - 05:00

Time for the RDS to flex its cultural muscles

Society should go back to its roots, as scattergun use of venue is not helping it fulfill its potential

Sat Aug 03 2019 - 05:00

Lara Marlowe: After the longest journey of my life, I am now a French citizen

The process was Kafkaesque, but I now cannot wait to vote as Citoyenne Marlowe

Fri Apr 12 2019 - 01:00

Can the inventor of the web save its future?

On system’s 30th birthday, Tim Berners-Lee hopes to ensure it stays safe and open

Thu Mar 21 2019 - 03:15

Figuring out why women don’t figure in Stem industries

How do we encourage more girls to defy the stereotypes and take up Stem subjects?

Thu Feb 21 2019 - 01:00

Former nurse sets-up Ireland’s first ‘truly mobile’ X-ray service

‘If we can send men to the moon why can’t we take an X-ray machine to the nursing home’

Fri Feb 01 2019 - 06:01

The Nobel prize winning scientist who wasn’t famous enough for Wikipedia

Donna Strickland’s low profile highlights women scientists’ battle for recognition

Wed Oct 03 2018 - 13:44

Nobel Prize for Physics awarded to woman for first time in 55 years

Donna Strickland was among trio of scientists given the award for laser breakthroughs

Tue Oct 02 2018 - 15:43

Roger Bannister dies aged 88: Obituary

The first athlete to run a sub four-minute mile was also an eminent neurologist

Sun Mar 04 2018 - 14:59

Cork French Film Festival sees women to the fore in diverse programme

Festival includes Q & A with award winning French actress Sandrine Bonnaire

Sat Feb 24 2018 - 09:10

What was in seven-year-old Donald Trump’s letter? Santa reveals all

Rosita Boland has a world exclusive interview with the man of the moment

Thu Dec 22 2016 - 06:00

Female portraits to go on RIA’s walls for first time in 230 years

‘Women on Walls’ project aims to redress imbalance and inspire other offices to do same

Sat Dec 03 2016 - 05:00

Trinity joins Oxford and Cambridge in European college network

23-strong League of European Research Universities is major player at EU level

Fri Nov 18 2016 - 16:30

Fintan O’Toole: Anti-abortion ‘zygopaths’ make a mockery of equality

It is wrong to equate a woman to a group of cells at the moment of conception

Tue Sept 27 2016 - 12:59

Belleek residents fear Brexit may bring economic woe

Locals of Northern town feeling ill-informed, not least on the question of Border controls

Thu Jun 23 2016 - 07:15

Web Log: Stephen Hawking meets Mortal Kombat in new game

Science Kombat is a browser-based game that is charming, fun and vaguely educational

Thu Apr 07 2016 - 04:30

Irish scientist recreates fossil in full colour for the first time

UCC’s Dr Maria McNamara makes breakthrough using the skin of a fossilised snake

Thu Mar 31 2016 - 17:30

A Ghost’s Story review: haunted history

The fictional story of a real-life spook is overshadowed by the tale’s lumbering biography. The result is a novel that lacks spirit

Sat Nov 21 2015 - 01:00

Equine and floral painter Nicola Russell dies, aged 51

Artist also specialised in portraits including subjects such as Bill Clinton and Mo Mowlam

Wed Jun 17 2015 - 01:00

Physics Nobel Prize awarded to inventors of blue LED

Award for creation of energy efficient light source won by American and Japanese trio

Tue Oct 07 2014 - 15:03

Son of Irish emigrants wins Nobel Prize for medicine

John O’Keefe jointly won for discovering how brain’s inner position system works

Mon Oct 06 2014 - 18:12

The Irish man who brought radiotherapy forward

John Joly was a maverick scientist from Co Offaly who invented the ‘Dublin method’ 100 years ago

Thu Jun 12 2014 - 01:00

#NoMakeupSelfie craze raises €400,000 for cancer research

Phenomenon has also raised £2 million in UK

Fri Mar 21 2014 - 15:17

Hollande caught between Pantheon and a hard place

The French president’s comment on the need to honour women heroes has created a dilemma

Mon Oct 21 2013 - 01:00